Mike Cooper

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

@pearlosnhlpow @RedWingDiehards Totally agree on the distraction part. Not sure about the less return. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

@pearlosnhlpow @RedWingDiehards Stevie Y has all the leverage here. Larkin has 5 years to go. Stevie can be patient and wait for the right deal. Or Larkin and sit, retire, pout, do whatever he wants…but he won’t be playing hockey.

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

@RedWingDiehards @pearlosnhlpow The concept that Larkin would retire is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen on this app in a while.

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

What a sloppy and inexcusable game by USA soccer. Biggest game of their lives and they didn’t show up. #Worldcup

[Fox News @FoxNews]

PRESIDENT TRUMP from Mount Rushmore: "You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."

"As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors — they're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. Not going to let that happen." @America250 @Freedom250

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

It’s impossible to defend this call. Impossible. Ref should be fired and investigated for corruption.

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

10 minutes of extra time! What a joke! #WorldCup2026

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

@barstoolsports One of the worst calls I’ve ever seen in any game. The implications are massive for this game and the next. Horrible.

[Sam Harrop @sam_golf]

Brian Rolapp getting rid of sponsor exemptions…

Golf fans: Jordan Spieth:

[Brookens Institution @DetroitTankCity]

Lou Whitaker has the highest career WAR of any player not in the Hall of Fame who isn't still on the ballot, not yet eligible, didn't bet on baseball and didn't play in the 1800s.

#GetYourShitTogetherHallVoters

[Winged Wheel Podcast @WingedWheelPod]

On this day in 1998, the greatest Stanley Cup handoff in NHL history.

The Detroit Red Wings became back-to-back Stanley Cup champions, and Steve Yzerman handed the Cup to Vladimir Konstantinov. ❤️ #LGRW

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

Agree with this. There’s value in seeing things through and being committed. The @DetroitRedWings will be better off without Larkin. #LGRW

[jdawg @jdawgLGRW]

I hope Dylan Larkin heard this and felt regret about his decisions

[John C. Wharton IV 🇺🇲 @johnnywharton]

June 13th. One of my least favorite days of the year. On this day, two men that I was really close to lost their careers and almost their lives. Didn't seem fair in 1997 and it still doesn't today.

Much has been said about how we celebrated the responsible way. Yeah, we drank. A lot. But we didn't drive. We took limos everywhere that week. Yet tragedy still struck Vladdy and Sergei and it struck our entire team.

I still live near the crash site. Even though lightning would cruelly strike and destroy the tree less than a month after they hit it, I know exactly where it was, the exact median on Woodward, and the location, down to the foot. I drive past it almost daily and still it fixates my glare.

Not far away, Beaumont Hospital, where Vladdy and Sergei would spend months, and I would stop by daily...hoping for a miracle that never came.

Sure, elite medical care, rehabilitation and Vladdy's sheer will to live is why he is still with us 29 years later, but the miracle of he and Sergei Mnatsakanov having even a remotely normal life missed them.

And for that, I will always be angry. I will always wish they never got in that limo or even came to the golf course that day. Neither one of them played even one hole, they weren't golfers... they came to be with their teammates. To celebrate one last time before we all went our separate ways.

Unfair. Cruel.

So I choose to celebrate those men. Sergei has passed but he will never be forgotten. Such an amazing family man, masseur and friend. He never got the credit he deserved for helping that 97 team play at it's best. He was a blessing to me and all the players.

Vladdy? Man, what a warrior. What a great human being and hockey player. Easily the toughest player I had the privilege of working with. He would play through anything... and he did.

I think about him often...wish life was better to and for him. But I do not pity him. Vladdy wouldn't allow it. I love and appreciate him, and I know his fans do too.

[Brad Galli @BradGalli]

On this day in 1989, the Pistons won their first NBA championship, sweeping the Lakers in four games.

Photo: Detroit Pistons

[Mike Grinnell @MikeGrinnell_]

Let this playoffs be a lesson to GMs across the NHL. Being cut throat like Vegas works. Make the big trade. Fuck the picks. Prospects? Who needs em. Go for it right now.

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

This is such a filthy goal.

[Minnesota Wild @mnwild]

QUINN FREAKING HUGHES.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Look, was LIV Golf successful? No.

Did it bolster the reputations of everybody involved? Also, no.

But was it fun? Once again, no.

[Mike Cooper @MichaelSCooper]

Turned on the @DetroitPistons game and it’s hard to watch. Lazy turnovers, can’t make a free throw.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Devin Booker went OFF on the officiating tonight

[Mat Ishbia @Mishbia15]

I am 100% behind Devin Booker here. Last night was not a good look for our league. Let me be clear, we didn’t lose because of officiating, but that doesn’t make last night any less important. If the referees are going to demand respect from the players - as they should - then the players should demand respect from the referees. When a referee is missing calls and clearly disrespecting the players, almost mocking them, they must be held accountable. Nobody who loves this game enjoyed watching that last night. They want to see the players compete at the highest level. The league needs be far more aggressive about this kind of thing. All players and all fans deserve it.