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All aboard the TuTu train love me some Bayshul

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@PatMcAfeeShow Epps doing his best Dante hall impression Gah damn

[Dan Cevette @DanCevette]

Somewhere this morning, there's a high school baseball player getting ready for school.

He's checked his phone a hundred times this week, hoping a college coach might reach out.

Nothing.

No offers. No big recruiting headlines. No guarantees that any of this will work out.

But after school today, he'll head right back to the cage, the weight room, or the field.

Because he still believes.

And maybe that's the part of this game we don't celebrate enough.

The kids who keep showing up when the world hasn't given them a single reason to believe they're next.

If that's you, keep going.

Your story is still being written. ⚾️

[Mike @MLettaaaaa]

@ChuckPaganoNFL @PatMcAfeeShow @evanfoxy

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Commanders use of their final timeout in overtime was atrocious told me buddy in the heat of the moment and it came back to bight them… I’ll take a tie all day gotta bounce back last week #letsgobigblue

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@RyanPaganetti I’ve had this thought not only for that why don’t they have the technology to just run vertical lasers the nfl makes enough money to invest in that sort of technology. Lasers that could tell where the point is on pylons and out of bounds plays

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@RyanPaganetti For me it would be one of two things either follow the momentum of the game or you follow your teams strength

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If you’re a gamer and you didn’t get goosebumps from Jose Ramirez homerun last night… you need to check yourself in the mirror

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight Jalon Daniels won his first game as an NFL quarterback.

He was on the Prime Video set afterward when he stopped talking and waved somebody over.

"Ma, come here. Ma, come here."

Her name is Star.

Jalon Daniels' father made it clear he was not going to be part of their lives. Here is what his mother decided to do about that.

"I wanted to make sure that he never felt that feeling of not having Dad there."

So she worked full time for an insurance company and took a second seasonal job at Toys R Us.

She drove him to Pop Warner practices. She would not let him sleep over at friends' houses until high school, though he could bring ten of them to hers anytime.

And when he wanted to go to a party, there was a condition. She parked outside of it.

"She let me know when it was time to leave," he says, laughing. "An hour and a half before the party ended, we were on our way home."

Here is the other thing she told him, over and over.

She wanted him to grow up to be the kind of man anybody's daughter could bring home to her mother.

Now the football, which nobody handed him either.

His sophomore year at Narbonne High School in Los Angeles, the coaches moved him back down to the freshman team.

He transferred to Lawndale High School, won the job, and Lawndale went 14 and 2 and took the first state championship in school history.

His first scholarship offer came from Tennessee-Martin. He committed to Middle Tennessee State. Then Kansas came to see him in December of his senior year, and he flipped.

He gave the Kansas Jayhawks six seasons. In 2021 he beat Texas in Austin, where Kansas had not won a game since 1938. In 2022 he threw for 544 yards in the Liberty Bowl. Then a back injury took 2023 away, and most players leave at that point.

He stayed. He graduated with a 3.58 GPA. He was voted team captain four times, which no Kansas player had ever done. And with the first real money he was ever allowed to earn, he started a foundation for single mothers raising athletic children.

He named it after her.

In April, all 32 teams passed on him for seven rounds. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed him as an undrafted free agent on May 8.

Tonight was his second career start. He went 19 of 25 for 189 yards and threw a touchdown to Bucky Irving. The Buccaneers beat the Dallas Cowboys 24 to 16 for their first win of the season after losing their first four.

One win does not make anybody an NFL quarterback, and he would tell you that himself.

But when the cameras finally found him, the first thing he did was make sure they found her too.

"No matter what, I was present, and he always knew I was present."

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Banks is closed on fucking sundays #lfgbigblue

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@GartAndrew Perfect fall day

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@FanDuel_Support atleast add bet protect to college

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They just said both well had a prior injury and they just wanted to test it?? If that’s not voided I don’t know what it is he played one snap

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Giants should just throw skatt at qb

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Ain’t no way dudes just traded for a mf named the number 9

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Kamario Taylor places balls into buckets that prime Rodgers would be proud of

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

The Football Gods have blessed us.

We all must agree to never bring up clockgate again.

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Iowa casually connecting on a ARod to Tae back shoulder fade to call game

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@tyschmit holy shit how bout EM!!

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@JaxsonDart you gonna heal like the Wolverine, attack each day with a new mindset… They not ready just minor setback for a major comeback champ⏰