trystan

6x AWL. On a break. Be back soon. it’ll buff out. when in doubt, #DTESS. #AUMB hasbeen, #WarEagle, #KeepPounding

[trystan @stan_try]

@Panthers Sorry admin but it’s for the best

[trystan @stan_try]

We have to limit tweet characters again

[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.

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

Wow I can’t believe they did the meme

[trystan @stan_try]

I refuse to get the Fox streaming app so this entire World Cup is going to be watched via peacock and the Spanish feed 😭😂😂😂

[trystan @stan_try]

They put a Guthries just outside of Charlotte this is the greatest day ever

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

There has never been a more perfect metaphor.
He didn’t drain the swamp, he literally installed one.

[trystan @stan_try]

Omg

[Cartoon Base @TheCartoonBase]

‘CODE LYOKO’ will officially return after 19 years.

A sequel is currently being written with the entire original team returning.

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue’s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.

[Nick @NickZararis]

Vintage sports apparel is 100000X better than the fanatics slop we get today

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

To me, this is beautiful. No excuses, no unassailable mountain.

[John Q. Septa @dropkick_murray]

The Boston Slide judges the rider’s soul. The bagpiper was pure of heart and got a peaceful ride, the cop was a cop and was spit out accordingly

[The Resistance Broadcast @TRBpodcasts]

“Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?”

[trystan @stan_try]

@MacrodosingPod @StooliesClub @ConnerHKnapp @PFTCommenter @mackenzielozano @madconroy9 W boys

[Feli @pilludinho]

Los yanquis aprendieron a jugar al soccer

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

don't ever let the chuds running this website or our government make you forget this is the true spirit of America

they can never take this from us

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[trystan @stan_try]

War Eagle brother

[Christian Clemente @CClemente247]

Welcome to the big league, kid

Jackson Koivun is officially skipping his senior year and going to the PGA Tour

He departs as the best golfer in Auburn history

"Auburn has been so good to me and I'm just truly happy that I can call myself a part of it.”
https://t.co/asu3XcUw1Z

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

Beginning to think that spreading World Cup teams across mid-sized college towns in the American heartland was a stroke of genius.

[Harold R. Kuntz @HaroldRKuntz3]

Another one of those sentences you thought you'd never hear.

[John Slaughter, Esq. @JSlaughterEsq]

A couple of Germans on a road trip have done more to inspire patriotism ahead of America’s 250th anniversary than the entirety of the U.S. government.