Our World Cup journey comes to an end.

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.

Let's recap: *Flight 1 delayed. United can't appropriately schedule crews. Re-booked. *Flight 2 delayed. Couldn't get a ground crew to move a plane that had arrived the night before. *Missed connection by 90 secs. "they can't wait" Zero compensation. Figure it out @united

Finally. The player stood up and did what the adults should have done all along

Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec, AD Kirby Hocutt, coach Joey McGuire and associate AD Grant Stovall release a video message on Brendan Sorsby, his recovery and the situation in general texastech.com/watch/?Archive…

Long post incoming, because I think it’s important that someone says this… I know and love a lot of addicts. I worked in the field at one point and I have family members who are clinicians currently working in addiction treatment. The weaponizing of Sorsby’s addiction by Texas Tech has been disgusting, and the passage below heavily implies that TTU’s support of his recovery is dependent on him being a football player. If TTU genuinely cared about Brendan Sorsby’s recovery they wouldn’t have waited until after a judge ruled he could play football to set these support systems up. And that’s before we even address what type of trigger a $5 million check could be for a gambling addict who supposedly gambles due to anxiety and will now feel the pressure of showing he was worth the money and backlash. If Sorsby’s gambling is truly the manifestation of a generalized anxiety disorder as they have claimed then the least productive thing for his recovery is to turn him into a national story and a focal point for a lot of people who are rightly worried about what this means for the competitive integrity of all college sporting events. There is a word for swooping in and fixing things for an addict so they don’t have to face the natural consequences of their actions— “ENABLING” A player being punished for being an addict is not the same thing as him facing the natural consequences of crossing boundaries that he a) knew existed and b) took measures to circumvent. I believe wholeheartedly in the disease model of addiction, and I have compassion for addicts who are trying to make a healthier lifestyle into a new habit. Texas Tech has created a false dichotomy that paints those supports as being dependent on Brendan’s football eligibility. Not playing football does not equate to him being expelled from the university. These supports should never have been dependent on his being part of the team. I don’t believe anybody at Texas Tech is actually making Brendan Sorsby’s addiction recovery the most important thing here. If they were, they never would have put him in this spot. They just want you to back off because they think it will help them win a few more games, and that part of this story feels way grosser to me than anything else.

Great post, and this is part is absolutely spot on! “There is a difference between defending the person and defending the mistake. Texas Tech is in an impossible spot. Deep down, they may have hoped the final ruling would remove the decision from their hands. Exhaust every option, support the player, let the process play out, and if he is ruled ineligible, accept it. That is the cleanest outcome for a program trying to balance loyalty, discipline, public pressure, and competitive integrity.”

Protect College Sports Act is our best — and possibly only — hope for a solution, Texas Tech mega-booster Cody Campbell writes in op-ed for USA TODAY. usatoday.com/story/sports/nc…

You know it’s bad when every voice in college football is saying the same thing.

Can I return back to college football? I only played 2 seasons, should have 2 more eligibility years left…. Can you find me a judge in Louisiana who can see to it that Honey Badger gets to finish his last 2 years of college football? Who’s going to say no ?????