The baseball gods, as we have pointed out before, are an incredibly touchy pantheon. They demand humility, they despise a showboat, and they absolutely refuse to tolerate a man treating a 360-foot trip around the bases like a personal red-carpet gala. During Sunday night’s high-stakes NCAA regional final at Athens’ Foley Field, Georgia junior third baseman Tre Phelps apparently missed the memo. With the No. 3 national seed Bulldogs stymied by Liberty starter Cooper Harrington into the sixth inning, Phelps finally broke the ice. He crushed a clutch, two-run missile to left field, sparking a massive rally that would eventually secure a 6-1 victory and a Super Regional berth. It was a heroic, game-changing swing. Then came the performance art. Instead of a standard trot, Phelps embarked on a masterclass in theatricality. He danced toward first base, facing the stands. Right before rounding the bag, he flashed hand signals and directed heavy celebrations toward the Liberty dugout. While Phelps and Georgia coach Wes Johnson later claimed he was merely gesturing toward his family in the stands, the Liberty infielders and dugout clearly felt otherwise. Phelps didn’t stop there. He showboated his way around the entire diamond. As he rounded third, he spun backward to deliver a low-five to his coach, deliberately walked the final few paces to home plate, and orchestrated a lengthy celebration with the on-deck batter. TRE PHELPS GIVES GEORGIA THE LEAD AND THEN GETS TOSSED FOR CELEBRATION WES JOHNSON TOSSED. WOW. pic.twitter.com/kL36K3AVXS — 11Point7 College Baseball (@11point7) May 31, 2026 It was a display that would make NFL legend Barry Sanders wince. In the documentary Bye Bye Barry, Sanders recalled how his father discouraged any elaborate showboating, instilling a simple message: “Act like you’ve been there before.” That lesson became Sanders’ trademark. After spectacular 80-yard touchdown runs, he didn’t dance; he simply flipped the ball to the referee and jogged away. Phelps took the exact opposite approach, and the umpires—having seen quite enough of the Tre Phelps Variety Hour—promptly ejected him. Phelps was so lost in his own euphoria that he reportedly didn’t even realize he’d been tossed until much later. The ejection triggered a secondary explosion from Georgia head coach Wes Johnson, who stormed the field and erupted at the crew. “I’m going to always, if I think something’s wrong, stand up for our players no matter what,” Johnson later defended, insisting Phelps was just waving to his family. The umpires, unmoved by the familial defense, tossed Johnson too. “We let our players express themselves,” Johnson argued postgame. “Who’s going to tell a player he can’t wave to his family?” Here’s everything UGA’s Wes Johnson and Daniel Jackson said after the game about the ejection and upcoming suspension for Tre Phelps @DawgNation https://t.co/0zJJsZGDrX pic.twitter.com/hhCQvY5Qik — Cody Chaffins (@CodyChaffins) June 1, 2026 The answer, Wes, is the NCAA rulebook, which strictly demands an automatic one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct. Fortunately for the Bulldogs, the rest of the squad focused on the scoreboard. Caden Aoki turned in a masterful performance on the mound, scattering six hits and striking out a career-high 11 batters over six innings. After Phelps’ forced exit, replacement Michael O’Shaughnessy stepped up in the eighth, opening a four-run frame with a home run of his own that put Georgia up 3-1 on the way to the 6-1 final. Georgia (49-12) keeps its hopes alive for its first College World Series appearance since 2008. They advance to the Super Regionals to face Mississippi State. But they will have to do it without their star third baseman for Game 1. Thanks to his mid-trot antics, Phelps will sit out the opening match of the next round. Next time, Tre, channel your inner Barry Sanders, wave to mom and dad from the dugout, and act like you’ve been there before.

