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[Benjamin Z Houlton 🌍 @BenHoulton]

Best in class -- @BigRedWrestling -- on and off the mat!

[Nathalie Jones @NathalieABC17]

Worth a listen: Really interesting insight from #Mizzou wrestling coach Brian Smith on how this transfer portal/NIL era has changed things in the wrestling world.

Smith is a MASSIVE culture person & loves seeing young men grow up in his program. That's a reason why 'Tiger Style' is such a recognizable brand.
He has embraced & also benefitted from the portal era like other schools, but also wants to prioritize what he believes is one of the most important things in all of this: relationships.

"We had 10 seniors this year, graduate and speak at our banquet, and I was like, man, is this going to be like the last time something like this happens?...the good thing is we don't have a lot of people leaving."

[Justin Basch @JustinJBasch]

What a way to find out someone's in the portal!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A 19-year-old making minimum wage just taught a billionaire what integrity looks like.
Joey Prusak was working the counter at a Dairy Queen in Hopkins, Minnesota, when he noticed something that made his stomach turn.
A blind customer had just finished ordering. As the man turned to walk away, a $20 bill slipped from his pocket and floated to the floor. He had no idea.
Joey expected what would happen next. The woman standing behind the blind man would tap his shoulder and hand him his money back.
That's not what happened.
Instead, she looked directly at the blind man struggling to put his wallet away. She watched him walk past her. Then she bent down, picked up the $20, and slipped it into her purse.
Joey couldn't believe what he just witnessed.
When the woman stepped up to the counter to order, Joey did something that could have gotten him fired. He looked her in the eye and asked her to return the money to the man she had just stolen from.
She refused.
She claimed the $20 was hers. She said she had dropped it herself.
Joey asked again. She refused again.
So the 19-year-old manager made a decision. He told her plainly: "I'm not going to serve someone as disrespectful as you. Please return the money or leave this store."
The woman exploded. She started yelling. She cursed at him. But Joey stayed calm.
She stormed out without her ice cream.
But Joey wasn't finished.
He walked over to the blind man, who was sitting peacefully eating his sundae, completely unaware of what had just happened. Joey reached into his own pocket, pulled out a $20 bill from his own wallet, and handed it to the customer.
Joey made about $10 an hour. That $20 represented two hours of his work.
He didn't tell anyone about it. He didn't post about it. He just went back to serving customers.
But someone else in line had watched the entire thing unfold.
That customer went home and wrote an email to Dairy Queen. The email said: "I was in shock by the generosity that your employee had, taking his own money out of his own wallet to give to the customer because some other lady decided to steal something that wasn't hers. Joey has forever sealed my fate as a lifelong customer."
The store owner printed the email and pinned it to the employee bulletin board.
A coworker snapped a photo and posted it on Facebook.
Within days, Joey's story had traveled around the world.
Then something unbelievable happened.
Joey's phone rang. On the other end was Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns Dairy Queen.
The billionaire didn't call to offer business advice. He called to say two words: Thank you.
"He thanked me for being a role model for all the other employees and people in general," Joey later said.
But the rewards kept coming.
Strangers started showing up at the store. A woman ran up to Joey with an envelope full of cash for his college fund. A man drove all the way from another town just to hand Joey $100, saying he deserved five times what he had given away.
Radio shows invited him on as a guest. Companies offered him jobs. The Minnesota Wild hockey team called and gave him a private suite for 20 of his closest friends.
All because a teenager refused to stay silent when he saw something wrong.
When reporters asked Joey why he did it, his answer was simple: "I was just doing what I thought was right. I did it without even really thinking about it."
He paused, then added something that stuck with people: "Ninety-nine out of 100 people would've done the same thing as me."
Maybe he's right. Maybe most of us would do the same thing.
But Joey Prusak is the one who actually did it.
He didn't have power. He didn't have wealth. He didn't have influence. He was just a teenager behind a counter, making $10 an hour, with nothing but his integrity and a $20 bill.
And that was enough to remind millions of people what doing the right thing looks like.

[College GameDay @CollegeGameDay]

Michigan LB Ernest Hausmann was born in Uganda as one of 23 siblings. When his parents contracted AIDS, they were forced to put him up for adoption.

After nearly two decades of living nearly halfway around the world, Hausmann had the chance to travel back to Africa and reconnected with his mother ❤️

@JenLada

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Beautiful. This 12-year-old survivor of the devastating Camp Mystic floods sang a tear-jerking song on Fox this morning.

