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@KyleGAdema @WilliamDettloff @TimSeamanABC9 Pure conjecture, but I interviewed Foreman and wrote his biography. The only book he remembered from school was a heavily illustrated reader call Roads to Everywhere. Lots of images of bucolic rolling green hills, very different from urban Houston—and similar to that part of Iowa

I was today years old when I found out legendary boxer George Foreman is laid to rest in Sioux City, Iowa. Picture courtesy of @TimSeamanABC9

Millikin University is proud to celebrate the outstanding academic achievements of our undergraduate students named to the Fall 2025 Dean’s List! Congrats, Big Blue Ⓜ️🎉 🔗 View the full list: ow.ly/CeTq50YauZ8

Sport History Authors/Editors/Publishers -- NASSH Book Award is accepting submissions for monographs or anthologies that were published in 2025. Application due by Jan 31. nassh.org/awards/book-aw…. #sport #History #AcademicTwitter @HNet_Sport @IJHSofficial @ussporthistory

Millikin has been awarded a highly competitive federal TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) grant! The multi-year grant will fund comprehensive academic, financial and personal support services for 140 eligible Millikin undergraduates. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/QbCm50XMOgI

Authors or Publishers of Sports books published in 2025: Please see NASSH Book Award link and consider submitting. Separate awards for Edited Collections and Monographs. DM open for questions. nassh.org/awards/book-aw…

@ProfBank @FelsMcDowell Is there a comparison to be made with Canadian university hockey players who went through major junior hockey system before attending? That too would count I think as “stalled pro career”

An aspect of these recommendations where US Soccer might get easy buy-in from universities/NCAA is "modernizing" eligibility rules to accommodate young players who have signed rights agreements w/ pro teams and to provide a 2nd chance pathway for players w/ stalled pro careers 1/

@TeddyAtlasReal Lived a fascinating life and gave a great interview.

Alex Wallau was a Boxing expert as a Commentator & Television Executive, & a fighter who survived Cancer, & lived as a Gentleman. R. I. P. 🙏🥊

@PunchZoneAris Harold Smith aka Ross Fields is a fascinating character in the history of boxing…and no one seems to know what happened to him after he got out of jail. Hope he or someone who knew him will share more of that story one day…

Smith had a company called MAPS (leased Ali’s name and condensed it) and showed up to Holmes’ house with an offer for Larry to fight Ali for 2 million with $500,000 upfront in cash stuffed in a pillow case. Larry had never seen that type of money up front before. Cont’d…

45 years ago today: As much as I hate the actual fight between Larry Holmes and Muhammad Ali, the lead up to how the event eventually transpired is absolutely fascinating to me 🧵

3 weeks away from our first ever Fall Shooting Clinic!! We will be hosting on Sunday, October 19th from 9:00am-12:00pm for all boys and girls in grades 3rd-8th!! We hope you can make it! Ⓜ️ Registration Link: athletics.millikin.edu/sb_output.aspx… #Together || #GoBigBlue

MU is proud to announce the launch of two new Big Blue Athletics programs – Women’s Flag Football and Women’s Wrestling! 🤼‍♀️ Women’s Wrestling begins in the fall of 2026. 🏈 Women’s Flag Football begins in the spring 2027. Go Big Blue! Ⓜ️ 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/9uI050X2fbl

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📣 MU students and alumni looking for employment this fall will have multiple events to help their job search! Join us for Dress to Impress THIS Weds., Sept. 10, a Career Fair Prep Session Sept. 24 and the Career & Internship Fair Oct. 8. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/k13050WTygp

Less than 2 months away from our first ever Fall Shooting Clinic!! We will be hosting on Sunday, October 19th from 9:00am-12:00pm for all boys and girls in grades 3rd-8th!! We hope you can make it! Ⓜ️ Registration Link: athletics.millikin.edu/sb_output.aspx… #Together || #GOBIGBLUE

🚨 Attention Kickers! 🚨 Millikin University is looking for a placekicker for the 2025 season. If you're still looking for a place to play, DM me, post below or reach out ASAP!

@IllinoisPress @MillikinU @ProjectMUSE So much fun writing about Flash but all credit goes to the amazing boxing insiders who took my calls and shared their memories with me. Thanks @CommishRandyG @PeltzBoxing @SilverBoxing Don Majeski & Alex Wallau!

This largely forgotten history of “Flash” Malcolm Gordon presents a valuable case study for the integration of sport history, media studies & intellectual history in postwar America. @andrewrmsmith (@MillikinU) in Journal of Sport History 52.1 @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article…

Announcing a new issue of Journal of Sport History, Vol. 52, No. 1! Featuring work by @andrewrmsmith (@MillikinU), @JosephDarda1 (@MSUEnglish), @bassab1 (@Mville_U), @terryannescott (@TheInstituteCP), @RobertaJNewman1, and more! 📖 Read on @ProjectMuse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54597

2025 Youth Camp ✅ Thank you to all the families who came this year and toughed out the heat wave!! We had a blast and hope to see you at some games next season!! Ⓜ️💙 #GoBigBlue || #d3hoops

It’s not too late! You’re right on time to #MakeItMillikin Ⓜ️ Join us, and we'll provide you with the tools to become part of the Big Blue Family this fall! Fall ’25 Fast-Track, July 19: -Register: bit.ly/FastTrackMU -Complete your online application -File FAFSA by July 12

Woke up in another country to the news about @GeorgeForeman. For now, I’ll just restate that he was very generous with his time, and honest in his answers, and for a junior scholar trying to write a book that someone might actually read I couldn’t have asked for more.

@Tim_Brilley Fun team to watch! Really impressive to have nearly 20 girls playing in 5th grade—great indicator of long term success, and we’re happy to be a part of it.

Forgot to post yesterday! Olivia and her teammates won the conference for the second year in a row!! Just getting started! Great group!