Just want to thank @HuskerFootball nation for all your support over the last 1.5 years. Want to thank @Elite11@Battle7v7@24k7v7 and the camps I’ve been to. Made a ton of connections over the years. This was my last 7v7 or camp I’ll ever attend. Can’t wait to get back to IL for the week and just rest. Cause after that the real work begins. Let’s Gooo
Nebraska volleyball's senior class of Harper Murray, Andi Jackson, Laney Choboy and Bergen Reilly has an overall record of 99-6 over the last three seasons. 🤯
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Elly De La Cruz texted Terry Francona after his rehab game on Friday saying "Be there tomorrow."
Elly was 2-2 with a home run and a walk for the Louisville Bats. He is expected to join the team in Cincinnati for the Brewers series beginning on Monday.
Wesley Snipes was so bad at baseball, that there’s no scene of him actually throwing a ball in Major League.
He is slow too. When they did his run scene at training camp they told the two runners to jog basically to make him look fast. One laughed and said i was almost walking lol. Thus the reason the scene was shot in slow motion.
Andrew Abbott welcomed kids and families from the Joe Nuxhall Miracle League to batting practice yesterday. They were later recognized during pregame ceremonies ❤️
On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.
The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.
His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.
When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.
His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."
He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.
Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.
His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."
Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.
Three generations. Three wars. One family.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.
He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.
In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.
Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.
Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Both of his sons did exactly that.
If you ever find a pretty girl who keeps a score at a baseball game, marry her.
OTD in 1985 - Ferris Bueller attends a Cubs/Braves game at Wrigley Field
Braves win 4-2 in eleven innings