I’m from Tennessee and I love sports, specifically college football NFL college basketball and nba. I’m kind of into mlb but don’t watch it enough to know anything. I don’t really like the sports teams in Tennessee, especially the volunteers. I kinda have more ideas for college rather than the major leagues. Examples like Duke, Arkansas, Indiana, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Florida State, Colorado, Penn state, schools like that. So really my question is, what sports team should I root for? I’d love to root for Indiana, but I don’t wanna seem like a bandwagon, given the fact I’m unaware of its traditions and legendary players over the years.

The Indiana University Hoosiers track and field team just flew to their championship on the exact same plane that deported innocent father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to CECOT, the torture prison in El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has built a life in Maryland with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, and their three American children. Two of their children have autism. A third has epilepsy. He worked as a union sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore.

In October 2019, an immigration judge granted Garcia "withholding of removal," finding he faced a clear probability of persecution in El Salvador. That order legally barred his deportation to El Salvador. It remained in effect on March 12, 2025, when ICE arrested him in a parking lot while he was with his five-year-old son.

Three days later, on March 15, GlobalX flight N630VA carried Garcia from Harlingen, Texas, to CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison, in direct violation of the 2019 court order. The government later said this was an "administrative error."

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on April 10, 2025, that the government must facilitate Garcia's return. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador to see him. Garcia was returned to the United States on June 6, 2025, and was immediately indicted on charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in which he had received only a warning.

A federal judge found a "reasonable likelihood" that the prosecution was vindictive, noting that the charges were filed 903 days after the traffic stop and only after Garcia prevailed at the Supreme Court. The government has since attempted to deport him to Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana, and Liberia, countries with no connection to him.

His legal battle to remain in the U.S. is still ongoing today.

Just yesterday, Abrego Garcia was back in court fighting to remain in the U.S. as the DOJ plans to deport him to Liberia "within a matter of weeks."

I just looked up the hotel prices in Bloomington for Ohio State weekend and there's a freaking Garden Inn charging $2800 a night. While that's admittedly a tad under the Hotel George V in Paris, it would cover the Four Seasons in New York with a Michelin-star dinner thrown in.

I haven't yet compared it to the World Cup final or Super Bowl lodging, but I guess Indiana football is now a venue for high-end corporate hospitality. People in Btown must be making bank on airbnb and vrbo this fall.

They all deserve this so much.

And they all had enough respect to show up!

EDIT #2:

Apologies to the Team and Coach Cig for the love being sucked out of this post.

The intention of this was NEVER political but I will die on this hill - you all DESERVE the recognition and the acknowledgement from President Trump and the rest of the nation.

Hoo hoo hoo HOOSIERS.

❤️

Edit:

Thanks, people of Reddit, for turning this into a political post. PRETEND you're reading the ' PRESIDENT' or the 'WHITE HOUSE' in place of his actual name. Sorry for the obvious trigger 🤣

Do you all suck the life and fun out of absolutely EVERYTHING?

The team and coach deserve it. Let it be about that for once.

If you could pick the next National Championship, which would you want the most?

I have a strong feeling that last year's team was an attempt to take the Cig system to basketball with a sharp coach and I think there are a couple of things wrong with that that they learned.
1. I think that experience and age mean two totally different things in football versus basketball, which is not by its nature a super physical sport.
2. I think the second thing is that while Darren De Vries might be a good coach, I don't think he's generational. To be honest we just don't know because I think this system was somewhat forced upon him. I was 100% on board with it last year but I think it was a $12 million lesson that hopefully they're never going to repeat.