Embattled Democratic candidate Graham Platner dispatched his wife to do damage control over the discovery that the Senate hopeful exchanged sexually explicit text messages with as many as a dozen women and posed shirtless on a platform notorious for enabling sexual predators. His wife, Amy Gertner, quickly flagged the messages days after Platner launched his Senate bid in August 2025. The campaign, however, chose not to disclose them publicly, characterizing the issue as a personal matter between the couple, The Daily Wire previously reported. The sexually explicit messages mark the latest controversy to engulf the oyster farmer’s campaign, which has already faced intense scrutiny over his Nazi tattoo, his mocking of a wounded American soldier, and derogatory social media posts about women.   Over the weekend, The Daily Wire exclusively revealed that Platner maintains an active account on a platform notorious for attracting sexual predators and exploiting children. Platner is a registered user on Kik, a Daily Wire review found. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation considers the anonymous messaging app a “predator’s paradise.”  The Platner campaign appeared to dispatch Gertner to diffuse the crisis, painting a bumpy picture of the couple’s marriage and launching profanity-laced attacks against media outlets.  “I’m walking up and down my road right now, and this is like my 20th take. It’s very hard to do, but I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows that Graham and I have a great marriage,” Gertner said in a nearly five-minute walking video. “Being married is hard. Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going through infertility is hard. Being newly married, going through infertility, and Senate campaign is hard.” “I don’t even know if I have the right words to describe what we’ve been going through,” she added.  Gertner then attempted to chalk up her husband’s unfaithfulness to the stress he faced in the U.S. military.  “I knew the man that I married had been through an immense amount of violent, active combat, and he’s been in therapy for years. I just … I admire the f*ck out of him. So, when there are news articles about our marriage, it’s just extra sh*tty,” she said. “I think it’s shameful behavior to spend time, energy, and resources on negative ads and negative stories on Graham when all he’s trying to do is improve the lives of people who work for a living, and that’s it.”  One X user said, “This is a hostage video. Is she blinking in Morse code?” “Your presence on a site selling all manner of an extreme sexual perversion, including illegal material involving children, is absolutely relevant for voters to weigh,” Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham said.  Platner is expected to cruise to victory in Maine’s Democratic primary on June 9 after his top rival, Governor Janet Mills, suspended her campaign. Prediction markets still favor Platner in November’s general election against Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), though those odds could flip as Republicans dump more opposition research.  “The problem is his judgment, which he clearly has been lacking in as an adult. It’s one thing to have foolish, youthful indiscretions, but I’m sorry, you cannot get past. It is not a Nazi-style tattoo. It is the tattoo of concentration camp guards. It is the very worst tattoo you can get if you are getting anything Nazi, and that’s a pretty high bar there,” MS NOW commentator Elise Jordan said.  “So this has been a slow-motion train wreck ever since that tattoo and knowledge of it hit the world, and it’s only gonna get worse. These texts: There are multiple women. Are all those women going to keep their mouth shut from now until Election Day?” MS NOW’s @Elise_Jordan blasts Maine Democrat Graham Platner: “The problem is his judgment, which he clearly has been lacking in as an adult. It’s one thing to have foolish, youthful indiscretions, but I’m sorry, you cannot get past. It is not a Nazi-style tattoo. It is the… pic.twitter.com/nESAS6OYbl — Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) June 1, 2026

After being caught up in multiple sex scandals, Maine Democrat Graham Platner lashed out at the “establishment media” for reporting on his sexual escapades.  Platner attacked the media on Sunday after reports surfaced over the weekend that he sent sexually explicit messages to other women while married and maintains an active account on Kik, a platform plagued by accusations that it enables sexual predators. The Senate hopeful’s account on Kik was uncovered by The Daily Wire and features a profile picture of a shirtless man with a towel wrapped around his waist. “It’s no surprise to me that the establishment media outlets are just gonna run gossip instead of wanting to talk about the things that actually matter in this race, which are the material realities that the Mainers are working with,” Platner told ABC’s Portland, Maine, affiliate WMTW on Sunday.  Platner’s Kik profile was created on June 26, 2016. The Democrat, looking to unseat Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), was almost 32 years old when he joined the app, on which an estimated 70% of users are between the ages of 13 and 24. Though the app recently required users to be 18 or older to join, for most of its history it welcomed users 13 and older. Despite those guidelines, the app still does not require official age verification. “These people are gonna try to make this race about anything but what it’s supposed to be about, which is policy. They never want to talk about policy,” Platner said Sunday. “Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like to try to rip that apart.” Platner also accused The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times of “journalistic malpractice” for publishing stories on the sexually explicit messages he sent to multiple women while married. He claimed the outlets “ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer. I’m sorry that’s, frankly, journalistic malpractice. We pushed back on it, they won it, they did it anyways.” A Platner campaign official told The New York Times that Platner was pushing back on the number of women he explicitly messaged, not that the messages existed.  Many Democrats are still rallying behind Platner despite the latest revelations.  When asked if Platner passed the character test after the latest reports on his sexual escapades, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said he had “not followed this story as closely as others have.” “Graham Platner is somebody that served our country. He served his community. He’s also made mistakes, and he has admitted that,” he said. “Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.”

