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I’ve spent my entire life focusing on the success and well being of student athletes. Their success in both sports and academics is paramount. I have no problem with Athletes making money and I have had that stance for many years. But what we have been dealing with the last few years is harmful not only to their total success but also the longevity of College Sports as we know it. Yesterday, President Trump took bold action to preserve and protect Collegiate Athletics. I urge Congress to pass bipartisan legislation and SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS!

My wife was going through her wardrobe last night. She said, "Look at this, it still fits me after 25 years!" I said, "It's a scarf." The doctor says my left jaw will heal, but I will most definitely lose vision in my right eye.

Dear Southerners, Read this. Trust me when I say these words are EXACTLY what you need to hear. Dixie is more than a place. It’s more than our past. It’s who we are. It’s a culture that survived despite a campaign to bring it down. It’s a culture that still thrives—even with the boot heel on our throats that tells us we should loathe everything we are because of the sins of our forefathers. It’s a culture born out of diverse roots—people who had little in common but became the most unique and fascinating of them all. And it is beautiful. I drone on and on about how to save it, never being able to fully put it into words, but this article says it perfectly. Saving Dixie is not about documenting, podcasting, or recording it. It’s about living it. Want to help me save North Carolina culture? Take a shagging class. Learn to play the banjo. Plant a garden. Can your own food. Don’t just watch me do these things! Live the Southern life and Southern culture will survive. We only lose if we abandon who we are. Much love, The NC Queen ❤️

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Over the course of his career, Carolina Hurricanes' Shayne Gostisbehere has been viewed as an offensive defenseman. However, while in Raleigh, there seems to have been a shift not only in his role, but playstyle too #CarolinaCulture @TheHockeyWriter 🔗: thehockeywriters.com/hurricanes-sha…

Geno Auriemma and Dan Hurley are the two sorest losers in basketball. Amazing they coach at the same school 😂

ATHLETIC ALLIANCE: The leaders of the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 praise President Trump’s new college sports order, which aims to tighten rules on player transfers and eligibility while curbing pay-for-play booster collectives. They also urge Congress to pass national standards for NIL deals and athlete compensation.

43 years ago, at 41,000 feet in the air, a brand new passenger plane carrying 69 people went completely silent. Both engines died at the exact same time. The massive jet had just run out of fuel mid-flight. The reason was a simple math mistake caused by a confusing transition. Canada was right in the middle of switching to the metric system. This specific plane was the very first one in the airline's fleet to use kilograms. The ground crew was still used to the old system. They calculated the fuel weight in pounds. The plane took off with less than half the fuel it needed to make the trip. What happened next should not have been survivable. The captain happened to fly small, unpowered gliders as a hobby. He had to do something no one had ever done with a commercial jet. He flew the heavy, powerless plane like a giant paper airplane toward an old abandoned military runway his co-pilot remembered. Neither of them knew the old base had been turned into a public car track. Neither of them knew there was a family racing event happening right on the asphalt that afternoon. Go-karts, cars, and kids on bicycles were directly in their path. The plane came down completely silently. There was no loud engine noise to warn the people below. The pilot forced the plane to drop out of the sky sideways just to slow it down. He came in fast. The front wheels collapsed when they hit the runway. The nose of the plane scraped across the concrete, throwing sparks everywhere until the huge jet skidded to a halt. The back end was sticking three stories up in the air. Nobody on the ground was hit. Every single one of the 69 people on board walked away. When airlines later put other pilots in simulators to try and copy the landing, every single one of them crashed. The plane was repaired and flew for another 25 years.

Asked if he felt like he was close to a return, Kochetkov said it was tough to tell, but joked that because Svechnikov scored a couple on him in practice that he was, "probably very far from play if he scored on me."

@MKatlen Yes sir!

@FFCane32 Yup! This we fully agree on! A lot of “brave” people hide behind their handle.

This is the truth especially with younger generations!

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips on Trump executive order: “We deeply thank President Trump and his administration’s ongoing commitment to protecting college athletics by issuing today’s Executive Order. Following the White House‘s College Sports Roundtable, there continues to be significant momentum to preserve the athletic and academic opportunities for the next generation of student-athletes and we appreciate the efforts. We remain optimistic that the SCORE Act, which would provide stability to college sports, will pass the House of Representatives in the near future.”

Confirmed! Artemis 2 astronauts will break the record. We now know for sure that the Artemis 2 crew will be farther from Earth than anyone in human history. The previous record belonged to the Apollo 13 crew, at 400,171 km. Artemis 2, however, will travel more than 6,000 km further, to a distance of 406,773 km. It was generally known that Artemis 2 would likely break the record, but some uncertainties remained. Now, after the main, long burn of the engines during the lunar trajectory transition and additional calculations, NASA has announced that Artemis 2 will definitely break the record. At this point, the Orion spacecraft is already halfway to the Moon. Another image of Earth, taken by crew commander Reed Wiseman, has been published.

Preach!

The @BuffaloSabres can clinch their 1st playoff berth since 2011, the @TBLightning can claim their 9th straight appearance and the @Canes can secure their 4th division title in six seasons. #NHLStats details the Rush to the 2026 #StanleyCup Playoffs: media.nhl.com/public/live-up…

Pyotr Kochetkov said it was "fun" and "very special" for him to be back on the ice with teammates today. He called the past few months "a tough, tough time" for him, mentally and physically, but he feels "much better" now.

Kochetkov said he had one long-term problem and one that happened in training camp. Said he tried to play through it, but after every game it bothered him “more and more.” “(It was) too much for me and dangerous for my future and my career.”

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Well, well, well, look who it is… 👀 Declared “probably out for the year” in December and having underwent hip surgery, goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov has joined his teammates on the ice at the end of today’s morning skate.