James (Bucky) Dent

Full-time freelance sportswriter, covering mostly SIU sports. Umpire, jack of some trades and awesomely sarcastic according to a friend.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I’m boycotting CBS and so should you.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I’m Kid Rock.”
“I’m Naomi Wolf.”
“I’m Kanye West.”
“I’m Matt Taibbi.”
“I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

Sen. Maria Cantwell says she “believes” that the ACC and Big 12 sent supportive letters for the bill because they fear their league will, eventually, go the way of the Pac-12 and be picked apart by the SEC and Big Ten. They “think that’s what is going to happen to them next.”

[Saluki Volleyball @SIU_Volleyball]

𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐄𝐃 🖊️

Chloe Anderson is a dawg! 🐾

📰 https://t.co/zMAfWwHwzw

#Salukis | #MaroonMade

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

@NicoleUbben As I said on another thread, if this is true, what a massive overreaction to Belmont losing in March.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

If this is true, this is a huge overreaction to Belmont face-planting in the quarterfinals 3 months ago. Also, why play 20 games to leave one team out of it that isn't likely to win the conference tournament anyway?

[March To The Arch Podcast @MarchArchPod]

Breaking: Source close to the situation confirms proposal to change Arch Madness format under consideration by @MVCsports President's Council with potential vote on Thursday 6/4.

First reported by the March to the Arch Podcast

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron."
https://t.co/ptjRbzqB0k

[PrairieStatePigskin @PSPigskin]

Former @SIU_Football P/K Paul Geelen is listed on the Ottawa Redblacks practice squad for the upcoming CFL season, which opens this week.

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

Congress wants you to think they can’t survive on $83 an hour but that you can survive on $7.25.

The level of contempt they have for the citizens is truly sickening.

[Tobias Bass @tobias_bass]

2027 guard Lemar Shir (@LemarShir) has had a solid summer so far on the UAA Circuit

He’s averaging 10.3ppg, 3.4apg, 4rpg and 1.5spg.

So far he’s hearing from:

Evansville
Ball State
Southern Illinois
South Dakota state
Western Illinois
UTEP
Oakland
Columbia
Eastern Michigan

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

@johnkretz99 @td_nash A healthy Walton might have been as good as any center in a non-Wilt division.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

This one goes into the history books at 9:35 p.m. as a 6-0 Carterville win.
Lions 37-1, Red Bud 30-9. Musketeers finish the best season in school history.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

You don't suspend the rules just because it's the postseason.

[Kendall Rogers @KendallRogers]

Tre Phelps was just ejected for being “disrespectful” to the Liberty bench.

Come on umps. It’s the postseason.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

Carterville tacks on a run in the 6th for a 6-0 lead going to the 7th.
Red Bud has had a great year but it's going to end, barring the comeback of the decade.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

@JerryBeach73 Yeah, she's pretty legit. Umpired her a couple of times this spring. She has the pitches and knows how to use them.
Interested to see what she can do in Champaign.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

Still 5-0 after 5 innings. Caidence Phillips up to 10 punchouts for the Lions. Red Bud trying to grind its ABs but Phillips has an 0.11 ERA for a reason.

[Pat Forde @ByPatForde]

Troy has run Florida out of its own regional. A Troy-Little Rock super regional to go to Omaha? Bring it on.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

That was a 3-run 4th inning for Carterville, highlighted by Colbie Bennett's laser double to the LF wall that knocked in a run. A bunt scored a second run and a throwing error on the same play upped the Lions' lead on Red Bud to 5-0.
Musketeers are up against it now.

[James (Bucky) Dent @writingump]

Still 2-0 Carterville after 3 innings. Red Bud got a pair of 2-out singles in the last of the 3rd from Olivia Schmidt and Ava Wagner but Caidence Phillips wriggled out of trouble with her 5th strikeout of the night.