The Daily Mauling: 4/17/26

A European Starling feeds in Ellison Park in Brighton. The birds, originally brought to the North America in the 19th century, are covered in white spots in winter and turn dark and glossy in summer.

Kansas Jayhawks News

UNC fans are afraid Terrence Brown is headed to Kansas

A freshman RB for Kansas football is already drawing NFL comps

The rumor mill around Tyran Stokes is endless, but still seems to favor KU

Links!

The president vs Pope back-and-forth continues, and it would be entertaining if it weren’t so awful

An ICE agent in Minnesota has been charged with assault for pointing a gun at protestors (allegedly, of course)

NPR gives you three things to know about the status of the Strait of Hormuz

Pete Hegseth pulled out a fake Bible verse yesterday, and managed to compare the president to Jesus

Starting soon, 8th graders in Iowa may be allowed to play high school sports

The Athletic dives into how much money it might take to keep a men’s college basketball team relevant next year

The NBA has acknowledged LaMelo Ball should have been ejected from the Hornets’ playoff win in the 2nd quarter, which might have changed the entire outcome of the game

It seems the NBA will pick and choose who the 65-game rule for postseason awards will apply to. Shockingly, the rules won’t apply to the Lakers’ best player

Question of the Day

To wrap up this week, in which jobs were the QOTD focus, if you could change one single, realistic thing (other than pay) about your job that would drastically improve how much you enjoy it, what would it be?