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Baker junior Avery O'Connor has committed to #MSUBobcatsWBB, where her sister Madison signed last year. 406mtsports.com/college/big-sk…

For the second time in three years, the Baker Spartans are Montana's Class B girls basketball state champions. Story + video: montanasports.com/high-school/st…

A 39-point performance by Montana State commit Madison O'Connor powered Baker to a 64-51 victory over Malta in Saturday's Class B girls' basketball state championship, sealing an undefeated season for the Spartans. #mtscores swxlocalsports.com/montana/high-s…

Very fired up to release my first set of jerseys. You can get them at intrepidschoolstore.com/product-catego…. There are a ton of options on the website. Go Cats!!!

Madison and Avery O'Connor have been stellar for the Spartans throughout their high school careers. 406mtsports.com/high-school/ba…

Since I don’t think the rodeo team has a x account to post this I’ll post their hype video here so yall can get hyped for the rodeo

Future MSU Bobcat Madison O'Connor had herself a big night as her and her sister Avery combined for 61 points to lead Baker to the big 87-59 win over Huntley Project. swxlocalsports.com/montana/high-s…

Official TD14 store is live! Click the link and grab your TD14 gear today🔗 Under Armour — men’s, women’s, youth + backpacks 🎒 More coming + seasonal drops 👀🔥 shop.gearupwithus.com/taco-dowler-ca…

The 41 Flag tells one of the most meaningful stories in Bobcat history. It honors the 14 Bobcat Football players who lost their lives in World War II. The Daws family championed the creation of a custom 41 Flag to fly over Bobcat Stadium as a reminder of sacrifice legacy and what it means to be a Bobcat. Thank you to Brad and Ginnie Daws for taking this on and for allowing the Bobcat Collective to share in that legacy by providing the same flag to our Gold Members. This is how history lives on.

We had some great D1 football champions this year. When Montana State won, there wasn't a dry eye in the stadium. It was years of pain melting off of a very deserving fanbase. Indiana tonight feels very much the same. What a beautiful sport 🥹

Hey had not heard the national radio call.. great job by @tedemrich who is always very good

33 minutes, 45 seconds. That’s how long in the last 14 games (840 minutes) @MSUBobcats_FB trailed their opponents. @SkylineSportsMT

We Took Rough Play Away from Boys and Now We’re Shocked They Can’t Control Their Anger Somewhere along the way, adults started treating every bit of rough-and-tumble play like violence. Two boys wrestle in the yard or roll around in the living room and suddenly it becomes: “Stop fighting.” “Why are you being so aggressive.” “Knock it off.” But here is what decades of research actually shows. Rough play is not aggression. It is how kids learn to avoid aggression. Studies from Cambridge, UVA, the APA and the University of Minnesota show that boys who roughhouse when they are young grow up to be less aggressive. They learn to control their bodies. They learn to calm themselves. They learn to read emotions. They learn to stop the moment someone says stop. They learn empathy because they have to pay attention to the other person’s face and reactions. And here is something most adults never realize. Research shows adults confuse rough play and fighting all the time, but kids rarely do. Kids know right away whether it is play or a problem. Adults usually misread the moment. That is not chaos. That is training. And here is something else we forget. Every social mammal on the planet learns self-control through rough play. Wolf pups tumble. Lion cubs wrestle. Young primates chase, grab, and roll until one taps out. Biologists have found the same pattern again and again. The play looks wild, but it teaches boundaries. It teaches restraint. It teaches how to pause, how to pull back, and how not to harm the other member of the group. Humans are wired the same way. And while we often talk about boys, this isn’t only a boy issue. Girls benefit from rough-and-tumble play too. Boys just tend to lose more when it disappears. Here is where the bigger problem starts. Schools cannot allow rough play. And honestly that part makes sense. There are too many kids, too few adults, and a whole lot of liability. The rules protect adults and the school system. They do not exist because rough play is harmful. The issue is when parents shut it down at home because schools shut it down at school. When rough play disappears everywhere, boys lose the only place left to learn the skills that prevent real aggression later on. And now we are seeing the effects. Harvard reports weaker impulse control in boys who do not get physical free play. The APA reports higher frustration intolerance, more anger spikes and more “rage reactions” in boys today. The CDC shows rising emotional dysregulation in boys and more aggressive outbursts. Canadian long-term studies show boys who never rough played were more likely to have explosive anger in adolescence because they never learned how to pull back. We did not create more aggressive boys. We created boys who were never allowed to practice the skills that stop aggression before it starts. Rough play is not encouraging aggression. It is how kids learn to control their aggression. It is how they learn boundaries and empathy. It is how they learn to regulate big emotions. It is how they learn to control themselves instead of losing control. And for any adults who still worry about “missing something,” here are the simplest red flags to watch for. Step in when you see these: • nobody is laughing anymore • one child looks scared or overwhelmed • someone keeps going after the other said stop • there is no checking in or pausing • the energy shifts from play to frustration If those show up, you step in. Otherwise it is rough and tumble play. Rough play does not fit well inside a school. But at home and in childhood, it absolutely belongs. Because it teaches boys the one skill they will rely on for the rest of their lives: How to control themselves before they lose control.

We use the term “teacher shortage.” But, let’s call it what it is. A salary shortage. A support shortage. A respect shortage. A feeling-valued shortage. A classroom-supply shortage. A trust-in-teachers shortage.

Poetry in motion 👀 #BobcatBuilt

Ss having a hard day? Here's a whole alphabet's worth of coping strategies, from T @CallMeMoprah: ko-fi.com/s/53602a2095?f…

Today marks 75 years of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. Charles Schulz didn’t have it easy in school. He was shy, quiet, and often overlooked. A teacher even wrote: “Charles will never amount to much.” His art was rejected from the high school yearbook. But he kept drawing. He kept believing. And he went on to create what is probably the most iconic comic strip in history. 75 years later, Peanuts is still proof: a child’s potential is never defined by a grade, a comment, or a rejection.

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Word on the street is Kelsey Mitchell's the real MVP

Caitlin for Eli Lilly: "Caitlin Clark Goes Back To School"