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media day: BTS 🎬

@IndianaFever On our way with our #WallenpaupackArea Lady Buckhorns and families!!! Crazy excited to see you all live and to celebrate the opening of the season with you!!!!! 🏀💪💜

and just like that, it’s preseason game one 🔥

Today, @SenatorBennet and I are leading Congress in recognizing the 10th annual Columbine Day of Service and remembering all those we lost 27 years ago. The strength & resilience of Coloradans are an inspiration to folks everywhere.

@roriiiharmonnn 💜🙌💜🏀💜

Appreciate the love and support from everyone throughout my collegiate career, longhorn for life🤘🏾

@America1stLegal A chicken pox outbreak in our primary school because parents chose to fight against proven medical prevention rather than to protect their children and others. Send those letters. And, let’s pray your children don’t get sick or infect those who can’t protect themselves.

/1🚨PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN — America First Legal just released a template letter that parents can use to opt out of radical classroom instruction and woke school policies.

we've been working. 2026 season coming soon. FeverBasketball.com/Tickets

@travisakers @SenFettermanPA Pennsylvanian here - and on it!

If I’m a Democrat, independent, Libertarian, centrist, or anti-Trump Republican in Pennsylvania, I’m emailing and calling @SenFettermanPA’s office every single hour.

When you get to take your AP American Lit Prep Course @uiowa this summer - #WINNING! (And, CC plays tomorrow!)

this is who 🥹 two years ago today, Caitlin Clark rewrote the record books and broke Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old record to become the @NCAA all-time leading scorer.

Highest attended professional WBB regular season game EVER ✅ Everyone Watches Women’s Sports™️ and it’s not up for debate 🗣️ @Unrivaledwbb

Philly, you really did that. 21,490 strong. A shattered attendance record. A statement to the world. Last night proved what we already knew: Philadelphia is a WOMEN’S SPORTS TOWN and PHILLY IS UNRIVALED! Thank you for showing up and making history at @Unrivaledwbb. 💙🏀💜

What an amazing career at Iowa. The perfect example of what a college athlete should be. Thanks for the memories, @_taylormccabe. This season won’t be the same without our sniper. Heal well and know that you are so loved! ❤️‍🩹

@_taylormccabe 1/1/25 @PSU You came right over to my 7th grade daughter recovering from two knee surgeries - you gave her hope and such kindness. Sending positive energy and healing vibes from PA! Lasting impact!!!

@BenSasse Keep fighting! #onward 💜💜💜

Good news! I have mites! (“good news” because fairly easily treatable. One of the downsides of aggressive chemo is that it’s tough for facial skin to hold at bay a lotta the stuff we normally fight off. This diagnosis is good news, b/c our docs will be able to help get us back ahead of the curve, and stop the bloody oozing from my newly 5X-sized nose….)

@Raina15 @LisaBluder @GabbieMarshall Hearts happy!!! 🙌🏀🙌💛

Ohhhh my ❤️’s 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@cityplannertess @BenSasse @PennMedicine 💜💜💜💜

@rosencsa @BenSasse @PennMedicine my dad also was diagnosed pancreatic cancer at 79 years old -Penn medicine plus his tenacity want it now age 82 and clear/strong. ❤️🙏

@BenSasse 💜 prayers for healing and peace.

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

@IndianaFever Hawley, Pennsylvania! 💜🏀💜🙌

Fever fans are everywhere 🌍🔥 where are you cheering from? drop your country or city 👇 #WorldBasketballDay

@SydandTP @WChampsClassic Amazing! Thank you for continuing to show-up, walk-the-walk, and support female athletes! #RoleModel PS: US after realizing we were literally in the same room with @goiowa @abbyemmertstamp AND you & trying not to hyperventilate 💜🏀💜 @sharkbeauty @IowaWBB @IndianaFever

What’s up y’all! We’re here at @WChampsClassic about to film our first live recording in front of a few of you lucky Babysitters 🤪 Tune in on TUESDAY for the full episode 🤝