Cravon Rogers Jr.

Matthew 22:36-39 Jeremiah 17:10 Truth & Justice

[Cravon Rogers Jr. @CravonRogersJr]

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Morgan State Career Highlights #20

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

She have something interested to say. Just listen.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Maurice Clarett says learning to read in prison changed his life

“I couldn't read real well, comprehend, do anything prior to playing football. I'm never going to be able to play football again. I'm thinking, ‘I got seven and a half years. I'm 22. I'll be 30.’ So I was like, ‘Man, I'm going to go ahead and just start to educate myself.’”

“When dudes would send me $40, $50, $60, I would take this stuff and I was like, ‘Man, I'm going to just start learning how to read, become interested in something, and just become good.’”

“The next thing I know, the same passion that I have for football and film study… I was like, ‘I can read, and I like reading, and I enjoy reading, and I enjoy comprehending.’ I enjoy having a better vocabulary or communicating to different people. That's what really happened.”

“Reading changed my life like nothing else. Reading and self-education was what really changed. That just kind of set me on a different path. What I thought was possible, or who I see myself as…”

[Onward State @OnwardState]

.@PennStateFball safety Marcus Neal Jr. has been named to the @PFF National Team of the Week.

Neal forced two fumbles in the win over Buffalo.
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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

I will never look at a sunflower the same way.

[Coach VJ @VeraJoBustos]

The trilogy of the weak-minded! Downright hard, if not impossible, to have a thriving culture when these three habits are running the show.

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

We have our first FCS > FBS win of the season‼️

It's the second straight year Tarleton State has taken down an FBS school 👏

[𝓓𝓻. 𝓟𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓮 𝓔. 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓷-𝓚𝓷𝓸𝔁🎶 @DrPenK]

First week walk to school with our students, a tradition I never miss and thoroughly enjoy! Everything was amazing, from the conversation, laughter, and building relationships.
The sun showed up and turned up the heat, but this didn't dampen the excitement of a new school year.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Vince Young explains his parenting style and why he refuses to turn his son’s football career into an extension of his own

“I don’t get involved with the coaching stuff. I help out. I go throw the ball to him. Point out little small things that I feel like he can fix.”

“Me, I’m more so like loving him. ‘I’m proud of you, son.’ I’m a fan.”

“I’m going to watch my son, man. I’m just proud of him.”

“I didn’t have my dad around. He was in and out of jail. I had to depend on guys like TJ’s dad… And my other teammates’ dads… To tell me they were proud of me.”

“When I’m around my kids… I want them to know… ‘I love you.’ I’m not on your ass… Telling you what you can do better. I’m not yelling at you.”

“You’re going to make mistakes… But let’s fix it together.”

“Me and my son and daughter… We go to therapy together. They hear me talk to the therapist… And vent out what’s bothering me… Then he and she can feel comfortable doing the same thing.”

[𝓓𝓻. 𝓟𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓮 𝓔. 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓷-𝓚𝓷𝓸𝔁🎶 @DrPenK]

Visited the Transportation Depart. I had to check to make sure there wasn't a party going on and they failed to invite me. The music was energetic, complimenting their vibe. They even took me on a tour of our 4 new buses. This is why they received a 100% rating from MO Hghwy Adm.

[Big League Digest @BigLeagueDigest]

Chipper Jones talking about Barry Bonds 👀

(@PitchingNinja @RealCJ10)

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

African-American men invention save millions of lives in this country. The ambulance also known as freedom House was founded in the city of Pittsburgh in 1967 by a group of black men.. black history.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Defending National Champion @IndianaFootball head coach Curt Cignetti (@CCignettiIU) explanation for Indiana's rapid transformation is a CLINIC in leadership:

"If what you did yesterday seems important to you, you haven't done much today." 🍫🤯

👥 What changes results? People, Plan, Process. Results begin with people. Recruit high-character individuals (coaches and players), develop them relentlessly, and unite them around a shared vision. Talent may raise your ceiling, but character determines whether your team can consistently reach it!

