Morgan Vanderwall

Creative & adventurous Indiana farm girl. PR rep/social media ninja from Midwest. PU grad 💛🖤#BoilerUp, 2 teens. news junkie, ♥️2travel 🗻✈️☀️🏝 #birdgang 🏈

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

@DIRECTVhelp How about the thousands of small businesses that can’t do that? Greedy and corrupt. Will be cancelling.

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

Think this is last straw for @directtv. Not having abc during NBA finals and NHL playoffs is literally INSANITY!

[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

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

@RaminNasibov I can still hear the Time Machine

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

@JoshuaBarzon E for sure

[Book @DevinBook]

Just Lovin’ it

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The final trailer for HBO’s ‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 3 has been released.

Premiering June 21 on HBO Max.

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

Just….wow.

[Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow]

Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.

Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

@ThrillaRilla369 Waaaaahhhh, I want to be a kid again.

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

Memorial Day isn’t about cookouts or beach days. It’s about the Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could live free.

THIS 60-SECOND VIDEO REMINDS US WHAT THE DAY IS REALLY ABOUT. 🇺🇸

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

That’s actually crazy!

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is so big that it could fit:

• Churchill Downs
• Yankee Stadium
• Rose Bowl
• Taj Mahal
• The White House
• Liberty Island
• Roman Colosseum
• Vatican City

And at 300,000+ people, the Indy 500 is the world's biggest single-day sporting event.

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

A Sunday morning show, high above the Speedway 🎆

#Indy500 | #ThisIsMay

[{Matt} $XRPatriot @matttttt187]

𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐲!!! 😆 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝙞𝙩 𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃!!! 🤯

Kobe Bryant #8 dead at 41.

Kyle Busch #8 dead at 41.

Same initials. Same number. Same age 😳

🚨Kobe Bryant won a significant settlement against a pharmaceutical company

He tragically died in a helicopter crash weeks later.

🚨Kyle Busch won an $8.5 million settlement against a major insurance company

He tragically died from a sudden & unexpected illness weeks later.

H/T @MattWallace888 @ManOfTheLibrary

[Booker Muse @DevinBookerMuse]

Devin Booker has the most creative shoe rollouts I’ve ever seen

[Will Manso @WillManso]

This is just ridiculous by Messi. I’ve watched it 20 times already.

[Matt Braynard @MattBraynard]

We're so back.

An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

[🌵 Mr. Az @MrAzSports]

Imagine if Tempe voters didn’t reject this and we still had our coyotes…. ☹️

[UFO mania @maniaUFO]

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire.😍

[Morgan Vanderwall @mvandy]

Well this is some epic shit right here.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

To be truly fluent in English,
you must know your shits

Part 2

Dogshit: Very poor quality
Bullshit: Not true
Horseshit: Nonsense
Apeshit: Rambunctious
Batshit: Insane
Chickenshit: Cowardly
Ratshit: Poor quality
No shit: Obviously
Holy shit: Unbelievable
Hot shit: Very good
Dipshit: Total dumbass
Tuff shit: Take it or leave it
Jack shit: Nothing
The shit: Perfection
Deep shit: Big trouble
Shitfaced: Drunk
Shitstorm: Chaos
Piece of shit: Lousy person/thing
Full of shit: Lying
Shit-ton: Huge amount
Shithead: Jerk
Shithole: Terrible place
Brick shithouse: Curvy/voluptuous
No shit, Sherlock: Sarcastic obvious
Don’t give a shit: Don’t care
Shit happens: Oh well
I shit you not: Truth
Shit stirrer: Drama starter
The shits: Diarrhea
Good shit: Excellent
Crock of shit: Nonsense
Shit sandwich: Bad situation

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Whoever Spencer Pratt has putting together his commercials, every Republican running for office in the midterms needs to hire them today!

Here's another banger!👏