Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
College sports are being pulled apart by transfer chaos, constant litigation, shady NIL deals, disappearing rivalries, and a broken system that is leaving student athletes, schools, and fans without clear rules or real protections.
The Protect College Sports Act:
- Ends the roster chaos with national rules for transfers (one free undergrad) and eligibility (5-in-5)
- Creates enforceable standards on recruiting, tampering, and NIL disclosures
- Protects student athletes’ right to earn from their own NIL
- Enables enforcement of House settlement on revenue sharing and fake NIL deals
- Sanctions against agents that take advantage of student athletes, facilitate player poaching, and recruit tampering
- Protects women’s sports, Olympic sports, and scholarship opportunities
- Preserves historic rivalries
- Keeps college sports tied to education, so student athletes become successful adults
- Prohibits football coaches from quitting mid-season to be hired by another program
- Guarantees safety standards, health care, and an ombudsman for student athletes
- Makes TV money work for college sports with an option for schools to pool media rights
- Stops Super League consolidation
MLB Network’s Harold Reynolds called Bob Horner the first “college legend” and told the story of how Horner was once the closer at ASU.
Horner did not play a single game of minor league baseball, he went straight to the Major Leagues from Tempe.
MONSTER CATCH: Florida Keys charter Capt. Jose Rodriguez Jr. had never come close to a 500-pound swordfish — until he and a Pennsylvania family reeled in a 480-pound giant, one of the biggest caught in the Keys in recent years.
After a grueling five-hour battle, the family donated most of the catch around town, enough to feed much of the community. "The whole community was eating swordfish that day," Rodriguez said.
In response to years of disruptive and violent protests on freeways, California installed gates on freeway ramps to keep deranged protesters out.
You know what would be a simpler solution? Arresting rioters and forcing them to face consequences. That would stop this real quick!