Kevin McNamee
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Worked on the alleys and backstreets of NCAA DI college athletics/higher education for 4+ decades. “What we have to be is what we are.” Thomas Merton, Pax et bonum.
Good on Dr Gregory Washington: At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary
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September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Good on Dr Gregory Washington: At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
"In a landscape driven by elite interests and covert dealings, the line between diplomacy and profit has become dangerously blurred.
No wonder Witkoff didn’t want any witnesses to his meeting with Putin. It would've cost a fortune to buy their silence." desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...
No wonder Witkoff didn’t want any witnesses to his meeting with Putin. It would've cost a fortune to buy their silence." desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...
The Realtor Who Came in From the Cold • russian desk
Trump's chief negotiator is acting in the service of a section of the elite, interested in restoring trade ties.
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May 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"In a landscape driven by elite interests and covert dealings, the line between diplomacy and profit has become dangerously blurred.
No wonder Witkoff didn’t want any witnesses to his meeting with Putin. It would've cost a fortune to buy their silence." desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...
No wonder Witkoff didn’t want any witnesses to his meeting with Putin. It would've cost a fortune to buy their silence." desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...
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Viewpoint diversity is an admirable goal for a university to pursue on its own.
In America, though, the First Amendment forbids the government from requiring diversity (or homogeneity, or any distribution) of viewpoints.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/a...
In America, though, the First Amendment forbids the government from requiring diversity (or homogeneity, or any distribution) of viewpoints.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/a...
Trump and Harvard Both Want ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’ What Does It Mean?
The administration has accused the university of lacking viewpoint diversity. Harvard is fighting its demands, but embracing the vague term.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Viewpoint diversity is an admirable goal for a university to pursue on its own.
In America, though, the First Amendment forbids the government from requiring diversity (or homogeneity, or any distribution) of viewpoints.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/a...
In America, though, the First Amendment forbids the government from requiring diversity (or homogeneity, or any distribution) of viewpoints.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/a...
Kevin Warren received the green light to shatter the Big Ten's philosophy of contiguous state expansion. The LA market opened for business and everyone cashed in on relatively low hanging revenue fruit.https://t.co/f2SylEq066
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/big-ten-kevin-warren-bonus-jim-delany-1234851527/
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May 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kevin Warren received the green light to shatter the Big Ten's philosophy of contiguous state expansion. The LA market opened for business and everyone cashed in on relatively low hanging revenue fruit.https://t.co/f2SylEq066
Volatility nonsense. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Trump plans to announce the US will call Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say
President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia
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May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Volatility nonsense. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Santa Ono jumps ship at Michigan after a 2.5 year tenure. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
UM's Ono picked as sole finalist for University of Florida's presidency
Ono says he expects to assume the new role later this summer once the appointment is approved by Florida's Board of Governors.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Santa Ono jumps ship at Michigan after a 2.5 year tenure. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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“As Trump’s top foreign policy negotiator jets around the globe to broker deals, some officials worry he’s not prepared”
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Trump’s ‘lone ranger’: How Steve Witkoff became the defacto point man on America’s foreign policy challenges | CNN Politics
Last month a private jet belonging to Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff winged its way from Abu Dhabi to Doha to Moscow and Baku, before finally flying to Palm Beach, where Witkoff briefed President Don...
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April 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“As Trump’s top foreign policy negotiator jets around the globe to broker deals, some officials worry he’s not prepared”
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Terrific read via @thedispatch: To the extent that Trump’s true nature was ever a mystery, it no longer is: As a White House aide recently said, the president is “at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore” and “going to do what he’s going to do.” thedispatch.com/article/decl...
Slouching Towards Tyranny
On a dark hour for the American right.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Terrific read via @thedispatch: To the extent that Trump’s true nature was ever a mystery, it no longer is: As a White House aide recently said, the president is “at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore” and “going to do what he’s going to do.” thedispatch.com/article/decl...
Read the room. This image sums up the absolute tone deaf ridiculousness of college athletic leadership at the P4 level. After a tough day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, they gathered for an intimate chat. As they like to say; "We don't have a revenue issue, we have a spending issue."
April 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Read the room. This image sums up the absolute tone deaf ridiculousness of college athletic leadership at the P4 level. After a tough day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, they gathered for an intimate chat. As they like to say; "We don't have a revenue issue, we have a spending issue."
The Trump crackdown on free speech on college campuses now includes Brown University. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University, official says
The administration of President Donald Trump plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University over what it calls antisemitism on campus, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, but the university said it had not yet been formally notified.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The Trump crackdown on free speech on college campuses now includes Brown University. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
"There isn’t any analysis.
It’s a one-person show based on economic fallacies that are going to wreck our economy, wreck the world trading system." Jeffrey Sachs
It’s a one-person show based on economic fallacies that are going to wreck our economy, wreck the world trading system." Jeffrey Sachs
April 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"There isn’t any analysis.
