Tim Grieves

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Tom Brady explains his mental edge and why practice (not gameday) creates separation. "There was a part of me that was a psychopath out there. I was extremely hypercompetitive every day. I didn't feel like let's get to Sunday and now it's the time...Every day is the time to give your best, even in practice." Every day your standards are either reinforced or lowered by how you treat practice. You don’t flip a switch into excellence. You rehearse it daily. 📹: Impaulsive Podcast

Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (Knebworth 1990) Much respect to this guy. To sit in front of a huge crowd and casually belt out vocals then go back and sit at drums right on time and nail it. That's what you call TALENT.

Keep grinding buddy! Proud of ya! @CooperKoch_8

2025 ANF Wall of Honor recipient Micah Hyde on his time at Iowa: "I think listening to coach Ferentz every single day in a team meeting and having coach Parker in the meetings and stuff like that, not knowing back then, when I was 18 to 22 years old, that they're developing you as men. It's way past football. Like take the cleats off, take the helmet off, take the pads off, they're trying to make you become a better man. And I think that when you run a program that way, you're always going to be successful... I feel like I would rather be a part of that program than any other program in the nation, being run by coach Ferentz. Just the knowledge that he speaks every single day, the discipline, the way he approaches each and every game, each and every situation. He'll teach you the X's and O's of football, for sure, but it's in a way that is going to make you understand life post-football."

Unbelievable. Almost a grand slam but hit to the wall with the bases loaded and one out and ended with a double play and no runs

A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.” My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me. When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe. My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown. And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice. They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer. The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.” As if kindness were a weakness. Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure — a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.” a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.” a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.” Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up. But this last year broke something in me. The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival. I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times. So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998: “Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.” I sat on the floor and cried. No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications. I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced. I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers. So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try. Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

The Moment In The Neighborhood: Hear the noise from the crowd just outside @ofcwrigleyfield as the @cubs get the final out in a Game 3 NL Wild Card win over the Padres to advance to the NLDS. . It’s the third Cubs’ series clincher in Wrigley Field history.

Warren Buffetts’s solution to end the US government shut down: "I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election." Do you agree with him?

.@ARizzo44, @CindyCrawford and @eddievedder sing the 7th inning stretch from the bleachers!

Class act!!

Awesome coach

Way to go Jordan!!!

BREAKING: Warren Buffett moments ago at the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting just came out against Trump's Tariffs in a major way: "There is no question that trade can be an act of war. It has led to bad things — the attitudes that it has brought out. In the United States, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world. And we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best. That’s what we did originally. We were good at producing tobacco and cotton 250 years ago and we traded it. We want a prosperous world but eight countries with nuclear weapons, including a few that I would call quite unstable, I do not think it’s a great idea where a few countries say ‘hahaha we won,” and other countries are envious."

Meet Zoey! She is a tough lil lady and Coop was able to visit her Friday! She had been in the hospital since March 12! BUT she finally got to go home this weekend! Can’t wait to get Zoey back to Carver for a game this winter so she can get the rest of the guys’ autographs!

Proud of you Coop! Time to grind and impose your will! Go Hawks! @CooperKoch_8

Brad Underwood makes sure to give credit to Iowa senior Payton Sandfort after Illinois' win against the Hawkeyes. "So much respect for Payton ... love seeing guys cry when it's over. That's invested. That's committed. That's dedicated. That's love for his university."

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The kid signed his first HR ball and gave it to his grandpa, who thought him everything about the game. Grab some Kleenex

Impressive