NCAA sports fan, college admin, past higher ed trustee, & 2% milk drinker NC➡️Vegas➡️Jax➡️TN Retweets not endorsements Opinions my own & of varying quality
The scene in 'Robert E. Lee and Me' where Ty Seidule quotes Confederate founders to show their focus was protecting and expanding slavery, and a man in the audience says he's heard no evidence the war was related to slavery? It's happening now on the FB thread beneath my review.
After five years as coach at Long Beach State in Long Beach, CA, Jerry Tarkanian became the 5th ever head coach of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball team on Mar 23, 1973. https://t.co/syCPIDbL38
Staff Sgt. Vernon W. Martin, 25, of Savannah, Ga., was KIA on October 3, 2009, while helping his fellow servicemembers in the battle of COP Keating.
He would have been 37 today.
Have a thought for him and his family if you could.
On Mar 19, 1932, the "first truly plush hotel-casino," the $50,000 Hotel Apache opened on Fremont St in downtown Las Vegas, NV with 100 rooms and the city's first elevator. https://t.co/XyOtLqe8BY
Note: The site would later become Binion's Horseshoe.
Liberty asst AD for football operations SJ Tuohy is joining #UCF as director of ops. He's also worked at Arkansas and SMU, and you might remember his portrayal in The Blind Side.
The Charlotte Observer’s (@charlottepreps) Athlete of the Week happens to be one of our players this week. Congrats to Landon, & thanks to all who voted for him.
https://t.co/Idny8YEbpx
“Big tent” is now a euphemism for allowing an anti Semitic conspiracy cult to be part of your political coalition. “Big tent” used to mean stuff like “different views about farm subsidies and tax policies” but now it means there are no moral limiting principles.
Top-ranked Group of 5 recruiting classes, per 247.
Cincinnati (42)
Memphis (46)
SMU (53)
UCF (55)
San Diego State (62)
USF (63)
Toledo (67)
UNLV (68)
App State (69)
Boise State (70)
President Czarda has done a tremendous job at @Gboro_College He took over during an extremely trying time financially & lead it to stability &success #highered#Greensboro
The subtext of this story is how stable the president's ranks are not just at Greensboro College but at most of the schools I cover.
https://t.co/GfWFOWgWBa
@NicoleAuerbach I still play this on PlayStation Once did a ten year dynasty w/ the “U” where I created, recruited, and won seven straight CFB championships Please don’t judge, you do what you have to do to stay sane in a pandemic & I don’t have a peloton
Dolly Parton says Trump tried to give her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, twice but she had to turn them down. https://t.co/H3iItLR4EQ
"Where does a college kid find the strength to risk his life for justice?...I asked them." On the anniversary of the #GreensboroSitIn, an old column for which I was able to interview three members of the #GreensboroFour.
https://t.co/pnXjMJobs7
The A&T Four encountered tremendous danger sitting at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960. Certainly they feared, but their conviction was greater. Today we honor them & the movement they ignited that changed the world. Join, at noon. https://t.co/mlA4lDqfk0
This #HolocaustMemorialDay we remember the 6 million jews and other victims of Nazi persecution.
We remember that genocide does not start with genocide.
It starts with the denial of rights, attacks on truth, the rule of law and democracy.
We say #NeverAgain.