Philip Coffeen

Wirehair Pointing Griffons, Arizona Football/Basketball and the Great Outdoors!

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

An absolutely *stunning* chart via @axios on how search has collapsed as a traffic driver for legacy media

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: An Arizona dad taught himself car AC repair so a foster mom’s three special-needs kids would not bake in the back seat.

Michael Kuba started The Junkie Garage in Glendale after a shop quoted him nearly $4,000 to fix his own family’s van.

He had three kids in the Arizona heat and no way to pay it. He bought tools, watched YouTube, and learned the job the hard way. Then he opened the bay to everyone else.

No income test. No stack of forms. You schedule, you bring parts if you can, and you donate what you can for labor.

"I don't ask you for your income. I don't ask you who you are, where you came from, or anything like that. I just wanna help people get their cars working right."

A shop AC job that runs $2,000 to $4,000 often leaves his customers under $300.

He told 12 News about one foster parent with three special-needs children. He bought the parts himself. "When she walked up to the car and stuck her arm in it, she literally just had an emotional breakdown because she was finally going to have cold air for these children in the back seat."

His son Matthew has been on the wrench since he was a little kid. He is 16 now and still shows up. "It's an amazing bonding experience, and it gives me an opportunity most kids don't get."

Kuba put the whole thing in one line. "You haven't lived until you've done something for someone that can never repay you."

Make this duo famous for all the right reasons!

#Arizona #Glendale

[Fran Fraschilla @franfraschilla]

All of these local yokel judges with season tickets only making it easier for Congress to pass the PCSA act in September. The absurdity of it all has reached a tipping point. It’s become an
80/20 issue with college football and basketball fans.
(By the way, the bill is far from perfect, but at least it’s a start.)

[Hector Resendez - Trade School Secrets @TS_Secrets]

One of my buddy’s sons skipped college and became an electrician at 18.

He was told either college or military were his only two options.

His parents weren’t exactly excited when he went to trade school. Actually they were a little embarrassed.

Most of their friends’ kids were going off to universities. Their son was showing up to job sites at 6am.

By 21 he was making $90k

By 24 he had his master electrician license making over $120k

At 27 he started taking his own jobs on the side for a total of $200k

Last year at 29 his little “electrician business” did $1.8M with 4 vans.

Funny how that works.

His parents used to explain why he didn’t go to college.

Now they tell everyone he owns an electrical company.

We need more 18-year-olds to know this path exists.

Day 229 tagging @mikeroweworks until more parents start bragging about trade school too.

Consider to RT if you agree.

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@ArizonaMBB Great post! Bear down!!!

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@loriburkhart Congrats!

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@ArizonaMBB Wow!

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@DougHaller Great pick and even better story.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@seanspicer If he’s the best candidate democrats can come up with, you really gotta wonder what kinda folks live in Maine.

[Fran Fraschilla @franfraschilla]

One of the best traditions in college sports. @WVUSports @Big12Conference

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

Let’s GO!@ArizonaSoftball e

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@AZATHLETICS @MoPaiaina @ArizonaSoftball 🐻⬇️

[Arizona Softball @ArizonaSoftball]

NO FLY ZONE ❌

@ReganShockey25 showing why she's the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year!

📺 ESPN+

[College Basketball Review @CbbReview]

Dan Hurley is not a fan of the new tournament expansion.

[Philip Coffeen @AzGriff]

@hydmeister @WallStreetApes The real culprit is the population growth in Arizona and Nevada.

[Bob Ryan @GlobeBobRyan]

I am going on record. The NCAA Tournament was perfect at 64. Anything else is shameful greed exhibited by power conferences. Anyone who loves the sport knows this is the gospel truth,

[Kevin Thomas @KevoPosts]

CBB facing a lot of adversity right now 💔

- 76 team tournaments
- That G-League player thing
- Mid players asking for big NIL money
- Availability waivers
- Portal “opening” right after the title
- Crazy roster turnover
- Will Wade

The game needs to be saved.

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

Arizona gets Ivan Kharchenkov back 🤩

The German forward takes another year in Tucson 🌵