Adam Calhoun

Purdue ‘23

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Nico Hoerner incredible defense on back-to-back plays

[Greg McManus @gregmclnk]

Game day

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Bam²⁵ @The25thNigga]

@DiscussingFilm Getting Kaladin STORMBLESSED on tv

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

Finally, my new single “The Great Divide” comes out on January 30th.

https://t.co/qrQPcZzihZ

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

We're throwing it back to 2016!

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe continue to up their sweater game every Christmas — and this is their best combo yet. (Image via @SickosCBB)

[FOX College Hoops @CBBonFOX]

RT if your team is UNDEFEATED heading into week 3 🔥

[Joey @CalebGoatQB1]

Seeing Justin Fields slander and #FireEberflus hashtags on my timeline while I have Caleb & Ben Johnson

[Nicholas @NicholasPas5]

This is like maybe the only franchise where I completely agree make as many Knives Outs as physically possible

[will defries @willdefries]

"yeah, nothing on my end, thanks"

[Dylan Gossett @dylangossett]

My debut album, “Westward” is out everywhere

[𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔣𝔣 𝔦 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 @onlystuffilike]

I found out I was cheated on at an
REO Speedwagon concert
I heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who heard it from another she'd been messing around...😟

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Only Midwesterners will understand this

[VJ’s Burner @makethatVJsingh]

Ahhhh I’m so scared of a 2 night stay at Pine Valley with the boys

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

Duncan Keith is heading to the Hockey Hall of Fame‼️👏

📰 ➡︎ https://t.co/ctnadDJNac

[Ryan M. Spaeder @theaceofspaeder]

#Cubs Jake Arrieta hurled a complete game shutout 10 years ago today on June 21, 2015, beginning what would be a 29-start stretch in which he had more no-hitters (2) than games lost (1).

The only loss?

A no-hitter by Cole Hamels.

His final numbers from that stretch: 29 GS | 24-1 | 0.99 ERA

Chicago was 27-2 during the stretch, and Arrieta had as many home runs hit as he allowed (4).

This stands as, in my opinion, the greatest stretch of baseball ever by a pitcher. The only way to beat him was to beat him at his own game.

[ivan c @yungic_]

when i finally hear one of the 30 songs i queued up on the touchtunes

[Evan Fox @evanfoxy]

Just need to reiterate how great of a game Euchre is

[mau @rllydu]

i love when dudes are named Guy. like, yeah. exactly.