Kevin Studer

Hawkeye fan 🏈 #girldad 🎾 Crown Royal lover 🥃 Occasionally delights in Schadenfreude 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@cock_tuaahhh @Snapback_Trivia @B1Gfootball Hayden Fry. “Who’s that?” WTF. Not a ball knower.

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@richarddeitsch The crown she wears is heavy. Her teammate, Kate Martin, said that back during her senior year at Iowa. Rings even more true now.

[Elizabeth Sanchez @Elizabeth2_004]

Lady jumps of pier in Fort Walton Beach florida face first 😬🤯

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@ICDeadPixels @CuriosityonX Delete this slop.

[Isaac Trotter @Isaac__Trotter]

Cayden Daughtry you cannot be serious.

42 points and an ABSURD game-tying trey to send this to double overtime. What a masterpiece

[Kyle Tucker @KyleTuckerCBB]

Asked Cayden Daughtry after his 42-point game if he’s the best player in the country.

“That’s a conversation some people don’t want to have … just because of my size.”

I’m willing to have that conversation.

[Ben Pfeifer @bjpf_]

we will long debate cayden daughtry's NBA prospect status but this is undoubtedly the best player in the country and one of the best EYBL players i've ever seen

he's up there with texas titans cade, maine united cooper, pulley tre jones, nightrydas scottie, etc for me

[Alexis @TheNotoriousLEX]

I don’t know if it’s coming across on the broadcast but this is how foggy it is at wrigley right now. PCA’s catch was a miracle.

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

This is great. Not a soccer guy but watching the World Cup and seeing fans from around the globe having the time of their lives has been so wonderful.

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@BenScottStevens The official sign of the holiday.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Speakeasy @speakeasytlkshw]

"If Caitlin Clark keeps getting fouled like this, there won't be a WNBA!"

– @CutonDime25 says if the WNBA doesn't protect Caitlin Clark better, the league is going to dissolve

WE ARE LIVE RIGHT NOW ➡️ https://t.co/71DOlQim57

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@UncleRico805 @fcbtray

[JCSD Girls Tennis @JCSD_TennisG]

On to Round 4 for Studer/Huneke! They advance by beating Dowling 6-4, 6-2!
#UnleashTheDragon🎾🐉
@JCSD__Athletics @JohnstonCSD

[JCSD Girls Tennis @JCSD_TennisG]

Studer/Huneke advance to round 3 after defeating Ottumwa and Davenport Central! 🎾 #RollDrags

[JCSD Girls Tennis @JCSD_TennisG]

🎾 State Tennis Co-Ed! 🎾
Representing the Dragons:
Lucy Kiekhaefer/Jack Mills
Zoey Studer/ Owen Huneke
Let’s go! @JCSD__Athletics @jcsd_BoysTennis @JohnstonCSD

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Kevin Studer @kevinstuder]

@ScottDochterman I don’t know why this is so hard to believe when you take Diego Pavia into account and his antics after losing the Heisman to Fernando Mendoza.