I used to regularly post things that happened on this day, but I got away from it. Anyway, it turns out very little cool happened on 25 June, but that was the day in 1913 that the famous 50th anniversary of Gettysburg began, which Ken Burns made famous on PBS:

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Just wanted to point out that it looks like Boebert won her carpetbagging effort to stay relevant, while Bowman lost his seat to establishment Dems funded by pro-Israel donors. Just in case you all want to continue to discuss which party is beholden to extremists.

The guys at Sleepers were talking about Hoosier Hysterics today, so I had to listen to it. I recommend you do the same.

If IU can land him it will be huge. He’s visiting all the big guys including North Carolina and UConn. He appears to be wide open

TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🚨 Sherron Wilkerson
🔥 Malachi Moreno narrows his list of schools #iubb
🔥 Expectations for this year's #nbadraft
🔥 Tennessee wins 2024 College World Series
🔥 Florida Panthers hold off Edmonton Oilers

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...y-chronic-hoosier-sherron-wilkerson--60502454

I know this is the BB forum but I just wanted to acknowledge the Florida Panthers Cup victory last night. My wife who never cared for hockey ever became a fan of the Panthers recently. She went to 6 playoff games including game 5 and last nights Cup win. Nearly a two hour drive each way to the arena from our home on the west coast of the state. She is definitely hooked.
I lived in Detroit for 5 years so I had no choice but to become a Wings fan. Also, it was good for business. But I have to admit, I’ve become a Panthers fan as well. I’m sure
there aren’t a lot of hockey fans on here but just wanted to give a shout out. It was a great series. And you gotta love the rats on the ice. Reminds me of the octopi at Wings games. Difference is the octopi were alive at one time. The rats are fake. Nothing like hockey fans.

Louisiana voted down free lunches for poor children.

Yet how much $ is it spending on these categorically unconstitutional 10 Cs stunts?

As if Jesus cares more about some little props than he does child hunger?

What is this, like, reason #543 why American Evangelicalism is destroying Christianity in America?

Shame on all those ****sticks in La.

Kenya's Parliment is on fire and government officials have been kidnapped after the passage of a bill that raises taxes on certain everyday products in the name of saving the environment.



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If it's been covered on here, I haven't seen it.

While I don't watch as much college basketball as I used to, I'm an NBA Draft nerd (among other nerdisms), and after the NBA lottery is conducted, I absorb a ton of content about it. As they have gotten deeper into the weeds of it, including some breakdowns of mid-2nd round guys and lower, multiple podcasts have noted last year TJD would've gone much higher, but he was unwilling to sign a two-way contract with the interested club.

A two-way contract is a contract that pays a player for his time in the G League at G League scale, but your games in the NBA are paid at the NBA scale.

Typically there are prospects who are better off not getting drafted in the 2nd round because there is no guarantee. It's better to work with a club who could need or want to fill that position. Sometimes it's a team that doesn't have a 2nd round pick or a team that just isn't ready to pick you when they do. It does give the player some control.

The context has mostly been the recent news that Bronny would not be signing a two-way, and the comparison being made to that disposition is to TJD.

Of course the idea of guaranteed contracts aren't always just about how talented a player is. It's about roster spots and/or how it impacts the cap. If a club signed TJD to a contract but cut him, not only would they still have to pay him but his contract would remain on their cap until it expired.

So this was TJD betting on himself, and as it played out, it was also Golden State believing in him. It's going to pay off for both parties.

Not a real fan of those two, but you have to listen to the latest podcast. Start around the 21 minute mark. Very interesting and in some respects, conformational. I do not know how to link it on here. But it’s well worth the listen! Spoiler alert Dane fife is called Dan Fife! 😳

TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🚨 Sherron Wilkerson
🔥 Malachi Moreno narrows his list of schools #iubb
🔥 Expectations for this year's #nbadraft
🔥 Tennessee wins 2024 College World Series
🔥 Florida Panthers hold off Edmonton Oilers

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...y-chronic-hoosier-sherron-wilkerson--60502454

Anyone see that the fan fest and fantasy camp are canceled. IU clearly saying stfu you goofy weirdos.

The cult and its "reign of terror" brought terrible policies from local policing to inflation to cancel culture to the border. I think more and more people realize they are not what's good for the country. Biden recently promised to get progressives on teh S. Ct. I will be interested to hear his debate answers and plans going forward or whether we're going to relive the disaster of 2020 if he has congress. Pretty interesting take below in the MSN Newsweek link with the French. With respect to trump’s tainted blood offensive border rhetoric I think this author better captures what trump was inarticulate about

I was scrolling through some other articles and this popped up:


Here's an article about the state of Iraq today:

"With the fourth quarter revision, calendar year 2023 saw essentially no net job growth (+9,000 jobs overall)"


There were previous instances of California crowing about all the jobs they were adding each month. It turns out they were all adjusted down and away when the real numbers came in. Monthly numbers are reported via survey.

