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1 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The two most liked current athletes in American sports are Tiger Woods & Patrick Mahomes. You can debate which is first and which is second. But there is not a remotely close third in the conversation right now.
Michael Jordan isn’t a current athlete, but I still think he is by far the most liked living American athlete. Just thinking about this in the wake of all the PGA players wearing red & black today for Tiger.
Lots of you will mention Tom Brady, but Brady is still very polarizing for many NFL fans. Steph is more popular than LeBron in the NBA, but with Warriors mediocrity he’s fallen off the radar. LeBron has stans, but I actually think he’s disliked by more than like him.
Major League Baseball, alarmingly, has no one who is even on the most liked radar. And the NHL and soccer are too niche to cut through and really don’t have a beloved player anyway. (Pulisic could be one day). Same with tennis & swimming, although Serena and Phelps have diehards.

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10 Jan
Big tech companies all simultaneously reaching exact same decisions when it comes to banning individuals & businesses demands antitrust action. It’s monopolistic collusion, yes, but it also destroys marketplace of ideas & is a far bigger threat to the country than any individual.
The Chinese government restricts free speech on the internet, but big tech companies in the US are now so powerful — and colluding — that they have created monopolies which dictate which online speech is allowed. It should terrify anyone who cares about the marketplace of ideas.
In other words, the first amendment jurisprudence of the United States is predicated on the government not prohibiting speech. But the Internet has created such powerful companies that their power to restrict speech is now more all encompassing than the US government’s.
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The Chinese government is allowed to brag & propagandize about how it’s treating Muslim women in its concentration camps on this platform, but the president of the United States isn’t allowed to Tweet. It’s insanity.
If you’re going to censor the democratically elected president of the United States, shouldn’t communist dictatorships at least have to not brag about their concentration camps?
This is the problem, btw, with any entity attempting to implement speech standards. It’s virtually impossible to do on a content neutral basis. But if you’re going to do it, it probably makes the most sense to start with keeping communist dictatorships from spreading lies.
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26 Sep 20
SEC officials just missed Kentucky’s running back’s entire body being in the end zone and marked him short. Football is officially back!
The ruling stands?! How is that possible?!
And now Auburn gets a 100 yard pick six. Kentucky got completely and totally screwed there. 14 point officiating error.
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26 Aug 20
The NBA players are effectively locking themselves out of their own jobs while demanding an action that their business has no control over. I don’t see how this boycott/strike/lockout ends. The NBA can’t address any demands with the players or institute any additional changes.
I suppose if charges are brought in Kenosha the NBA players could declare victory and return to games, but they have no control over whether charges are brought. And they don’t even know all the facts in that case. None of us do.
I suspect LeBron — and some other older players — will want to finish the season. But the interesting angle here is the woke NBA LeBron created has now passed him by. I’m not sure how much the younger players will listen to him. He might be outwoked by them.
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Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren shut down football in the Big Ten this fall, but his son is playing this fall at Mississippi State in the SEC: outkick.com/big-ten-commis…
How can Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren say it isn’t safe to play college football in the Big Ten this fall, yet let his own son play this fall in the SEC? outkick.com/big-ten-commis…
We asked @bigten for comment on how their commissioner can shut down all college athletics for the fall while his own son will be playing. Not surprisingly, they haven’t responded. Hypocrites gonna hypocrite, y’all. outkick.com/big-ten-commis…
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We will have Florida’s @GovRonDeSantis on @Outkick tomorrow morning at 8 am et. I am told many SEC & Big 12 governors are in favor of college football seasons in their states and early discussions among some of them are ongoing.
This may end up being a political battle, like everything is in 2020, before all is said and done. One question many are asking, if students are on campus taking classes how can athletics not also occur?
If you think about this politically, all 11 SEC state governors & all 5 Big 12 state governors are likely to be supportive of college football in their states. Big Ten likely knows this too. Which is why they are trying to bully the rest of CFB to follow their lead.
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