No, THANK YOU! Truly a honor to wear the 💜💛 while trying to continuing the greatness & legacies that came before me! Hope I made a few proud during my stint. 🙏🏾🫡👑
If priority is building around Devin Booker, a Scorpio with Gemini moon.
Find a trade partner for Dillon Brooks, Jalen Green, Royce O'Neale, Mark Williams
Target:
Quentin Grimes, Tari Eason, Josh Okogie, Fred VanVleet, Jabari Smith Jr., Derrick White, Keon Ellis, Marcus Smart, Champagnie (either twin), among others
Ohio State Spring Game Thoughts:
-Considering the absurd amount of NFL talent, I'm still having trouble with how this program lost four games the last two years.
-Looks like they're going to utilize a little more QB run game this year.
-I still have some reservations on Julian Sayin. Thought he really shrunk in those last two games.
-Really liked how they consistently pushed the ball down the field with every QB.
-DL destroyed the OL although the OL was without a pair of starters. Kenyatta Jackson and Beau Atikinson were impressive early.
-That OL could be the biggest question mark. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd string units were all easily handled by the DL.
-Top 2 RB's were out but I do think Florida transfer J'Kobi Jackson will get some meaningful carries this year.
-Most of the defensive transfers appear to be hits including the two Alabama DL in James Smith and Qua Russaw. John Walker (UCF) also played well.
-QB Tavien St. Clair to WR Chris Henry...get used to it.
-Tavien St. Clair >> Bryce Underwood.
-LB is a question mark but I thought Payton Pierce, Christian Alliegro, Eli Lee and Garrett Stover looked solid. Still they're less athletic than the past couple of years and I'm having flashbacks to the 2020 LB unit.
-Incoming freshman class was probably underrated. Several standouts including WR Henry, LB Cincere Johnson, DE Khary Wilder, DL Darryus McKinley, DL Emmanuel Ruffin, DL Jamir Perez (360 pounds), WR Brock Boyd. Their freshman DL class is going to be really special in a couple of years (maybe as soon as 2027).
-The best damn band delivered again in poor weather.
-Projection: 10-2. I have Ohio State No. 1 overall in my power ratings. However, I think this is the toughest schedule Ohio State has ever played (at Texas, at Iowa, at Indiana, at USC, Oregon, Michigan).
Life has a way of breaking your heart… and then, somehow, letting it beat even stronger in the very next moment.
I’m a lifelong Georgian. The Atlanta Braves have always been my hometown team. And this weekend gave us one of those moments you don’t just watch… you feel.
Dominic Smith, new to Atlanta, steps into his Braves debut and launches a walk-off grand slam!
History.
First player in MLB history to do it in a team debut.
The stadium erupted.
His teammates rushed him.
It looked like pure joy.
But underneath it… was something much heavier.
Just two weeks ago on March 15, he lost his mom, Yvette LaFleur, to cancer.
Two weeks.
And in the middle of that moment, with the entire city celebrating him, he said he “got choked up a bunch of times” thinking about her.
Because that swing wasn’t just about baseball.
It was about the one person who helped get him there… not being there.
And then you learn her story, and it hits even deeper.
She didn’t have an easy life. She battled addiction. Lost custody of her two children. Reached a point where everything felt like it was falling apart.
In her mid 30s, pregnant again and trying to rebuild her life in LA, she didn’t think she could go through with it.
“I was pretty sure I was going to terminate my pregnancy… I just wanted my other two kids back.”
Let that sit for a second.
She was at her lowest.
Trying to fix what was already broken.
Not sure she had anything left to give.
But she chose differently.
She chose to keep going.
She chose to fight.
She chose life.
And that child was Dominic.
And that decision… that one fragile, uncertain moment… led to a man standing under the lights in Atlanta, rounding the bases after a walk-off grand slam… carrying her with him every step of the way.
That’s bigger than baseball.
That’s love.
That’s redemption.
That’s what second chances can become.
Somewhere along the way, she turned her life around. She became the mother who showed up, who supported him, who believed in him from the very beginning.
And in that moment… you could feel it.
Every swing. Every step. Every emotion.
It was all for her.
Welcome to Atlanta, Dominic!
We’re proud to have you. And there’s no doubt… your mom was right there with you. @TheRealSmith2_
The one JAŸ-Z quote that stood out to me in his new GQ interview
“I just see the world for what it is, not for what I want it to be. I’m a realist. It’s not idealistic. People speak about the world how they want to see it. You’re never going to win like that.”
JayZ is not talking about the artists participating in the battle. He is talking about YALL participating in the parasocial relationship with artists during rap beef
“Serra High School is more than basketball to me.”
Loyalty pays Off: CJ Anyikwa leads Serra’s remarkable turnaround to CIF title🏆
Story: https://t.co/vH1uFGWx0h