Patch Adams

Ohio University Graduate, Local Stud

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@MichaelOnSports @BillSimmons Clearly number 1

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@muldowney Ya dumbest narrative ever. 90s plenty of people got a 1, 4 on Sunday and mnf. It’s easier than ever to watch whatever game and the NFL is the only league to require all local games are on broadcast

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

Why would you not play KAT down 20+ just cause he has 3 fouls??? What’s the worst thing that happens?

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@MichaelRedd_ @JonesOnTheNBA Yes but these will be materially higher

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@pphotos4 @SBLockShop @LegionHoops People want them to call it on both teams or not, has nothing to do with toughness or whatever. Same series had the Mitchell Robinson T that was later redacted (still almost made the Knicks lose).

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@1929stockcrash Throwback

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@ClayTravis L

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@ClayTravis Or he's rich enough to never have to work again, he'll be proven to be right and his legacy will make his family, his colleagues and himself proud. Not everyone is a complete prostitute with no morals like you.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@wavygravy39 @kitschmusik they aren't really beating around the bush...

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@stevesi @andrewtavani It’s called having leverage…pretty basic stuff that isn’t unique to journalists

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@sportsrapport Wahhhh wahhh wahhh

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@Wolfgangchomper @darrenrovell Paul Simon / David Duchovny combo too hard to pass up

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@GhoulGuard @ForgottenNY @em_Seq You must be dumb then if that’s how he sounds…this guy literally has a website that’s been active for like 20+ years documenting how NYC has changed. I’m pretty sure he’s qualified.

[Netflix @netflix]

NFL on Netflix is getting even bigger starting in 2026 from kickoff through Super Bowl week:

🇦🇺 49ers vs. Rams season opener in Australia
🦃 Packers vs. Rams in the first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game
🎄 Christmas Gameday
🔥 Week 18 with playoff stakes
🏆 NFL Honors

[Jack Bensinger @JackBensinger]

Peripheral vision drama

[Patch Adams @TheRealP_O]

@IanCalderon @realMarkMoney I don’t even like him but court side seats are marketing. It’s not even a gift.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"Playoff Pee...that's P E E" Skip Bayless' nickname for Paul George

[John Ourand @Ourand_Puck]

News: Netflix is close to an NFL deal that looks likely include the week 1 game in Australia, the Thanksgiving Eve game and the Christmas games.

I'll have much more on this in tonight's edition of The Varsity's private email.