Will Kubistal 🇵🇸

Everyone dies but not everyone lives 🇧🇴❤️🇵🇱

[Hani @Haniscinema]

I know he’s mad as hell imagine you’re all the way in Beijing and STILL can’t escape these rats 😭😭

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Truly disgusting what the Republican Party and parts of our media have normalized on this country. Just open naked racism and bigotry and mockery of minorities. Can you imagine a Muhammad or Abdullah in the schoolground getting bullied by kids who heard the president do it first?

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Meanwhile, here’s @stoolpresidente committing an act of athletic terrorism.

Less pizza, more gym, habibi.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Mike Ditka was born Michael Dyczko.

His father was a welder. The family was Polish and Ukrainian, in the coal and steel country of western Pennsylvania, and nobody around them could pronounce Dyczko.

So they changed it to Ditka.

Rest in peace to the legend. His family announced today that Mike Ditka has passed away at 86 years old.

He was born in Carnegie and grew up in Aliquippa, and he got out of there the way kids from those towns got out, which was football.

The Chicago Bears took him fifth overall in 1961 out of Pitt.

Before him a tight end was basically a sixth lineman who caught something once in a while. As a rookie Mike Ditka went for 1,076 yards and 12 touchdowns, which no tight end had ever done, and the job has never gone back to what it was.

He spent six seasons playing for the Bears, and in 1963 he won the NFL Championship with them.

Then he and George Halas fell out over money, and on his way out of town Ditka said the old man threw nickels around like manhole covers.

Halas traded him to the Philadelphia Eagles in April of 1967 for a quarterback.

He finished playing with the Dallas Cowboys. He caught a touchdown in Super Bowl VI. He retired in 1973, Tom Landry put him on the staff, and he got another ring there as an assistant.

And then he wrote George Halas a letter.

He told him he regretted the way it had ended in Chicago. He told him that when he was ready, he wanted to come back and coach the Bears.

Halas gave him the job in 1982.

Here is what Ditka said when he got there.

"Give me three years, and if you walk with me, we'll get to the dance."

They went 15 and 1 in 1985 and beat the New England Patriots 46 to 10 in Super Bowl XX.

Here is how he described that team.

"There are Smiths and there are Grabowskis. We're the Grabowskis."

That is a welder's kid talking.

In 1988 he had a heart attack during the season and blamed it on stress. He was back in weeks. The Bears went 12 and 4 and he was Coach of the Year for the second time.

Chicago fired him in January of 1993.

He took the New Orleans Saints job in 1997 and it did not work. He traded every pick New Orleans had in 1999, plus the following year's first rounder, to move up and take Ricky Williams. They let him go after a 3 and 13 season.

None of that is what anybody is going to remember.

In 1988 he became the first tight end ever put into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is the only man who was part of both of the last two championships the Chicago Bears have won, as a player in 1963 and as the head coach in 1985. The Bears retired his number 89 in 2013.

They changed the name so the neighbors could pronounce it.

He turned it into the one that whole city still shouts.

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[Jarrett Payton @paytonsun]

It’s with a heavy heart that I’m sharing the Ditka family has announced the passing of Mike Ditka this morning.
Da Coach. Hall of Famer. The heartbeat of the ’85 Bears and a Super Bowl champion. Chicago won’t be the same.
Prayers to Diana and the family.
RIP, Coach. 🐻⬇️

Here’s a statement from the family:

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka. While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family. Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever.
With love and gratitude, The Ditka Family

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.

[Sunday (1994) @Sunday1994band]

Justice for Jane Doe 🖤⛪️

[jack @jack_bfr]

Ben Johnson having to take a field goal instead of going for it:

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

No other words other than genocide

[silkpunk OCposting @bypluvia]

this quote has always stuck with me

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Someone told me I shouldn’t help spread pictures of the Cornell 7 guys, because it might destroy their lives.

