“Former pro players …” Sean Elliott? Andre Igoudala? Maybe think a little younger with DeAndre Ayton or Lauri Markkanen? College sports are just a 🤡 show now.

Congrats to Mike Brown, University of San Diego Class of ‘92, the coach that ended the 53-year drought for the NBA champion Knicks.

Robinson’s rebound was huge but for the record, Chris Bosh had a pretty big offensive rebound in the Finals once upon a time as well. Against the Spurs, too.

As promised, here’s the Orioles broadcast with Kevin Brown (not that one) and Hall of Famer Jim Palmer discussing the situation and explaining what happened earlier in the game.

Hope Orsillo doesn’t get in trouble with certain people for being honest about this being intentional. Though I did think Orioles broadcast (which I’ll tweet in a second) did better job explaining the background for those (like me) who didn’t watch the game.

Not exactly what anyone was “hoping” to hear. Obvious tonight how much Pulisic means to this team.

Great point from Bryan. And of course this was not long after the ESPN truck and the announcers failed to comment on Fox’s horrible gaffe. The cliche about meeting the moment? ESPN did not. Twice. (And I’m not sure they gave KAT enough credit for his saving play on D, either.)

Siri, is there any low too low for Marco Rubio?

Fox keeping with the tradition of too many networks and only putting on screen when coverage begins for World Cup matches and not the actual kickoff time. For the USA-Paraguay match tomorrow, that’s a THREE-hour difference. Fans could get a cruise in during that amount of time.

When Obama released his long form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011 and extra-definitively disproved Trump's birther idiocy, Trump didn't abandon the conspiracy theory; he just expanded that conspiracy theory to cram in the contradicting facts, pivoting to claims that the birth certificate was a forgery.  It's a time-tested conspiracist tactic. And he’s now using it again when trying to explain why Steve Hilton succeeded in the California primary elections Trump had baselessly declared were a fraud and were being rigged against Hilton: cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/…

I know this is everywhere but if somehow you missed it … this belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of tweets.

I could be wrong but I don’t think anyone on the game broadcast mentioned Fox’s dumb decision to shoot instead of continue dribbling at the time.

If you turned off the NBA game, I’d strongly suggest turning it back on.

Sheehy lies his ass off: "We don't in any way dismiss the inflation numbers, but let's not forget, the gas prices we see today, the inflation we see today, those were the gas prices and inflation under Obama and Biden. This is a temporary bump."

Trump to NBC: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.” And: “So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.” Reality: Trump promised in two of his highest-profile 2024 addresses not to have any wars at all, and he also made that promise in a bunch of other forums. Some examples: June 2024 social media post: The election is “a choice between STRENGTH or WEAKNESS, COMPETENCE or INCOMPETENCE, peace and prosperity or war and no war.” July 2024 Republican National Convention acceptance address: “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.” August 2024 Pennsylvania rally: “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.” August 2024 North Carolina rally: Approvingly claimed Viktor Orban had said, “Make sure that Trump gets re-elected president and you're not going to have any more wars,” then added himself, “No more wars. No more disruptions. We will have prosperity and we will have peace.” August 2024 Adin Ross interview: Boasted that he had no wars during his first term, then said, “And we won't have wars again.” October 2024 Wisconsin rally: Did one of his numerous renditions of the Orban story: “Viktor Orban said, ‘If Trump comes back, you won't have any wars. You won't have any wars.’ And he's about as tough as they get, and he said it loud and clear and he said why. But you won't have any wars.” November 2024 Election Night victory address: “I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars.” That is in addition to the many times he struck similar themes without the explicit promise of having no wars period if elected again – for example, vowing to stop “endless” wars or prevent “World War III,” denouncing “warmongers,” boasting of having had “no wars” in his first term, or saying we don’t “need” wars. Fact check with links to his full comments: cnn.com/2026/06/08/politics/…

One thing I always think about with the rigged crowd: If you actually believe in good faith that the 2020 U.S. Election was rigged, then logically you should be calling out the results of Senate elections in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisana and on and on, no? But stunningly I never see this.

I don’t know Samad Taylor from James Taylor but he can’t be worse than Castellanos, who never should have made it out of Peoria this spring.

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning. Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland. Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square. Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020. Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square. Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately. Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state. Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration. Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US. Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.) Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026. Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite. Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director. Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America. Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct. Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.* Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it. More details: cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/…