Cindy Mahnesmith

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@ryancopelandNIU

[Logan Darnell @LoganDarnell9]

I have decided to enter the transfer portal with 2 years of eligibility.
2025 HBCU Swingman Classic participant
6’ 2” RHP
FB: 85-88 T89
CH: 75-77 T78
CB: 68-71 T72
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📞: (314)-605-4255
@EliteRecruits_ @BUncommitted

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

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[HAWK_GUYS @HAWK_GUYS]

Noah Shannon:
-Placed 1 bet for $10 on a women’s basketball game.
-Turned himself in.
-NCAA banned him for the season and ended his career

Brendan Sorsby:
-Over 2,000 bets placed.
-$90,000 in bets.
-Found eligible to play.

Make it make sense…

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@ChaseDaniel Read some Harlen Coben, or better yet, listen to the audible books. Totally got my husband hooked.

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@DOB23 So sorry for your loss Don.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Rob Gronkowski says he lived off $50,000 as an NFL rookie because he understood the NFL meant "Not For Long"

"My agent gave me a $50,000 advance for what's going to come in the marketing world for myself. I just had to pay him back within the first $50,000 I made"

"I was able to purchase my first car, which was a 2008 Escalade, and then to be able to pay rent once I got to New England. And then from there on out, I really didn't need any other money"

"I was getting free meals at the facility. I just kind of needed gas money. You go out, the drinks are free or you pay for one, you get 10 free when you're when you're on the Patriots up in the Boston area"

"So I wasn't really spending much money at all, especially when it got to the season. I mean, you're inside that building and everything's handed to you on a daily basis from breakfast all the way to dinner"

"I just lived off my marketing dollars. I was living a low-level life. I had a condo with a roommate that was on the team as well. We're paying $1,500 a month in rent while in the NFL"

"I was very frugal and that's how I got away with it. Not having any lavish purchases, the first couple years in the league and just banking away what I was making because I truly understood that the NFL stands for not for long"

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@burziyech Probably more coming unfortunately

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

#legend

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@Avabelly__ Lincoln logs?

[NIU Baseball @NIU_Baseball]

On to the next one

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

@TriadThrows Truly the end of an era! Thanks Coach for all you do for these boys. We appreciate you.

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band.

The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September).

Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.

[Jordan Bianchi @Jordan_Bianchi]

Somber moment as Richard Childress Racing unloads Kyle Busch’s car.

[James Purchin @JamesPurchin]

Mike Tirico told me his secret.

It wasn't talent.
It wasn't luck.
It was what he does on every flight home.

A few years ago, I met him at a restaurant bar in Indianapolis during the Big Ten tournament. One of the biggest voices in sports.

He didn't lead with his résumé. He introduced himself. He asked questions. He cared about every person in the room before anyone cared about him.

Eventually, I asked him what made him great.

He said after every game he calls, on the flight home, he pulls up the broadcast and watches it back.

Listens to his own voice. Hunts for the misses. The dead air. The calls he wishes he could have over.

Every game. Twenty-plus years in.

He wasn't born world-class. He worked his way there one flight at a time.

The best in any room are usually the ones still grading themselves the hardest.

World-class isn't a personality.

It's a habit.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Cindy Mahnesmith @cindymahn1]

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