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Duke is inevitable enough. The friendly whistle EVERY FREAKING GAME is not needed.

Sunday morning ritual. The kids today will never understand

Throw up a hand if you remember when it wasn’t really Opening Day until this man had pumped one into the strike zone on a 38-degree afternoon in Cincinnati.

I don’t think we talk about this enough but John Robic leaving in 2021 changed this program and it seems like no one realized the impact it had… that man was Cals everything when it came to game plan, scouting, and film and it all changed after his departure number back it up.

To: Cincinnati From: @JoeyVotto

When I was seven years old, I thought Curly Neal and the Harlem Globetrotters were superheroes. I was right.

The most important challenge facing University of Kentucky as an institution of higher learning and a successful athletics program is creating an effective leadership team for immediate future, especially at level of president, senior administrators, and then athletics director.

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

Happy 75th Birthday, Kurt Russell Kurt and John Carpenter gave us three iconic characters: Snake Plissken, R.J. MacReady, and Jack Burton. Jack’s my favourite, blundering through Big Trouble in Little China with zero clue is pure genius. Just don’t question his reflexes.

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

This Memoriam hit like a ton of bricks. So many legends lost this past year

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America - A Horse With No Name (1973)

Laughter in the Rain (1975) R.I.P. Neil Sedaka 🕊️🤍

Megan Keller on the President Trump phone call controversy: “I don’t really have a response. It’s unfortunate the conversation surrounding it, where it’s gone throughout social media. But all I can say is, I’ve never been more proud to pull on the USA jersey. And I think for a lot of us, it’s the honor of a lifetime to represent our country on the biggest stage. And we went over there with one thing in mind, to bring home the Gold Medal for our country, and pretty incredible that we got to do it - both men’s and women’s, that’s the first time that we’ve ever done that. So I think that’s what should be highlighted…” @WEEI @PWHL_Boston #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina2026

The Soviet fucking Union in 1980 handled their loss with more grace and respect than Canada has this year.

Eric Davis hit for the cycle in 1989 and reminded everyone he could do it all🙌

Knockout tournament scoring: McDavid 4 assists Q Hughes 1 goal (QF OT GWG) 3 assists J Hughes 3 goals (GOLDEN) 1 assist. Hellebuyck: 90 saves 4 goals allowed. (.957 SV%) By all means, give McDavid the Olympic MVP. Predictable comedy from hockey media.