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The reality of the Holly Rowe situation: sideline reporters are completely unnecessary. The job only exists so that women have a place on the football broadcast.
Coaches and players give them nothing but canned answers, and they’re constantly pulling people away from celebrating big moments with their teams.
The job adds nothing to the broadcast. Get rid of it.
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Gayle King could not process that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case was a black man 🤣
@adamcarolla @ElishaKrauss 🎯
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Joe Thomas says he cried after playing a perfect game in a 30 point loss to Tom Brady and realized he had spent 10 years fooling himself into believing the Browns were a Super Bowl team before each season
“The way I entered every season was like, if I need to get the most out of myself, I’ve got to convince myself this is a Super Bowl roster. That’s the mentality I have to have when I’m training, when I’m practicing, when I’m going through film study. And so you trick yourself every year, but after a while, you’re not that dumb anymore”
“Going into year 10, we had traded away the first overall pick. We were trading guys away, saving capital for the future. The writing was on the wall that we were in a pretty significant rebuild. I kind of knew at that time, even though I was still trying to trick myself, in the back of your head you know you’re not going to be any good”
“Then, about midway through that 10th season, we were playing the Patriots. Tom Brady comes to town, and I fucking hated Tom Brady, as everybody did in the league. I hated the Patriots. I just wanted to smash him so bad. We lost like 30 to 0. And I remember sitting in the car after the game, and I was just crying. I had ice on both elbows and knees. I was in pain, my wife was driving and I was just looking out the window. It was that moment when I realized I’d been kind of fooling myself for a while, and we were not going to win no matter what I did”
“She finally said, ‘Are you okay? Did you have a bad game?’ Then the tears really came because I said, ‘I played a perfect game, and we lost by 30.’ It really sunk in at that moment that you don’t control the situation anymore. That feeling of loss of control is really hard. No matter what situation you’re in in life, it just feels like everything I’m working for, I have no control over the outcome. That’s a bad feeling”
“I ended up meeting with the team psychologist and talking to somebody about it because it had been almost 10 years built up to that moment when you come to the realization that I’m kind of fooling myself. We’re not that team and we really don’t have a chance. And I don’t impact this game the way I’d hoped”
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🚨 TODD BEAMER, UNITED 93 PHONE CALL: "LET'S ROLL" 🇺🇸
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?
Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.
Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me? [They pray the Lord’s Prayer.] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me. Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
SOURCE: @SterlingMSnow
America's Mayor Live (1015): Remembering September 11th, 2001 nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1kKzDPEBw…
A Muslim stood outside New York City Hall today and shouted the Islamic war cry over and over….
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
On the anniversary. In the city they attacked. Outside the building that represents the government they tried to decapitate.
That is the same cry the Flight 93 hijackers were ordered to scream when they killed innocent Americans.
Their written instructions said:
“Be cheerful, for you have only moments between you and your eternity, after which a happy and satisfying life begins.”
“Remember: it is a raid for the sake of Allah.”
“When the hijacking begins, shout ‘Allah is great,’ because this shout strikes terror in the hearts of the infidels.”
“Seconds before the target, your last words should be: There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is his messenger.”
On the cockpit recorder, they obeyed.
They shouted it as the plane went down in Pennsylvania.
“Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.”
America - Stop acting shocked.
This is not a misunderstanding or “mental illness.”
This is Islam as they practiced it on September 11: a raid for Allah, a shout meant to terrify, a death chant tied to paradise.
They wrote it down. They screamed it in the cockpit.
They scream it at every single attack….planes, trucks, knives, guns, bombs, it is their battle cry!
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In a brilliant move during closing arguments, Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran put on the knit cap prosecutors say O.J. wore the night he committed the murders.
Although O.J. may have hurt his case when he suddenly blurted out, "Hey hey, easy with that. That's my lucky stabbin' hat!"
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ESPN paid Jemele Hill $6 million to literally stop talking, and now she’s lecturing us on the "ills" of capitalism? I’m just glad @Kmele set the record straight. Well done, sir.
