NCAA is now the only sports organization on earth that can’t ban a player for betting on his own team.
8.7 billion people on one side … one Texas judge on the other.
Brendan Sorsby won a temporary injunction. The NCAA may have a permanent problem.
Column for @espn
https://t.co/gji5QbnC3c
Brendan Sorsby admitted to wagering at least $90,000 across more than 9,000 bets during his college career, including bets involving Indiana football while he was a member of the Hoosiers in 2022.
For the current outlook to be that he'll play in 2026 after serving just a two-game suspension is stunning.
Trump to NBC: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.” And: “So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.”
Reality: Trump promised in two of his highest-profile 2024 addresses not to have any wars at all, and he also made that promise in a bunch of other forums. Some examples:
June 2024 social media post: The election is “a choice between STRENGTH or WEAKNESS, COMPETENCE or INCOMPETENCE, peace and prosperity or war and no war.”
July 2024 Republican National Convention acceptance address: “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.”
August 2024 Pennsylvania rally: “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.”
August 2024 North Carolina rally: Approvingly claimed Viktor Orban had said, “Make sure that Trump gets re-elected president and you're not going to have any more wars,” then added himself, “No more wars. No more disruptions. We will have prosperity and we will have peace.”
August 2024 Adin Ross interview: Boasted that he had no wars during his first term, then said, “And we won't have wars again.”
October 2024 Wisconsin rally: Did one of his numerous renditions of the Orban story: “Viktor Orban said, ‘If Trump comes back, you won't have any wars. You won't have any wars.’ And he's about as tough as they get, and he said it loud and clear and he said why. But you won't have any wars.”
November 2024 Election Night victory address: “I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars.”
That is in addition to the many times he struck similar themes without the explicit promise of having no wars period if elected again – for example, vowing to stop “endless” wars or prevent “World War III,” denouncing “warmongers,” boasting of having had “no wars” in his first term, or saying we don’t “need” wars.
Fact check with links to his full comments: https://t.co/qMQ8JmVG4z
Trump seems especially triggered by the repeated request for “evidence” to support his claims. He doesn’t cite any, and perhaps can’t, given the dozens of rejected court claims. He’s been counting on forceful, take-my-word-for-it assertions since Nov. 3, 2020.
This is a tremendous rebuke of Trump by Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump claimed Netanyahu had promised him he would not launch new attacks or escalate the conflict, only for Netanyahu to proceed with a new round of full-scale military strikes in the region. The war is now as active as it has ever been.
🚨 BREAKING: Multiple explosions are now being reported across several areas of Iran as the Israeli Air Force launches a new wave of strikes, according to reports.
“Pete Hegseth, persona non grata in Normandy
‘He has no place here’: Pete Hegseth, persona non grata in Normandy for the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings’”
I don’t speak French, but I think this means the people in Normandy didn’t like Hegseth’s speech. You have be be a pretty colossal dipshit to screw up a D-Day commemoration ceremony.
That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.
Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.
Top-secret clearance requires vetting for insider threats. One standard red flag: hostility to the US government. Another: foreign military interest.
Irizarry entered the Capitol through a window with a metal pole. Was convicted. Pardoned. Allegedly texted about joining Russia's military if America's wouldn't have him. Now works in Pentagon counterterrorism with top-secret clearance.
The vetting process produced this result because the vetting process is now loyalty. The clearance follows from the pardon. The pardon followed from January 6th. The circle is complete.