Wes Hammer

Be strong & courageous. Girl Dad. 765. Ball State Alum. #ChirpChirp #NeverDaunted #IUBB #IUWBB #IUFB #IUBase #ATOBTTR #YesCers #ForTheShoe

[Jennifer Begakis @jenbegakis]

HOLY SH T theses european tourists are gonna be in the U.S. FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY let’s gooo

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

A German visiting Auburn, Alabama, to watch Lionel Messi and Argentina play Iceland stopped at a Buc-ee's and ate brisket sandwiches on a stack of deer feeder corn.

A sentence never before uttered in all of human history.

[SuperTrucker 🚛💨→💻 @supertrucker]

NPR is a fucking joke. The entire community on X is cheering on a random guy from Germany having the time of his life.

[CrimsonCast @CrimsonCast]

There's a lot of focus on the wrong things with this Sorsby / Texas Tech / NCAA situation. The gambling aspect of this case is getting most of the attention, but that's not the core issue.

The NCAA and its member schools' insistence on not considering athletes as employees leaves them wide open to this sort of injunctive action.

The absence of a collectively bargained set of rules, negotiated and agreed-upon between the member schools and the athletes, means that in the present-day college sports world where there are literally millions of dollars at stake for athletes, injunctive relief goes through the judicial system, not the NCAA. And the judicial system's structure is not designed to coordinate with the timing of a college sports season (nor should it be, for the record!).

The member schools (and remember, the member schools ARE the NCAA) have been more than happy to let the NCAA serve as a convenient shield to protect what the member schools are most interested in, which is the suppression of athlete pay through the wholly artificial business model of "amateurism", unilateral decisionmaking on how the athlete/school/sport relationship is defined, and the enforcement of rules on schools either too poor to afford effective legal counsel or too lacking in political clout to fight the charges.

The NCAA's own historical arrogant sloppiness in how it handles both punishments and appeals in the administration of its own rules just further exacerbates the issues here.

As others have pointed out, there's nothing at all in the Cruz-Cantwell bill that would address this particular situation.

You know what would? A collectively bargained employment agreement that stipulates rules and governs appeals processes. Something the NCAA (or a subset of its member schools) should've moved towards immediately once it became permissible to pay players.

[College Football News Daily on X @derrico_henrio]

“The World Cup in America sucks 😡😡”

Meanwhile Europoors experiencing air conditioning, free ice water, and free public restrooms for the first time:

[Nick Watts 🇺🇸 @NickWatts]

America is the only country in the world that takes heat for being culturally different

Nobody goes to Mexico and says “WTF the French food sucks here!”

Foreigners go to America and complain when something isn’t entirely perfect

Which is honestly the greatest compliment

[Hoosier Huddle @Hoosier_Huddle]

27-14, 56-9, 73-0, 63-10, 20-15, 30-20, 38-13, 56-6, 55-10, 27-24, 31-7, 56-3, 13-10, 38-3, 56-22, 27-21

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

Most democrats don't love America. Their identity is built on the delusion that they're better than America. Which is why they hate our history and want to fundamentally transform this country into something else.

[csb @itsCSB__]

Pacers best chances at winning a title since 1998:

‘98 - Michael Jordan
‘99 - bullshit 4pt play
‘00 - Shaq and Kobe
‘04 - Malice at the Palace
‘13 - G7 L in ECF against LeBron
‘14 - LeBron & the Granger trade
‘24 - Tyrese gets hurt in G2 ECF, Celtics sweep with 3 of the games losing by 5 or fewer points
‘25 - Haliburton tears his achilles G7 of the Finals

the Pacers have made the playoffs 29 times in their NBA history and have lost to the team that either won the championship or made the Finals in 18 of those appearances

[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Joel Klatt is replacing Kirk Herbstreit as the primary color commentator in CFB27.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

He's in the game. 😉

[CrimsonCast @CrimsonCast]

You're gonna want to watch this

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

The official College Football 27 trailer

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Al Capone issues stark warning on the devastating impact of legalizing alcohol

[Wes Hammer @weshammer_]

@scdavis14633 @FiredUpCoug Facts. Can also jump in your car in Greensboro and drive to Chicago in about 11-12 hours. Depending on what car/truck you drive it’ll cost about $150 in gas. And you can stop wherever the hell you want and for as long as you want along the way.

[Wes Hammer @weshammer_]

@B89Adam Buckeye fans drink of choice

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star DL Reinaldo Perez has Committed to Indiana, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’5 265 DL chose the Hoosiers over Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Virginia Tech

“Let’s go Hoosier Nation!🔴⚪️”

https://t.co/bwz5boipgX

[Wes Hammer @weshammer_]

@nyjets @TheOmarCooper

[Hoosier Review @Hoosier_Review]

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