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4/ To learn more about the scam and how Rodney fits into it, read the piece by @GabbyHerzig and I --

3/ @PaigeSpiranac spoke with us about the scam and the impact its had on her: “I’ve had people come up to me at events, at outings, and say that they’re in a relationship with me, or they come up quite angry because ‘fake me’ has scammed them out of money or has ghosted them.".

2/ The twist? He's not a real person. @TheAthletic created him and his Instagram account to test the veracity and speed of an ever-increasing social media scam pervading the LPGA and female golfers.

🧵 1/ Meet Rodney Raclette. Indiana Native. 62 years old. Big golfer. Even bigger LPGA Fan.

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The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles was a shockingly pivotal moment in the history of athlete stalkings. Part 3 of our stalking series by @CDEccleshare explores why tennis may be the epicenter of of stalking in sports.

And if you haven't read Part 1 of our series, you can read it here! More to come later this week.

If you read anything today, make sure its @nathanfenno's deep dive into the maddening stalking case of former NFL defender Aaron Donald.

RT @richarddeitsch: NEW PODCAST: A serious issue in sports that remains incredibly underreported: . The escalating stalking problem in spor….

RT @nytimes: From @TheAthletic: As more and more athletes use social media to chronicle their lives, strangers have become dangerously obse….

10/ “They need to think about the purpose of their organization and their mission, and whether or not using a charter service that also serves ICE is consistent with their mission.”.

9/ “They may not have known, but now they do, so now they have a choice to make,” said @annskeet at @scuethics.

8/ GlobalX and ICE didn’t respond to emailed questions. Neither did @InterMiamiCF. Only 10 of 20 universities responded to requests for comment from @TheAthletic. Some schools said they were unaware that the planes they were on were also used to deport people.

7/ “If your team wins, you get the honor of transporting the winning team. It’s just a feeling of accomplishment," said one. "For me doing an ICE flight, I don’t want to be dramatic and say it’s like a death sentence, but I hated it.”.

6/ I spoke to several former GlobalX pilots about what its really like to fly these two types of passengers. About deportation flights, one pilot said: "They’re in conditions that you would see in a POW camp.".

5/ @thcartwright estimates that from March through May 2025, GlobalX operated 62% percent of deportation flights.

4/ At the same time, GlobalX has operated more than half of ICE deportation flights. The airline regularly shuttles deportees to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and elsewhere, sometimes on the same planes that only hours or days earlier carried sports teams.