ChuckSamples

News director at @kvoeam1400. Personal Twitter account.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[The HockeySport Podcast @HockeySportPod]

We live in a society where an arena full of 20,000 drunk, screaming fans has a better sense of morality than the justice system.

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

The debate for best ramen in Omaha is over.

MiSoLaDo Crafted Ramen (72nd & Dodge) is the undefeated champ.

[ESPN @espn]

NEBRASKA WALKS IT OFF IN THE 10TH INNING AT THE WCWS 🔥

It's the Huskers' first WCWS win since 2002!

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[ChuckSamples @ChuckSamples]

@Orioles Legendary call…love the vintage reference

[Nebraska Baseball @HuskerBaseball]

The road to Omaha starts in Lincoln.

[Nebraska Softball @HuskerSoftball]

NEXT STOP: OKC

WE’RE GOING TO THE WCWS.

[Jacob Bigelow @JacobABigelow]

Don’t know if you’re going to see this kind of crowd at 1am local time for a college baseball conference tournament game anywhere else in the country. #Huskers

[ChuckSamples @ChuckSamples]

https://t.co/71PLuJITL3

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

You just can't beat "Gathering Crowds", the classic closing theme song to "This Week In #Baseball" (May 1984) #TWIB #MLB #SaturdayMorning

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

THIS IS NOT A TIMELAPSE!!! This is a CRAZY storm in Lyons, Nebraska, right now! 😳

@WxScholl @WxFront

[🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday]

Smoked cream cheese is straight fire—probably the easiest, most addictive thing I throw on the smoker or grill every single time.

Take a full block of cream cheese, score the top in a tight cross-hatch pattern so the smoke and seasoning really get in there. Hit it heavy with your favorite rub—everything bagel seasoning, Cajun, BBQ, garlic parmesan, whatever you’re feeling. Then drizzle on some fruit preserves or orange marmalade for that sweet-salty-smoky magic.

Set it on the smoker at 225-250°F for about 45-60 minutes until it’s soft, melty around the edges but still holding shape. Pull it, let it rest a minute, then dive in with crackers, sliced baguette, celery, or even thin jerky strips for extra protein.

It’s stupid simple, ridiculously good, and disappears faster than anything else on the table. Sweet, savory, smoky perfection in one block. Highly recommend you try it this weekend.🔥