Gene Knight

@MMayer00 @YorkRecruits Commit to the Y!

Committed to the CFL...Cougar For Life! @YorkRecruits

@MMayer00 The Hammer of Justice 🔨 representing Football City, USA!

Let’s get after it!

@stevemagness That's why it's called, "the agony of defeat".

If you’ve never cried after giving everything you had to something that mattered, you’ve probably never given everything you had to something that mattered. The UCONN women’s basketball team was undefeated, 38-0 for the season. But with a little over a minute left in their final four matchup against South Carolina, Kayleigh Heckel went up for a lay-up to cut the score to 9 and keep alive a tiny bit of hope. She missed. The camera zooms in on Heckel as she drops her head and tears began to flow. It was a harsh moment of realizing that the dream was over. In 2024, Keisei Tominaga was captured crying on the sidelines with a minute left when his Nebraska team lost to Texas A&M in the tournament. Back in 2006, Adam Morrison had a similar reaction with a few seconds left, after Gonzaga had blown a 17 point lead in the sweet sixteen. Will all due respect to Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, there is crying in sport. A lot of it. And contrary to some of the talk on social media, it’s the opposite of weakness. It’s a clear signal of a genuine competitor. We cry because we care. Tears are proof of our investment. Psychologist Ad Vingerhoets at Tilburg University has spend decades studying crying. He found that humans are the only species that cries emotionally. And the primary reason we do it is it acts s a kind of communicative device. Tears signal to others that something matters deeply to us and we need support. It’s as if the tears are saying, “this thing matters to me more than I can say.” As a coach, I’ve seen the toughest of competitors, athletes who are among the best in the country or even the world, break down from time to time. It’s one of the beautiful things about sport. For many reasons, it’s one of the few areas where we let the guard down, show what we really feel, and express genuine emotion. Sometimes, that means tears of joy, other times a crushing bitter disappointment that we can’t quite process. This is especially true for men, who often try to be stoic, thanks to a combination of culture and biology. Yet, in the days before memes Morrison might as well have become one, as he “got murdered for it” and was “kind of shocked by how much negative feedback” he received. Heckel’s been met with a mixture of support and the sadly expected condemnation. Those people are clueless. From the sidelines, it may look like a weakness because you’ve never been in those moments. You’ve never given your all to something, risked greatness, and saw that dream get ripped away. When you step into the arena, you put it all on the line. And in sport, music, and performance arts, one of the few places that are the last bastions of reality. You can’t fake it, it’s all there to see, and there’s a clearly defined success or failure. You have to care deeply to even be in that spot in the first place. No one made it anywhere close to fulfilling their potential, let alone the pinnacle of their endeavor by not caring. That kind of nonchalance is reserved for the sideline. It’s the cool kid in high school who tries to convince others not trying is the cool thing to do. All so they can protect their ego and say, “I would have gotten an A, made the team, won the tournament, if I had tried…” Caring is cool. It’s also the only way you see how good you can be. Our brain has a kind of internal safety mechanism that prevents us from ever truly pushing to our limit. And for good reason. If a marathoner really ran out of glycogen or let their core body temperature keep rising, then serious illness or death awaits. Instead, we run a kind of inner calculation that says: is the juice worth the squeeze? Caring deeply is what allows us to push just a bit harder. It tells that safety mechanism, “Ya, we’re in a lot of discomfort right now, but this means a lot, so give us a little bit longer of a leash.” So if I ever saw someone crying after a tough race, I knew that was an athlete I wanted on my team. It meant they cared. It meant the moment meant so much to them, that they could no longer put on a face, or hold things back. It meant more to them than they could verbally communicate. We need more people with passion, who are willing to risk it all, to be have the emotions of the moment overwhelm them. It’s only by stepping into the arena and taking that risk that we find out how good we can be, and more importantly, who we are. The potential for tears is the price of admission. Morrison got murdered for crying in 2006. Tominaga said it should be celebrated in 2024. He was right. -Steve

@OleTimeHardball Shoeless Joe Jackson

One player gets elected to the Hall of Fame, the others never do. Who gets the call? 1. Barry Bonds 2. Pete Rose 3. Shoeless Joe Jackson 4. Roger Clemens 5. Lou Whitaker 6. Curt Schilling 7. Mark McGwire 8. Sammy Sosa 9. Kenny Lofton 10. Write in a player

@td_nash Ty Cobb!

Who’s the greatest baseball player of all time?🧐

@TheCollinsJ John Wooden, 10 titles in 12 seasons. At one point in time they were considering calling it The UCLA Invitational Tournament.

Jim Calhoun, next question

@MarkRicht Congratulations Coach to you and the prettiest Water Girl in all of college football. Like most of us Coach you out punted your coverage.

39 years today I have been married to the most beautiful and sweetest woman in the universe! I love you Katharyn! Thank you Jesus!!

@WHLeavitt 12

On a scale of 0-10, how would you rate Kristi Noem’s performance as the Secretary of Homeland Security so far?

@MAGAVoice @LeaderJohnThune 👍

Let’s send a loud message to @LeaderJohnThune If you think John Thune should be fired if the SAVE America Act does NOT pass drop a “👍” below I tagged him so he will see it

@Matt_Pinner 7

I've been to 2, you ?

@Matt_Pinner I from government.

In 3 words or less! 😱

All the best to former RHHS Bearcat and resident of Football City USA Robbie Ouzts!!!GATA Robbie! @robbie_ouzts @RHHSBearcatsFB Seahawks rule! Seahawks ave Cooper Kupp, OTS Sports Network has Tyler Cupp @TCuppRadio DGD Mike MacDonald is the top Ocean Raptor!

@esaburruss @JoshPateCFB Let's GATA at the College Football Hall of Fame!!! Erk Russell should be in the HOF!

@JoshPateCFB Why does Mike Leach get special treatment but Georgia Southern can't even get them to address Erk Russell? 83–22–1 & 3 FCS national championships starting our program, but ineligible because he retired after 8 years

When the CFB HOF realized their criteria prevented Mike Leach from being eligible they rightly changed the criteria When the Pro Football HOF realized their voters were stupid enough to prevent a 6x Super Bowl winner from being first-ballot...they pressed send anyway

Congratulations to former Rock Hill Bearcat, Robbie Ouzts, from Football City, USA on making it to the NFC Championship game! #footballcityusa #rhhsfootball @RHBearcats @RHHSBearcatsFB

@RadiNabulsi @DawgsUnited Damn Good Dawg!

Former University of Georgia running back Garrison Hearst has been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. Well Deserved.

@OleMissFB The Rebels are tangling with The U on January the 8th, Elvis’s birthday. TCB Ole Miss! The SEC it just means more!!

@TrumpDailyPosts Name for your memoir Mr. President: Life is a Big Deal

@bennyjohnson 🙏🙏🙏

Please pray for Scott 🙏🏻 This is heartbreaking news.

@KirbySmartUGA @drewmiller____ Merry Birthday Drew!

Happy Birthday, @drewmiller____ !! #GoDawgs

@MarkRicht Merry New Year Coach!

Happy 2026 everybody!