Derek Shafer

@Austin2Jacobsen let me know if you hit up golden hour- hope you guys had a great time in the panhandle

@Austin2Jacobsen @AllianceBulldog 💯

A fun run down memory lane! The city of Alliance has a great running trail that gives a really cool visual of the high school and Bulldog Stadium. Great way to start a morning in the Panhandle.

@Austin2Jacobsen check your dms

@JessicaCoody @damonbenning @CrooksPBP you are beating the whistle pig though

Time is running out on Dinner and DB stories! Don’t think we can catch the AD which was Kyle’s goal, but please don’t let us get beat by a cooler: @damonbenning @CrooksPBP Huskers.com/TCB

“I talked to a lot of the people around me and tried not to freeze. It’s Nebraska." Where it's worth waiting 9 hours for Husker volleyball tickets. From @JustinbFrommer: #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">omaha.com/sports/huskers…

@WestsideHigh66 @damonbenning

The WHS journalism program had the honor of hosting two professional journalists this month: Brian Windhorst, NBA personality for ESPN and Terri Sanders, editor of the Omaha Star. It was an honor to host both of these professional journalists. #rollside #WeAreWestside

@marathonmed hopefully next year

We just released an extra 50 tickets, book your space now! londonmarathonevents.co.uk/london-maratho…

Heroes come and go. But legends like @KentPavelka live forever.

@RobinWashut send off @ 9 still on? #huskers

@RobinWashut just need okc

A 4-seed, but still in OKC

@damonbenning oh boy

Are we back?

this sequence >>> 📺: @BigTenNetwork

@CommonFanGBR check your email

@JacobPadilla_ Derek fisher 0.4

I remember the Suns taking a game to OT with a ridiculous end-game sequence including a Booker buzzer-beater that would not have been possible without advancing the ball because of how little time remained. That was just as incredible as those college endings.

I’m cool with both existing and I do t believe one is superior to the other. The ability to advance the ball raises the likelihood of a game-winner and creates more possibilities. The payoff is greater with the college rule but also feels like that payoff is less frequent.

I have given a name for this particular bar configuration. Anybody out there know what I call it? And what it suggests?

what a finish by tcu

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

@JacobPadilla_ critical thinking not encouraged

@JacobPadilla_ sir this is twitter

People aren't actually dense enough to take the Rhule's comments about his "one rule" for anything other than what he meant, right? An ounce of critical thinking makes the intent pretty clear.