The path from Helene can be seen from space with all of the power outages the day after it ripped through the Southeast. #scwx #ncwx #gawx

Due to Jackson County, N.C.'s continued State of Emergency, Western Carolina Football will play their scheduled home game against Wofford on Sat., Oct. 5 at 2:30 pm without spectators. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and the Catamount Sports Network. 🔗- tinyurl.com/47m7wp76

Very useful action. After 9/11, I remember getting news from Drudge Report because, as a text-only site, its servers were the only ones able to handle the traffic.

Social media is not reality: -While only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33% of all content! -A mere 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news -74 % of all online conflicts are started in just 1 % of communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NFL plays are only a few seconds, but the moments leading up to the play -- new personnel, formations, shifts, and motion -- combine strategy and deception In the 2025 Big Data Bowl, it's your turn to tell us what that pre-snap data means kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-data… #BigDataBowl

I get asked very very frequently how to get into sports analytics. This is how.

The “WNBA is a mess” tweet has nearly 7mil views with people clowning the WNBA. — I see you that and raise you this “high level” hoopery from tonight’s Bucks-Sixers game.

I’m proud to share the exciting news that all undergraduate students from households earning $75,000 or less will be able to attend any UMass campus tuition-free starting next fall: bostonglobe.com/2024/10/29/met… @umassamherst @umassboston @umassd @umasslowell #umass #highered (1/4)

On Bluesky now: bsky.app/profile/drbdt.… I've been over there for a while, and the recent user uptick has now made my primary place for social engagement. So long, Twitter.

I owe my career to this game. I was in the stands, and as I was leaving, the students were chanting "Yankees suck!" Wrong sport / season / level / state. That behavior was fascinating, and it helped lead me to study Know Rivalry.