Tyler Scheib

News, sports, politics, and shitposts. Mostly retweets.

[NFL @NFL]

LA28 is getting closer 🏈

Here’s where things stand in Olympic Flag Football qualifying, with three spots still up for grabs in both the men’s and women’s tournaments.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

President Bush meets with children at a Target in Kansas City, Missouri, and then travels to Independence and speaks to the student body of Harry S. Truman High School.

[Sports TV News & Updates @TVSportsUpdates]

The TikTok-ification of the NFL's TV scorebugs is officially complete.

[MLB @MLB]

Have you ever seen a baseball glove break mid-play?!

This Bobby Witt Jr. throw busted the first baseman's glove 🤯

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

ESPN sends bizarre push notification about coach killing armadillo https://t.co/N5w5rlbtFP

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Seventy-five years ago today, Eddie Gaedel made his major league debut for the St. Louis Browns.

The 3-foot-7 pinch-hitter, wearing the jersey number “⅛,” drew a walk on four pitches in his only plate appearance. https://t.co/vkAtKUQf6z

[SportsGully @thesportsgully]

Brewers made history today!👀

Here are the biggest shutouts in NFL, MLB & NHL history!

[m @mladamri]

microdosing hell by being aware and literate

[Manny Soloway @sportsontvguy]

The hour long special on Thursday of the Patriot Games on ABC averaged 1.214 million viewers on ABC.

For a comparison, Press Your Luck in the same slot the week before averaged 2.863 million, was 2.884 million two weeks ago.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Roanoke News, Weldon, North Carolina, August 19, 1909

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

The New York Times breaks the story that in March 2000, a group of Austrian art students called “Gelitin” secretly installed a balcony on the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

They photographed the balcony by helicopter, and then dismantled it.

The ease by which the students were able to make structural changes to the building without anyone noticing brings into question the security measures at the WTC.

[Ellyn Briggs @EllynBriggs]

Nielsen just released its first-ever NFL Fandom Index, which ranks how avid NFL fans are in each team market based on 8 key metrics:

-- Apparel purchases
-- Event attendance
-- Linear TV viewership
-- Streaming
-- Radio listening
-- Betting intent
-- Social media following
-- General interest

Unsurprising: Small markets generally outperform larger ones (Boston at 21 is a bit of a head-scratcher though)

[Union Station KC @UnionStationKC]

Photographed in 1996, a very different Union Station than you see today. At the time, the building stood abandoned, in disrepair, and under threat of demolition.

Later that year, voters in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson County in Kansas approved a one-eighth-cent bi-state sales tax to restore and redevelop Union Station and create a science museum. The tax raised $118 million toward the total $250 million project. Its passage is believed to have been the first of its kind in the history of the United States.

Thanks to the historic bi-state tax and substantial donor support, Union Station was saved from demolition and restored to its former glory, reopening to the public on November 10, 1999.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

In 1965, the struggling Kansas City A’s signed 59-year-old Satchel Paige as a gimmick to generate fan interest. Nobody tells Ol’ Satch it’s a joke, however, and he proceeds to just fucking shut out the Red Sox for three innings.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. https://t.co/W6zbDmWfY0

[KSHB 41 News @KSHB41]

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom.

READ MORE: https://t.co/SjsXfeItft

📸: John Hanna/AP Photo

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Texas is even bigger than people think

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

I gotta tell ya…this was a LOT to process

😂😂😂😂

#POTUS 🤯