Frank Delonjay

[Frank Delonjay @DadooFrank]

Jordan Walker is “en fuego”
#LGC

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Scott Yoo uses an extremely rare violin by artisan Antonio Stradivari, which has an estimated value of up to $15 million (over 350 billion VND).

To honor the great composer Antonio Vivaldi, Scott Yoo played an excerpt from the famous concerto "The Four Seasons" using this very million-dollar instrument.

[NBA en español 🏀 @_NBAESP_]

🚨 Sabias la historia de O'neal y Phil Jackson 🚨

Cuando Shaquille O'Neal desembarco en los Lakers durante la temporada (1996-97), se encontró con un equipo joven, sin rumbo, bajo el mando del entrenador Del Harris.

El equipo llegó a distintas finales de conferencias, pero el anillo que deseaba Shaquille siempre se escapaba.

En 1999, cansado de esto y con la partida del entrenador Del Harris, Shaquille solicitó a la directiva de los Lakers contratar a un verdadero líder en la banca, que pudiera guiarlos al ansiado anillo de campeonato. Según O'Neal, un solo hombre podía lograr esto; Phil Jackson.

Los directivos le dijeron que Jackson se había retirado del basket tras ganar todo con los Chicago Bulls y que seria imposible que volviera. Shaquille contestó que el lo traería de vuelta.

Shaquille logró averiguar donde era el lugar de retiro de Jackson; una hermosa cabaña situada al lado de un lago en el estado de Montana.

O'Neal se subió a un avión y tras un largo viaje en auto se presento en la cabaña de Jackson sin avisar siendo atendido por June, esposa de Phil. June le dijo que Phil se encontraba meditando cerca del lago.

Shaquille se acerco al sorprendido Jackson y le explicó el por qué de su imprevista visita. Le rogó para que aceptara el puesto, ya que deseaba más que nada ganar un campeonato.

Phil se quedo en silencio mirando el lago, luego le dijo a Shaquille;

"Ves aquel tronco en medio del lago? Quiero que lo traigas".

O'Neal se río pensando que era una broma, pero al ver la seriedad en el rostro de Jackson comenzó a desvestirse. Shaq en ropa interior, entró al frío lago y comenzó a nadar hasta llegar al tronco.

Sujeto el tronco y con dificultad nado de regreso hasta llegar a la orilla donde lo esperaban June y Phil. Shaquille dejo el pesado tronco a los pies del entrenador.

Phil, sonriendo estrecho la mano de Shaq y le dijo;

"Me has demostrado la fuerza de tu deseo".

Shaquille O'Neal ganó tres títulos junto a Phil Jackson, los de 2000, 2001 y 2002, siendo el MVP de las Finales en todas ellas.

¿Que les parece esta historia?

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Charles Barkley says a $300,000 Bentley car costs you way more than you think

"When I first got my money, I was an idi*t, I had like three or four cars. Dr. J asked me how many of those cars you got, you drive at the same time? I said, one. He said, well, why you got four?"

"This money's got to last you the rest of your life, don't waste all your money on cars, everybody know who you are, you pull up in a Kia, or a Mercedes-Benz or a Rolls-Royce, that's Charles Barkley"

"The problem isn't that you can't afford the car, it's that that $300,000 you spent on that Bentley, if you'd bought a cheaper car, you'd have had $200,000 more in the bank, and it would've been growing and growing"

"One year, three years, five years, twenty years… that $200,000 is gonna be worth a lot more"

[Frank Delonjay @DadooFrank]

@AugieNash Wally Moon

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

If you care about the Epstein Files, you need to watch this reporting from the New York Times.

The Trump Administration has done everything possible to avoid releasing them. The survivors deserve real justice, and this Administration is doing everything it can to stand in the way of that. It needs to stop.

The survivors and the American people deserve the truth.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In September 1942, a single Japanese floatplane lifted off from a submarine off the coast of Oregon. In the cockpit sat Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, carrying two 170-pound incendiary bombs and a 400-year-old samurai sword beside him in the cramped space.

His mission?

Drop the bombs over the forests of the Pacific Northwest, start a massive firestorm, and force the U.S. military to pull vital resources away from the Pacific theater.

Fujita released his bombs over Brookings, Oregon. But the mission failed. Recent rain had soaked the forest, and alert park rangers put out the small fires almost immediately. The war continued, and the strange, isolated attack slowly slipped into the margins of history.

Until 20 years later.

In 1962, a civic group in Brookings came up with an extraordinary idea. They found Fujita and invited him back as the guest of honor at their local festival.

