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Andy Tulin (It’s Cuover Version)
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2009-24: CBS Sports research/producer | NYC Philly fan | Swiftie | Atheist Jew | Live 🎶 | cancer survivor | 🐈 guy | 🚽 mouth | unserious person | he/him
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The rest of tonight’s top-25 slate features ranked teams hosting unranked in-state rivals (Towson at Maryland, Belmont at Tennessee and Drake at Iowa). Prediction? Pain. Ranked #NCAAWBB teams are 63-0 so far against unranked teams with an average margin just shy of 43 points per game.
Ranked teams improved to 63-0 against unranked teams with a dozen wins by an average of 43.2 points per game last night, bringing the average margin for the season up slightly to 42.9. Shouts are due to Colorado, which led through three quarters in a six-point loss at No. 22 Louisville, and Austin Peay, which never let No. 19 Vanderbilt get too comfortable in a 10-point game. Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo also made some history, two-upping the previous Division I single-game record with 16 steals while scoring a school-record 44 points in a rout of Akron. The previous record of 14 steals was shared by several players, Ticha Penicheiro the most notable name among them, and had last been tied in 2008. Only two other players in all of Division I have at least 44 points and 16 steals so far this season, with Hidalgo joined by LSU's MiLaysia Fulwiley and Norfolk State's Jasha Clinton in that club. At least tonight's trio of unranked visitors won't have to travel very far to (most likely) take it on the chin.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Fully paywalled today but here’s a sneak peek! UCLA’s got a chance to make some program history with two top-15 wins in November for the first time. They could have as many as five by the time December rolls around.
Tonight's winner will earn the season's seventh top-25 win, all of them coming in top-25 matchups as ranked teams remain perfect against the unranked (more on that to come). It's only been three days since UCLA picked up the sixth top-25 win in impressive fashion in Sacramento over No. 6 Oklahoma, the highest-ranked team to lose so far this season. The Bruins already have an opportunity to become the first team with multiple top-25 wins, while Monday made this the fourth straight November in which UCLA has beaten a top-15 team in the AP poll. A win tonight would give the Bruins multiple top-15 triumphs in November for the first time in program history, but the Bruins could end up with as many as five this month. They'll return to Sin City to face No. 4 Texas and either No. 15 Duke or No. 2 South Carolina in the Thanksgiving-week Players Era event, then close out the month at home against No. 12 Tennessee. Before all of that, UCLA will finish this trip to Vegas against South Florida on Saturday and then face Southern at home next week.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Chat if I ever get so addicted to engagement that I turn the exposure of people who engaged in and enabled child sex trafficking into a prompt tweet, please fucking kill me
Someone else’s skeet Text: who is the person plausibly in the Epstein emails who you would be saddest to discover in the Epstein emails?
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Hannah Hidalgo finished with 44 points and a Division I #NCAAWBB or #NCAAMBB single-game record 16 steals tonight against Akron. Women’s record was 14 by many players including Ticha Penicheiro and most recently tied in 2008
NCAA division I women’s basketball single-game steals record STEALS Game 14- Natalie White, Florida A&M vs. South Ala., Dec. 13, 1991; Heidi Caruso, Lafayette vs. Kansas St., Dec. 5, 1992; Stephanie Wine, Marshall vs. Western Caro., Jan. 23, 1995; Keisha Anderson, Wisconsin vs. Cleveland St., Feb. 11, 1997; Ticha Penicheiro, Old Dominion vs. Saint Francis (PA), March 13, 1998; Christy Gambill, UNCW vs. South Carolina St., Nov. 16, 1998; Jillian Ingram, Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech, Feb. 29, 2008
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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LSU is the next-highest-ranked #NCAAWBB team in action tonight and has beaten its first three opponents by over 63 points per game. New Tiger MiLaysia Fulwiley is still a bucket, which isn’t surprising, and still coming off the bench, which is a bit of a surprise. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
Tulin’s Treasures newsletter screenshot Text: No. 5 LSU (3-0) hosts Charlotte (2-1) (8:00 ET, SECN+/ESPN app) boasting an average scoring margin (+63.3 points per game, fourth in D-D more than 20 points larger than the generic top-25 team, with a 118-70 win at Georgia Southern last time out the closest of the three games so far. The Tigers have only one major-conference opponent on their non-conference schedule, a visit to No. 15 Duke in early December, so it's probably a safe bet they'll head into 2026 with no worse than a 12-1 record. South Carolina transfer MiLaysia Fulwiley is coming off a 19-point outing and has led the Tigers in scoring in two of three games while continuing to come off the bench as she did as a Gamecock. Charlotte has lost 28 straight to ranked teams, and like Loyola Chicago, its last top-25 win came against DePaul, this time in January 2004.
