Cale Ramaker

2+ decades TV news/sports anchor, investigative reporter: SEA, LAS, MCO, DSM, MSP. Univ of Arizona Regents Scholar, Honors College grad, TUS. GEG raised.

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

Journey’s “Only the Young” plays as Louden Swain runs across multiple bridges spanning the Spokane River during the opening credits of VISION QUEST. Director Harold Becker used these bridges as a metaphor for his coming-of-age story where crossing a body of water symbolizes transition, rebirth, and leaving the past behind.

If you’d like to support the @FMJDiary project, you can bid on one of my original (and signed) VQ soundtrack cassettes here: https://t.co/FkPZDEHuO4

[Brett Bayne @bretthbayne]

The irony of Texas Tech threatening a breach of contact action when that same university breached their employment contract with Mike Leach, never paid him, and then hid behind sovereign immunity to avoid paying out his contract.

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Never change Big Gulp.

[Dan Wolken @DanWolken]

A rare moment where Dakich has a guest more delusional than he is.

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Way to go Texas Tech! As if Lubbock wasn’t already the end of the earth…#GoCougs

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Hey @mlbatbat can you explain why the Mariners Tigers series has had no stream available the entire series?!?! It’s not like the teams’ broadcasts aren’t live over the air and streaming. I have annual pass and I’ve been in CO & AZ, hardly local blackout markets.

[Steven Ratnik @StevenJosephR]

91 year-old D-Day veteran returns to Omaha Beach in Normandy for the first time...

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Moscow in flames. Missiles headed to New York. Film at Eleven.

[Bald Kapuna @BaldKupuna]

@BadSpit He’s also in Kentucky Fried Movie. He has a strong sense of humor.

[Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 @Kristinawong]

101-year-old World War II veteran doing pull-ups in the center of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France, on the anniversary of D-Day, as the crowd cheers. ☺️

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

82 years ago, Normandy, France.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

June 6th, 1944.

The English Channel is angry and half the men in the landing craft are seasick. Diesel fumes mix with saltwater and vomit while rifles are checked for the fifth or sixth time by hands that need something to do. Nobody talks much anymore because the jokes have all been told and the bravado has finally burned away somewhere behind the English coast.

You are nineteen years old and carrying more weight than you’ve ever carried in your life. You don’t know it yet, but it’s the most weight you will EVER carry in this life. However long or short it may be.

Your rifle rests across your knees. Your life hangs from a few pounds of steel, wood, and training. Somewhere beyond the gray horizon sits a continent that has spent five years tearing itself apart, and in a few minutes you are going to step into the middle of it.

Across from you sits another kid. He can’t be much older than you. His jaw is clenched. His knuckles are white around his weapon. Neither of you says a word because there is nothing left to say.

Then your eyes drift toward his shoulder.

That red numeral catches your eye: “1”.

You’ve seen it a thousand times before. In barracks hallways, on training fields, in motor pools, and on long marches. It never meant much beyond belonging to the same outfit.

Now it means everything.

Because in a few minutes the world is going to ask something terrible of both of you, and there is comfort in knowing that whatever waits on that beach, neither of you will face it alone.

The historians will eventually reduce this day to arrows on maps and casualty figures. Politicians will give speeches. Journalists will write books. None of that exists inside the landing craft.

What exists is fear, and duty.

What exists is the understanding that courage was never the absence of fear. Courage was always charging into the maelstrom anyway.

The shoreline emerges through the smoke. You can see flashes now. You can hear the distant percussion of artillery. Men stop checking their equipment because there is no point anymore. Whatever mistakes were made are already made. Whatever prayers were going to be said have already been said.

The coxswain throttles down.

The boat grinds forward.

The ramp is about to drop.

Into the abyss.

Overlord.

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

On this day in 1944, Allied troops landed on beaches of Normandy, under the protective fire of British and American warships and overwhelming airpower, to fight Nazi Germany.

Commonly known as #DDay, the operation's codename was "Operation Overlord."

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Congrats, Bill. You put up well with me over all the years! #GoCougs

[Washington State Cougars @WSUCougars]

Thank you Bill Stevens for 21 years of dedication to Washington State Athletics and the Cougar family. The impact you’ve made will always be part of Cougar Athletics. Wishing you and your family all the best in retirement and we’ll see you around cheering on the Cougs!

Link to the full story: https://t.co/4uLmpLtzEs

#GoCougs | #MadeOfCrimson

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Gorgeous albeit 3 hour delayed approach into SFO.

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

Yet again, the preening self-importance of these people is matched only by the total lack of self-awareness. The journalism they have done for decades has steadily lost the trust of most Americans. And they think those sent to change it are the problem?

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Love it when the Mets play the Mariners. Get to listen to the Mets outstanding TV announcing team. Make the Mariners-employee team sound like single A rookie ball broadcast. Plus they're not insufferable homers like the M's crew, which is no doubt ordered from ownership.

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Looks like SkyWest has a special livery under wraps on their CRJ-900 outside their new TUS hangar. Appears wrapped in blue cloth-like material.

[Washington State Football @WSUCougarFB]

long overdue🏴‍☠️⚔️

Mike Leach has been added to the 2027 NFF Hall of Fame Ballot

#GoCougs | #MadeOfCrimson

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

41 years ago today, this man ordered a Bloody Mary, a steak sandwich and....
a steak sandwich.

Then proceeded to charge it to the Underhills.

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

This is embarrassing @NASCAR.

[Cale Ramaker @CaleRamaker]

Reminder that @TNTSportsUS coverage of Roland Garros is fantastic! @AdamLefkoe brings it as the studio host. The Inside The NBA DNA works well.