Neil W. Blackmon

❗This is a *NEW* GOP Nazi chat story, not that young R chat; this Miami campus R one is as vile...

“participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish & gay people & mused about Hitler’s politics.”
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No clue will depend on TV

Matt is immensely talented. He’s smart, intentional, thorough, and navigates the vital line of being fact-driven while also being an engaging storyteller.

Better yet, he’s kind, supportive, and a good human.

He’s made American soccer better.

Count me in. You should subscribe too.

Lifelong Jordan Stolz fan.

Michael Phelps on ice

More than anything else, the Charles Bediako case demonstrates college basketball's leadership vacuum Charles Bediako, James Nnaji and many European players who have flooded into the NCAA ranks threaten the sport as we know it.

I wrote about how there is plenty of blame to go around in the Charles Bediako litigation.

The thing that’s missing is leadership— and it is what college basketball desperately needs.

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Interesting. Do you guys think I should become a soccer fan

‘In a very real sense, Trinity Rodman is Greenland’ is a level of getting lost in the sauce I’m not sure we’ve ever seen.

Truly remarkable.

ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

I think the answer is we don’t know, because any external efforts to investigate by other law enforcement agencies (it is common practice especially in shootings to let another agency investigate) have been shut down

The Atlantic has met the moment.

Can’t say that about enough big media outlets

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
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Top 5 player at Florida ever

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

No, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova.

**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**

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The U is Back: It's the Hurricanes' title to lose, and they aren't going anywhere Miami has been a dominant force so far during the College Football Playoff. There's no reason to think that'll change vs. Ole Miss.

The brilliance of @nwblackmon.bsky.social

What a piece!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS to the newly elected NASR Executive Board for 2026-27! 🎉

President: @laurelpfahler.bsky.social
Vice President: @nwblackmon.bsky.social
Secretary: @amcalabrese.bsky.social
Comms. Director: @cjcoreschi.bsky.social
Spanish Lang. Media Liaison: Andoni Biurrarena

The lack of any housing or room at an inn, a birth in a humble stable (probably a cave) filled with farm animals, a government determined to find and kill him, and the need to flee after birth and seek asylum as a refugee in Egypt…

Jesus came anyway.

The miracle of Christmas isn’t that everything worked out perfectly.

On the contrary, it is that despite intense strain on Mary and Joseph’s relationship, a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem…

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The GOP blocking health care funding for poor, sick folks and children while loudly celebrating a poor child born in a stable who grew up to speak truth to power and heal and minister to the sick is a little too on the nose.

The health of a relationship is directly proportional to how much instagram content you send each other and how quickly it’s viewed.

This isn’t an opinion. It is science.

13 out of 10 therapists agree.

David Moyes 4.0 - what is going on?

Moyes for President. #COYB

Global organization that hosted a World Cup in Qatar, a slave state built on the back of migrant human rights abuses, awarding a “peace” prize to Donald Trump, is a little too on the nose.

Missing my friend Grant Wahl today.

He would have hated the draw ceremony but been so fired up to host the World Cup.

Can Anything Make The Hornets Make Sense? | Defector The Charlotte Hornets are once again miserable crud. At 4–13, they are down there sloshing in the fermented trash juice of the Eastern Conference. The Hornets are perhaps a somewhat more buoyant grade...

I write about college basketball. But:

My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets.

It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness.

I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read.

defector.com/can-anything...

Episode 327: Florida v Miami Podcast Episode · The Florida History Podcast · 11/25/2025 · 21m

This week’s Florida History Podcast is on the Miami v Florida rivalry in football w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social

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Previewing Feast Week for SEC basketball Feast Week might not be what it once was, but there's still plenty of great college basketball action for SEC fans to watch.

Forgot to post my Feast Week preview here— plenty of Great SEC basketball on tap— shout out to my guy @bracketdobber.net for the assist with the elite MTE map

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Spurrier v Bowden w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social

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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Imagine being the worst person the worst person on the planet knows.