Jeff Nicholson

[Jared Kelly @Jared_Kelly7]

Curt Cignetti on the College Football 27 cover with Indiana’s Memorial Stadium as the backdrop.

What a world we live in. #iufb

[Jeff Nicholson @JL_Nicholson]

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[SEYMOUR ATHLETICS @SEYMOUROWLS1]

Huge congratulations to the Seymour Lady Owls! 🎉🏆 They shut out Trinity with a commanding 5-0 straight sets (10-0) win to secure the sectional championship. What a season of hard work, teamwork, and heart — proud of every player and coach! Owls will. 📸🎾

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Almost no one knows the full story of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.

In 1847, during the Mexican War, a young Lieutenant Grant served as an obscure regimental quartermaster. Robert E. Lee, already famous, served on General Winfield Scott's elite staff. They crossed paths once. Lee did not remember it.

Eighteen years later, they met again.

April 9, 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee arrived first, in an immaculate gray dress uniform, red sash, embroidered gauntlets, and a presentation sword with a jeweled hilt. He looked like an emperor walking to his coronation.

Grant rode up an hour later, alone, splattered head to boot in Virginia mud, wearing a private's field blouse with no sword, no sash, and no insignia except the dirty shoulder straps of a lieutenant general. The first thing he did was apologize to Lee for his appearance.

The surrender happened in the parlor of a farmer named Wilmer McLean. McLean had fled his old home near Manassas because the first major battle of the war had literally been fought across his front yard in 1861. Four years later the war followed him 120 miles and ended in his front parlor. He later said he could have wallpapered his house with the war.

Before any terms were discussed, Grant tried small talk. He asked Lee if he remembered him from Mexico. Lee politely said he did not. Grant said he had remembered Lee perfectly for almost twenty years.

Then came the terms, and they stunned everyone present.

Officers could keep their sidearms and personal horses. Enlisted men who owned their mounts could take them home for the spring plowing. No prison. No trials. Every Confederate soldier would be paroled and allowed to walk home, on his honor, unmolested by U.S. authority for as long as he kept his parole.

Lincoln had asked for leniency. Grant gave him more than he asked for.

When Lee mentioned, almost in passing, that his men had not eaten in days, Grant ordered 25,000 rations sent across the lines from his own supply trains that same afternoon. The Union army fed the army it had just defeated.

As Lee rode back to his lines on his old gray horse Traveller, Union batteries began firing celebratory salutes and Grant's men started to cheer. Grant rode out himself and shut it down on the spot. "The war is over," he said. "The rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all such demonstrations."

He later wrote that he felt "sad and depressed" the rest of that day, not triumphant. He could not bring himself to rejoice over the downfall of a foe who had fought so long, so well, and had suffered so much for his cause.

Then came the chapter history almost forgot.

Two months after Appomattox, a federal grand jury in Norfolk indicted Robert E. Lee for treason. The penalty on the books was death by hanging. Lee wrote a single letter to Grant, citing the parole he had been given.

Grant was furious. He went directly to President Andrew Johnson and told him plainly that if the indictment moved forward, he would resign his commission as commanding general of the entire United States Army. He had pledged his personal word to Lee at Appomattox, and no civilian politician was going to break that word while Grant still wore the uniform.

Johnson backed down. The indictment was quietly killed.

The man who beat Lee in war saved him from the gallows in peace.

Twenty years later, Grant was dying of throat cancer in a cottage on Mount McGregor, racing in agony to finish his memoirs before bankruptcy and death caught up with his family. He won by four days. The book sold 300,000 copies and made his widow rich.

At Grant's funeral procession in New York in August 1885, his pallbearers walked side by side: Union generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, and Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and Simon Bolivar Buckner. The same men who had spent four years trying to kill each other carried the coffin together through a million and a half mourners lining the streets.

