Jared McCall🏀⚾️⛳️

Father, Husband, Teacher, Coach - trying to be better at each of those. Drake University football 🏈 alum

[Admiral Mike Franken @FrankenforIowa]

Utah, Senator Lee's state, completed a comprehensive voter examination. Of two million voters, one noncitizen registered to vote and NO noncitizen voted.
The SAVE Act is traditional Republican nonsense and Mike Lee is an embarrassment to Utah.

[Sean Strickland @Coach__Strick]

A coach recently asked me about scouting reports. IMO the best teams play loose and confident, and that’s hard to do as a player with information overload.

I’d know 100% of the stuff, give players about 33% of it in both practice and on paper, then hope they’d retain half of that 33%.

So basically if they got close to 20% of what I knew, I felt we’d be good to go and avoid information overload😅

[SCN Softball @scn_softball]

3rd Team All-State
Carrigan Rich-Senior
#OT

[Cody Delmendo @cody__cubs]

A reminder the Ricketts family paid for all the renovations for Wrigley Field.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Illinois now finds itself in its strongest financial position in decades:

10 consecutive credit rating upgrades
$8 billion overdue bill backlog paid
$12 billion of short-term debt eliminated
$2.4 billion shored up Rainy Day Fund
17-year high pension-funded ratio

[Ryan Bonesio @rlbonesio]

If your 12u team is 52-2, you aren't playing the correct competition.

[Dylan McCabe @DylanMcCabe2027]

Junior year achievements and stats.

-Unanimous 1st Team All-Conference
-Academic All Conference (5.0 GPA)
-35/35 Games Played
-37 H
-.477 OBP
-.359 AVG
-21 RBI, 24 R
-24 BB
-16 SB (100%)
LHP
-10IP .7ERA, 1.2WHIP, 17K

@AHQRecruits @stce_baseball @Jordan_Dean1 @CoachSutor

[CoachLync | Tools & Playbooks @CoachLync]

OFF-BALL MOVEMENT 🏀

DHO reads.
Floppy actions.
Movement shooting.
Game-speed cuts.

15 different game scenarios.
300 purposeful reps.

Credit: Mason Waters

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[CoachLync | Tools & Playbooks @CoachLync]

Missouri’s Defensive Denials 👀

Jam it.
Chase it.
Short it.
Switch it.

Down screens.
Flare screens.
Back screens

Change their timing, spacing, and rhythm.

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[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

In my teaching experience…

Teachers who never question administrators’ decisions often get labeled as “good teachers.”

Teachers who do ask questions often get labeled as “difficult.”

Have you seen this too?

[Steve Collins @TeachHoopsBBall]

A good high school basketball team doesn't need 5 scorers.
It needs a floor general, a lockdown defender, and somebody who knows their job is to rebound everything in sight.
Roles win games. Superstars are built out of teams that commit to those roles.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We spend so much time worrying about children coming to school lacking academic skills.
But many are coming to school lacking relational skills.
Some children struggle to communicate face to face.
To handle conflict.
To hear “no.”
To work through frustration.
To cooperate, wait their turn, read social cues, or build healthy relationships.
And we should not ignore what is contributing to it.
Many children today are spending more time interacting with screens than interacting with people.
Less conversation.
Less eye contact.
Less play.
Less unstructured interaction.
Less practice navigating real human relationships.
But human beings are relational by nature.
Children learn communication, empathy, emotional regulation, accountability, confidence, and social awareness through real interaction with other human beings, not through constant technology, isolated screen time, and reduced human interaction.
Because schools are not just places of academic learning.
They are human environments built on interaction, communication, relationships, accountability, emotional regulation, and respect for others.
A child can often catch up academically.
But when children struggle with basic relational skills, it impacts behavior, learning, confidence, friendships, classrooms, and eventually the ability to function successfully in life and the workplace.
This is also why recess and play matter so much.
They are not distractions from learning.
They are some of the primary ways children develop the relational and emotional foundations that learning depends on in the first place.
Because when relational development suffers, academic development eventually suffers too.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

#CUBS WIN!

FINAL: Cubs 10, White Sox 5

[Baseball IQ @BaseballIQ_App]

🚨 Team Defense + Bunting Circuit

1. Sac bunt to 1st
2. Pick/pitch reads
3. Sac bunt to 3rd
4. Scoring reads from 3rd

⭐️ Awesome way to get the whole team involved + work on skill development.

@HartnellBSB

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

#CUBS WIN!

FINAL: Cubs 2, Braves 0.

[SCN Softball @scn_softball]

2026 DuKane Conference Champions
St. Charles North
21-2 (12-2)

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Hillsdale College — one of America’s loudest opponents of DEI — just gave a woman an honorary doctorate and commencement speech opportunity because of who her husband is.

That’s the definition of DEI.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for me.

Not for thee.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal

This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @Cubs are the first team in MLB history to have 2 separate 10+ game winning streaks and a 15+ game home winning streak all before the end of May.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

#CUBS SWEEP!

FINAL: Cubs 8, Reds 3.