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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UConn #NCAAWBB winning streaks are obviously nothing new and get a whole lot longer than 19, but the Huskies can reach that threshold tonight for the first time in longer than you might think. Hasn’t happened since their 36-0 start was spoiled in the 2018 Final Four
Tulin’s Treasures newsletter screenshot Text: No. 1 UConn (2-0) hosts Loyola Chicago (1-1) (7:30 ET, truTV) looking to extend its nation-leading win streak to 19 straight dating back to a loss to Tennessee in February. While this streak is still nowhere near the top of the Huskies record book, it would be UConn's first time winning 19 straight since winning its first 36 games in 2017-18. Sarah Strong has scored at least 20 points in five straight games, starting in last season's Elite Eight, and Azzi Fudd joined her in the 20-point club in three straight, starting in the national championship. Loyola Chicago opened with a win at Milwaukee but lost its most recent game to Green Bay. The Ramblers have lost 13 straight to ranked opponents dating back to a win at No. 17 DePaul in December 2015.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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You can either have broken-brained bullshit or the AI slop. If you remove the researcher’s perspective from sports research, all you’re gonna be left with is generic stats that AI can spit out with gradually increasing reliability. If that’s what you want, I am not your guy. Hit up StatMuse.
A comment from a reader on a recent newsletter of mine Text: Excellent write up, however, personal comments regarding the Liberty are unacceptable. Write about the new season only.
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Obviously this is not the same as a ready made bottle, but fwiw you got me googling
Cool Ranch Doritos are absolutely God-tier, here's how you make the seasoning from scratch. One teaspoon salt, half teaspoon sugar, half teaspoon citrus acid, half teaspoon onion powder, half teaspoon garlic powder, quarter teaspoon white pepper quarter teaspoon parsley, quarter teaspoon dill quarter teaspoon of paprika. And now the secret weapon, MSG. Just a dash. MSG's delicious, it's not bad for you. Mix it up. There's your Cool Ranch Doritos seasoning,
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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What if I told you McLovin is a)hot and b)Ben Kweller’s touring bassist now?
The guy who played McLovin is now hot and has pink hair
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Screenshot of iconic tweet saying “it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling each other “exactlyyyy” while quote tweeting an exchange in which dumb bitch JK Rowling says some transphobic horseshit and dumber bitch Elon Musk responds “exactly”
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Something tells me I’m gonna be using this a lot for the foreseeable future
“Guillotines for Collaborators” in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign logo
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Galloway: “men need an aspirational vision of masculinity opposed to the misogynist messaging epitomized by Andrew Tate”

Also Galloway: “Men are here to keep women safe, be their breadwinners, and put babies in them”

That’s, uhh…that’s a pretty traditional view of masculinity you’ve got there 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway— who has expressed bullishness on the Presidential prospects of both Newsom and Emanuel-declares that discontented members of Gen Z and the boys and teens of Gen Alpha need an "aspirational vision of masculinity," a vision opposed to the misogynist messaging that's epitomized by influencers such as Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes. Part self-help memoir and part Dudes Rock polemic, the book presents a capital-letter credo: "Men Protect, Provide, and Procreate."
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Since I’m willing to be there’ll be a block coming, here’s the complete idiocy I was quoting
A skeet from Aaron Van Dorn Text: You don't have to blame any of this on Democrats. Literally none of this is the Democrats fault.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This is gonna do numbers but it is literally a fantasy about a party that doesn’t exist. Anyone the DNC runs in a primary is going to be just as feckless and corporate-owned as the Dems we have now, because that is what the DNC wants. It will never be your friend.