California would be a top 5 economy in the world if it was a sovereign country and they only added 9k jobs in all of 2023. Yet we're expected to believe that the US economy is robust and the envy of the world right now while the largest subnational component of the US economy isn't growing.

Sorry, never like changing things that work just fine.

Can one of you MAGA freedom experts explain to me how this isn't becoming a situation where the government owns a woman's uterus?

Here's a big newsflash for the MAGA crew: people like to ****. They've been doing it for 200,000 years. You know what else they've been doing? Abortions, that entire time.

So, what, God decided to show up, what, 188,000 years into man's existence with the sole purpose of reversing all He had caused/created the preceding 188,000 years?

This hocus pocus mumbo jumbo should be nowhere near policy, governance, etc. We are inching closer to cousins of the Taliban, and that's no joke. Women wearing Burkas is hardly removed all that far from this nonsense regarding birth control.

Smart to ask for help before getting sued. I suspect they will still get sued, but at least they won't have the U.S. government trying to take them down.

NCAA president seeks federal help for 'national standard' on Title IX as questions mount with House settlement​

Charlie Baker is looking to the government for "guidance" over Title IX concerns​

ATLANTA – NCAA president Charlie Baker is looking to the federal government for help in solving one of the most pressing questions surrounding the landmark $2.8 billion House antitrust settlement.

How Title IX fits into the House settlement, which will pave the way for a new collegiate revenue-share model if approved, has loomed over college athletics since agreed to in May. Title IX requires universities to provide equal opportunities for male and female athletes, which has typically been reflected in the number of scholarships offered to each.

With schools opting into a revenue-share model expected to cost approximately $22 million annually, how that number will be split up amongst the athletes has prompted great debate. In speaking to college athletes at the NIL Summit at the College Football Hall of Fame, Baker preferred a federal solution – likely from the Department of Education – rather than the NCAA telling its member institutions what to do.

"This is a really hard question for schools to answer on their own for a whole bunch of reasons. The biggest one most schools have said to us is ... the rules around equity when it comes to Title IX and around men's and women's sports ought to be relatively consistent from school to school and conference to conference," Baker said. "That's going to require a national standard. If we create a national standard at the NCAA, the problem with that would be if anybody doesn't like it one way or the other ... it would be challengeable in court.

"What we really need on this one, in particular," Baker continued, "is the feds to give us guidance that says this is what a national standard with respect to Title IX and rev share should look like."

To this point, the Department of Education has yet to weigh in on the Title IX implications of the deal. Without federal guidance, it could mirror how schools approached name, image and likeness, ultimately coming down to risk tolerance on what is permissible -- or, at least, legally defensible. In the early stages of figuring out what that'll look like (should it go into effect for the 2025-26 season), schools are already taking different paths.

"Some schools have already said they're going to assume the Title IX mandates they give are 50 (percent) to female, 50 (percent) to male based on their student body makeup," said Mit Winter, an NIL expert and sports lawyer at Kennyhertz Perry. "Other schools are not going to make that assumption and will probably decide football is generating most of this broadcast revenue, and they have a higher NIL value based on that, so we are going to give more to football players and basketball players and some other amount to men's sports and women's sports. It's really going to be up to each school based on legal advice from their general counsel and outside counsel on how they are going to approach Title IX."

A big issue, as Baker alluded to, is either path could come with legal challenges. If, for instance, a school splits the $22 million evenly amongst men and women athletes, it could prompt football players to sue if they aren't receiving enough compensation relative to the revenue they generate for the schools. Expect a conference-level push for uniformity among members if there isn't a federal answer. It's not difficult to envision the potential issues if one Big Ten school is spending 80% of that $22 million on football while another is only doing 50%.

Baker, who faced a series of questions from college athletes as part of a town hall format, said the House settlement "still has some steps," namely completing a longform agreement to be submitted to court, but it is expected to be approved "between now and the end of the year." The NCAA and the Power Five agreed to a settlement with the plaintiffs, but it will need to be approved by Judge Claudia Wilken before it goes into effect. Len Simon, who has worked on class-action suits since 1974, told CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd recently Wilken's approval "is not a foregone conclusion."

There has already been one legal challenge to the settlement from Houston Christian University, a FCS school, which filed a motion last week arguing its interests were not well represented in the House settlement. Last month, multiple Group of Five and FCS leaders voiced opposition to the settlement, believing they were saddled with an inequitable share of the settlement costs despite little input in the discussions.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...-ix-as-questions-mount-with-house-settlement/

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