📈 Culture can drift toward mediocrity by accident, but great cultures NEVER drift upward by accident. They are engineered through high standards, clear expectations, and accountability. As Coach Cignetti says, "How you do something is how you do everything." Every meeting, workout, practice, conversation, and decision is either reinforcing your standard or eroding it.

📚 Elite organizations are consumed with stacking value. They stack productive meetings, intentional practices, disciplined preparation, and consistent execution, they literally stack great days. Championships are simply the delayed byproduct of thousands of ordinary moments handled extraordinarily well.

🧠 The job of a coach leader: "The only limitations are those between your ears, and that's my job, to make sure those don't exist." Leadership is about expanding what people believe is possible and replacing self-imposed ceilings with confidence built through preparation.

Yesterday's success is evidence, not a residence.

The best teams refuse to live off old victories. They celebrate briefly, learn continuously, and return to work immediately. Every new day is another opportunity to earn the standard all over again.

The scoreboard is always a lagging indicator. 🏆

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Last know Black Union veteran soldier: Joseph “Uncle Joe” Clovese (1844-1951), 63rd Colored Infantry Regiment.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home. We remember his legacy and honor his family, including his wife, #MyrlieEversWilliams, who was a dear friend of our founder, #CorettaScottKing.

#MartyrsOfTheMovement #MLK #MalcolmX #TheKingCenter

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Here's as good of a breakdown you'll find from Eli Drinkwitz (@CoachDrinkwitz) on the duality strength building, resisting instant gratification, and having the propensity to not skip steps:

🛡️ Most things in life carry an inverse relationship between short-term and long-term outcomes. What feels good now often creates pain later. What feels painful now often creates rewards later. The best performers in any field understand this tradeoff. They consistently choose the investment over the indulgence. Eventually, delayed gratification stops being a behavior and becomes an identity. Meaning you no longer choose hard because of the reward waiting on the other side. You choose it because because the reward was becoming the type of person who can handle it.

🐣 It's natural to choose the path of least resistance, because we're protectors at our core. Protect our children, protect our players, protect ourselves. But It's counter to our / their long term growth. Struggle produces strength. A large part of the leader's job, and our responsibility for our own growth, is to seek discomfort and learn the lessons that come from pain or patience.

🪜 The only way to climb the ladder is one step at a time. In sports, in your marriage, in your job, in anything you want to ascend or get better at. There are no elevators to excellence. You have to graduate from every moment by choosing the path less traveled. Those choices yield the reward of evidence that you're the type of person who digs deeper, goes further, and can suffer more without quitting. You become so committed to mastering each step that one day you look up and realize you've reached heights that once seemed impossible.

Every setback becomes another layer of armor. Every storm becomes an opportunity to prove what @MizzouFootball has built.

While others are searching for comfort, you've developed the capacity to endure discomfort. You can dig roots, spread wings, and flourish in a less crowded arena.

And in a world increasingly addicted to instant gratification, the ability to consistently choose the long game becomes an expedited growth track that is nearly impossible to keep pace with. 🚆

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Justin Ricketts, the Florida king who dropped a perfect 1600 on the SAT at just 17 🔥
This young genius from Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach aced every single question on his first try and pulled in offers from MIT, Harvard, and Princeton. Dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and already stacking elite opportunities.
From big smiles to big achievements, this is what hard work and focus look like. Black excellence with no ceiling!
Future looking real bright for this one 👏🏾

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

105 years ago today, a mob of White people began a vile, murderous attack on the Greenwood District, a flourishing Black community in Tulsa and the home of Black Wall Street.

Imagine if the Greenwood District, and many other thriving Black communities, had not been intentionally destroyed at the hands of racism and white supremacy.

#GreenwoodDistrict #BlackWallStreet #TulsaRaceMassacre #TheKingCenter

[Raytown South Track & Field @raysouth_track]

State prep parking lot practice! Let’s go!