Bill Jr.

Fly, Eagles Fly

[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.

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@espn High character guy for sure

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

“How (can you) trust the outcome of a game again?” ESPN story with @max_olson and @Mark_Schlabach on the unified reaction around college sports to the Brendan Sorsby ruling. Big 12 ADs will talk about it tomorrow. Can anything change? https://t.co/pytYTKWXe9

[Matt Schick @ESPN_Schick]

The judge's decision on Brendan Sorsby is indicative of where we are.

We've confused compassion & empathy with excusing behavior. This is what happens when the person who broke the rules is increasingly viewed as the primary victim.

Accountability is now cruelty.

Embarrassing.

[Donnie Collins @PennStateT5]

There are no consequences for actions anymore. You don’t have a right to play college sports. You have an opportunity to play them. Sometimes, ability derails that opportunity. Other times, it is actions. To argue the legality of that is asinine. To win that argument…damn.

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

Sorsby bet over $90,000 total including bets on his own team and gets a weak 2 games but you had athletes betting $10 on various sports that got banned for life??? Of all the messed up things that have occurred in the last 5 years in college athletics this may be the dumbest!!

[Bruce Feldman @BruceFeldmanCFB]

Something you won’t hear too often anywhere but… the NCAA is right.

[Dan Wolken @DanWolken]

Texas judge Ken Curry said Brendan Sorsby would suffer “irreparable harm” if he wasn’t allowed to play for Texas Tech.

Yeah, that’s exactly the point, you dummy. Good job ruining the integrity of sports.

Column for @yahoosports https://t.co/3ApfO1EurF

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@MarcoFoster_ Add NJ and Philly as well!

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

If you’ve been to the American Military Cemetery in Normandy, and you’ve looked out over those rows of crosses and stars of David, you’ll know how odious this man is. Those men didn’t die for this ideology or assholes like Pete Hegseth.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Are we healthier yet? 🤔

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@Phillies Still took another L! Great job bats

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@NCAALAX @bigten @NULax You’re ref crew has been terrible this game

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@AdamKinzinger Art of the Deal 🤡

[Caden Cashman @caden_cashman]

I’m very excited to announce my commitment to the United States Naval Academy! Thank you to my family, coaches, and teammates who helped get me here! Go Navy!
@McDCoachSule

[Les Bowen @LesBowen]

The Phillies got to beat up on some bad teams for a while. But they’re the same team they were before Topper was fired. The starting pitching has settled down a bit. The rest is just as bad as it was in April and in October.

[Hunterbrook @hntrbrkmedia]

NEW: A medical sterilizer in Virginia that received a presidential exemption from EPA rules last year exposed thousands to a cancer-causing chemical.

[Bill Jr. @billtz78]

@RealJamesWoods Congrats on being a massive POs human being!