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Duke women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson first sport was actually football. She only played briefly, but the lessons stuck with her.

Before her first practice, she was nervous. Her dad told her, “If you don’t believe you’re the best”, stay in the car.

Then they put her on the offensive line 😂

And that led to one final lesson that I’m sure she still shares with her @DukeWBB’s players today.

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#ThePivot #KaraLawson #DukeWomensBasketball

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Your 2026 Washington Mystics 🩵

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21 PTS for Kiki 😤

Player Of The Game I @united

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Kiki Iriafen for All-WNBA & WNBA All-Defensive Team 👜

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Coach Johnson for WNBA Coach Of The Year 👜

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Kiki’s bag is packed with buckets and boards 👜

👜 All-WNBA
👜 WNBA All-Defensive Team

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Sonia Citron for All-WNBA & WNBA All-Defensive Team 👜

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Lauren Betts for WNBA All-Rookie Team 👜

[Ready&Willing @KingJames_2006]

Takes like this are prime examples of why every has been doesn't need a platform.

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Montrezl Harrell calls Wizards roster a disaster @ScoopB https://t.co/MrIpVoy5p8

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Shakira Austin for All-WNBA, WNBA All-Defensive Team, Most Improved Player & Defensive Player Of The Year 👜

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

So…here we are!!! It’s Monday and….

Thank you to every one who has supported, everybody that has reached out & all who showed love. Every time I’ve heard “We got your back” it’s meant the world to me! So, this is for you.

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Kobe and Scottie

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You are only allowed to take 8 players to the Olympics, you have to cut 2 players from this team..

Who are you removing?

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@2K PS5 @danimcren

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The bots are getting them all

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@NBA2K Is anyone able to redeem any of these?

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Longtime “SportsCenter” anchor Linda Cohn questioned whether A’ja Wilson has some level of insecurity toward Caitlin Clark and whether that could be a reason she isn’t playing in the FIBA World Cup.

And I guess the question we have is: What exactly would A’ja Wilson be insecure about?

Is it basketball-related? It can’t be. Caitlin Clark is a zero-time champion at the high school, collegiate and, currently, WNBA level. Wilson is a high school state champion, led South Carolina to its first national championship and helped build a dynasty with the Las Vegas Aces, where she has won three WNBA championships. Oh, and she’s the only player in league history with four MVPs.

So clearly, it isn’t about basketball accomplishments. Are we talking about off the court? That doesn’t make much sense either. Clark’s most notable appearances away from basketball have largely involved golf. Not exactly sure why that would be something Wilson is sitting around feeling insecure about.

So is it the fans and attention? When you look at the fans Clark has, who exactly would want that? And obviously Wilson isn’t going to receive the exact same type of attention Clark does. She has never been pushed and pumped by the media at the rate Clark has, nor has she ever found herself at the center of the type of racially charged rivalry that has followed Clark throughout her professional career.

It’s a disservice to Caitlin Clark when so much of the conversation surrounding her relies on tearing down other players.

And it’s incredibly disrespectful to players like Wilson when trusted sports-media figures throw around narratives like this about someone who has spent years building one of the greatest résumés in basketball. It only adds fuel to the baseless jealousy narrative and gives Clark’s fans more red meat to feed off of, reinforcing this idea that Clark is somehow a damsel in distress who needs to be defended from other players. That, in turn, creates even more hostility toward players who are portrayed as jealous, bitter or somehow threatened by her when there is no actual basis for those claims.

Eventually, you start to realize that there are far too many paid fans disguised as media members.

At some point, a line has to be drawn. Enough is enough.

[SILVER @Read_Meee]

Friday the financial aid office called about a “returning nursing scholarship” that covered the balance exactly. I asked him straight out. He didn’t blink. “I don’t run financial aid, man. I can’t even balance my own checkbook.” Twenty years later he’s my son’s godfather. Last spring his mother passed, and going through her desk he found a folder with his father’s handwriting, a check stub from that Friday, my student ID in the memo line.

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Back in January 2023, Peyton Hillis took his kids to the beach in Pensacola, Florida.

There had been a bad storm the night before. It was windy that morning but the sun was out, and he didn't think much of it.

Later that morning, his mother started screaming.

"I looked at her and she pointed out to my son, and she says, 'Orry and Camille are drowning.'"

His son Orry was 9. His niece Camille was 8. A rip current had them.

"I didn't even think. I reacted and started running into the water."

Then came the part of this story almost nobody tells.

Hillis reached his son first. And he had to keep swimming.

"I think the scariest point was when I'm swimming to my son and I have to pass by him because my niece is in more danger," Hillis said. "I knew that I had to pass him up to get to Camille first. Because if I didn't, then there's no way she would've made it."

He swam past his own child.

When he got to Camille, she was screaming that they were going to die. He got her onto a boogie board and pointed her toward shore.

Then he turned around and went back for Orry.

By that point his son was, in his words, pretty much limp. Hillis carried 130 pounds of dead weight through a rip current while watching his kid's eyes roll back in his head.

"Lord, please. I really don't care about my life. I don't. But if we can get him out of here, that's the only thing I'm going to care about."

He got him to shore.

Both kids lived. Hillis collapsed.

He was airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola with lung and kidney failure. Doctors sedated him and put him on a ventilator.

He didn't wake up for about 10 days.

"The first thing I remember is my mom, daughter, and sister standing around me. To their credit, they all act like everything was normal, everything was fine, which calmed me down. I couldn't move. I mean, I couldn't move my body."

Two more weeks in intensive care after that.

Emmitt Smith visited him in the hospital that January and posted a photo, which was the first time anybody outside the family had seen him since it happened. Smith called him a hero.

Hillis stayed quiet through all of it. He gave no interviews for over a month.

When he finally spoke, in February, it wasn't about the rescue.

"I haven't taken any interviews on this because I'd like to keep my family out of the public eye because it was a very traumatic time for us. But I did want to come on here and show my appreciation for everyone who helped save my life. I left the hospital with no worries and concerns and should make a 100 percent recovery. I'm a very lucky and blessed man."

He was a seventh round pick out of Arkansas who ran for 1,177 yards for the Browns in 2010, got voted onto the cover of Madden NFL 12 by fans, and was out of the league by 2015.

Five months after the rescue, he sat down with Michael Strahan and summed it up in one line.

"It is 100% a miracle that somebody didn't die."

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[Ready&Willing @KingJames_2006]

There hasn't been enough noise about @Theylove_kira. She should be most improved, Dpoy and all W.

[ASAP Avery @CallmeAvery_]

Shakira Alston for Most improved player of the season.

[Ready&Willing @KingJames_2006]

This didn't age well

[Jay @JayNCtoDC]

Amoore came in the game and the 11 point lead evaporated instantly. She just cannot be depended on.