Sweetie, that’s what I’m counting on.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

So the NFL has told Azeez Al-Shaair they’ll remove him from the game if he wears a Palestinian child’s name, who was killed by Israeli airstrike, on his eyeblack. Psychotic. This harms no one by letting him do this. I think it’s absurd they were fining him, but those were the “rules” and he agreed to pay the fine. Removal from the game is INSANE. This shouldn’t stand!

[The Black Tucker Carlson Jr 🇺🇸 @B1TuckerCarlson]

White people successfully murdered Nolan Wells, covered it up and got away with it.

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

Caleb Williams has been getting clowned for his reaction to what looks like a week to week hamstring injury. I'm going to admit it’s kind of funny. The quarterback who got labeled soft for crying in his mom's arms at USC cried again, on a cart, over a hamstring that may not cost him more than a few weeks.

Fans spend athletes' entire careers demanding they show how much they care, and when one of them shows it in a way we didn't ask for, we turn him into a punchline. Bears fans should know this better than anyone, because their last franchise quarterback got destroyed for the opposite reason.

Williams heard all of this before he was ever drafted. In November 2023, after USC lost to Washington, he climbed into the stands and sobbed on his mother's shoulder. Robert Mathis called it soft. OutKick ran a column saying it proved he wasn't ready for the NFL, and plenty of people used it as the reason Chicago should pass on him with the first pick. His answer then was that it was raw emotion and that it's who he is, and he has never walked it back.

That last franchise quarterback was Jay Cutler, and his whole reputation in Chicago was that he looked like he didn't care. The internet called him Smokin' Jay, and his body language after interceptions turned into its own genre of highlight. In the NFC Championship Game in January 2011, he hurt his knee against the Packers and spent the second half standing on the sideline and riding the exercise bike, with no towel and no tears. Players around the league went after him on Twitter while the game was still going. Deion Sanders said in the playoffs you'd have to drag him off the field. Mark Schlereth said it would take a stretcher to get him out of a championship game. Cutler had a sprained MCL. Chicago spent eight years begging its quarterback to show some emotion, and now it has one who can't hide it.

Michael Jordan might be the most competitive person who ever played a sport, and the most famous picture of him on the internet is him crying at his Hall of Fame induction in 2009. It's been a meme for more than a decade, and people post it every time somebody loses.

Cam Newton got criticized in 2015 for dancing and dabbing too much while the Panthers won. A few months later he got called a sore loser for giving one-word answers and walking out of his press conference after Super Bowl 50. The same critics had a problem with how he acted after winning and after losing, four months apart.

Fans accept anger from athletes as proof they're competing: a fist pump, screaming at a lineman, a helmet slammed on the bench after a loss. Crying after a loss or after an injury gets treated as weakness, and I have never heard anyone give a good reason why one counts as caring and the other doesn't.

If you don't want a franchise quarterback who can't hide it when his hamstring gives out on the way to the end zone, the alternative is the one who jogs off after a pick-six like he's got a tee time. Fans call that guy the one who doesn't care, which is probably the most common insult in sports, and I've never heard a fan say out loud that they'd take him.

Williams is week to week. The Bears play the Eagles next Monday night.

[🇹🇷🇳🇴Dr.Yüksel PhD🇧🇦 @yukselhos]

Here you see a Palestinian child hanging from an electricity pole at the hands of Israeli settlers. At this point, you no longer need a moral justification to carry on with your ordinary life.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

What you've all been waiting for ‼️

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

“This is one of the largest funerals in the history of the Palestinian cause. Today, 112 martyrs will be be buried in the soil of Gaza. Talk about us. Raise your voices. Don’t let these scenes pass unnoticed on your phones.”

- A Palestinian at the funeral

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

A terrorist known for burning people’s homes down shows up at your door armed with assault rifles. His group has killed 13 people this year alone. You manage to snatch his gun and shoot. The army shows up and kills you. The world sides with the terrorist. Why? You are Palestinian