Luke DeCock

Some news to share: After 25 years, today was my final day at the N&O. I moved to Chicago in October, but I was commuting and working remotely until the paper ended that agreement as of today. I knew when we moved the end was near. That was my choice. It was time. I just wish it wasn’t so abrupt.

Give the man credit for having alligator blood and making it another decade. The 2021 Holiday Bowl Champions* would have made a retroactive 24-team CFP field, for what it’s worth.

announcer: let’s go to our rules expert, a guy who was a referee and is friends with all the referees rules expert: i think the referees did a great job on that call announcer: got it, thanks rules expert: they’re handsome too

Hate the Tkachuks all you want from your couch, but you can tell their teammates respect them by the way they showed up for tonight’s game.

Introducing Mid-Atlantic College Hoops. ... midatlanticcollegebasketball.beehiiv.com/p/introducin...

CFP expansion discussions will continue until morale improves.

Bluesky posters of A Certain Age can also recite entire Dr. Katz episodes. The one with Tom Agna and Ray Romano (wherein Ben thinks he has ESP) is a personal favorite.

If I owned a football team I’d absolutely be on the headset, geeking out to 14-word play calls and listening to the DB coach panic when the secondary doesn’t adjust correctly to a late shift. Get something for your millions*. *inheritance, whatever

we had our occasional differences when I covered him (as any coach and beat writer should), but I always had a ton of respect for Jeff Capel. good to see a coach out there talking like this

Incredible moment in NCAA history: A circuit judge in Florida actually referenced CALVINBALL in order to make a piercing point about the NCAA's case—while ruling in favor of Gators men's basketball player Denzel Aberdeen. The fifth-year player is suing for one more season and currently eligible.

Excellent doink

VT’s jerseys actually look a little empty without a sponsor patch. As with college athletes doing radio ads, it appears the world has continued to turn.

UNC might have hired the wrong coach, but by investing more in football, North Carolina is increasingly well positioned to thrive in the next round of TV-driven realignment — if there is one. For @theassemblync.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/news/culture...

This has Hurricanes written all over it.

“Data from AI-detection company Originality, shared exclusively with Straight Arrow, indicated as much as 12% of articles published by The Kansas City Star between June and August were AI-generated.” san.com/cc/inside-a-...

Which was, by the way, my all-time worst Halloween costume.

Caleb Williams looks like the Unabomber sketch

CEO: I have invented the off button.

Um, we already HAVE a Mr. and Mrs. ACC!

RIP Dick Tebbetts, who worked the press-room door at PNC/Lenovo for many years before retiring home to NH in 2023. A much beloved and missed figure at the arena.

The Premier League will take swift and decisive action by docking Everton another 10 points.

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Live your life so people might say the kind of things about you they're saying about Chris.

ESPN remembers college basketball analyst Chris Spatola, who passed away unexpectedly Monday

Shocked. Just a great dude. Unfailingly helpful and friendly (with the stones to marry into the K family). Heartbroken for Jamie and the family.

Love this. Of course he should be in. Of course a few people have kept him out. Of course people who deserve to get in should get in while the people they want to thank are still alive. Of course he’ll get in someday. Of course it takes nothing away from his career as coach and player.

Behold … the IBM PC Jr

In my professional opinion, the Protect College Sports Act is bad, actually, and I hope it doesn't pass. www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-protec...

Back writing for @mattbrown.bsky.social and Extra Points, this time on Dink Pate, the 20-year-old former G League player who turned down a chance to win a title with the Knicks to try to stay NCAA-eligible — and still can’t get cleared to play at Providence. www.extrapointsmb.com?utm_source=w...

I’m biased but this is still No. 1 for me (and “Pujols squeezes out No. 2” is … No. 2).

Ohio State’s self-sabotaging goal-line stand was like a hockey team on a power play when the other team takes another penalty and refuses to turn over the puck to get the five-on-three. But worse somehow.

I use public toilets and I piss on the seat I walk around in the summertime saying HOW BOUT THIS HEAT That song is a banger

And see what happens when they do??

and if there were any question, NBC's video is directly synced to the daktronics. this is a genuinely undebatable issue that the game was over.

"As long as Everton signs a right back, I'll be happy no matter what"