It’s a one-person show based on economic fallacies that are going to wreck our economy, wreck the world trading system." Jeffrey Sachs
It’s a one-person show based on economic fallacies that are going to wreck our economy, wreck the world trading system." Jeffrey Sachs
The same Nazi that said, "Just like a potato beetle destroys potatoes, the Jew destroys nations and peoples. There is only one solution: to deal radically with the danger."
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Oh just Texas Congressman Keith Self directly quoting Joseph Goebbels during a congressional hearing….what planet are we on smh
April 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The same Nazi that said, "Just like a potato beetle destroys potatoes, the Jew destroys nations and peoples. There is only one solution: to deal radically with the danger."
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
An enforcement concept that sounds great to ADs and coaches, but history shows all prior efforts to be a Sisyphean task. Terrific read, via @danwetzel. bsky.social www.espn.com/college-spor...
Power schools will outsource enforcing NIL payments to athletes
Skeptics say cash to players for commercial endorsements often far exceeds the service's actual value.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
An enforcement concept that sounds great to ADs and coaches, but history shows all prior efforts to be a Sisyphean task. Terrific read, via @danwetzel. bsky.social www.espn.com/college-spor...
A defining commitment 🧵. Via @d1scourse.bsky.social
Per an open records request, George Mason coach Tony Skinn's new deal announced last week raises his salary from $965,000 to $1.7 million. Set to increase by $100,000 annually over a five-year term, eventually up to $2.1M in 2029-30.
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A defining commitment 🧵. Via @d1scourse.bsky.social
Trump told Elon, "I'll take your money, but you can keep your 2 cents." abcnews.go.com/US/trump-pri...
Trump privately indicates Elon Musk could step back from current role: Sources
President Donald Trump indicated to top advisers that Elon Musk could be taking a step back from his current role, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Trump told Elon, "I'll take your money, but you can keep your 2 cents." abcnews.go.com/US/trump-pri...
This is rich. Trump slaps Europe around and Europe says we've had enough. Now U.S. defense contractors are vulnerable to Trump's impulsivity. www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is rich. Trump slaps Europe around and Europe says we've had enough. Now U.S. defense contractors are vulnerable to Trump's impulsivity. www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
Imagine that. Russian media seems to see Donald Trump for who he is.
One Russian newspaper today accuses the Trump administration of “administrative insanity, inexperience, immaturity…(of) bragging and arrogance…” Another paper: “On Ukraine talks, Donald’s mood changes as often as the wind.” #ReadingRussia
Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (2 April 2025)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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April 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Imagine that. Russian media seems to see Donald Trump for who he is.
If this staggeringly ignorant national security incompetence doesn't get people in Trump's cabinet fired, then nothing will. Huge story, via @JeffreyGoldberg www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If this staggeringly ignorant national security incompetence doesn't get people in Trump's cabinet fired, then nothing will. Huge story, via @JeffreyGoldberg www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Roosevelt has been working for the weekend.
March 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Roosevelt has been working for the weekend.
A sobering reality check on the higher education landscape. www.diverseeducation.com/institutions...
Moody's Downgrades Higher Education Outlook to Negative as Federal Policy Changes Threaten Sector
Moody's Ratings has revised its outlook for the U.S. higher education sector from stable to negative, citing recent and potential federal policy changes that have created a more difficult operating en...
www.diverseeducation.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A sobering reality check on the higher education landscape. www.diverseeducation.com/institutions...
One thing is certain: Trump is no poker player. Thanks to his actions so far, Putin hasn’t had to reveal any of his cards. Trump claims to know what Putin wants, but his own actions show that he actually has no clue. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich
Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
One thing is certain: Trump is no poker player. Thanks to his actions so far, Putin hasn’t had to reveal any of his cards. Trump claims to know what Putin wants, but his own actions show that he actually has no clue. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Great read by a great friend: "Team USA and Team Canada are bitter rivals on the ice. That's hockey. But our countries are not enemies. We are best friends. And we pray it stays that way." @erikbrady.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Opinion: Feel free to hate me, but I'm rooting for Team Canada in 4 Nations
I hope that the crowd in Boston will not boo the Canadian anthem tonight. Team USA and Team Canada are rivals on the ice. But we're not enemies.
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February 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great read by a great friend: "Team USA and Team Canada are bitter rivals on the ice. That's hockey. But our countries are not enemies. We are best friends. And we pray it stays that way." @erikbrady.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
"Now when the music plays The Gates of Hell Are Open, that's where you walk in." Moe
February 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Now when the music plays The Gates of Hell Are Open, that's where you walk in." Moe
If there's an organic, grassroots movement developing, then keep the damn politicians out of it. Let folks speak for themselves!
Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who is thoroughly inspired to see the thousands of fired-up Americans who turned out IN EVERY STATE to protest the insane trump executive orders, firings, and policies he's pushing.
LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!🙏💪
LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!🙏💪
February 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If there's an organic, grassroots movement developing, then keep the damn politicians out of it. Let folks speak for themselves!
A deep dive into where Trump is attempting to lead Ukraine. www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...
Marco Rubio Is Walking into a Trap
Ukraine still has an opportunity to win the war—if the Trump administration will let it.
www.thebulwark.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A deep dive into where Trump is attempting to lead Ukraine. www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...