Brad Holtz
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Brad Holtz
@holtz923
Father of four, husband, ever-hopeful golfer, President ST Radio/ST Digital
Zionsville, IN Katılım Kasım 2010
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Days like today show the beauty of sports fandom.
I’ve been doggin’ on Rory McIlroy all weekend, like many other golf fans, but now that he just won back to back Masters championships, I get to eat crow from his supporters.
I can dish it out & take it.
‘Grats Rors
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Fred Couples is just pure class.
James Colgan@jamescolgan26
Thought I was making the dumbest mistake of my life today when I requested an interview with Fred Couples after finishing his opening round at the Masters quad-double-double-par. To my surprise, Fred said yes, talked through every shot, and admitted he still had fun. Amazing
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Two years ago, almost 0 schools were interested in even considering going phone free.
Now, whole school systems are phone free. The rest are scrambling to get on board
We owe @JonHaidt a tremendous debt of gratitude.
What he achieved - this quickly - is almost unimaginable.
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today." Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now. After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood. So I want to recognize: --The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement. --The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions. --The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first). --The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning. --The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities. --The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life. And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting. Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world. The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: anxiousgeneration.com/join
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IU's 2025 season will be remembered distinctly, because there is no practical end to all of what made it remarkable. We will never see another like it.
An attempt at capturing what an indescribable season meant to this place and its fans: indystar.com/story/sports/c… #iufb
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Still trying to process what @IndianaFootball did last night. I think of just what this means to great folks like @MikeGlasscott and @ChronicHoosier and @IUJGray. I fondly recall my time at IU, and all those Saturdays. And I just think, is this real? It is. And it’s spectacular.
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Paul Finebaum: Indiana championship would ‘be a cute story’ that gets overshadowed by NFL dlvr.it/TQPWhK
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Join us tomorrow @987TheZone on air or online
@KentSterling 9-11 @JimCoyle 1-3 Glass in the Afternoon 3-6 presented by the @iucreditunion featuring Joe Smith, Mark Deal, @CrimsonCast, @ZachOsterman and others. The Tailgate takes us home from 6 to 7.
HO HO HO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOSIERS!
Indiana Football@IndianaFootball
Almost gameday. ⏲️
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@ChronicHoosier I am so, so happy you will be there. Safe travels and may God have mercy on your liver.
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And so begins the longest 24 hours of my life.
1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds, CRAWLING
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Just checked in for my Miami flight tomorrow afternoon. I'm now ready to fight God or become him. LFG!!! #StampedeMiami #NeverDaunted
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This is Fernando Mendoza’s 5th game this year with more TD’s than incompletions
No other QB in college football has done that more than twice this century
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@ChronicHoosier If he gets busted again by the feds for securities fraud, he may find himself living in Terre Haute for a while. Wouldn’t that be rich….
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Laugh this man off the air.
Laugh this man off the streets.
Laugh at this man every time he opens his mouth.
The ignorant & uninformed Indiana tropes are bad enough, but this clown clearly doesn't know ball or that he's talking about the nation's largest living alumni base. 🤡
The Craig Carton Show@CraigCartonShow
INDIANA WON’T HAVE FANS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD IT! “You’re gonna see a half-empty coliseum for the Rose Bowl! People thought folks from Indiana were gonna travel well and buy absurdly high priced tickets… $400 plus!” — @craigcartonlive #Indiana #RoseBowl #CollegeFootball
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@CraigCartonShow @craigcartonlive Be careful, Craig. There’s a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute. Get busted again and you might be living in Indiana for a while…
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INDIANA WON’T HAVE FANS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD IT!
“You’re gonna see a half-empty coliseum for the Rose Bowl! People thought folks from Indiana were gonna travel well and buy absurdly high priced tickets… $400 plus!” — @craigcartonlive
#Indiana #RoseBowl #CollegeFootball
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This man has done more to harm college football than almost anyone else. He needs to go away and never be seen or heard from again...
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Dedicating that Hoosier beat down to Paul Finebaum @finebaum. Perhaps he’ll start showing IU and Coach Cig the respect they deserve.
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@BenSasse Just gutted to hear this. Praying for you and your family. May God bless.
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Friends-
This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.
Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.
I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.
Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.
There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.
Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.
A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.
Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.
Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”
I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.
But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).
With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses
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Been a lot of discussion lately about Al Michaels and whether he should hang it up. He’s a legend. Much like Pat Summerall, his understated approach is rare compared to what we hear today. Let’s just enjoy and appreciate Al, while we still have him on the call.
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Curt Cignetti:
Year 1: 11-2, playoff appearance
Year 2: 12-0, Big Ten title game and playoff appearance.
And he did it with an Indiana program that had just 3 winning seasons in the previous 30 years.
Arguably the greatest turnaround in college sports history.
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