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The brand new guide Poisoned Ivies: The Inside of Account of the Educational and Ethical Rot at The us’s Elite Universities, by means of New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, is an actual time tablet. In taking in this guide undertaking, Stefanik obviously sought after to cement her second of political stardom—that one time in past due 2023 that she requested the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn a yes-or-no query at a congressional listening to on campus antisemitism, and the ones presidents spoke back disastrously—right into a launchpad for her political occupation. Poisoned Ivies recounts how, at the day of the hearings, Stefanik used to be taking part in the Congressional model of Michael Jordan’s flu recreation—she used to be unwell, however went to paintings anyway, “armed with Kleenex, cough drops, and doused with over the counter chilly medication.” Dramatically, Stefanik describes dithering over whether or not to just accept a colleague’s be offering to yield their mins: “The query heard around the globe virtually didn’t occur.” And naturally the truth that the listening to used to be so zeitgeisty as to seem on Saturday Night time Are living makes it into the guide—although Stefanik describes the ensuing comic strip, which mocked her in addition to faculty presidents Claudine Homosexual, Sally Kornbluth, and Liz Magill, as “the worst chilly open ever,” you higher consider it charges a point out.

It’s awkward, then, that the political occupation Stefanik sought after to gasoline by means of memorializing the 2023/2024 campus politics fights in guide shape turns out to have come crashing to a halt. The as soon as average Republican and Harvard grad (’06) had long past complete MAGA by means of the Joe Biden years, making quite a lot of statements supporting Donald Trump’s 2020 “stolen” election claims. After the 2023 campus antisemitism hearings threw her into the highlight, and Trump got here again into administrative center in 2024, Trump appeared to praise her loyalty by means of nominating her to be ambassador to the United International locations in early 2025. However the remainder of closing 12 months used to be all downhill: Trump rescinded Stefanik’s ambassadorship nomination as a result of he didn’t need to lose her congressional seat in a different election. Then, the president declined to endorse her marketing campaign to win the Republican nomination for governor in New York state. In December of closing 12 months, an insignificant two years after the hearings that put her on SNL, Stefanik introduced she used to be postponing that gubernatorial marketing campaign and leaving Congress on the finish of her time period in 2026. She has a 4-year-old son, and says she’ll be spending time with him; even supposing she’s younger and most likely to go back to public existence, she hasn’t hinted at that but, even to a pleasant contemporary interviewer within the Wall Side road Magazine.

As a substitute of looking to see Stefanik’s long term on this guide, you’ll learn Poisoned Ivies as an alternative truth: a story of what came about on campuses after Oct. 7 that manages to steer clear of description of any side of what used to be happening in Gaza, to signify Jewish campus reaction with out bringing up that there have been many Jewish scholars and school contributors who publicly declared themselves to be nonsupporters of the struggle, and (in a single bright and illustrative instance) to explain the profession of Hamilton Corridor at Columbia with out telling the tale of Hind Rajab, whose identify the occupiers used to rename the corridor.

Former Harvard president Claudine Homosexual’s well-known reaction to Stefanik’s query at the ones hearings—Stefanik: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your college’s code of behavior?”; Homosexual: “It is dependent upon the context”—reappears more than one instances over the guide, as an epigraph, and because the kicker on the very finish. (“Fact and light-weight will win. It does now not rely at the context.”) Writing on the time of Homosexual’s resignation, A.O. Scott of the Instances described that phrase as “a cautious, impartial piece of language that struck some listeners as outrageous for exactly that reason why: an strive at anti inflammatory rhetoric that had the other impact.” I understand that I’m following Homosexual into Stefanik’s lure by means of declaring that the very factor Poisoned Ivies lacks is context. However studying Poisoned Ivies, you already know that for those who inform the tale of campus protests publish–Oct. 7 with out invoking Gaza, then the protesters, the school supporting them, and the directors who struggled to determine the way to reply all sound incomprehensible—antisemitic on the very least; most likely additionally possessed by means of demons.