A very big account’s skeet Text: Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts. There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I’m a single-issue voter, and that issue is:
“Guillotines for collaborators” in the Zohran font
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Trendon Watford gets his first triple-double in the throwback uniform and says he was excited to wear it bc he grew up seeing it in LIKE MIKE
William Jackson Harper looks stunned as Chidi in The Good Place. Caption “this broke me.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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RIP Meat Loaf, you would have loved the Zohran sign generator
I used the Zohran sign generator to make one that says “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that”
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I used the Zohran sign generator to make a campaign sign saying “A FAIR CBA FOR WNBA PLAYERS”
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Gus Johnson is awesome
Blue collar man standing up for his beliefs meme (it’s a Norman Rockwell painting)
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Star Wats prequel meme. Four screenshots in a grid. Panels one and three are close ups on the face of Anakin Skywalker, panels two and four are Padme Amidala Panel 1 (Skywalker squints as he looks at Padme): 25 YEARS LATER, CHARLIES ANGELS LOOKS LIKE THE MOST YEAR 2000 FILM EVER MADE Panel 2 (Padme laughs): (DEROGATORY), RIGHT? Panel 3 has no caption as Skywalker stares at Padme intently Panel 4 (Padme now looks shocked): RIGHT??
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Iconic tweet: lauren @NotABigJerk i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion 9:33 AM • 9/14/22
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Some outstanding skyline synergy here from @amandasmith.bsky.social and @amybrown.xyz
Consecutive skeets on my skyline On top: @amandasmith.bsky.social Without doing a single shred of research, I convinced a friend that we should absolutely go to Yellowknife, Canada the week between Christmas and New Year's to try to see northern lights. I just checked what the temperature is there in December. Lol. Whoops Below that: @amybrown.xyz Area Dog Cold At 62 Degrees (accompanied by a picture of a dog, wrapped in a blanket, with its tongue out)
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The candidate who vows to send Kim Mulkey to The Hague has my vote, I don’t even care what they’re running for
LSU won its women’s basketball game 115-26 tonight against Southeastern Louisiana
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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It continues to be very funny to me that Stewie and Lan are teammates. There’s also a running theme of Aces-Mercury team-ups throughout the rosters in the aftermath of the most recent WNBA Finals

Also: I would really like to see Mist roll out the three-guard lineup at some point
Tulin’s Treasures newsletter screenshot Text: Mist Players: Veronica Burton, Allisha Gray, Arike Ogunbowale, Alanna Smith, Breanna Stewart* Li Yueru Coach: Zach O'Brien As a New Yorker, I cackled when I saw that Smith and Stewart, the players involved in the (bogus) foul call that ultimately gave the New York Liberty the 2024 WNBA title, are teammates. I imagine Minnesota residents reacted more severely. I hope we get behind the scenes content of the pair talking trash about it either way. Beyond that, I'm not sure a lineup of point guard Stewie, wing Smith and center Li would be effective, but I'd enjoy it. The three-guard permutation of Burton, Gray and Ogunbowale? Baby., you got a Stewie-free stew goin'.
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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UConn unsurprisingly made short work out of Louisville, but the other matchups of ranked teams so far both delivered thrillers. Said it a few times on Monday, but I really think injury is the only thing that will keep Taliah Scott from being one of the breakout stars in #NCAAWBB this season.
Tulin’s Treasures newsletter screenshot Text: The two best on-paper matchups of the season's first two days both delivered thrillers and, as far as both the rankings and oddsmakers were concerned, upsets. No. 16 Baylor had the bigger win on the scoreboard (58-52) and the bigger upset by both measures as it held off No. 7 Duke in Paris, while No. 9 NC State's 80-77 win over No. 8 Tennessee in the state of North Carolina (Greensboro) was a bit less surprising. Baylor snapped a six-game skid against AP top-10 opponents, earning its first such win since December 2023, behind 24 points from Taliah Scott in her Bears debut after averaging 21.9 per game in two injury-plagued seasons at Arkansas (20 games in 2023-24) and Auburn (three games last season). NC State overcame a 10-point first-half deficit and closed the back-and-forth fourth quarter with 11 of the final 16 points after Lady Vols freshman Mia Pauldo's 3-pointer put her team ahead 72-69. Khamil Pierre led the way with 21 points and 14 rebounds in her NC State debut, perhaps taking a bit of the sting out of her departure for Vanderbilt fans by handing their hated rival an 0-1 start.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM