Jay Bell

Everything about modern college sports conference realignment sucks Exhibit #206395

Never in my life have I ever seen an off-ball and-one.

But, yeah, sure, let's be delusional about Oklahoma City getting more calls than everyone else 🙄

Just a purely delusional and detached narrative pushed by a lot of NBA fans

America has literally NEVER had a reckoning with the massive, impactful divides exposed by the 2016 election. Namely white women vs. non-white women, Hispanic men vs. Hispanic women, and COLLEGE EDUCATED vs. non-college educated.

IMO, we can't move forward as a country until these are addressed.

Most selfish, self-righteous, privileged generation in American history. We all love our grandparents, but America will be much better off when it can navigate its own future without the collective weight and greed of Baby Boomers. Also fuck Gen X for rolling over and bending over so willingly.

I'm no wrestling nor WWE expert but it sure seems like LA Knight has more botches than the standard wrestler, let alone someone who is trying to be a headliner.

Basically every major match is guaranteed to have LA Knight fuck up at least once and that is not great for a main event star.

Nope

Taylen Green is the single most infuriating athlete I have ever watched. No other football player I have ever seen was as likely to have 4 turnovers as 4 touchdowns. He's going to absolutely destroy at least one NFL franchise because they'll be mesmerized by his measurables and have 20+ turnovers.

Who cares what their ages are. MLS has Messi, Son, James, Müller, Reus, Werner, Suarez, Forsberg, Almiron, Zaha, and an unprecedented slew of domestic and international club stars in the same year as the country/region is hosting the World Cup.

Yeah, this is good.

Every. Single. One.

And it's like widely known. They don't even really dispute it. They just convince the cult that it's worth it to win over the libtards.

Idk after 20 something years of the same shit I'm just extremely prepared for Liga MX to go 4-0 against their MLS counterparts in the quarterfinals.

I mean, at some point, it stops being a surprise and it's just the standard operating norm.

I'm sure it happens with players from other countries but goddamn is it not history repeating itself over and over and over again with #USMNT stars thriving in Europe despite drawing the most criticism from their own fans and coaches.

Clint Dempsey all over again

Man I just want the UFL to be a platform for standout players the way MLS is in soccer. For me, it is an absolute shame that Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick didn't play in the XFL/USFL. We saw how A.J. McCarron thrived with the St. Louis Battlehawks. It should be like that for any fringe NFL star.

This is coming from someone who has never had a TikTok account. Never had Vine, I don't use Snapchat, I got Instagram a year ago for...reasons. Short form video on Facebook and YouTube is statistically the most likely outlet for getting views. Idk how we're still debating this in 2026.

Man, I just...I just can't. This is not "pivot to video." This is modern media. Boomers always want to point the finger at Millennials and thumb their noses up at Gen Z. There are Americans in their 50s and 60s who scroll TikTok and Snapchat ALL DAY EVERY DAY. YouTube Shorts get MILLIONS of views.

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This is one of those things where it just makes too much sense, you get the feeling that somebody somewhere will do something to stop it for some dumb reason.

On Twitter you could blame the lack of cohesive information on bad faith actors who hacked specific terms and hashtags. Bluesky is just throwing random posts from random accounts that (assumingly) some random algorithm thinks you'll want to see. I've found Reddit more useful than Bluesky for news.

Idk if it's a strategy to get more users to spend more time curating specific feeds and stay engaged with preferred accounts, but the Explore topics on Bluesky are worse than I ever saw on Twitter. At least on Twitter you would get real posts related to the specific topic you were looking for.

The US beating Mexico in soccer and Canada in hockey is.....special

Basketball and women's soccer are already booming around the world. You're really gonna open up the opportunity for the best women's basketball players to leave the league.....forever? This is not baseball or football. We could lose the WNBA as we know it for literal decades.

WNBA executives acting loke it's 1993. Don't think for one second that other countries like Canada, Mexico, China, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France won't pounce immediately if this goes as far as men's sports work stoppages. The WNBA could legitimately disappear altogether.

Love the 3-on-3 so much. People complain all the time about penalty kicks in soccer and I always ask what is the alternative. 20-ish humans can only run around in a field for so long before the sporting aspect disappears entirely. Give me 10-on-10 and 9-on-9 overtime soccer, please.

Man the striker competition for the #USMNT remains as fascinating as ever. Literally none of Wright, Balogun, Sargent, Pepi, Aubameyang, etc. can just be healthy and in-form at the right place at the right time. Throwback to Jozy, Davies, Findley, Cunningham, Herc, etc.

Why is it like this?!?!

Star Wars fandom used to stand out as distinctly uncommon in overblown rhetoric, especially among supposed "fans" of the content they "enjoy." This dynamic feels far more common these days.

Backup NFL quarterback remains one of the single best professions in tha werld

All hail the Drew Locks and Brandon Allens of tha leeg

As I have said repeatedly, the Montana schools and the Dakota schools should be in FBS by every possible standard. You don't think there's money in Bozeman, Missoula, Brookings, and Fargo? In 2026??

The Pac-12 and Mountain West could thrive if they actually worked together.

Just in the last decade we've seen booms and busts due to instability in leagues in Brazil, China, India, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, Russia*, Ukraine**, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Pro/rel eurosnobs will never jump on this bandwagon but the structure of MLS has enabled what is essentially linear growth in every form in a way other leagues can never substain. This maturation of the league in the transfer market is one of the most outstanding examples of this.

This reminds me of when Robin Williams died. When like no one has anything negative to say. Catherine O'Hara was just awesome. And in that same stretch of time as Williams we also lost Pail Walker and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And now I have a familiar thought: "The wrong people are dying."