God bless her.

[Waverly High School @145activities]

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[Waverly High School @145activities]

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Pick up your order: Booster Bash 8/22 at WHS 4 pm.
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[Seth Gross @GodsWrestler133]

Nobody tells you this when you start wrestling…

They don’t tell you how hard it’s going to get.

They don’t tell you about the early mornings.
The workouts that break you down and the practices that leave you questioning if you really want this.

They don’t tell you about the weekends you’ll spend in a gym while your friends are out living “normal” lives.
Or how holidays start to feel more like weigh-in days than celebrations.

They don’t tell you what it feels like to step on the scale, dehydrated and drained, praying you made weight only to still have to go out and wrestle hours later.

They don’t tell you how lonely it gets.
How brutal this sport is on your body, your mind, your spirit.

But they also don’t tell you what it gives you.

They don’t tell you how wrestling teaches you to suffer with purpose.
How it forges discipline in places you didn’t even know were weak.
How it trains your mind to keep showing up.. especially on the days you don’t feel like it.

They don’t tell you that through the pain, the pressure, the heartbreak…
You will find a version of yourself you didn’t even know existed.
Stronger. Sharper. Hungrier.

They don’t tell you that one day you’ll look back and realize that everything you went through. the early mornings, the cuts, the setbacks.
wasn’t just about wrestling.

It was about becoming the kind of person who doesn’t quit.
The kind of person who keeps going when it’s hard, when it hurts, when no one’s watching.
The kind of person who can walk into any storm and not flinch.

That’s what this sport gives you. if you let it.
Not everyone makes it.
But if you stick with it, wrestling will shape you into the kind of person who can handle anything.

And that…
That’s worth every drop of sweat, every loss, every ounce of doubt.

Because wrestling doesn’t just build athletes.
It builds warriors.

[Cornell Wrestling @BigRedWrestling]

A 📌 in 49 seconds for @CornellaVince! He is the champion at the U23 Nationals at 65 kg!!

[Waverly High School @145activities]

The future leader of this tennis program…can’t wait Zach!!! Big things ahead for Waverly Boys/Girls Tennis!!!

[Nick Whyman @NickWhyman]

Kassie Newell & Carson Fink teamed up with JoLee Atkins, Morgan Jenkins & Mackenzie Tharp to compete for the Waverly Unified track team at state.

“For us to compete at state and give these kids an opportunity is something they’ll never forget.”
#nebpreps
https://t.co/x1Z9CMpOUv

[Nick Whyman @NickWhyman]

The Waverly Unified team was represented today at the 2025 NSAA State Championships.

Kassie Newell, Carson Fink, JoLee Atkins, Mackenzie Tharp and Morgan Jenkins competing for Waverly.

Read about their experience in a story coming later this week.
#nebpreps

[Nick Whyman @NickWhyman]

Your Class B Boys State Track & Field Champions: Waverly.
#nebpreps

[Snapshot Sports @Snapshot_Sports]

@WaverlyBase_V walk it off against @G_EastBaseball here at Tal Anderson field for State baseball day 2.

[NEwrestle @NEBwrestle]

Dominic Olson made the semis in U15 Greco at 57kg at the US Open! He dropped his semi match but will finish no worse than 6th in a 64 man bracket 💪

[The Wrestling Room (Pat Mineo) @MrPatMineo]

Why we love wrestling…

22 seed Gavin Drexler came into the NCAA tournament with 12 losses.

22 seed Gavin Drexler came into the NCAA tournament and lost his opening match.

22 seed Gavin Drexler then rattled off 4 straight backside wins to become an All-American for North Dakota State at 149 lbs.

22 seed Gavin Drexler got it done.

🦬 @NDSUwrestling

[Nick Whyman @NickWhyman]

At every Waverly home sporting event, Tom Rine’s voice can be heard as the public address announcer.

Read about Rine's involvement inside the Waverly community.

"This is my home...I want to do what’s best for the coaches and the kids."
#nebpreps

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[Cornell Wrestling @BigRedWrestling]

IVY League Champs!!

[NEwrestle @NEBwrestle]

Top 🔟 fastest technical falls from Boys State 2025! Cade Ziola had FOUR techs, all under 1:18! Grady Dempcy with the only one under a minute.