Connor Wood

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

If this is the part to be the Best, I take it. Mercy was out of place and this part of myself I need to destroy. In the cage for sure. No excuses, I lost the focus, he catched me. One more time, apologies everyone, for my performance. It is inevitable to be Stronger than ever ⚡️see you soon. Letsgo back to home and See the miracle of life 🙏. STRENGHT //HONOR\\

IM NOT EXAGERRATING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST FIGHT OF ALL TIME #UFC327 BLAYDES VS HOKIT WAS THE CRAZIEST BRAWL IVE EVER WATCHED IN MY LIFE HOKIT TOOK IN ON DAMAGE BUT THIS COULD GO EITHER WAY, INSANE BRAWL HOKIT'S A DAWG FOR BEING 30LBS SMALLER & EATING THOSE SHOTS

If you’re not supporting cam young tomorrow you’re an anti American communist

@BowTiedYukon Met my dad at the same spot on the sideline before every game

Dads, do you know the look on your sons face and you make eye contact when he finds you in the stands right before he steps onto the mat for his match, the batters box for his at bat or the field for his game? It’s not a nervous glance He’s finding his anchor

Do you know who really spares no expense in rescuing one of his lost people?

May Christ’s light continue to shine over our great nation.

@DQuilici1 @Fynnderella1 2. Bending the rules for sports is a terrible modus operandi. Injuries happen, players don’t develop, and becoming a professional athlete is insanely difficult even for already gifted college athletes. Schools and players should be encouraged towards success in all walks of life

I wouldn’t say most are gifted students or that they are as skilled in the classroom as they are in the field. That may be the case at Duke where you played and were educated, which is really not the norm across all of D1 or all of college sports. I’m saying that as a compliment to you and your peers. The standard should be high, but coaches/admin/teachers/etc. all bend the rules for an incredibly gifted athlete that just doesn’t care about school.

A student-athlete turned in a 146-word essay about Rosa Parks — one paragraph, riddled with errors, no sources — and got an A-minus. That single paper helped expose the biggest academic fraud in NCAA history. For 18 years, from 1993 to 2011, a department secretary named Deborah Crowder ran fake courses at the University of North Carolina. @UNC The classes never met. There was no syllabus and no professor. Students turned in one paper per semester. Crowder admitted she never read them. She skimmed introductions and handed out A’s. UNC’s academic counselors steered athletes into these courses each semester, specifying what grades each player needed. Athletes made up 47% of enrollments despite being just 4% of the student body. Rashad McCants, a star on UNC’s 2005 championship team, told ESPN he made the Dean’s List without attending a single class. Ten of fifteen players on that title team were enrolled in paper courses. When whistleblower Mary Willingham revealed that 60% of athletes read at a 4th-to-8th grade level, UNC attacked her publicly and fans sent death threats. She was forced to resign. In October 2014, a 136-page investigation confirmed the scope: 188 fake classes, 3,100 students, 18 years of fraud. And the punishment? In October 2017, the NCAA ruled there were no significant violations. Zero penalties. No vacated wins. No postseason bans. @UNC calls themselves a bastion of academia. How incredibly pathetic.

@DQuilici1 @Fynnderella1 1. UNC, the school in question, is very similar to Duke on an academic standpoint. I also think you’re equating “athletes” with the stereotype of football and basketball players at big name P4 schools when they’re a very small percentage of college athletes.

Good Friday isn’t about the universal virtue of “sacrifice.” It’s about Christ’s particular sacrifice - his brutal crucifixion - a real, historic event with eternal consequences. “[Jesus], being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!” On this Good Friday, let’s all solemnly remember Christ’s propitiatory sacrifice and glorify Him.

@DQuilici1 @Fynnderella1 Most college athletes are gifted students as well as athletes, and should be held to that standard. Academic performance is a prerequisite to athletics. Most D1 athletes are as skilled in the class as they are on the field and should be held to that standard.

@Fynnderella1 Ma’am I get your point but those athletes aren’t there for their academic prowess. Most of them barely graduated high school. They bring in value to the school thru athletics and in turn they get a venue to play at. It’s well known and has been going on for decades.

Today is Good Friday. Thank you, Jesus for your amazing and unthinkable sacrifice. You died so that we would have life, and life in abundance. “It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews … With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, ‘Surely this man was the Son of God!’” Mark 15

Luke 23:46 On this solemn day, we reflect on the ultimate sacrifice our Savior made for all humanity. Trust in God’s plan.

"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed." ~ C.S. Lewis Gethsemane 🎨 Carl Bloch (1873)

My sons, watching Artemis II launch from their front yard in Orlando.

My painting of Iryna Zarutska that is being removed after the mayor has declared it divisive

Julius Caesar did nothing wrong. The Optimates had spent the last 100 years kicking Roman citizens off their land so the rich could replace them with foreign slave labor. They killed every reformer who tried to stop them. Caesar was the moderate option. They killed him too.

I appreciate the Israeli government’s security concerns. I understand that they’ve closed all holy sites. They have no right whatsoever to ban the Latin Patriarch from the Holy Sepulchre on any occasion, much less on Palm Sunday.

Totally outrageous and inexcusable

If your government finds it easier to euthanize a rape victim instead of prosecuting her rapists, your society is lost.