Cody Milligan

Cowley County • 220•

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

See Ya Ball!!💣

@thecanesgp 2029 Scout's Cooper Busby (@CBusby2029) mashes one over the left field fence for a solo home run to tie it up. #FiveToolPower

Tuttle (OK) 2029 #uncommitted

#BregmanWS / @FiveToolOK

Profile: https://t.co/yPJ9uKQOIU

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[Baseball @mlbelites_]

Friendly reminder that Bryce Harper dropped out of High School at 16, transferred to a JuCo, and got drafted at 17.

He came into pro baseball as the most-hyped prospect of all time with insane expectations.

He surpassed the expectations 💯

[Baseball Central™ @BaseballCentraI]

I’ve watched this clip 1,000 times and it’s still amazing

[Georges St-Pierre @GeorgesStPierre]

One of my favorite quotes is the one from Marcus Aurelius: ‘The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.’
I think it’s always good to remember it.

[sports live tweeter yadira @jonmoxIeys]

arod entering the last game of the 09 season with 28 hrs and 93 rbis and in the 6th inning he hit 2 hrs and had 7 rbis to continue the streak of having a 30 hr and 100 rbi season like how can u not say goated

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This is how John Cena stays humble 🙏

[Kari @KariDaniels]

The copywriter when they left work that day:

[𝗞lark @KnightClawk]

Hardest first day of school picture ever.

[Yankees Stats @ChrisCoop_]

If you can put all the hate aside for a second regardless of your favorite team and realize we are witnessing a year of:

- the best catcher season of all time
- the best player of all time (Ohtani) who put up the best playoff game of all time
- the best right handed hitter of all time

You will notice we are opening into a window of golden age baseball and just appreciate the greatness we get to watch every day and season.

[MattBeGreat @mattbegreatyt]

Every athlete needs to hear this

[Greg Jennings @GregJennings]

What if I told you there was once something even crazier that happened before??? 🙃

[CJ @CJNitkowski]

Highlight of the night: Drake Baldwin’s natural reaction to the Matt Olson amazing sliding grab.

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

The Dodgers have selected the contract of OF Justin Dean and optioned OF Esteury Ruiz. In order to make room for Dean on the 40-man roster, the Dodgers designated Luken Baker for assignment.

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Incredible mindset from Ichiro

Every ballplayer needs to hear this

[Dillon Cheverere @DCheverere]

Joe Burrow has the perfect take on boats. No notes.

[Washington Nationals @Nationals]

THE O N E

[Jacob Unruh @jacobunruh]

The final buzzer on the first championship season for the OKC Thunder.

[Columbus Clingstones @GoClingstones]

Hey @BananaBall_, how do our trick plays look? 😏🍌

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

There’s nothing more perfect than a baseball field. Skip Bertman explains it better than anyone else will.

Best thing you’ll watch today.