Six years later, when Sherman himself died, the old Confederate Johnston traveled to New York again to serve as a pallbearer for his former enemy. It was a freezing February day with cold rain. Johnston, 84 years old, stood through the entire outdoor ceremony with his hat held over his heart. A friend pleaded with him to put his hat back on. Johnston refused. "If I were in his place," he said, "and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat."

Johnston caught pneumonia that day. He died a few weeks later.

That is the real ending of the American Civil War. Not at Appomattox. In the rain, at a funeral, with an old Confederate refusing to cover his head out of respect for the Union general he had spent his youth trying to destroy.

[Jeff Nicholson @JL_Nicholson]

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[SEYMOUR ATHLETICS @SEYMOUROWLS1]

Lady Owls are HHC conference champions 3-2 win over Jennings County! Go Owls!

[IU Columbus Baseball @IUCBASE]

IU Columbus Names Brian Wichman Head Baseball Coach

📰: https://t.co/9E49CZGyNC

#RollPride

[IU Columbus Athletics @IUCAthletics]

IU Columbus Names Brian Wichman Head Baseball Coach

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#RollPride

[Troy Silva @TroyPSilva]

Be allergic to arrogance

Be intolerant to entitlement

Be opposed to selfishness

Be hostile to ego

In other words…
Be a great teammate!

#BaseballTruth

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

“I don’t think basketball is my purpose. I think being able to have this platform to share The Gospel is really my purpose”
- Arizona Wildcats F Koa Peat

🎥: CBN Sports/@willdawsonTV

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

One last thought before I log off for the night. Tonight, everyone should be proud to be an American. Be proud of our country, our military, and of the boys who flew into Hell to rescue their brother. We don't leave anyone behind!

🇺🇸That Others May Live🇺🇸

[Navy Men’s Basketball @NavyBasketball]

Best in the business 🏆

Congratulations to Coach Perry on being named the nation’s top mid-major head coach!

#GoNavy | #ExpectToWin | @collegeinsider

[Navy Athletics @NavyAthletics]

Congratulations to @NavyBasketball Jon Perry for being named the mid-major coach of the year and Austin Benigni for being named the mid-major player of the year. Full release and the surprise video announcement of their awards can be found at the link.
https://t.co/Og9KA0i9O3

[IU Columbus Athletics @IUCAthletics]

🚨ATTENTION FANS🚨

This weekend’s baseball road series vs. Brescia University has been moved to Championship Park in Kokomo, IN.

The new game schedule is listed below:

Saturday, 3/28: 2 PM
Sunday, 3/29: 12 PM & 3 PM

Visit our website for more details.

#RollPride

[Matt Carpenter @MattCarp13]

The biggest thing baseball taught me:

It’s life in a uniform.

Good days, bad days, and everything in between. Let go of what you can’t control. And commit to what you can. Your effort, attitude and response to failures will continue to shape who you are. So keep stacking days.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

This is a super cool idea.

[Seymour Owls Baseball @SHSOwlsBaseball]

It was a GREAT weekend for a few former Owls! We love seeing our guys have success at the next level. Once an Owl, always an Owl!

#GoOwls 🦉

[IU Columbus Athletics @IUCAthletics]

🚨ATTENTION FANS🚨

Tuesday’s baseball game vs. Wright State Lake University has been moved to Wednesday for a doubleheader starting at 1 PM.

#RollPride

[Troy Silva @TroyPSilva]

I’d listen to all of this!👇🏼

[Kyle Neddenriep @KyleNeddenriep]

1986 scoring leaders

[Steve Bush @JTAgolf]

Quite the compliment from the coach of the defending 4A State Champions who knows a thing or two about playing for Coach Knight. Wilkerson has been a 1st class representative of the Hoosier Hills Conference.

[IU Columbus Athletics @IUCAthletics]

🚨 ATTENTION FANS🚨

This weekend’s road series at Shawnee State has been moved to Cera Sports Park due to weather.

Sunday, 3/8 – Single game starting at 3 PM
Monday, 3/9 – DH starting at 12 PM

Shawnee State will serve as the home team for all games.

#RollPride