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Matt Zemek
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Editor, @TrojansWire | CFB writer since 2001 | For good journalism: @ddayen @MatthewStoller @KrystalBall @esaagar @RyanGrim @RossBarkan @zachdcarter
Apr 3, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
It is seismic enough for North Carolina to beat Duke at the Final Four in Coach K's last game, but infinitely more remarkable for UNC to play its way into a national title game against, of all possible programs, Kansas. Before he became a North Carolina coaching icon, Dean Edwards Smith played for Phog Allen at the University of Kansas and was on the 1952 national championship team in Lawrence, carrying forth the Naismith name and legacy for a program which was a blue-blood before UNC, Duke+UCLA
May 2, 2020 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
.@maddow allowed her show in the Trump era to become a modern-day Joe McCarthy.

Every other claim made on her show for 2.5 years was "PUTIN!"

She created a modern-day red scare... and neglected to cover how broken our various systems were the whole time

.@Maddow very intentionally structured her show in the Trump era to whip her viewers into a frenzy instead of soberly educating about systemic problems in many spheres.
That doesn't make her unique, but she has more pull, visibility+centrality, so her choice had more of an effect
Apr 28, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
I hope more and more Americans across the country are seeing that:

1) New York state is the worst-run state in the country;

2) Democrats are responsible for this mismanagement;

3) centrist Democrats crushing the left are the specific mismanagers.

New York has had the worst public health response by its governor (@NYGovCuomo) in this pandemic.

New York state also engages in wide-scale voter suppression under Cuomo, who leads the Democratic Party machine.

NY also practices austerity in a pandemic.

Dec 5, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
I will keep saying it until my last breath on this Earth:

One doesn't have to choose between the current setup and 4 quarterfinals this Saturday.

One doesn't have to choose between a 4-team playoff and 8.

Flex.
The.
Conference.
Title.
Games. #Big12

The 8-team playoff with the Power 5 conference champs, the Group of 5 champ, and 2 at-larges, is not a terrible idea. It's a good idea.

However: If a conference champ has 3 losses, that doesn't honor the season.
We know as CFB observers that nearly every season has a plot twist.
Oct 11, 2019 • 41 tweets • 9 min read
I haven't had one of these in a few months, but with everything going on re: China, the NBA, the media, and the Democratic primary, it is time for a long thread.

Don't want to put it on Patreon, since that's college sports.

Not ready to start blogging about politics, but close. The first and biggest thesis I wish to put forth -- which I will spend time explaining here -- is that if you are unsure of whether the media and public figures are either:

1 dumb

or

2 dodging the truth...

... you should almost always pick No. 2.

It's usually not stupidity.