Nathan Mathews

Oregon native. Avid sports fan (BYU, Blazers); husband of @edhousewife, Other than sports, I also tweet about various Health Care & Employee Benefits topics.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@DaninFortWorth @greg16676935420 Noted. I have flown through there many times and never had that happen before. Sounds like I have just been lucky in the past.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@AshtonPSnow @rtmccombs Who are you hearing that from? Some random guy tweeted that earlier this week but and it seems like everyone is just repeating that as their source over and over.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@twallyweb There are two similar looking ones in the Bronx just off the 87. One near Yankee stadium and another further north (230th).

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@BYUGuy87 Yes, that is why I specifically said US markets to reference the stock rather than crypto market.

[David J. Smith @davidjsmith1232]

Nice interview w/ Keba Keita, talking about his life and basketball journey. Plus the possibility of the NBA. From @hoopshype https://t.co/tyRaCYqEsl

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Donald Trump is amazing. My truck used to hold $60 of gas and now it holds $120 of gas. I don't know how he does it but the man is a jenius.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@SportsGuyRyan I parked there once after moving back to UT and realized that it was much more convenient to take an Uber and haven’t ever driven since. While the economics work for me that may not be the case for everyone.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@dwightjaynes I had a copy of it back in the day as a teenager! It was a great read, thank you!

[Lizzy Lawrence @LizzyLaw_]

NEW: FDA approved Colorado's plan to import cheaper drugs from Canada, making it the second U.S. state to be granted such authorization.
https://t.co/nMfIvNNTCk

[STAT @statnews]

Breaking: FDA approves Colorado’s plan to import cheaper drugs from Canada https://t.co/xMctXQmt0R

[David McKenzie @mckenzielaw]

The Big 12 has gone to federal court to ask permission to have a conviction. There was a time when a conference could simply disapprove of a player who bet on his own team's games. Now it needs a declaratory judgment first.

The Texas AG's threatening letter to the Big 12 was an unforced error of the first order. Strip it out and there's no lawsuit— because there's no justiciable controversy. A conference privately mulling a sanctions vote isn't a "case"; it's a meeting. The AG's 200M per se antitrust threat is what manufactured the ripeness, handed the Big 12 its MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc hook, and let Sidley walk into federal court in Dallas with a complaint instead of a press release. Paxton's office didn't just pick a fight— it wrote the other side's standing argument for them, then signed it. Now TTU and the AG get to defend a theory the Oklahoma AG already called "facially absurd," in a real courtroom, against a national firm on its home turf. The letter was meant to intimidate. It functioned as service of process.

The complaint itself is well made, and its strongest section is also its most dangerous. Paragraphs 32 through 36 are devastating on TTU's hypocrisy: TTU voted for the Baylor sanctions in 2017 and now insists the conference has no power to sanction anyone. That is good lawyering, and it should sting.

But it cuts both ways. Baylor was sanctioned after findings, through process, for institutional conduct. The Big 12 wants to sanction TTU preemptively, for fielding a player a Texas court has enjoined the NCAA from declaring ineligible.

The state court injunction is the elephant in the room, and paragraph 62 works very hard not to look at it— "this isn't about the injunction." But it is. The District Court of Lubbock County enjoined the NCAA from barring Brendan Sorsby from practicing or playing for Texas Tech, on a 5K bond, through a trial not set until February 2027. The practical effect is that Sorsby plays the entire 2026 season. The Big 12 now asks a federal court to declare that it may bar Texas Tech from competing for letting him. Strip away the labels, and the conference is asking one sovereign's courts to restore the very exclusion another sovereign's court just lifted—relabeled, from "NCAA eligibility" to "conference governance," but identical in result.

That's a real trap, and it is structural. Federal and state courts keep a wary distance from one another's orders; neither likes to be handed the other's ruling to undo. A federal court will rarely enjoin a state proceeding, and it is nearly as reluctant to grant relief that achieves the same end through the back. The Big 12 was shrewd to choose a declaratory judgment over an injunction— a softer vehicle that does not, on its face, touch the state order. But that shrewdness cuts both ways: declaratory relief is discretionary, and a federal judge may simply decline to issue a declaration whose only real function is to neutralize a state court's ruling. The conference says it is exercising independent governance authority. A skeptical judge may see a conference trying to do through the side door what a state court has barred the NCAA from doing through the front— and may decline to hold the door.

The Big 12 should win this, and it should win because the law is not actually close: a private association enforcing its own bylaws against a member who bet on his own games is ordinary self-governance. The Texas AG has managed the rare feat of threatening a lawsuit so weak that he walked his adversary into court, drew a public rebuke from a fellow attorney general within 24 hours, and turned a meeting the Big 12 might never have held into a federal complaint with his own letter stapled to the back as an Exhibit. Crazy times.

Thanks to @TomMarsLaw for making the complaint available.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@BroberDave We are in Amsterdam. I am curious how loud it will be once the game starts. My family is all asleep as we did a red-eye from Kenya last night.

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@SportyMcSports That would totally be my daughter…if I could get her to go in the 1st place!

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

Make every event count 🔥

Ben Barton passes Louisville's Kenneth Byrd in the final event of the Decathlon, the 1500m. He was down 50 points entering the 1500m. He posted a 4:32 1500m (728 pts) compared to Byrd's 4:41.73 (669 pts) for the overall win.

Barton wins with a personal best 8169 over Byrd's 8160

#CollegeTF and #NCAAOutdoors coverage presented by @Saucony

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

MAN OF THE HOUR🏆

Ben Barton is your Decathlon National Champion! He scored 8169 points to secure @BYUTFXC first Decathlon win in 40 years🥶

#NCAAOutdoors and #CollegeTF coverage presented by @saucony

[Nathan Mathews @nathanmathews]

@mikekofoed @MikeLMower I have been stuck at 47 for many years (HI, AK, and ND to go). Current enroute to Kenya…visiting my 6th continent!