J.D.

Carolina Born and Raised, Chicago Sports Fan, Duke Basketball, Gamecock Football and Baseball Fan!! Rest In Paradise Dad and Holly!!

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Future @DukeMBB big man Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje put on a SHOW for @usabjnt in their 149-82 quarterfinal win over Puerto Rico 🔥

31 PTS
16 REB
4 AST
2 BLK
11/13 FG
6/8 3PT

[Nic @ClawForThatInch]

https://t.co/kLb9eob1dn

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

A RED CARD??????? ARE WE SERIOUS?????

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

NEWS: 4⭐️ Kager Knueppel, the younger brother of Kon Knueppel, has committed to Duke, he announced. 

The 6-10 small forward is ranked as a top-50 recruit in the 2027 class.

https://t.co/Gh1JtYXFks

[Gov. Henry McMaster @henrymcmaster]

Happy Carolina Day! Today, we commemorate the 250th anniversary of Carolina Day and honor the brave patriots who defended Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776. Their courage helped shape the course of the American Revolution.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

[Duke Men’s Basketball @DukeMBB]

Top 3⃣👿

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

@ClemsonTigers @ClemsonUniv LMAO little bro will always fall for the bait 😂😂😂

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

These schools are no strangers to producing NBA talent 🤩

How many programs will add to their total tonight? 👀

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

Duke and UNC draftees since 2000

Duke: 58 draft picks | 8 All-Stars
UNC: 33 draft picks | 0 All-Stars

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

Look at the end of the day, real ball knowers know that defense wins championships. Cubs fan, myself guilty as well, should remember we did and said the same thing about J-Hey

[Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN]

Jed Hoyer was asked if the team is considering a change at shortstop as Dansby Swanson is hitting .176. Hoyer stated that the "backbone" of the team is run prevention: “To answer the question directly, we can’t run away from our run prevention when we struggle offensively.”

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

@Jomboy_ Nah you killed that 😂

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

@matthewpepin_ @GamecockBSB Can’t open the link

[JulioIsKing @JulioIsKing44]

Jarren Duran after calling a fan a f*ggot in 2024:

.309 AVG 11 HR 23 RBI in 44 games

Pete Crow-Armstrong after telling a women to suck his d*ck:

.318 AVG 8 HR 13 RBI in 26 games

I’m seeing a pattern here😭

[J.P. Hovey @jhovey34]

The Scottish people could single handily save all of the bars that are still trying to recover from COVID.

Thank you for your service 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[South Carolina Baseball @GamecockBSB]

"This is why you come to South Carolina."

🎟️: https://t.co/evOEkMljw4

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

Chipped himself to death 😂

[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.

[J.D. @_REALJD_]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary