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ICYMI: The @PopTartsBowl Trophy - an actual working toaster! - made stops this week at ESPN's Seaport Studios & Bristol, Conn. campus ahead of next Saturday's game 🏈 Dec. 28 | 3:30p ET | No. 18 @CycloneFB vs No. 13 @CanesFootball | ABC 🎙️@tom_hart, @JRodgers11, @colecubelic

Tried to scout a new Crazy Good Play candidate last night in Miami but apparently we “blocked people’s view” and “cannot bribe security with Crunchy Poppers” and “didn’t have a ticket by the way” and “really dinged up the air vents after they just fixed them up again”

@SickosCommittee Brings to mind a favorite story from my One and Done series back in the day. At the time of the interview, Coach Bell was HC at Jacksonville U. foxsports.com/stories/nfl/on…

Wait, Western Carolina's head coach is Kerwin Bell? Like, *that* Kerwin Bell?

How it started, how it’s going, etc.

SEC Media Days Ingress: Bag arrived in Dallas 12 hours before I did while I spent an entire day sitting at an airport 15 minutes from my house. ACC Media Days Egress: Bag got left behind in Charlotte with all the stuff I need for the second leg of my work trip.

Attn: ACC Media (again) — it’s snack time. You know what to do.

Attn: ACC media — if you are not going to hospitality tonight, you are doing this “media days” thing all wrong.

@jwatsonfisher @PopTartsBowl (Charlotte 😉)

I made the trophy a giant friendship bracelet and basically did free marketing. Where is mine?? 🤪 @PopTartsBowl

Look out, @wojespn.

Brand Activation of the Year: @PopTartsBowl & @KelloggsUS 🍴 The Pop-Tarts brand was embedded at every touchpoint, from the bowl name, the concessions, and yes, the edible mascot. #SBJAwards

To be fair, he’s almost 6.

@MenInBlazers @RorySmith Good news, fellas.

🎶FLORIDA CUP CHAMPIONS, YOU’LL NEVER SING THAT 🎶 Rog and @RorySmith went LIVE on yesterday’s podcast to talk all the Champions League madness and Arsenal’s chances in the Quarterfinals.

@ralphDrussoAP Buddy comes from the @BIGTATER83 School of Punters Who Could Also Be Defensive Ends.

We have our new king.

@ShehanJeyarajah @thesarahkelly if you’re lucky, they’ll at least preserve your good takes and continue to run them with no byline!

🚨 If you are a journalist, make sure you have copies of your notable work saved. You never know if a media company will just wipe it all. I have some saved in word documents/Google docs and some on my personal website. Highly recommend you do the same.

@PitchingNinja Legendary editor @Steviecade sent me down the rabbit hole on a lot of fun stories during our run together at Fox Sports, and a 2015 feature marking the 30th anniversary of The Rick Camp Game has always been one of my favorites: foxsports.com/stories/mlb/th…

The Legendary Rick Camp Home Run Rick Camp's 18th Inning HR at 3:30am on Fireworks Night. 🎇 Camp had a .060 career average at this point with no career home runs. "Ernie, if he hits a home run to tie this game, this game will be certified as absolutely the nuttiest in the history of baseball."

That was fun. Let’s do it again.

Slightly concerned by the couple of “any mascot is edible” comments we’ve seen so far.

Cheezin 😁 because we’re the… @cheezit National Team of the Week!

Can't wait to see you at the completed Camping World Stadium. Here are new rendering concepts of a fully-renovated home field for Orlando. Let’s make this vision a reality and keep driving economic and socioeconomic impact in Orange County.

And what an incredible segment it was. Holy cow. A life well-lived, indeed.