That’s no mistake. The guide cites most of the conservative shops and posters that lined campus politics across the time of the most important protests: the New York Publish, Pill mag, Invoice Ackman, Town Magazine, the Unfastened Press, the Heritage Basis, Canary Undertaking. Studying it appears like studying right-wing X within the spring of 2024. There are many actual circumstances of rhetorical extra from pro-Palestinian campus teams to quote, and Stefanik indisputably latches onto the ones, however doesn’t prevent there, blending those examples with uncritical replica of sure tales of campus antisemitism that will likely be very memorable to somebody who used to be on-line all through that point, however that glance rather much less verifiable in hindsight. Eyal Yakoby, a Penn scholar who (Stefanik writes) “has bravely faced and chronicled antisemitism on Penn’s campus since October 7,” had his lawsuit towards Penn brushed aside by means of a federal pass judgement on closing 12 months. The previous Columbia professor Shai Davidai, who used to be investigated by means of Columbia for allegedly harassing and doxing scholar activists and Columbia college, is, Stefanik writes, a “liberal” who favors a two-state answer and denies any wrongdoing. However that investigation used to be dropped after Davidai left Columbia in the summertime of 2025 and not had the standing of worker. Stefanik describes how Sahar Tartak, a Yale undergrad, mentioned she used to be “jabbed within the face” with a Palestinian flag at a protest—“fortunately, she didn’t endure any long-term harm to her eyesight,” Stefanik writes. However for those who watch the video of this “jabbing,” it’s some distance from transparent that’s what came about. Because the New York Instances corrected an April 2024 Bret Stephens column that lined Tartak’s tale: “A video of the incident displays a flag hit her face; it does now not obviously display {that a} demonstrator jammed a flag in her eye.”

In a extra advanced case of flattening-out, Stefanik lauds the “patriotic frat boys” who thwarted activists who changed an American flag with a Palestinian flag on the College of North Carolina, restoring Outdated Glory to its position and guarding it towards additional interference. Stefanik praises them with out bringing up that some frat boys on different campuses taunted pro-Palestine protesters with racist and demeaning chants—or, that one of the most frat boys at UNC later informed the media they didn’t experience being canonized by means of conservatives preventing tradition wars at the nationwide level. “Using our movements to advertise a story that we have been some right-wing, MAGA heroes has been a gross misrepresentation and a disservice to lots of those that have been if truth be told there,” one mentioned to the Instances in September 2024, after right-wingers on-line raised loads of hundreds of greenbacks to pay for a “rager” so the men may have fun.

Stefanik pats herself at the again for kicking off the “generational upheaval” of the connection between the government and universities that has spread out within the first 12 months of Trump’s 2d management. “Our listening to reset the process American upper training,” she writes. This can be rather true, although Trump, who doesn’t like to proportion credit score, may to find it anxious to learn. However issues glance other in 2026 than they did in 2024, they usually don’t all the time evolve in a immediately line. Within the weeks prior to Poisoned Ivies used to be printed, because the struggle on Iran spread out, Tucker Carlson known as Donald Trump a “slave” to Israeli high minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the BBC, and Marjorie Taylor Greene known as for Trump to be got rid of from administrative center. Ultimate week, the Pew Analysis Middle printed a survey appearing that majorities of adults below 50 in each political events now have a “very” or “rather” detrimental view of Israel. In hindsight, what came about on The us’s elite campuses in 2023 and 2024 began one thing—but it surely’s some distance from transparent what that one thing may be.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas quarterback Arch Manning has been limited this spring as he recovers from offseason foot surgery but said Wednesday he feels ready to return.

“I feel 100% right now,” said Manning, who has played sparingly in spring practices. “We’re kind of taking it slow, but if we had a game today, I’d be playing.”

Coach Steve Sarkisian said this week that Manning has done a few 7-on-7 series, but that the practices have been valuable for backup quarterbacks K.J. Lacey and Dia Bell and there’s no reason to rush Manning back.

The Longhorns are hosting an open practice for fans Saturday as a replacement for the annual spring game. Manning is not likely to play, but Sarkisian said he expects him returning to practice in June “100% ready to rock and roll.”

Manning played through some foot pain last season but finished strong, throwing for 3,163 yards with 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He ran for an additional 403 yards and 11 touchdowns.

Texas, last year’s preseason No. 1, just missed the College Football Playoff after three road losses to Ohio State, Florida and Georgia. Manning went 17-of-30 for 170 yards with one touchdown and one interception against the Buckeyes, and also threw two interceptions against the Gators. He said he learned a lesson from those early struggles.

“I think I could have had more fun. The first half of the season, I was pissed,” Manning said. “I wasn’t playing well and it wasn’t fun for me. And then I kind of sort of said screw it and had a little more fun and started winning some games.”