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In a letter to @NFL general managers before the draft, KC Concepcion wrote about the type of player and person he is: “By now you’ve probably heard that I stutter. Everyone has. And look, I get it. It’s a good story. I’m not mad at it. And I appreciate the love. But every time I’ve sat down for an interview that’s where we start, and that’s where we end. The stutter. The stutter. The stutter.
My stutter is part of who I am, but it’s not all of who I am. So, I figured … since I’ve got the pen this time, let me tell you the more complete story.
Here’s who I also am: I’m the best receiver in this draft. Period.
I run crisp routes. I catch everything thrown anywhere near me. I work my tail off every practice, every drill. I get in and out of my breaks fast. And I will outwork ANYBODY you put in front of me.
Off the field, the challenges I’ve faced haven’t just been about having a speech impediment. I also grew up with my dad in and out of prison. And when I was a kid, there were a lot of difficult, lean times when my family didn’t have very much. I had to grow up fast. I had responsibilities and worries most kids my age didn’t have. I’ve faced adversity my entire life, basically.
I wouldn’t change any of it, though. Because all of that has built character and compassion and fearlessness within me. It’s made me into someone I’m genuinely proud to be. Someone who doesn’t quit. Ever.
But you know what … let me back up here for a second. If you really want to know my full story, we have to go all the way back to elementary school.
My family had moved from Rochester down to Charlotte. My dad was the one who first put a football in my hands. He’s the reason I fell in love with the game. But him being in jail meant my mom had to hold it down. For all of us. Alone. She always did her best, went above and beyond, always got us what me and my brothers needed. But sometimes we’d be struggling to make ends meet. It seemed like we always had to be cutting back, or hustling, or going without lots of things just to make sure we had a roof over our heads. Back then, even though I was little, I had to take on a lot of responsibility around the house. My younger brothers looked up to me, and so I kind of always had to be acting older than I actually was. Because I always knew they were watching. I could never really let loose and truly be a kid, you know what I mean?
And then, on top of all that — I also stuttered.” playerstribu.ne/KC
@KCTheKid7 | @Browns | @AggieFootball
Coach wearing @KenyonFootball lid.
This is a box from a POWERHOUSE down there in Allen, Texas.
The Allen Eagles are the standard for Texas High School Football and they open their season TOMORROW NIGHT!!
Thank you Coach Wiginton and @alleneaglesfb for this great box! Go Eagles!!!
I've been saying this for awhile.
‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.
Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.
“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.
“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.
It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: nymag.visitlink.me/1-gbZQ
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"Advice for parents with toddlers..."
From a recent episode of Jimmy Carr's Crowd Work podcast. Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/72DxXJ…
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Enes Kanter, one of the bravest women I know, just got kicked out of a @wnba game after being cursed out by a Chicago player. Is this any way for one woman to treat another?! I can’t believe this league is real.
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You tell em Gruden! Bring back the lords and ladies! The owl is also pretty horrifying
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Jo Adell blasted a 3-run 455-foot home run and Tom Hamilton goes absolutely berserk #GuardsBall
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Called the Nike top years ago.
Nike:
1. made Kaepernick the face of the 30-year anniversary campaign
2. cancelled the Betsy Ross sneaker
3. partnered with Dylan Mulvaney.
4. set goals including 35% U.S. racial and ethnic minority representation in the corporate workforce and 30% at Director level and above
5. prioritized LGBTQ+ initiatives and broader cultural signaling
6. terminated Kyrie Irving over the vaccine
Nike was swallowed by the HR and PR ladies from colleges like Vassar and Oberlin.
Nike has lost nearly 80% of its market cap over the last 5 years. When the stock was near its peak, Ethan Strauss wrote the definitive take on how the company was fumbling the bag.
They were a brand defined by Michael Jordan’s competitiveness and machismo, and with a heavily male customer base, they thought they could double in size if they could be that and also be Lululemon at the same time.
But instead, they stopped being that while failing to be Lululemon and now, they are nothing. A bunch of upstart competitors ate their lunch while they destroyed their brand and reputation.
