Daniel Ballin

Husband, father, physical therapist & triathlete. Hospital CEO. Born Canadian & love living in USA. #LCHF #BigSexyRacing #TeamEN #SeahawksFan

[Canaan Smith-Njigba @CanaanSmith_]

The NFL quickly collected a fine for the dunk celebration, then used those same images for promotion.
The Offensive Player of the Year was turned into a comedy segment with Druski, minimizing an award earned through elite performance and hard work.
NFL Honors never acknowledged the poor representation of one of the league’s top individual awards.
The “prestigious” ceremony didn’t even air the pre-recorded acceptance speech.
After months to prepare and ship the award, the only offensive player selected received a Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
At some point, professionalism, respect, and attention to detail should matter.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The low-fat era, 1980 to 2010.

They took away butter. We got margarine with trans fats that were banned thirty years later for causing the disease the butter was blamed for.

They took away whole milk. We got skimmed milk, with the fat-soluble vitamins skimmed off and synthetic ones added back in.

They took away the egg yolk. We got egg-white omelettes, three of them, with toast, and a multivitamin to replace the choline.

They took away red meat. We got Quorn, made in a vat in Billingham from a fungus nobody had eaten before 1985.

They took away cheese. We got fat-free cottage cheese with the texture of damp newspaper.

They took away cream. We got fat-free yoghurt sweetened with aspartame and twelve grams of sugar per pot.

They took away dripping on toast. We got Flora, advertised by a doctor who is now in a textbook on medical fraud.

The advice ran for thirty years. Obesity tripled. Type 2 diabetes quadrupled. Heart disease did not fall.

The dieticians who wrote it have not apologised. They have written new guidelines.

The new guidelines blame meat.

The new guidelines are written by the same people.

[Dr. Dennis Walker @drdenwalker]

The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

No debt
Ideal weight
10 hours of sleep
Mental health on track
Right nutrition
Zero alcohol
This was my peak. I was 12.
Good times.

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

WILD: The Seahawks have won a game more recently than the Maple Leafs

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

I already wrote about this but I'm saying it again because it's worth saying twice.

The "pussification" of our nation is in full swing.

The @lamarathon is giving out finisher awards to people who stop at Mile 18. Because it's going to be warm.

Not dangerous. Warm.

Folks, if the heat is a problem for you — heart issues, medical concerns, whatever — I get it.

Don't run.

Nobody's going to think less of you. Boston defers your fee to next year when conditions are bad. That's the right call.

But walking up to Mile 18, stopping, and collecting a finisher's medal for a race you didn't finish? No. We don't need that.

You know what else is hot? Death Valley. 121 degrees. People run 135 miles through it at Badwater.

They don't hand out trophies for quitting at Mile 18. You either make it to Whitney Portal or you don't.

If you can't start it and finish it the right way, defer to next year. Come back ready. Earn it.
Stay motivated. 💪
#NSNG #VinnieTortorich #StayMotivated #LAMarathon #Badwater135 #NoShortcuts

[David Roche @MountainRoche]

This is Jess McClain absolutely FLYING just over a mile from the finish, on her way to winning the US Half Marathon Championships. Jess is the best person, and I know thousands of fans were crying with joy like we were as she made the move 🙏🇺🇸

But things didn’t unfold that way. Right around this moment, the lead car made a wrong turn. On the broadcast, you can see flaggers and police cars rubber-stamping the turns too. Jess did what any athlete would do—you follow direction from officials (and the camera that is broadcasting the event).

The top 3 athletes lost a few minutes, and with it spots on the US team for the world champs, a national championships podium, and big prize money/bonuses (at least as I’m writing this now). If that stands, it is NOT ACCEPTABLE.

@usatf and Atlanta Track Club (the event hosts), MAKE THIS RIGHT. Don’t hide behind rule books designed for when there weren’t cameras and lead cars showing the athletes where to run. At the very least, give both podiums the full prize money, and figure out a way to express in the results that this was your unintentional screw-up, and not on any of the athletes.

Most importantly, all of these women (including Molly Born, a total beast who crossed the finish line first) are so incredible. It’s time for USATF to think outside of the box and make this right for everyone. Let’s make this a funny story, rather than a sad one 🙏

Jess, we are so so proud of you 😭🦖

[Daniel Ballin @DanoB71]

😳😳🤔😬

[USATF @usatf]

USA Track & Field has released the following statement regarding the Half Marathon Championships.

[Daniel Ballin @DanoB71]

@FieldGulls Short wide receiver from Canada and loved Steve Largent

[mohammad 💍💍 @SeaGoat03]

Teams that have to share the same stadium in the NFL
Giants/Jets -MetLife Stadium
Chargers/Rams -SoFi Stadium
49ers/Seahawks - Levi’s Stadium

[EatAPeach @stopskippy]

@ThomasDrance @reporterchris @DimFilipovic

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

This is what is called a sport-specific exercise.

[The RifleMan 🇺🇸 @RivalDarkSide]

The most underestimated QB in the NFL.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Stacked wins.

[SleeperNFL @SleeperNFL]

Super Bowl champions with ZERO turnovers in the playoffs:

- Seattle Seahawks

End of list.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

When new dads in Canada are left unsupervised.

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

BALL SECURITY.

The Seahawks are the first Super Bowl champion to go their entire postseason run without committing a turnover 🙌

[Ernest Jones @ernestjones]

Ain’t you at home. Goofy ass

[Gregg Bell @gbellseattle]

Someone flew a small plane pulling a #Seahawks 12 flag over downtown San Francisco, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge this afternoon, two days before Super Bowl 60 here in the Bay Area.

⁦@thenewstribune⁩

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Just one week after tearing her ACL, Lindsey Vonn has completed her Olympic training run in Cortina.

The women's downhill competition takes place this Sunday.