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"I love what Will Stein is doing right now with the program"
- Kentucky Football Legend Andre' Woodson.
Dick Gabriel caught up with him on the sideline during Kentucky's win over LSU.
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In the closing act of a long public life, one of the principal organizers of American independence recorded his ultimate trust in writing.
Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence and later governor of Massachusetts, opened his last will and testament with a clear statement of personal faith. On December 29, 1790, he wrote:“Principally and first of all, I recommend my soul to that Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.”The same conviction appeared in his official acts as governor. In a 1795 proclamation for a day of public fasting and prayer, Adams called on the people of Massachusetts to implore the forgiveness of their sins through the merits of Jesus Christ and to seek the aids of divine grace for the amendment of their hearts and lives.
Three years later, in his March 20, 1797, proclamation, he wrote that the confusions among nations might be overruled “by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is the Prince of Peace.”
These documents show a consistent pattern. Across both private testament and public proclamation, Adams directed attention to the “merits and mediation of Jesus Christ as the ground of pardon and the hope of lasting order.”
In the end, the man who helped set a nation in motion left behind a simple and lasting witness: that the freedom he labored for on earth found its final hope in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
In the end, Adams left a plain record of where he placed his trust.
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📊 SEC in the @AP_Top25: October 11
1. @GeorgiaFootball
6. @AlabamaFTBL
7. @TexasFootball
9. @OleMissFB
13. @MizzouFootball
14. @Vol_Football
15. @UKFootball
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22. @LSUfootball
#SECFB x #ItJustMeansMore
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A moment Lexington won't forget 💙
The Wildcats celebrate their HUGE upset over No. 10 LSU with Big Blue Nation.
(via @BleedBNetwork)
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"What a run back by Brock Coffman!"
- @tomleachKY
"Is Derek Abney here? I mean, Wow!"
- @JeffPiecoro
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An SEC Legend 🤩
Randall Cobb has been named to the 2026 Southeastern Conference Football Legends class
🗞️: ukathletics.com/news/2026/10…
ALT Randall Cobb named to the 2026 SEC Football Legends Class
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Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Onboard Footage HD
This spectacular footage was filmed by Charlie Duke on board the Apollo 16 Lunar Rover using the 16mm DAC Film Camera. It shows the drive piloted by John Young from Station 11 to Station 13.
The footage has been upscaled, interpolated to 60FPS and synchronised to mission audio by Moonpans
Original footage source : NASA Apollo Flight Journal
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🇺🇸 Robert E. Lee. Edgar Allan Poe. Walt Whitman. Lafayette’s farewell tour collected a unique set of names.
In Alexandria, on October 16, 1824, about 2,000 militia marched Lafayette down King Street. Seventeen-year-old Robert E. Lee was in that column. He already had his West Point appointment.
In Richmond, 15-year-old Edgar Allan Poe turned out as a lieutenant in the Junior Morgan Riflemen, the honor guard picked for the visit. For the occasion the boys were allowed to draw arms from the state armory. A month later he co-signed a letter to the governor asking to keep them. His first surviving letter.
In Baltimore, Lafayette personally asked for Poe’s grandfather, David Poe Sr. During the war he had given Lafayette $500 to help the troops, and his wife had cut 500 pairs of pantaloons for them too. Lafayette never forgot. He was informed David had died, and visited the widow the next day.
On July 4, 1825, at a library groundbreaking in Brooklyn, Lafayette picked up a 6-year-old, carried him, and kissed him on the cheek. The boy was Walt Whitman. He never forgot it.
He also sat with Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Jefferson wept when they embraced.
He went to Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon. He went down into the vault alone, and came out in tears. Then he took his son, Georges, and his secretary in with him.
Forty years earlier Washington had written that he did not expect to see him again. He was right.
In 1824, the last surviving general of the Revolution came back to America, and the entire country stopped for a year to thank him.
Marquis de Lafayette was 67 years old. Nearly half a century earlier, he had crossed an ocean to fight for American independence, bled for it and poured his own fortune into it.
Now President Monroe and Congress invited him back as "the Nation's Guest."
He planned to visit the original 13 states and stay a few months. Instead he stayed 13 months and visited all 24 states, traveling more than 6,000 miles.
Everywhere he went, America turned out in droves to show their appreciation. When he landed in New York, 80,000 people turned out, two-thirds of the entire city.
In Boston, crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands lined the streets. Towns built triumphal arches. Church bells rang. Artillery roared.
Parents named their children, their towns, and their streets after him. The young country was caught up in "Lafayette Mania."
When he finally left in September 1825, he said goodbye at the White House:
"God bless the American people, each of their states, and the federal government. Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat."
He had crossed an ocean as a boy to fight for a country that wasn't his. He left it an old man, beloved by every corner of it.
