Derek Irons

When the chief priests asked the guard in charge of securing Jesus’ tomb what happened to the body

@davideprince Chip’s call was 👌🏻

I was there with my sons! Place went crazy!

@_wright7 @chases9 Boys, that was a good day! Right before @DakiddZay_23 went oppo taco!

@chases9 @derekirons The good old courtesy jog from the left fielder 😂

Pretty sure I’ve seen @chases9 do this exact thing in 2014 against childersburg 🤔

@CaseyMattox_ …and zero SEC Championships

What has to really hurt for Canada is that this loss comes 2 days after they were forced to come to terms with the reality that their standard of living is also below Alabama’s. And they don’t even have Conecuh sausage and white bbq sauce to soothe their pain. Much less real bacon.

Avid* hockey fan here proud of the boys in the red, white, and blue! *since this morning

Really happy for my friend @Coach_Tatum58. A great man, coach, and role model for my boys.

My @goodreads books of 2025. Most Helpful: Waiting Isn’t a Waste by @MarkVroegop Most Fun: Big Dumb Eyes by @natebargatze Most Intense Story: The Spy and The Traitor by @BenMacintyre1 goodreads.com/user/year_in_b…

@BenSasse Just awful news. I’ve never admired or respected a public figure more than you. Praying for you and your family.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

@jonesoxygen @espn @ESPNU @YouTubeTV @espn @YouTubeTV

Yo @espn it’s personal now. @ESPNU decided to take on the Troy game today & moved the kick time from 3pm to 7pm. Now half the country can’t watch it because you & @YouTubeTV are the definition of greedy and I’m staying up late when I could have been in bed on time so thanks!

@T_Blackmon9 @NoahB77_ @11point7 50% of the time it works every time.

@NoahB77_ @11point7 Sounds familiar @derekirons

In a sport like baseball playing at a high level consistently for 26 straight games is hard to do. Coastal Carolina Coach Kevin Schnall explains the biggest things their staff emphasizes: “Frees” (Walks and HBP) Win the “Big Inning War” Score first Win the race to 7 Baserunning

Go Army. Beat Navy.

@jonathanvking Hot. Garbage.

This might surprise you as much as it did me but last evening, at the completion of signing day, my team and I were let go from Mississippi State Football. We weren’t given an explanation, and when I asked if I could ask any questions , I was told “I’m sorry, no.” (long🧵)

@blakewingo Kids watched it for the first time last night. Great moment in the movie.

When Forrest ask about Little Forrest “is he smart or is he…?” It gets me…every time. Unrelated, Happy Thanksgiving

Enjoyed visiting with @CoachGuy7 before the game. Did not expect that to be the highlight 🤷🏼‍♂️

Roll Tide

@Ascot_Friday Ditched the black hoodie though

Well. That’s humiliating

@scott_h_james @deaninserra I know he’s a Gator, but he’s also a Met so…

@deaninserra Go Pete!!!

@Ascot_Friday Somehow it looks a lot better when he’s giving a halftime interview with a 30-7 lead over Georgia. Weird.

@derekirons 🫣

We continue to learn a lot about our new coach. If he keeps emptying the playbook on the next drive, I’ll enjoy that new knowledge.

306 consecutive shows for @olcrimson

Luke reppin’ @AlabamaFTBL at @CollegeGameDay