Chris

I love FSU baseball, football, basketball and soccer!

[Maximiliano Bretos @MaxBretosSports]

Balogun is back, a massive boost for #USMNT ahead of Round of 16 game Vs Belgium 🇧🇪 Monday in Seattle.
We rip thru one of the craziest unexpected news stories in World Cup history.
#USA

[Young George Washington @washingtonmovie]

Don't miss the epic origin story of America's first hero — Young Washington marches into theaters this July 3. Enjoy this official clip, and get your tickets today!

[Rich Eisen Show @RichEisenShow]

Did the #USMNT get screwed by the Flo Balogun red card?

@MaxBretosSports explained:

#WorldCup @wwerollins

[Chris @Chrisfsu9]

I almost forgot to wish @Corey_Clark a Happy Flag Day!

[Sean McGowan @irishpresby]

https://t.co/RNSPJ4nYX9

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Every headstone is a life cut short.

Today we remember those who never came home.

[FSU Baseball @FSUBaseball]

Thank you to our seniors! 👏

[Chris @Chrisfsu9]

@FSUBaseball Look at Cal in the background! Love the passion from the Captain!

[FSU Baseball @FSUBaseball]

Three runs in the 9th to tie it, we're going to extras!

E-9, FSU 6, UM 6

[Sean McGowan @irishpresby]

Reformers are needed to retrieve what past generations failed to conserve.

[Chris @Chrisfsu9]

The Vietnam Veterans https://t.co/XgcmjCIMr7 via @YouTube

My Dad wrote a beautiful song about his fellow brothers in arms and then made this great video. Give it a look!

[FSU Baseball @FSUBaseball]

Cal sends one out!!

[Chris @Chrisfsu9]

@ChuckConstable1 Same here

[SF Giants on NBCS @NBCSGiants]

Just a couple of @FSUBaseball legends talking ball ⚾️🏈

[Manager Games @ManagerGames_]

WEST SECOND ROUND (Expected score as 50% of vote)

2 - Louisville (51%)
3 - Florida State (49%)

@UofLMBBManagers
@FSUMBBManagers

[FSU Baseball @FSUBaseball]

Unhittable. ❌

The 11th no-hitter in school history.

[Brendan Sonnone @BSonnone]

The Tallahassee community lost a good one.

John Michael Conley, a member of the Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame, passed away this past month at the age of 89.

Conley, known by most as “Mike,” was also a fixture in Leon County’s education system. More on that in a bit. The native of West Virginia moved to Orlando as a boy and went on to become a standout member of Orlando Boone High’s track-and-field squad.

He continued his track-and-field dominance at FSU in the 1950s, where he was among the region's best performers in the mile and two-mile events. Conley went undefeated in dual-meet competition as a junior and senior. He was co-captain of the 1958 Seminoles during his senior year in which he ran a 4:05.7 mile.

Only seven people worldwide ran that time or better, and the six others participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Why didn’t Conley participate in the Olympics?

Conley had other plans: He intended to marry his future wife, Sue. And back then, there wasn’t the financial backing for those training for the Olympics to both train and support a family.

So Conley chose family.

Following his time at FSU, Conley began teaching, and was a coach as well as an assistant principal at Leon High School before becoming the principal in 1973. He served in that role until his retirement in 1989.

Conley Elementary School, located in Southwood, is named after him. In retirement, Conley relished fishing, woodworking, and traveling – particularly on cruises – with his wife, Sue. He was an avid church-goer and wrote a history of his beloved Pisgah Methodist Church. Conley is survived by Sue, his three children and six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. His family planned to surprise him on his 90th birthday in April with a legacy scholarship through the Leon High School Foundation, a scholarship that will live on.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at Pisgah Methodist Church, 7000 Pisgah Church Rd., Tallahassee, FL, on Friday, March 20, 2026, at 2 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Pisgah Methodist Church, P.O. Box 16577, Tallahassee, FL 32317, and to a legacy scholarship being established in honor of J. Michael Conley through the Leon High School Foundation. Direct donors please indicate on their gift that the donation is for the Conley scholarship fund and mail to Leon High School Foundation, P.O. Box 15963, Tallahassee, FL 32317.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I received this message from one of Captain Cody Khrok’s best friends today. Captain Khork was one of the 4 soldiers killed in Kuwait.

“Josie,

I saw you are posting about some of the service members who passed away in Kuwait. It would me the world to me to share more about Cody’s life, pictures, stories.

Cody was the best of us. He always wanted to be in the military and came from a military family. He moved to my neighborhood in Winter Haven Florida in middle school. He was my best friend and grew into family. He called my mom, mom and she raised him for a period of time in high school. I used my job at Publix Supermarkets to get him hired and he worked with me at the local store a couple of years in collage. He lived with me after basic training for a period of time before buying his dads house in Winter Haven and deploying regularly 

He graduated from Lake Region High School in Eagle Lake (2008) and Florida Southern College in Lakeland  (2014). He enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 and later commissioned as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve in 2014. During his service, he deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2018, Guantanamo Bay in 2021, and Poland in 2024. He also spend time deployed in Korea and Africa but I’m unsure of the exact years. 

He received numerous medals and honors recognizing his service, leadership, and commitment to others. Some pictures of that below. 

Cody played paintball semi professionally on a team for a period of time, enjoyed video games. He was a huge Florida Gators football fan and Tampa Bay Lightning fan and we went to many games together over the years. 

Friends will tell you he was an amazing person, hilarious sense of humor, and most importantly the life of the party. Everybody who worked with him in the military looked up to him and said he would lead from the front. He helped many proper through the darkest times in their lives and was part of the best times. 

 He was also unapologetically American which I think he would say is the most important part.”

And what an impossibly brave, good, and generous person Cody was.

Well done. Good and faithful servant.

Rest now.

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

We know about the importance of protein consumption in relation to preventing the muscle loss and frailty of aging.

But an overlooked area of a relatively high protein intake is its effect on the body's endogenous antioxidant system, of which the most important single component is glutathione.

Glutathione levels decline with age, and this decline leads to increased oxidative stress, insulin resistance, and damage to cellular components such as mitochondria.

Restoring youthful glutathione levels reverses these defects, whether in lab animals or humans.

Glutathione is a tripeptide - in other words, a protein.

When humans decrease their protein consumption, even just to a level that health authorities deem "safe", their antioxidant status declines and their susceptibility to oxidative stress rises. [PMID: 15213035]

When glutathione levels are restored in elderly people, their ability to metabolize fatty acids becomes more youthful, fatty acid blood levels decline, and insulin sensitivity increases - this is an important longevity factor.

Glutathione levels were restored in this case by supplementing the amino acid glycine, and the amino acid carrier n-acetylcysteine.

But these are just components of dietary protein. Whey protein is especially rich in cysteine, collagen protein is rich in glycine.

So, how much of the oxidative stress and functional decline in aging is due to low protein intake?

Potentially, a lot.

There's good evidence that protein requirements for optimal health have been significantly underestimated, and may in reality be 50% higher than current guidelines. [PMID: 19841581]

Add to that the fact that many people don't want to eat protein: they prefer sugary and carb-laden factory food.

Many in the anti-aging space believe that lower protein intake is better for slowing aging, and this may be exactly wrong.

In lab animals, restoration of glutathione levels extends lifespan, and in humans reduces oxidative stress.

And this can be done by getting sufficient dietary protein.

[Chris @Chrisfsu9]

Every year I make a point to watch Lonesome Dove. In my opinion, it’s the greatest piece of art put on film. So sad to hear about Robert Duvall’s passing. What an incredible career he had!