Adrian Powell

Heritage HS - Vice Principal, Husband and Father of 4, Fan of All Sports Things Cleveland & OSU Related, Alum of U of Akron and YSU, Hometown of Ashtabula, OH.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

An Aussie discovers Texas Road House for the first time. Epic!

The World Cup needs to be permanently held in the US. It offers the most for the teams and the fans. 🤣🇺🇸🇦🇺

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Ten years ago today on June 19th, 2016 the Cleveland Cavaliers came back from down 3-1 to defeat the 73 win Golden State Warriors and win the NBA Championship 🏆

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[HighSchoolOT @HighSchoolOT]

An unprecedented decision: The NC State Board of Education's Independent Interscholastic Athletic Appeals Board has overturned the viral disqualification of Mallard Creek track star Nyan Brown in the NCHSAA 8A state championship meet.

Mallard Creek is now the co-8A state champion with Jordan High School.

The NCHSAA’s Board of Directors convened for an emergency meeting on Tuesday morning to confirm the decision, which was passed down from the Athletic Appeals Board.

More on this breaking story: https://t.co/KjYod1SgUx

[Brittany McKinney @bmac_22]

Bottom 7, 2 outs, down by 2…
Smiling walking to the plate. She knew.
Ice cold🧊 🧊 🧊

Pitchers worst nightmare to see that confidence stepping into the box.
Delivered. Incredible WCWS moment.

[College Baseball News @CollegeBSBNews]

On April 3rd, Milwaukee was 5-22 and one of the worst teams in the country.

Some of their losses:

Run-ruled 21-7 by LSU
Run-ruled 20-3 by Duke
Run-ruled 14-4 by Minnesota
Run-ruled 12-2 by SEMO
Run-ruled 17-1 by Purdue
Run-ruled 14-1 by NKU
Run-ruled 13-2 by Wright State
Run-ruled 16-2 by Notre Dame
Run-ruled 14-4 by UNLV

They finished the regular season 22-31, but won the Horizon League tournament and earned an autobid to the NCAA tournament.

Milwaukee beat #4 Auburn 13-8, beat UCF 13-6, and is now in a regional final, one win away from going to supers.

College Baseball.

[Georgetown Softball @HoyaSoftball]

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[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Since pitches were first tracked in 1988, tonight's @CleGuardians - @Phillies game is the only MLB game where both starting pitchers:

pitched 8.0+ innings
allowed 0 runs
struck out 6+ batters
threw under 100 pitches

[Akron Zips Softball @ZipsSB]

🏆 Akron Zips... 2026 MAC Tournament Champions🏆

#GoZips 🦘

[Georgetown Softball @HoyaSoftball]

FIRST TEAM ✔️

Congrats to Naya on earning First Team All-BIG EAST! 🥎 💙

#HoyaSaxa #HoyaBold

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

It’s 330am on July 5th, 1985, 18th inning of a game between the Mets/Braves. The Braves are down 11-10 and down to their last hitter. They send reliever Rick Camp, who had a batting average of .062.

Beautiful call by legendary broadcaster, John Sterling.

Rest easy, John

[Georgetown Softball @HoyaSoftball]

Celebrating the Class of 2026! 👩‍🎓 🥎 👏

#HoyaSaxa #HoyaBold

[Cleveland Sports Talk @CLEsportsTalk]

One of the best not to be in The Hall...

[Karla Ross @knross32]

Our Camp Schedule is Live! Come out this summer to learn from the Hoya Coaching Staff. Sign up today! First Camp is May 23rd 🥎💙

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died.

Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today.

His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing.

He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it.

He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages.

In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted.

As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan.

His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century.

After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless.

Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23.

The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president.

Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The Cleveland Guardians are calling up former No. 1 overall pick Travis Bazzana, sources tell ESPN. Bazzana, 23, hit .287/.422/.511 in 24 Triple-A games this season and will take over at second base for a Guardians team that's a half-game back of first in the AL Central.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

#Browns 1st round OT Spencer Fano seeing his NFL jersey for the first time:

“I just wish my grandpa was here to see his name on a jersey.” 🥹

[Penn Relays @pennrelays]

Ohio State (@OhioStateTFXC) holds off Texas A&M to win the college men’s 4x400 Championship of America by just one hundredth of a second, clocking 3:05.85!

That’s the second #PennRelays win of the day for the Buckeyes, following the 4x1 title.

@OhioStAthletics

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

The 🐐 doing 🐐 things.

Congratulations to José Ramírez on being named American League Player of the Week for the 9th time in his career!

#GuardsBall

[Karla Ross @knross32]

20 years of Hoya Softball! Exited to meet our alumni today 💙