Ben Jones @BW_Jones

Former college football writer (UK, FSU, Alabama). @UK_Patterson alum. Also, I eat donuts. Personal account; views are mine alone. Mostly Washington, DC Joined April 2009

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

16 hours ago

@colecubelic It's done to create a clear path for evacuation (which is why they tell you to put bags back under the seat at the same time). If everyone needs to get off the plane in an emergency, reclined seats make it harder to get out.

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

a week ago

in the southern hemisphere, Australia is actually up 2-0

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NBC News @NBCNews

2 weeks ago

Sam Adams says from Thursday to Sunday, the Tartan Army drank four times as much Boston Lager as it normally sells during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July. nbcnews.com/sports/soccer/…

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

2 weeks ago

@jeremycoleman @MattGallagher0 "The Memorial begins with a Path of Honor, a symbol of endurance and freedom that connects this site to the National Mall. At each entrance, sacred relics of steel and stone from September 11, 2001 mark where the journey began." gwotmemorialfoundation.org/design-concept/

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mattgallagher0 @MattGallagher0

3 weeks ago

Re: the proposed GWOT memorial—it's very strange seeing some (quite online) vets citing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as some sort of lodestar of tradition. A lot of Vietnam vets hated the memorial wall with the names of the dead. Jim Webb called it "a nihilistic slab of stone."

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Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7

3 weeks ago

WHAT THE HELL WOW

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

a month ago

Next time, you might just link to the article rather than copying and pasting someone else's work. postandcourier.com/education-lab/…

Anthony Bradley @drantbradley

a month ago

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

2 months ago

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

adidas @adidas

2 months ago

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster. Powered by Adizero. #YouGotThis

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Weijia Jiang @weijia

2 months ago

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

2 months ago

Some dedicated soul is updating Chuck Grassley's Wikipedia page EVERY DAY so we know how old he is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Gra…

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

2 months ago

I don't know who needs to hear this but hot honey doesn't need to be on every pizza. Just regular pepperoni is still great.

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

2 months ago

@TJWalkerRadio reminds me of when San Francisco got rid of the interstate by the ferry building after the 1989 earthquake. Totally changed downtown. cnu.org/highways-boule…

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Sam Sherman @Sherman_FFB

3 months ago

Kirk Cousins agent

Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday

3 months ago

If aliens visit us, who should be in charge of speaking on behalf of humanity?

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

4 months ago

@chrisw96722402 @Tazerface16 this is very good

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

4 months ago

Respectfully, the military buildup took weeks and weeks. For an analyst to not even think about this possibility is... neglectful.

Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv

4 months ago

“In the whole written history of the strait, it has never been closed, ever,” said JPMorgan Chase analyst Natasha Kaneva. “To me, it was not just the worst-case scenario. It was an unthinkable scenario.”

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Nick Perkins @NickyPerkss

4 months ago

Watching full blown global conflicts on Twitter is the craziest experience of modern life. War, war, Alabama lands 5 star, F1, Auburn Loss, Epstein, war, Georgia player arrested, missiles.

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

4 months ago

Subject to the requirements of the service.

Russell Crowe @russellcrowe

4 months ago

Today Feb 27th Onboard the HMAS Sydney I was presented with the honorary rank of Commander in the Royal Australian Navy. Here I am with Vice Admiral Hammond and Lord Blakeney ( Max Pirkis ). I served with Lord Blakeney on the HMS Surprise back in 1805. Once Navy, Always Navy.

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

4 months ago

@Ben_Baby Kind of love that his bio has multiple inconsistencies in style (numerals vs words, state abbreviations) and an obvious grammatical error in the last sentence. "He received by journalism degree at Temple University." AI is not coming to save him. cleveland.com/staff/cquinn/

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Ben Jones @BW_Jones

5 months ago

@ChuckCulpepper1 Very sorry to hear this, Chuck. I hope even grander adventures are ahead. I'll look forward to your next story, wherever it's written, whoever it's for.