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[TC @tblox2000]

@FoulTerritoryTV 318 strong!! Thankfully he appears to be ok. 🙏

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[College Baseball News @CollegeBSBNews]

On April 3rd, Milwaukee was 5-22 and one of the worst teams in the country.

Some of their losses:

Run-ruled 21-7 by LSU
Run-ruled 20-3 by Duke
Run-ruled 14-4 by Minnesota
Run-ruled 12-2 by SEMO
Run-ruled 17-1 by Purdue
Run-ruled 14-1 by NKU
Run-ruled 13-2 by Wright State
Run-ruled 16-2 by Notre Dame
Run-ruled 14-4 by UNLV

They finished the regular season 22-31, but won the Horizon League tournament and earned an autobid to the NCAA tournament.

Milwaukee beat #4 Auburn 13-8, beat UCF 13-6, and is now in a regional final, one win away from going to supers.

College Baseball.

[Sports on Prime @SportsonPrime]

Dale Jr. remembers his friend Kyle Busch.

[Tyler Daigle @TigerTylerD]

‼️Tiger Fans a former Tiger needs your prayers🙏

Former @LSUbaseball and current @Rangers utility player @josh_smith8 is currently in the hospital with viral meningitis. This has been a battle and a tough year for Josh after many injuries and now an illness.

Please say a prayer for the former 🐅

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Pizza Hut corporate spent seven years killing the exact thing this guy is bringing back. And his stores are now some of the busiest in the entire chain.

Tim Sparks, President of Daland Corporation, is converting 80 Pizza Hut locations to the original 1980s format. Red cups. Salad bars. Stained glass lamps. Pac-Man machines. Vinyl booths. His first job was as a Pizza Hut dishwasher.

The Classics are massively outperforming standard Pizza Huts. Customers drive two to three hours to eat there. A single Facebook post about one Classic location in Pennsylvania got 7,500 shares and broke onto TikTok overnight.

Meanwhile, corporate is doing the exact opposite. 250 store closures planned for first half of 2026. "Red Roof" dine-in franchises no longer offered to new operators. Yum Brands is considering selling the entire chain. No obvious buyer.

The decline numbers are brutal. Pizza Hut held 25% of U.S. pizza market share in 1995. Today: under 14%. In 2019, half of traditional stores were still dine-in, but 90% of revenue came from off-premises orders. Corporate saw the mismatch and decided to eliminate the dine-in format entirely. Convert everything to delivery boxes. Compete with Domino's on logistics.

The problem with that strategy: Domino's is a technology company that happens to sell pizza. Their competitive advantage is order tracking, delivery optimization, and franchise efficiency. When Pizza Hut stripped out the booths, the salad bar, the lamps, and the experience, they became a worse Domino's. A typical Pizza Hut location now generates 20% less revenue than the average across the other four major pizza chains.

Their biggest franchisee went bankrupt in 2020 and closed 300 stores. Total sales haven't grown since 2004. Twenty-two years of stagnation.

And a former dishwasher is adding salad bars and Pac-Man machines, and people are driving across state lines.

The Friday night with your family in a vinyl booth under a stained glass lamp while the kids played arcade games and loaded up plates at the salad bar. That was always what Pizza Hut was selling. Corporate optimized it off the balance sheet. One franchisee who grew up inside the original version understood what the spreadsheet couldn't measure.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

New LSU team plane is 🔥

[Hannah Mears @mearshannah_]

The rookie silent treatment after Konnor Griffin’s first MLB home run — on his 20th birthday! 🥳🤣🤫

@SNPittsburgh #LetsGoBucs

[Dirtbikelover @Dirtbike_Lovers]

Huge Crash in Qualifying Nashville!

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Meet Russell Shepard. Former NFL wide receiver who's now running a porta-potty business.

Year 2 he made $1M? (more than ever in the NFL)

It started when he played for the Giants. He noticed the city filled with trash at night. By morning? All gone. He knew someone was making bank on all that waste.

So with his NFL earnings, Russell bought:

- A vacuum truck with a 2,000-gallon tank
- 125 portable toilets
- 50 hand wash stations
- 20 holding tanks
- Some nearby land

His first few months of recurring revenue:

- Month 1-2: $6k
- Month 2-3: $12k
- Month 3-4: $18k

By year 2 they'd hit $1M in revenue. Now multi-millions.

How it grew so fast? reviews and referrals.

His company Shep Boys manages waste from construction sites to disaster zones. Simple model, recurring revenue, commercial contracts.

I will say - I've never been so close to throwing up when visiting a small business before.

But Russell doesn't care what it smells like. He cares what it pays.

[LSU Baseball @LSUbaseball]

FRIDAY NIGHT DUB

[MLB @MLB]

The @Dodgers are giving away a bobblehead of Yoshi wearing Yoshinobu Yamamoto's jersey 😍

[TC @tblox2000]

@StoolMintzy The 318!!

[TC @tblox2000]

@Mikdup_8 Or on top of the pole shooting toward the sky

[Tigers On Deck @Tigers_On_Deck]

Gavin Guidry so far this season:

0.00 ERA
16 K’s
0 BB’s
.111 avg allowed

[TC @tblox2000]

@mspears96 didn’t tell me how the morning wave of these 🏐 tourneys hit different for the parentals. 😴💤🥱

[ESPN @espn]

LSU walk-on Izzy Besselman hasn't played in a game since March 2024 due to a unique heart condition.

Coach Kim Mulkey made sure to get her on the court for her senior night 💜

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

The baserunner intentionally fielded the ball to stop a double play 😳

[Hunt Palmer @HuntPalmer88]

When you’re assigned a group project and do all the work…

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

The Winn Brothers leave a heartfelt voicemail for their baby sister Haley ahead of her championship game for Gold at the Olympics.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.
😭❤️🏅🇺🇸😭