Karl Lyles

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

@DougBrunt Picked up my copy this weekend!

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

The Hall of Fame remembers Bob Horner, who passed away at 68.

Debuting days after the @Braves drafted him No. 1 overall, Horner was named the 1978 NL Rookie of the Year.

The bat he used in 1986 to record the 11th four-home run game in AL/NL history is preserved in Cooperstown.

[MLB @MLB]

We are saddened by the passing of former Braves third baseman Bob Horner.

The first overall pick in the 1978 MLB Draft, Horner made the jump straight to the Majors without playing a single day in the Minors.

Just ten days after being drafted, Horner made his MLB debut and homered off future Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven. Horner went on to blast 23 home runs in just 89 games and won NL Rookie of the Year honors.

He went on to top the 30-homer mark three times in the next four years and was a National League All-Star in 1982, when he helped lead the Atlanta Braves to a division title.

Horner spent 9 of his 10 Major League seasons with the Braves. He made history on July 6, 1986 when he slugged a record-tying 4 home runs in one game. It was the only four-homer game of the 1980s.

Horner completed his college career at Arizona State with the most home runs in NCAA history, a mark since broken. He was named MVP of the 1977 College World Series and was the very first winner of the prestigious Golden Spikes Award in 1978.

He was 68 years old.

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

@RossDellenger No. No. No!

[Girl patriot 🙏 🇺🇸 🦅 @Girlpatriot1974]

🚨HISTORY MADE!
Rachel Entrekin just won the Cocodona 250 outright — first woman ever to take the OVERALL title!

The 250-mile race from Phoenix to Flagstaff was an absolute beast, and she crushed it in 56:09:48, smashing the previous course record by over 2 hours.
13 minute mile pace for 56 hours!

She only slept 3 times the entire race (one 5-min nap + two 7-min naps) and still dropped the entire elite men's field. Absolute legend!

[Scott Eisberg @SEisbergWCIV]

The transfer portal is a wild place.

@CitadelHoops surely just pulled one of their most unique transfers.

He'll be a 30-year-old junior.
A father.
A navy veteran.
He never played HS hoops. Went from military teams, to JUCO, to Green Bay to here.

Meet Mel Bethea.

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

So, lemme get this straight. We got kids jumping 4 places in 4 years with no transfer rules and Detroit Mercy gets hit with a postseason ban for APR???

C'mon, what in the HELL are we doing.

You can't enforce the Academic Progress Report right now with the chaos that's allowed.

[Bob Ryan @GlobeBobRyan]

I am going on record. The NCAA Tournament was perfect at 64. Anything else is shameful greed exhibited by power conferences. Anyone who loves the sport knows this is the gospel truth,

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

I miss the “complete game” more than anything else in MLB.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

In 1918, Walter Johnson fired an 18-inning shutout. Nobody knows what his pitch count was that day but his testicle count was two and that’s what managers relied on back then.

[Marcus Milione @MarcusMilione]

The sub 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken in London

Sabastian Sawe: 1:59:30
Yomif Kejelcha: 1:59:41

4:34/mile for 26.2 miles... insane

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

The 11th Order (2019) - Official Release - YouTube https://t.co/QKOKgUlRAK

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Joshua Jackson won the Deleware Marathon this weekend in a fantastic finish, passing the 1st place runner (who eased up to celebrate) a few steps from the finish line.

Never give up and never let up!

Finish strong in all that you do!

HT @JoshChambers

[OnlyBangers @OnlyBangersEth]

Wholesome moment captured at Boston Marathon 🥹

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

@BigSouthHH @rock_the_hill It appears Winthrop’s game at North Dakota this past season was a recruiting trip.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sometimes this world wears you out and leaves you cynical … and then you see a moment like this and realize there will always be more good than bad.

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

@GoodmanHoops @TheFieldOf68 HPU must have 19 players on their roster by now

[Jack Soble @jacksoble56]

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone.

Logan Duncomb gave up basketball. Only then did he realize how much he needed it. The road back gave him a purpose again, and it led him to Notre Dame.

For @BGInews (free story): https://t.co/iodvkDDcES

[Karl Lyles @LylesLax]

Amen!

[Tyler 🍊 @Tylerr_Bennett]

I really wanna go back to the era of college sports where you could have a favorite player and be able to follow him on your favorite team 3-4 years. I miss the passion players had for the logo on their chests. It’s non existent now. Let’s get back to that.

[HighPointHoops @HighPointHoops]

High Point ranked #9 in the nation in portal class per Shooty Hoops.