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WELL, THAT WAS FAST! Megan Grant homers in her first at-bat since @UCLAWBB's national championship! Her 26th HR of the year ties the @BigTen home run record, which she set last year! Bruins lead, 2-0!

@elonmusk I got really excited about this probability of 3 HR robberies in 1 game. Now X thinks I spammed everyone. I did share at least 10 times in post alone. I put it in some comments section because I thought it was fascinating. I'll choose a different topic next time.

UCLA on both ends of the floor, brilliant. It’s clear they’ve been ready for this moment for some time. An exquisite performance on the biggest stage.

Cori Close bringing in her Mom with Holly is EVERYTHING😍♥️

Pure class personified

Accountability.

@KenGoldin @GoldinCo

Bobcats win the battle 😤 @TxStateBaseball secures the midweek upset over No. 18 Texas A&M, 9-8! #NCAABaseball

His real name was Samuel Bernstein. And his résumé before Peeps is somehow wilder than the Peeps story. Bernstein was a rabbinical student in Berdichev, Ukraine. His family fled to Paris, where he apprenticed as a chocolatier. He sailed steerage from Liverpool to Philadelphia in 1909. The ship's manifest listed his occupation as "candy maker." He was 18. By 1916, he'd invented a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops. Before this, every lollipop in America was assembled by hand. San Francisco gave him the key to the city for it. He was 25. Then he invented chocolate sprinkles. The ones your ice cream shop calls "jimmies." Named after Jimmy Bartholomew, the guy who operated the sprinkle machine at his factory in 1930. He also invented the hard chocolate shell coating on ice cream bars. Every Klondike bar you've ever eaten uses a process Sam Born figured out in a Brooklyn factory a century ago. He didn't even invent Peeps. He bought the Rodda Candy Company in 1953 and got the marshmallow chick recipe as a side asset in the acquisition. It was a hand-squeezed novelty that took 27 hours per tray. His son Bob looked at the process and said "this is insane," then built a machine that did it in 6 minutes. That machine design hasn't been updated because it didn't need to be. 2 billion Peeps a year, same mechanical principle from 1953. A rabbinical student from Ukraine invented the lollipop machine, chocolate sprinkles, and the ice cream bar coating, then his son accidentally turned a side acquisition into the #1 non-chocolate Easter candy for two decades running. The family still owns the company. Revenue sits around $250 million. Out of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. You couldn't write this origin story if you tried.

This was as good as any One Shining Moment I’ve ever seen. Bravo to the Producers and David Barrett of course for those wonderful lyrics. As broadcasters if always meant a lot to us just to hear a snippet of one of our buzzer beaters. Those @HighPointSports student broadcasters will never ever forget their moment, in One Shining Moment! 👏👏👏🏀🎙️🎧

The end of the #MFinalFour wraps up an unmatchable 26-month stretch of Indianapolis hosting major sporting events: NBA All-Star Game NCAA 🏀 US Swim Trials Big Ten 🏈 WWE Royal Rumble NCAA 🏀 Sold-out Indy 500 NBA Finals WNBA All-Star Game WNBA Playoffs Big Ten 🏈 Final Four

dailybruin.com/2026/04/05/the… They are dominating in conference expansion and winning championships!

Real recognize real. ANWA champ x Coach 🥎🤝🏌️‍♀️

ANWA champ → Bogle first pitch 👑⛳️🥎

Every infielder touched the ball 😅 This is the first 5-6-4-3 double play since 1995! (h/t @EliasSports, @SlangsOnSports)

THE FIRST EVER ONE SHINING MOMENT 🤩 #MarchMadness

This kid's nervous system is doing something most adults pay $200/hour in therapy to learn. Ocean waves hitting skin at rhythmic intervals activate a specific class of nerve fibers called C-tactile afferents. These are low-threshold mechanoreceptors tuned to gentle, repetitive touch at velocities between 1-10 cm per second. When stimulated at that cadence, they fire directly into the posterior insular cortex, which processes interoception, your brain's internal model of how your body feels. The result is a measurable downregulation of sympathetic nervous system activity. Heart rate drops. Cortisol output decreases. Vagal tone increases. The water temperature matters too. Ocean water on skin between 68-78°F triggers cold thermoreceptors just enough to activate the mammalian dive reflex at low intensity, which shifts autonomic balance toward parasympathetic dominance without the shock response of full cold immersion. The sound component runs parallel. Ocean waves produce broadband noise weighted between 100-500 Hz with amplitude modulation at roughly 0.1 Hz, about 6 cycles per minute. That frequency range maps almost exactly onto the human respiratory rhythm at rest. Your breathing rate unconsciously synchronizes. Slower breathing means longer exhalation phases, which directly stimulates the vagus nerve. The kid in the chair is getting hit with all three inputs simultaneously: rhythmic tactile stimulation on skin, mild cold exposure on lower extremities, and low-frequency broadband sound. Three separate parasympathetic activation pathways firing at once. Adults who try to replicate this usually pick one channel. A meditation app (sound only), a cold plunge (thermal only), or a massage (touch only). A toddler in a beach chair at the shoreline accidentally stacked all three.

On behalf of our ESPN/ABC crew, thank you for watching @MarchMadnessWBB throughout the 2025-26 season & for the last 3 decades We'll see you next year! #NCAAWBB

Gabriela Jaquez ends her TV interview with a MIC DROP 😮‍💨🎤 “You told this team they needed to look in the mirror and decide who they want to be as a team. Who did this group decide to be this season?” Jaquez: “We decided to be National Champions.”