Manning said he was too hard on himself, which caused him to “tighten up.”

After squeaking out a 16-13 overtime win against a struggling Kentucky team — a game in which Manning went 12-of-27 for 132 yards — Manning said the offense met and vowed to let it go.

“We kind of really got together and was like, ‘We just got to have fun, man. This hasn’t been fun,’” Manning recalled. “We all got closer as an offense, as a team. … I think we started to play better and think y’all could maybe see it on the field.”

Manning finished the season as the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl MVP after totaling 376 yards and four TDs, including a 60-yard run, in a 41-27 win over Michigan.

The Longhorns added skill position talent around Manning this offseason, bringing in dynamic running backs Raleek Brown and Hollywood Smothers, as well as 6-foot-3, 201-pound wide receiver Cam Coleman.

“He’s an elite player and he wants to be good, which is the most encouraging thing,” Manning said of Coleman, the No. 2 player in ESPN’s transfer portal rankings.

Manning said he’s going to try to get his receivers to New Orleans to work out, “eat some good food, maybe go fishing.”

One player who won’t be there is his former roommate, wide receiver Parker Livingstone, who transferred to rival Oklahoma.

“I was a little surprised, but Parker’s a good guy,” Manning said. “Can’t say I would’ve done the same thing, but [I] wish him all the best. … except when we play them, I guess.”

Manning said he has been able to get “mental reps” and spend time with the freshmen and new transfers, and even new defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who arrived from Georgia.

“He always wants to talk ball,” Manning said. “I’m excited to have him on my team and especially some of that Georgia defense. We need to get through there. We know they’re going to be the team to beat, so it’s been fun to go against the defense.”

The Longhorns don’t play Georgia in the regular season, but they do have a rematch at home against Ohio State on Sept. 12, Texas’ second game after opening against Texas State.

Manning said he’s looking forward to facing the Buckeyes again and thinks he hasn’t played his best football yet.

“You take your scars with you,” Manning said. “I didn’t play well in that game. There were a handful of games that didn’t play well and we lost. And so you obviously take those with you and think about them. I’m glad we get another shot at them this year.”

Indiana Fever fan favorite Sophie Cunningham appeared to celebrate her new contract that will keep her teammates with Caitlin Clark by getting baptized a second time.

After signing a one-year, $665,000 contract Sunday, Cunningham posted a video on TikTok Tuesday of her adult baptism Tuesday.

“I got baptized when I was little but I was feeling a tug on my heart to do it on my terms as an adult! Such a fun, amazing day. Thank you Jesus,” she wrote.

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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts during a WNBA game against the Phoenix Mercury at PHX Arena in Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 7, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

The trio of Clark, Cunningham and teammate Lexie Hull proved to be an efficient and gravitating force in popularity when they were all on the court at the same time last year. Along the way, they earned a mysterious nickname on social media, which they later adopted for themselves — “Tres Leches,” which translates from Spanish to “three milks” and refers to a popular Latin American sponge cake.

“We saw it on Twitter at some point, and people ran with it,” Hull previously told Fox News Digital of the nickname. “It was funny.”

CAITLIN CLARK’S NEWEST FEVER TEAMMATE HAS DRAMATIC HISTORY WITH SUPERSTAR

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham arrives before a game against the LA Sparks at the Crypto.com Arena Aug. 5, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Cunningham gained fame and favor among Fever fans when she started an on-court altercation with opposing players to defend Clark last year.

During a game between the Fever and the Connecticut June 17, physicality boiled into a brawl. After Sun guard Jacy Sheldon poked Clark in the eye and fellow Sun player Marina Mabrey shoved Clark to the ground, Cunningham committed a hard foul on Sheldon, initiating an on-court fight that resulted in three ejections.

Now, Cunningham is entering her second year in Indiana with the team expected to contend for a WNBA championship.

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Injured Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, left, and guard Caitlin Clark eact from the bench during the first half of a WNBA game against the Chicago Sky at United Center in Chicago June 7, 2025. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Imagn Images)

Cunningham is among a growing number of women’s basketball stars to outwardly embrace Christianity and baptism.

Recent No. 1 WNBA draft pick Azzi Fudd and fellow UConn star KK Arnold reportedly got baptized after their game in the women’s Final Four earlier this month, according to People.com.

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Hemant Brar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo