Coach Brent

Lifelong baseball fan.

[BC School Sports @BCSchoolSports]

Our Track & Field Multi Events Championship begins today! Best of luck to our student-athletes competing in North Delta 🔥

#BCSSProvincials

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

More headlines without deadlines today from Liberals on LNG.

To get gas to Europe, Liberals need to do two things:

1. Get out of the way.
2. Take a geography lesson.

[North Delta Baseball @ndbaseball1962]

Your 2026 Jeff Francis (11U) Tournament Champs the North Delta Mariners. Congrats to head coach Mike Obregon, coaches and players!

@bcmbaseball @CityofDeltaBC @jeffwfrancis

[North Delta Baseball @ndbaseball1962]

Your 2026 Victoria Day Tadpole Champs the North Delta Blue Jays. Congrats to the coaches and players!!

A big thank you to Kevin Wardrop, our 9U div rep. Did an amazing job running the tournament.

[Coach Brent @TheDinger]

@NorthDeltaLife Ah keep going ...

[Ryder Dingsdale @RyderDingsdale]

Olympic College Baseball vs Grays Harbor College Grays Harbor Baseball https://t.co/rc1Iz4fPWK

Game footage of my latest outing. Pick me up around the 2:44 min mark. 1 IP, 3-up 3-down, 2Ks.

@OCCoachOlson31 @OC_Baseball @nwacbaseball @PNW_CBR #RangerNation

[Kevin Nealon @kevin_nealon]

When my son was 10, he recognized that I was an older father and he was not happy about that, and I never considered that.

I walked into his bedroom one night, I could tell he'd been crying, puffy eyes, tears stained cheek. And I go, what's going on, buddy? Because I don't know his name. I’m never home.

My son said, I've just been thinking, I'm 10 now and you're 63. When I'm 20. You're gonna be 73. When I'm 30. You'll be 83. You won’t be around for a lot of my life. I said. Buddy buddy, buddy. What's his fucking name. I said I’ll be around for a long time. Don't you worry about that.

I'll be around when you graduate. I'll be around when you get married, when you have kids, I’ll be around for all that stuff. You just gotta make it happen in the next four years. Otherwise, yeah, you're probably right. I won't be around. He said, no, I'm serious. Dad.

Dad? he doesn't know my name either.

[City of Delta @CityofDeltaBC]

Youthapalooza takes over North Delta Recreation Centre and North Delta Centre for the Arts on May 8.

Join us for a BBQ, basketball tournament, job/volunteer fair, an arcade truck, Open Stage, and a Silent Dance Party!

Reserve your spot at https://t.co/4BjtouraR4.

[PNW College Baseball Report @PNW_CBR]

Saturday doubleheader recap for Olympic College

@robison__wyatt, @dominic_kaptur, @nolan_bayne, @dominic_hecker_, @JayMo_Connolly, @TeganJenkins23, @RyderDingsdale, @bassfrye2025, @andrewahn2023, @Goodingathletic

[Brad Kemp @BradKemp141]

CHIEFS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT 🔦

FR - RHP Ryder Dingsdale
6’3 190lbs
@fOCus_Athletics

Dingsdale throws for the Olympic College Rangers who compete in the West Division of the NWAC

21.1 innings of work in 12 appearances for the big righty

@Whalley_Chiefs || @RyderDingsdale

[PNW College Baseball Report @PNW_CBR]

NWAC - G2 of DH
Olympic 5, Mt Hood 1

@bassfrye2025 3 IP, 0H, 0R, 2BB, 6K
@RyderDingsdale 2 perfect IP, 3K

@Greysenp3 1-4, 2 RBI
@dantescacio2023 3-4, RBI
@Goodingathletic 2-4, RBI, SB
@TeganJenkins23 2-5, RBI

@OC_Baseball

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.

His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.

The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.

Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.

After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.

Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.

She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.

The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.

The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.

Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.

You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.

He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.

Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.

The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.

This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.

The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.

Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.

Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.

His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.

He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.

He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.

The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.

They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Dolores Claman's 1968 song, "The Hockey Theme", performed by the Jerry Toth Orchestra. Dolores would later say she had never seen a hockey game in person before writing the song, instead imagining Roman Gladiators battling while writing it.

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

The family of the flight attendant severely injured in the Air Canada crash at LaGuardia airport, which killed two pilots, has started a campaign to help with her recovery while providing the horrifying details of what she endured. https://t.co/sv53VhbwlI

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Fought for Canadian workers and Canadian interests on the world’s biggest podcast.

Thank you @joerogan for an amazing conversation.

Let’s get tariff-free trade.

Sign up to watch it first: https://t.co/Tf0URq6UlC

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This trippy phenomenon happens twice a year in Hawaii, where all objects lose their shadows

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This video gives a great look at what the new Las Vegas A’s stadium will look like.

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Imagine being in Vegas and hitting rock bottom, getting put in handcuffs, and a street performer instantly turns your arrest into a live freestyle track.

He is literally giving play-by-play commentary with a beat while she gets hauled off. Only in Vegas do you get a custom soundtrack for your downfall.😏

[Ryan McBeth @RyanMcbeth]

Canada’s 🇨🇦 F-35 Dilemma: Jets, Tariffs, and NORAD
https://t.co/Uls9IhAlpK

[North Delta Pirates @piratesnd]

We are pleased to announce the North Delta Pirates 2026 18U AAA Roster.

Congratulations to each of the players!

Player profiles to be revealed in later February at https://t.co/E5oclP8kUN