Darius Acuff Jr. has been proving people wrong his whole career. After being the best lead guard in college basketball, he's carrying that momentum to the league. https://t.co/7bPEVfsu1o
Today is Arkansas's 190th birthday and she still looks pretty good. On this day in 1836, Arkansas was admitted to the union as the 25th state. Here are a few of the weather highlights from that year. #arwx
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
Exactly 16 years later, Mexico's Julian Quinones hit Siphiwe Tshabalala's celebration after scoring vs. South Africa 🤭
Amazing 🇲🇽
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Brendan Sorsby will never throw another interception without at least half the people following college football thinking he may have been shaving points. ⬇️
Pete Crow-Armstrong is slashing .259/.343/.448 (124 wRC+) with 11 HRs and 13 stolen bases.
He's also leading the NL with 3.0 WAR.
But, sure, you saw a couple of glaring defensive miscues as you casually check in, so you still think he sucks.
Gary Hogan, the architect, the godfather of Little Rock baseball is right where he belongs . . . back in Little Rock's dugout.
Thanks for being here Coach!
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