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Tom Harrington

@cbctom

Former CBC News host/journalist (still loyal fan of the @Chiefs, @LFC, @KNVB & @TorontoFC) @cbctom.bsky.social

Toronto, Ontario Katılım Mart 2009
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Tom Harrington
Tom Harrington@cbctom·
I’ve read this more than once. First in disbelief. Then in awe. Finally in homage. Take a moment. 💔🫡
Military Support@MilitaryCooI

His uniform was soaked in fuel when the Bradley exploded. He was already on fire when he went back in. On October 17, 2005, Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe was commanding a Bradley Fighting Vehicle on a nighttime patrol near a village in Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq. An IED and simultaneous small arms fire struck the vehicle, disabling it and engulfing it in flames with soldiers still inside. Cashe escaped - then turned straight back around. The driver was trapped and burning. Cashe forced open the hatch and dragged him free, but burning fuel soaked his own uniform in the process. His clothes caught fire. He kept moving. He pushed to the rear of the vehicle, where more of his soldiers were trapped in the troop compartment. Enemy fighters noticed him and redirected fire to his position. When a nearby friendly element suppressed the enemy long enough to create an opening, Cashe stepped into the open troop door and pulled four soldiers free. Two more were unaccounted for. He went back in and got them. By the time medevac helicopters arrived, Cashe had second-and third-degree burns across the majority of his body. He refused evacuation until every other wounded soldier had been loaded first. He died on November 8, 2005 - twenty-two days atter the attack. Sergeant First Class Alwyn C. Cashe was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor - the first Black service member from the Iraq War to receive it, a recognition that took 16 years and an act of Congress to achieve.

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Michael S. Wall
Michael S. Wall@mikeswcoast2004·
@cbctom I was thinking a little bit about how Canada got as far as they did this year. In a way, it could be suggested the seeds were sown on a Fall-like mid-September afternoon in 1985 in St. John's. It just took a while to flourish.
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
The half-time interval for the World Cup final is expected to be whopping 30 minutes long. FIFA have introduced a Super Bowl style half-time show featuring Madonna and Shakira. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Tom Harrington
Tom Harrington@cbctom·
@rongrogers Especially when they give a yellow for that every now and then 🤷🏼‍♂️
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RonR
RonR@rongrogers·
@cbctom They’re a terrific team, and deserved to win today, but the diving and feigning injury is really tough to take.
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Tom Harrington
Tom Harrington@cbctom·
In seven games at this World Cup, Spain has allowed only one goal. Maybe they know that old American football saying: Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships. #FRAESP
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Tom Harrington@cbctom·
It hasn’t been pretty but it’s been pretty impressive. #FRAESP
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Tom Harrington@cbctom·
They say you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. France campaigned with poetry but Spain is defending in prose. #FRAESP
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Super 70s Sports
Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
We can't have a serious conversation about the greatest batting helmets of all time without this sweet bastard.
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Tom Harrington@cbctom·
Picking against the French on Bastille Day??!! C’est impossible!! 🇫🇷⚽️ #FRAESP
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Shi Davidi
Shi Davidi@ShiDavidi·
Incredible finish to Home Run Derby, with Jordan Walker shaking off constant boos to rally past Kyle Schwarber in final. Schwarber really injected life into the event. Can't recall another derby where fans booed home team rivals the way they did Phillies opponents here. Fun.
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Tom Harrington
Tom Harrington@cbctom·
@Microinteracti1 @mehdirhasan I’ve always likened soccer to jazz. Complex & almost impenetrable at first. But the more you watch, the more you understand the structure & the pieces working together. Within that come moments that display unique gifts & individual brilliance combining to produce beauty.
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
This is a genuinely great video. An American spends the entire first week of the World Cup watching football the wrong way, then explains exactly why the sport finally clicked for him. His journey is the one every new fan goes through. He started out doing what almost everyone does at first, staring at the ball and the player carrying it, waiting for something to happen. Watched that way, football looks like 88 minutes of nothing and two minutes of chaos. Then he stopped watching the ball and started watching the system. What are the other ten players doing right now? Who is dragging a defender out of position? Who is quietly closing down a passing lane thirty yards from the action? The moment you stop following the ball like a puppy chasing a tennis ball, a completely different game appears. That is the next level. And this is the part I want to add for everyone making the same discovery this summer. When you watch all eleven players and the tactics underneath, the ideas each team is trying to impose on the other, you enter a dimension that has nothing to do with counting goals. A 2-1 scoreline sounds almost insulting if goals are your only currency. But a goal in football is not a point on a scoreboard. It is the end product of an enormous collective effort, sometimes twenty passes deep, built on runs that never receive the ball and pressing that started in the opponent’s half three minutes earlier. Ten men work in the shadows so one man can finish in the light. That scarcity is exactly what makes a goal detonate a stadium of 80,000 people in a way few things in sport can match. So to everyone watching the world’s most beautiful game for the first time this month, whether you’re in America, Europe or anywhere else on the planet: welcome. Every single one of us started out staring at the ball. The game simply rewards you the moment you look up. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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Tom Harrington@cbctom·
@chessninja The host broadcast team we have the option to watch in Canada did identify him.
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Toronto Police Operations
Toronto Police Operations@TPSOperations·
MISSING: Ange, 36 -last seen June 9, at 4:30pm, in the Dundas St W and University Av area -described as 5'4", approximately 150 lbs. and has medium length curly black hair -unknown clothing description #GO1429723 ^jl
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Nature is Amazing ☘️
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE·
Tornado photographed passing over Tulliby Lake, Alberta
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