Edmundo Guerra

Take off your pants and jackets.
level 40!

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Doc Holliday in Tombstone set to Metallica's Enter Sandman.

Must be a...peach of a video �

[Sid @siddocode]

Functional depression is real.

You work, joke around, take care of people around you. But mentally you are drowning in your own thoughts and nobody knows it.

[Edmundo Guerra @EdGuerra328]

@daintylilsole Vs the texans week 1.....go texans!! Bills the rest of the 16 weeks

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

In 2003, the most hated team in the NBA did the kindest thing anyone has ever done on a basketball court.

April 25, 2003. Rose Garden, Portland. Game 3 of the first round against Dallas. The Blazers are down 2-0 and facing elimination from the moment they wake up.

That Blazers team had a nickname. The Jail Blazers.

They were, at the time, maybe the least likable team in professional sports. Arrests. Suspensions. A roster full of guys the national media treated as villains. Portland fans were exhausted by them.

Before the game, a 13 year old girl named Natalie Gilbert walks to center court to sing the national anthem in front of 19,980 people.

What nobody in the building knew is that she was sick. She had the flu. She later said she just didn't feel like herself at all that day.

She gets a few lines in.

And then her brain goes blank.

She sings "star's last gleaming" instead of "twilight's last gleaming," realizes it instantly, and stops. She looks around. She puts her hand to her face.

Thirteen years old. Twenty thousand people. National television. Frozen.

There is no worse feeling available to a human being.

And then a man walks out of the Portland huddle.

Maurice Cheeks, the head coach, minutes away from a playoff elimination game, leaves his team, walks across the floor, puts his arm around her shoulder and says, "C'mon."

Then he starts singing with her.

Now understand something. Maurice Cheeks cannot sing. At all. He is not remotely trying to rescue the performance.

He's just refusing to let a kid stand there alone.

He keeps his arm around her the whole way. He feeds her the next words. And within a few seconds, all 19,980 people in that building stand up and sing it with them.

A moment that was going to define a little girl's life in the worst possible way became the exact opposite.

Dan Patrick wrote at the time that Cheeks' simple actions had become the defining moment of the entire playoffs.

They went on Jay Leno together. CNN. Good Morning America. It became one of the first truly viral NBA moments, years before that word meant anything.

Portland lost the game. They lost the series. Cheeks finished his Blazers tenure with a fairly ordinary record and was eventually let go.

Now here's the ending.

In March 2025, almost 22 years later, Maurice Cheeks came back to Portland as an assistant coach with the New York Knicks.

The Blazers found Natalie Gilbert.

She's 35 now. Married. Goes by Natalie Zito. She's also, as it turns out, a Blazers season ticket holder.

They brought her back to sing the anthem again.

She nailed it. The whole building erupted. And the camera cut to Cheeks on the sideline, beaming like a proud father.

The two of them met before the game and hugged.

What she said afterward is why this story matters. She explained that she'd been made fun of a lot as a kid, and that in the moment she felt most helpless and hopeless, a stranger walked right over with no hesitation.

"This moment changed my life."

And then she said something even better. That she wouldn't go back and change any of it. That seeing him again and finding out he's still the same standup guy proved it was all real.

Twenty two years. One arm around a shoulder.

Follow @thesportsontap, we post a story like this every day.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Jerry Reed and Glen Campbell performing Southern Nights and dancing in jean shorts at a small BBQ in 1982.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

Vince Guaraldi was the brilliant composer and pianist behind the Peanuts cartoons.

It was quite controversial to use modern jazz in a kid's cartoon, networks hated it, but introduced many kids to jazz.

He was only 46 when he died in 1976, but left such a legacy!

[رائد @Oliver_K8]

أفضل افتتاحية في عالم السوبرهيروز ❤️

[Ashish Kumar @ashishKtweets1]

A rumored scene from Avengers: Secret Wars imagines the long-awaited answer to one of the MCU's biggest mysteries—why Thor was seen crying.

Inspired by Marvel's Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #4 (2015), the concept recreates the emotional moment where Thor mourns Deadpool, a clever retcon that revisited the original Secret Wars (1984) comic decades later.

With Deadpool now officially part of the MCU following Deadpool & Wolverine, many fans believe Marvel Studios could adapt this iconic comic twist in Avengers: Secret Wars, finally revealing the heartbreaking reason behind Thor's tears.

While this scene is not officially confirmed and the circulating footage is fan-made, the comic storyline has fueled major speculation about how Marvel could pay off one of the

[Samoan Dynasty @dynastytribal]

1989: “Macho Man” Randy Savage cuts promo on Hulk Hogan

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨Dave Chapelle just ADMITTED President Trump is RIGHT to "get mad" at CNN "all of the time" after they asked him why he's proud to be an American.

"Now I see why Trump gets mad at y'all all the time. Why would you ask me that?"

Follow: @BoLoudon

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

THE GREATEST INTERNET VIDEO EVER.

🤣🤣🤣

HAPPY JULY 4TH.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Spanish broadcast of Malik Tillman’s free kick

MAJESTIC 🇺🇸

[🇹🇷 Transfer Haberleri ⚒ @Transferhaber6]

🥶 2006 Dünya Kupası futbolun zirvesiydi diyebiliriz...

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

We need hilarious movies like these back 😂

[Blaze Binges @BlazeBinges]

Happy 37th anniversary to the 1989 Batman movie!

[Edmundo Guerra @EdGuerra328]

@christaxoxo95 Mother Mary of Joseph!!!

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

USA TO THE WORLD:

“ITS CALLED SOCCER” 🇺🇸

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Josh Hokit vs Michelle Obama is the main event America deserves 🇺🇸

[Edmundo Guerra @EdGuerra328]

@Novafaeee Yes

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

The previous generation watched this in theaters and really said George Lucas ruined Star Wars. 😭