Seth Pollock

Alleged human being. Mizzou alum. Diehard Mizzou & Ohio State fan. No one circles the wagons like Mizzou! #LetEmKnow

[Arrogant Nation✌🏻 @FightOnRusty]

we do this

[soy @soygIaze]

yeah i can’t not root for KAT

[Coach Gary Pinkel @GaryPinkel]

I am heartbroken to hear about Aldon Smith's passing. He was one of the most naturally gifted players I coached; could change a game at any moment. He was an important part of the Mizzou family, and losing him like this leaves a hole in our hearts.

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@ChrisVannini Pistons had a great run. Just one point short of keeping it within 30 in game seven

[Mizzou Hoops @MizzouHoops]

Another Tiger lifts the trophy 🏆

Congrats @JordanClarksons on your NBA title!

#MIZ 🐯

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

You know why the Stanley Cup ceremony is great? Because the trophy isn't given to the owner first.

[Mizzou Football @MizzouFootball]

Mizzou Football is deeply saddened by the passing of Tiger Legend Aldon Smith. 🖤💛

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I know Paraguay, homefield, etc. but that was literally the best half of World Cup soccer for the USMNT in 96 years.

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@atrupar

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Steph Noh @StephNoh]

Setting Ben Stiller's timeline videos to the Severance theme

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Nearly 40 years after his snub by FDR, President Gerald Ford invited legendary Olympian Jesse Owens to the White House in August 1976. To Owens' shock, Ford proceeded to not only honor him, but present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

It was a long-overdue recognition for a man whose triumphs had transcended sport. Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of enslaved Americans, had stunned the world at 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda.

His dominance on the world stage not only shattered Nazi racial ideology but also made him a global icon of resilience, excellence, and dignity.

Yet when he returned home to the U.S., Owens received no call from the White House, no ticker-tape parade. President Franklin D. Roosevelt never sent a letter, made a phone call, or invited him for a visit, reportedly fearing backlash from Southern voters.

Owens would later say, “I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”

Ford’s invitation in 1976, at the nation’s bicentennial, served as a symbolic correction to that wrong.

In presenting the Medal of Freedom, Ford called Owens “a young man who possibly didn’t realize the greatness of his own accomplishments” and acknowledged the profound impact Owens had on the world. For Owens, it was more than a medal, it was long-delayed validation from the country he had so proudly represented.

© Historical Photos

#drthehistories

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@CSOonX But it’s on ABC

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@richarddeitsch Ah yeah, that would make sense. It’s so easy to strip these events of whatever context was going on around them. Even without knowing any specific reasons by June 2016 was already trending towards being a crazy year. I do remember ESPN linking that Finals being w/ that OJ doc tho

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@richarddeitsch Just looking at those numbers I was surprised to see 2017 had a higher average than ‘16 given the drama of having games six and seven. If this one can go 7 wonder if it can hit the 31M of 2016’s game seven

[𝕱𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 @ferretallen]

Cavs vs Pistons Game 7, a summary.

[Seth Pollock @SethPollock]

@RTrombley_UNC @dgreene530 @jjdavid444 2023 style mini-movies back? Hell yeah, those were absolute classics!

[NBA @NBA]

SPIDA SCORED 39 OF HIS 43 POINTS IN THE 2ND HALF 🤯

IT'S THE MOST POINTS IN ANY HALF IN A POSTSEASON GAME IN THE PLAY-BY-PLAY ERA!

CAVS WIN GAME 4 TO EVEN THE SERIES AT 2-2 IN THE EAST SEMIS 🍿