The invitation caused national controversy and split the town. But the deepest conflict was inside Fujita himself. Deeply ashamed of what he had done during the war, Fujita accepted the invitation with a dark private promise. He packed his family’s ancient samurai sword in his luggage. Later, he admitted that if the Americans put him on trial for war crimes or publicly humiliated him, he planned to use the sword to commit seppuku, ritual suicide, right there.

But when he stepped off the plane, he was met not with hatred, but with handshakes, applause, and a town offering real forgiveness.

Overwhelmed by the mercy of the people he had once attacked, Fujita stepped to the podium and did something no one forgot. He knelt and gave the town his most treasured possession, his family’s 400-year-old samurai sword, as a lasting promise of peace.

For the rest of his life, Fujita helped fund student exchange programs between Japan and Oregon. He even returned to the exact place he had bombed and planted a redwood “peace tree.” When he died in 1997, Brookings named him an honorary citizen, and his daughter later returned to the forest to scatter some of his ashes on the land he had once tried to burn.

Today, that 400-year-old sword is displayed inside the Brookings Public Library, not as a trophy of war, but as a masterpiece of peace.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

28 years and Hegseth cancels it. This isn’t anti-DEI. It’s hate designed to push them out of service. — Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets https://t.co/Lu6vBCVJ8R

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Five months before his own assassination, JFK poses with family of Mississippi NAACP's Medgar Evers, who was assassinated today 1963, hours after Kennedy gave his civil rights speech:

[Maris4HOF @RMaris0961]

New York Yankees baseball players Yogi Berra and Roger Maris standing on either side of Pittsburgh Pirates player Dick Stuart, on field at opening game of 1960 World Series, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1960. ⚾️

[POPCORN music @OnochayamaSatu]

Full clip of The female archer who is going viral actually won a gold medal.
😮😮😮😮

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Well it seems like the “Feres doctrine of the 1950s needs to changed because their deaths were a direct result of Pete Hegseth ignoring their pleas for help. They knew that they didn’t have enough medics and that the triple wide trailer they were in wasn’t safe! Disgusting

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Charles Barkley says he and NBA legends couldn't believe Magic became the first $1,000,000 player so they started high fiving each other

"Think about it, the finals were tape-delayed, and there was only one game on Sunday, and the average salary was $200,000. The average salary now is $10,000,000. In the next five years, we're gonna have guys making $70-80 million for playing basketball"

"I remember vividly: me, Doc, Moses, Bobby Jones, Andrew Toney… we were in the locker room one day and it broke that Magic Johnson had become the first NBA player to make $1,000,000. We were walking around high-fiving each other. We could not believe that an NBA player made a million dollars. That's how crazy it was thinking about money back in the day"

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Marilyn Monroe reportedly suggested the line "I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it."

When told she was not the star of the film, Marilyn Monroe was quoted as saying: "Well, whatever I am, I AM the blonde."

Film: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"It's a race against time. ... People like @realDonaldTrump, narcissistic sociopaths like the ones we've seen throughout history—the Hitlers and the Stalins—they blow themselves up in the end. And the question is the blast radius, and the longer we let this go on the bigger the blast radius is."

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Buck O’Neil was a Cubs coach in 1964 when the team had five black players.
One of them was a young outfielder named Lou Brock.
When Buck O’Neil heard that Cubs GM John Holland was planning to trade Brock, he advised him not to.
"I don’t think we’ll have our best ballclub on the field" O`Neil told Holland.
"John Holland then started pulling out letters and notes from people, season ticket holders, saying that their grandfather had season tickets here at Wrigley, or their grandmother and their families had come here for years.
And do you know what these letters went on to say?
‘What are you trying to make the Chicago Cubs into?
The Kansas City Monarchs?’”
Lou Brock in an early spring training in Mesa, wearing a vintage 1957 Cubs road uniform.
Also pictured (from left) are Verlon (Rube) Walker and Vedie Himsl, two of the Cubs, "College of Coaches", a system that did not help a young player like Lou Brock.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JUST IN: Workers have begun removing Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

Earlier today, a judge denied the Kennedy Center board’s request to pause a ruling that requires Trump’s name to be removed from the building.

[John Denton @JohnDenton555]

When Jordan Walker was struggling in 2025 and coming back from an appendicitis, Casey Chenoweth was the hitting coach who got the slugger on track. Now an assistant hitting coach with the #STLCards, Chenoweth has had a big role in Walker’s stellar 2026.

https://t.co/HBlDIHwm14

[Frank Delonjay @DadooFrank]

It’s hard to not be romantic about baseball #LGC
#welcome Blaze Jordan

[FIFA Uncovered @FIFAUncovered]

The most beautiful goal in football history: Brazil, 1970