Shawn Bennett

@PitchingNinja If I’m Paul Skenes, I’m having some talks with management

Lord help me.

@tayloreldridge @BattieDillon @Tj_williams3 If they can find a way for these two to be on the court together watch out

I got a text this morning from someone in the program that read: "Shocker culture is back. There's pride in being a Shocker again." This afternoon, rising stars @BattieDillon and @Tj_williams3 announced they are returning to Wichita State next season. kansas.com/sports/college…

St. Louis, Missouri

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way. Allow me to explain why. Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots. Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion. He spent two nights in the ICU. There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed. This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close. The full story behind today is insane. In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes. At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world. Then everything slowly fell apart. After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear. Not regular nerves. Actual, debilitating terror. He was afraid he was going to die. Afraid something was going to happen to his kids. Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep. At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour. He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall. His hands were trembling. He had no appetite. Spasms would jolt him awake at night. He was losing focus over putts. Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing. An MRI finally revealed the cause. A lesion was growing on his brain. It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. Think about that. The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation. His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear. In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy. Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye. They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing. He walked out of the hospital two days later. Started putting again two days after that. He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open. But he was nowhere near the same player. In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes. His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open. For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers. And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with. Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD. He kept it hidden for over a year. He described being hypervigilant on the course. A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was. He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry. He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds. He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone. He said he felt like he was living a lie. Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf. On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly. He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything. The PTSD. The crying. The fear. All of it. He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back. Then he showed up at Memorial Park. He opened with a 64. Then a 63. Then a 65. Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out. 259 total. A tournament record. 21-under par. Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard. Wire to wire. Led every single round. His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open. Nearly seven years between victories. Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see. This is a guy who was a basketball player first. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future. He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025. The seventh player to ever receive it. And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days. The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here: itsgame7.com/news/gary-wood… There is a reason this one hits different. Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries. Things you can see. Things that heal on a timeline. Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain. Something that turned his own mind against him. And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical. It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay. Three weeks ago he said the words out loud. Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

@coachbrettflory Probably the greatest freshmen class ever

Every Final Four team has some freshman playing key roles — Wagler, Mullins, etc. But the 3 ones hyped up all year (Dybansta, Peterson, Boozer) are not one of them. Not a knock on any of them, but just shows maybe we should let these kids play it out before we crown anyone.

“We have this culture of playing incredibly hard. We never lose because of lack of effort,” -Dan Hurley The standard is simple: compete the right way, play with relentless effort, and never let quitting become part of your culture.

@rossjensen @ProspectsLive Oop he’s going back on his thought from yesterday.

@rossjensen @ProspectsLive But it’s a bad swing according to a certain hitting guru

The haters will say it's AI. Muneshot Murakami with his 2nd MLB home run! 💣

@jmjones I believe he rung him up on the 2nd pitch strictly out spite and bc he didn’t think he would challenge back to back calls. The umpires with egos will get exposed or need to go

One theory I’ve heard about ABS is that it will force the very bad umpires to improve very quickly because they do not want precisely this to happen to them. Here are some others:

Dude got shook so bad he just took himself out of the play. He just hid in the paint.

@CodifyBaseball Cb’s attitude is what makes him one of the worst

idk eric gregg was pretty bad

@PCSoonersFan Especially when I guarantee he rung him up on the 2nd one out of spite.

The job of an umpire is slowly disappearing....

@DAllan70 Was hoping you would get to see that 😂

@coachbennett19 Or we could just get no hit. That works too

It’s no Tropicana Field, but at least it’s cool out. @coachbennett19 I even grabbed you one of the giveaway jackets #RaysUp

@Teacherman1986 @SRObaseball It’s one swing and he adjusted to pitch location

@SRObaseball Obvious to those who study. Many like to guess. I like know The differences here are HUGE.

The king has spoken. Murakami is cooked

Top of the 6th: Rays score SIX runs Bottom of the 6th: @Cardinals score EIGHT runs We have a wild one on #OpeningDay! 😳

@TheFieldOf68 @GoodmanHoops Anyone surprised by this with Will Wade?

NC State AD Boo Corrigan on Will Wade 👀 "Tuesday night, we talked about everything in the program... I asked him what we needed to be competitive. From there, as far as the resignation, it was an email that we received from his agent." "I'd commiserate with (fans), in terms of feeling lied to. And I'd let them know that I'm as surprised as they are by what's gone on." 🎥: @ABC11_WTVD

@tayloreldridge Thanks. That sucks. Was hoping to see him make a run at the HR records

@coachbennett19 Sounds like he injured his shoulder and he will miss some time. No timetable, but he wasn’t even on active roster this past weekend.

Wichita State baseball holds serve at home against a quality opponent in Charlotte to start off conference play with a series win. Here's why @coachbriangreen believes the way the team won could inject even more confidence in the players. kansas.com/sports/college…

@GoodmanHoops Dude can coach

Ben McCollum was coaching Northwest Missouri State two years ago in the D-2 tourney. Last year he took Drake to the NCAA tourney. This year he's taking Iowa to the Sweet 16.