Jonathon

Let the light inside you shine brighter than the light that shines on you... #motivation

BREAKING: South Carolina is expected to part ways with head baseball coach Paul Mainieri, @PeteNakos reports. on3.com/college/south-…

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

@HawkEmDownChris Jeff Blauser @3YearLetterman yes?

Age yourself by naming an MLB shortstop you grew up watching. I’ll start: Derek Jeter.

If Venezuela wins tonight they get their President back ok not really #wbc #mlb #america

@NickyPerkss Listen- it’s manageable till Nov 07. They gotta get that date figured out.

This is one of the more insane stories coming out of the College Football offseason La Tech, due to an ongoing lawsuit with Conference USA, is currently scheduled for games in both C-USA & Sun Belt for the upcoming season The result, this 20 game gauntlet

@AlTheBoss03 Mark Lemke

Name a player — not named Derek Jeter or Cal Ripken Jr. — that you respect the most for staying loyal to one team for their entire career. In an era of constant movement, those guys are rare. Who’s your pick? 👇⚾ Bonus points if you watched them their whole career.

This is insane. A 17 year old high school senior just shattered Aaron Judge’s bat with the bases loaded and got him to ground into an inning ending double player.

@Beisbolpuro “Turns out the lights” epic

REGRESA EL ELECTRICISTA PONCHADOR Ondrej Satoria, el técnico electricista de República Checa que ponchó a Shohei Ohtani en el Clásico Mundial de Beisbol de 2023, volvió a la carga esta noche ante Australia. Con rectas que apenas alcanzaron las 78 millas por hora, Satoria realizó un relevo de 3.2 innings, sin carrera, un hit, tres ponches y una base por bolas. #LaCasaDelRey

JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸🔥

Braves legend Terry Pendleton says the Minnesota Twins had help at the Metrodome during the 1987 and 1991 World Series. “They had control of the blowers in that place.” Pendleton says the airflow changed depending on who was hitting and Kirby Puckett’s famous HR had help.

@WBCBaseball @ChildersRadio Yup.

An epic giveaway for an epic #WorldBaseballClassic moment 😮‍💨 Repost and reply for your chance to win this Shohei Ohtani Team Japan uniform!

🚨 BRAKING 🚨 Brittany Spears, best known for marrying her first and only love, Justin Timberlake, and riding his coattails to fame and fortune, has been arrested for a DUI. This is a great example of why Brittany’s “fans” need to thank Timberlake for literally making her career and apologize to him It will take nothing short of a genie in a bottle to get her out of this one Yikes

Strange. I didn’t realize @Flash_Garrett went to UGA. Oh well. #zoomzoom

🚨 THE AMERICAN JET WOULD NOT FALL 🚨 Locked. Tracked. Targeted. An Iranian missile screaming through the sky… heat-seeking… hunting… closing distance. And then something happened. The American pilot did not panic. Did not freeze. Did not break discipline. He moved. A hard roll. A violent vector shift. Throttle discipline under pressure. Flares timed with precision. Years of training. Muscle memory under G-force. Instinct forged in American air superiority doctrine. The missile lost its solution. The sky flashed. The American jet climbed. Because American pilots are not amateurs. They are the product of the most advanced flight training pipeline on earth. They are trained to survive. Trained to dominate. Trained to come home. Somewhere over that horizon, a hostile launch failed. And somewhere in that cockpit, a calm voice kept breathing… calculating… executing. That aircraft did not get hit. That pilot did not fold. American airpower held. This is why air superiority matters. This is why training matters. This is why strength matters. The sky is not neutral territory. And today… it belonged to the United States. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ayatollah Khamenei Bobblehead Day on Sunday, April 12 has been cancelled

@RoyPhilpott i’m just here to say that if I could find a way to make my Apple Watch work with the OG Motorola Razr My life would be fulfilled at a new level.

Florida high school coaches are about to have generational wealth