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is once again showing her Left-wing extremist views in action. On Wednesday, May 27, Spanberger fired Virginia Tech Board of Visitors rector John Rocovich from the board. Spanberger failed to cite any specific incidents in her letter, which accused Rocovich of violating, “the Code of Conduct for Commonwealth Appointees to Boards, Authorities, & Commissions, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors’ Code of Ethics, and the governing statues requiring board members to act in accordance with the best interests of Virginia Tech.” Rocovich wrote his own letter in response, a scathing takedown of Spanberger’s blatant partisanship and denial that he had violated any of the Board’s code of ethics. It is an unprecedented move to oust Rocovich, who has served on the board three times, totaling 16 years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations — the latest as an appointee of Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2022. Rocovich called Spanberger’s letter “deeply offensive,” and it is “legally unsupported, and wholly inconsistent with the Governor’s own publicly-stated principles regarding the proper relationship between the executive branch and the governance of Virginia’s public universities.” He continues: I never have served for personal gain, for partisan advantage, or for any purpose other than the betterment of Virginia Tech and the students it educates. I challenge anyone to identify a single action I have taken on this Board that was inconsistent with the university’s mission or the interests of the Commonwealth. Read Rocovich’s letter: Letter from Ousted VT Rector Rocovich in Response to Being Ousted by Governor by Pat Thomas

Police arrested over 20 people Sunday night outside a New Jersey ICE detention center that has been the target of violent protests.  The arrests came after nearly a hundred people armed with helmets, gas masks, and shields broke curfew outside the Delaney Hall detention facility, The New York Post reported. One person scrawled “Kill ICE” on a wall in spray paint while crowds chanted leftist slogans like “Give Peace a Chance” and “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Local authorities imposed a 9:00 p.m. curfew after riots broke out at Delaney Hall on Saturday evening as tires were burned and objects thrown at police officers. Activists have alleged that illegal immigrants detained at the facility have faced poor conditions.  New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said that those arrested included a group who came to “protest armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks” and that they “deliberately refused to comply with repeated orders to leave the area.”  “Their actions put the public at risk, and I am grateful to law enforcement for de-escalating the situation,” she said.  The Department of Homeland Security posted several videos on social media on Sunday night showing protesters being arrested. “If you riot, you will face the consequences. Law and order prevails,” the department said.  If you riot, you will face the consequences. Law and order prevails. https://t.co/FQSchSqfz0 — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 1, 2026 In other posts, the department said it would have “ZERO tolerance for rioters” and that “lawlessness, rioting, and obstruction of law enforcement will NOT be tolerated.” Top New Jersey Democrats have continued attacks on ICE despite the violent protests over the weekend.  Newark Mayor Ras Baraka used most of his statement on the unrest to condemn ICE, adding at the end that “it is also important to note that burning tires in the street, throwing bottles or bricks, and bringing weapons to protest have made this situation more dangerous” and “detracts” from the protests “original premise.”  Commenting on the protests from Saturday night, Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill said that her “number one priority will always be public safety, and I remain dedicated to protecting constitutional rights. We simply cannot let ICE surge into our community.” The unrest comes as detainees at Delaney Hall engage in a purported “hunger strike.” A source told The Daily Wire last week that detainees are opting to not eat their regular meals while going to the commissary to purchase snacks instead. Meanwhile, activist groups are claiming that detainees are being fed spoiled food and meals contaminated with worms. Under President Donald Trump, ICE facilities and officers have faced an increase in protests and attacks. Earlier this year, conservative commentator Ben Ferguson noted that ICE did not face similar pressure from the legacy media and the Left under former President Barack Obama. CNN’s Abby Phillip: ICE raids? Controversial. Always have been, always will be.@benfergusonshow: Not really! When Obama was doing them it wasn’t controversial! You guys [CNN] did ride alongs! pic.twitter.com/AeJ1IsVlk8 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 21, 2026 CNN host Abby Phillip said that ICE raids were “controversial” and “always have been, always will be.” “Not really,” Ferguson replied. “When Obama was doing them it wasn’t controversial. You guys did ride alongs.”