Rich notter @RichNotter

Caitlin Clark is only the second basketball player to receive a full Wilson signature basketball line — after Michael Jordan. This "Fever Rising" Caitlin Clark basketball was sold out in under thirty minutes.

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In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year. That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer. FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset. US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records. So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros. Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability. Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business. They will not.

dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad

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“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.” “And will we develop a stronger youth program?” “We will not.”

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A member of the Egypt national team staff was pushed by Dallas police while taking a photo with a young fan.

If this is real. This is crazy. 71% is a lot.

The Leagues @TheseLeagues

2 weeks ago

Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham have the top two selling WNBA jerseys. The two make up 71% of the WNBA’s jersey sales.

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Only 711 days until Euro Cup 2028…

Sports are stupid.

Everyone keeps talking about officiating. I decided to start tracking it. Every Caitlin Clark game. Every official. Every crew. 📊 Win-loss record. 🏀 Free throws. 🚨 Personal fouls. 🟨 Technical fouls. 🚩 Flagrants. 📋 Discipline history. The goal isn’t to prove a narrative. The goal is to replace opinions with data. This is just Version 1.0. The database will grow after every game, and every official’s report card will evolve with it. No cherry-picked clips. Just the numbers. #CaitlinClark #IndianaFever #WNBA #SportsAnalytics #Basketball #Data #WNBATwitter @IndianaFever @WNBA @NBA

Good point. If you think politicians, billionaires, elites, and members of the Epstein Class should be able to do whatever they want without any accountability, vote Republican this Fall.

Acyn @Acyn

2 weeks ago

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take

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Notre Dame now has four Top 50 prospects committed … just on the lines of scrimmage.

Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3

2 weeks ago

BREAKING: Five-Star IOL Albert Simien has Committed to Notre Dame, he tells me for @Rivals The 6’4 315 IOL chose the Fighting Irish over LSU, Texas A&M, and Nebraska He’s ranked as the No. 10 Recruit in the 2027 Rivals300 ☘️ on3.com/rivals/albert-…

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The WNBA left Caitlin Clark off their 30th anniversary poster. We have truly never seen anything like this. The league got a golden goose and is doing everything they can to kill her.

WNBA @WNBA

2 weeks ago

Bring a piece of WNBA history home. 🏀 Celebrate 30 years of the W with this commemorative anniversary poster. WinCraft's poster is available now! Tap the link to shop:wnbastore.nba.com/wnba-gear/winc… #WNBALegacyTrail

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All this in just 4 years. Remember when they insisted it was impossible to build green infrastructure quickly enough

MAYOR 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Mayor_RK

3 weeks ago

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

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Someone tell the @WNBA we're offering literally free LASIK to their refs please

BrickCenter @BrickCenter_

2 weeks ago

The WNBA HATES Caitlin Clark 😭 Alyssa Thomas tried ELBOWING Clark in the face... Refs call a foul on Clark 🤔

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i’ve been watching basketball for 40 years and i have NEVER seen someone get BOTH of their ankles broken at the same time you gotta have this highlight playing on a loop in the basketball hall of fame forever now

Republicans have controlled every branch of Ohio government for over 15 years

NBC4 Columbus @nbc4i

4 weeks ago

Over one-third of Ohio households could not afford basic expenses in 2024, a new report found. nbc4i.co/4fMyl3e?utm_me…

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The White House was built to serve the American people. Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family. The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office. They did not fight a revolution for this.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

Jenni @hashjenni

4 weeks ago

Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare

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Elon Musk: Trillionaire Jeff Bezos: Billionaire Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today. Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-…

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.