Thomas Marquez

KSU ALUM

[ESPN Cleveland @ESPNCleveland]

The 2016 Cavs recreated The Hangover after the reunion 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@FearedBuck Classic👏

[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.

[Cerrone Battle @Cerrone_Battle]

Jesus Christ STOP LYING PERK!! You don't have to say outlandish ish to keep your job if you are good at it. Knicks had a fantastic run and got hot at the right time but I could run off 30 teams I'm taking over them. They wouldn't even beat some Knicks team that didn't win it all.

[Wade Plemons @WadePlem]

People don’t like it, but Gane’s success further proves Jon’s the GOAT.

[Joshua Vilmael @jmvilmael22]

I’m home‼️ Thank you to everyone who decided to join my journey and this process‼️

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[Rivals @Rivals]

🚨BREAKING🚨 4-star CB Joshua Vilmael has committed to Kansas State, @samspiegs reports😼

Read: https://t.co/ydICbFR9yG

[SleeperCFB @SleeperCFB]

Sire Gaines will be a household name in 2026

[4 ⭐️Josiah Vilmael 2026 DB @josiahVilmael]

😈

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Why do Japan fans clean up after games?

It’s about “respect for everything”

Incredible 🇯🇵

[Joshua Vilmael @jmvilmael22]

#EMAW

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

VIRAL: Kansas State recruit Joseph Graves’ mom went WILD during the photoshoot.

Crazy 😭

[James Prescott: Superhero & Punk Rocker @JamesPrescott77]

Audiences spent a billion to watch “Somehow Palpatine returned” and don’t go and watch movies like this, or Fall Guy, or D&D.

Make it make sense.

[Swaggy Unc, IQ 267 @swaggyunc]

Eating in Mexico coming from England or Scotland has got to be a transcendent experience. Like seeing colors for the first time

[Masters of the Universe @mastersmovie]

Fabulous Magic Powers. Masters of the Universe - now playing only in theaters. Get tickets now.

[JO Henriquez Roberts @TooTall2KnoSo1]

Big Announcement Coming - It was good to catching up with my brothers - #EMAW
Get your tickets today and let’s pack out the Octagon of Doom! https://t.co/uIISTrBKtI

[K-State T&F/XC @KStateTFXC]

NATIONAL CHAMPION 🥇

Tah Chikomba takes gold in the long jump, breaking his own school record at 8.37m (27-5½)!

#NCAATF x #EMAW

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

HEARTBREAKING: #NFL HCs and GMs LAUGHED AT Darren Sproles when he measured in at the combine and was only 5-foot-6 and weighed in at 170 pounds.

Sproles called his dad: “They laughed at me”

His Dad replied: “You know what to do”

Sproles became a legend.

[Arrogant Nation✌🏻 @FightOnRusty]

Built like a LB, hit like a freight train ✌🏻