A mess https://t.co/YXhNL3nau6 pic.twitter.com/0TARVmJPfM
— Walter Rose (@GlamFairySparks) March 27, 2026
Two posts at Reddit
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Today's news and jokes
Universities are trying to keep secret how much money is being spent on sports
NYT:
One of the most common questions among college sports fans is also one of the hardest to answer.
How much are players getting paid?
The answer is unverifiable because programs treat revenue-sharing documents as literal state secrets.
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Public schools that receive public money generally make their budgets public. Online databases can show you the salary of a janitor at UMass ($44,000) or a surgery professor at Florida ($1.35 million). A records request can get you the recruiting budget for North Carolina football ($2.6 million), food expenses for Houston men’s basketball ($504,000) or Lane Kiffin’s contract at LSU.
But player compensation has been a black box.
The University of Kansas said "times have changed" and the university will now help financially support KU Athletics, according to a statement Tuesday from the chancellor's office.
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After years of KU Athletics transferring roughly $15 million annually to the university's general fund, KU said it will now help fund student-athlete tuition, housing and scholarships.
Getting attention now because:
University of Kansas Chancellor ... and Provost ... addressed Kansas Athletics funding, employee salaries and campus facilities in a statement released Tuesday.
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Results showed that a majority of the 2,012 respondents, about 80%, expressed “no confidence”
Ryan Coogler talks about Miles Caton’s strange audition tape for Sinners
@lone__lotus Ryan Coogler talks about Miles Caton’s audition tape for Sinners #sinners #oscars #vampire #oscarsathome #soulmusic @The Oscars ♬ original sound - Lotus
Saturday, March 28, 2026
The Artemis II mission has a good mascot
The crew of ArtemisII arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on March 27th ahead of launch on April 1st.
— Joe.B (@JoeB_Photos) March 28, 2026
📸 for: @WeAreSpaceScout pic.twitter.com/Cuq6t1BT3Q
#ICYMI: The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II test flight arrived at @NASAKennedy yesterday, March 27.
— NASA Marshall (@NASA_Marshall) March 28, 2026
Following their arrival, they showed off the zero gravity indicator that will fly with the crew around the Moon >> https://t.co/UdHLM1HtYg pic.twitter.com/VCvEai2C1a
you’re a monster pic.twitter.com/7xTuRjPJYJ
— Hermes (@coinsolmaxi) March 28, 2026
No merch from what I could tell, but you can see the designs that were not chosen.
A man and his dog fleeing bombs in Tehran
A man and his dog fleeing bombs in Tehran. The human & animal victims of war
— dominic dyer (@domdyer70) March 28, 2026
Photo by Pooria Hatami. pic.twitter.com/OSPB8N88dt
Todays news and jokes
(I did play it for a while--was interesting to see how far I could get in challenges playing for free, and also seeing how many tries it would take to complete a level (unbeatable levels would suddenly crumble). Would like to see someone try to create data about that.)I have no interest in this man’s problems
— Tarja Porkka-Kontturi (@tarjapk.bsky.social) March 26, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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"Telluride is in a pitched battle with the eccentric owner of its luxury resort"
@wallstreetjournal Telluride, Colo., has descended into what some have called the “ski-gate scandal”: an alleged attempted coup to force resort owner Chuck Horning to sell to investors. The upheaval has involved resignations, a work stoppage and a protest, leaving America’s “most luxurious ski town” in crisis.
♬ original sound - The Wall Street Journal
The WSJ takes a detailed look at the efforts by seemingly everyone living in Telluride, Colorado to oust the owner of the Telluride Ski & Golf resort:
He even fired his own son, Chad, who Horning said led several attempted management coups against him. Chad Horning declined to comment, saying, “This is a highly personal family matter.”
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