David Ulyanchuk

Husband. Father. Believer. Former History Teacher. NewTech Prep. Ukrainian-American.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

The Giants are a prime example of the difference a good coach can make. The team looks much more poised and composed than it did last year. The way they manage the clock and control the pace of the game feels much more deliberate than Dallas and the Giants last year.

[NFL @NFL]

One happy coach 😀 @Seahawks

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about us. If it was, we might admire it as a fine bit of idealism, but we’d then return to our normal lives. It’s about Jesus himself. This was the blueprint for his own life. He asks nothing of his followers that he hasn’t faced himself. And, within his own life, we can already sense a theme that will grow larger and larger until we can’t miss it. If this is the way to show what God is really like, and if this is the pattern that Jesus himself followed exactly, Matthew is inviting us to draw the conclusion: that in Jesus we see the Emmanuel, the God-with-us person. The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about how to behave. It’s about discovering the living God in the loving, and dying, Jesus, and learning to reflect that love ourselves into the world that needs it so badly.

-Matthew for Everyone

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Cooper Kupp came out of Davis High School in Yakima with two scholarship offers. Idaho State and Eastern Washington.

That was it. Two.

He took Eastern Washington and went to Cheney, a small college town with a red turf football field.

The summer before one of those seasons, he tried working landscaping in the afternoons on top of morning workouts. By the time the season started he was exhausted. He realized he couldn't do both.

So football and school had to be the full-time job. Which left one problem.

Somebody still had to pay for their life.

Anna Croskrey had met Cooper at a track meet back in 2012, their senior year of high school. She handed him a medal. They started dating not long after.

She started college at Arkansas. He was in Washington. Neither of them liked the distance, so she transferred to Eastern Washington to be near him.

Then she got a job at a teriyaki place in Cheney called Rokko's and went to work.

Full-time. While also being a full-time student.

After practice, Cooper would drive his white Nissan Pathfinder across campus to the restaurant. That truck broke down constantly. Teammates who rode with him treated every trip as a coin flip.

He'd get there and she'd be behind the cash register, or packing orders into styrofoam containers.

"I supported us monetarily through college," Anna told ESPN, laughing about it years later, almost like she couldn't believe she'd pulled it off. "I was working full time so that he didn't have to worry about that, so that he could focus."

They got married in 2015. He was 21. Still in college.

Here's the moment that tells you exactly where they were financially.

After the wedding, they went to the bank to merge their accounts. Anna's father came along, since he was a co-signer on hers.

The teller pulled up Cooper's balance and said it out loud, in front of his brand new father-in-law.

Three dollars.

That was the whole account. Three dollars, a broken down Pathfinder, and a wife working a cash register so he could chase something that two colleges in America had been willing to bet on.

He has never once pretended he did it himself.

"Without a doubt, there's no doubt in my mind, not only would I not be here where I am today without her," Kupp said. "I really believe I may not be in this. I may not be in the NFL if it wasn't for her and what she has inspired in me and pushed me to do."

The Rams took him 69th overall in 2017.

He won Offensive Player of the Year. He won the receiving triple crown in 2021, leading the league in catches, yards and touchdowns. He won Super Bowl LVI and was named MVP of it.

Then, after eight years, Los Angeles released him.

Anna posted about it publicly. Not bitter, just honest about how disorienting it was.

"Wherever we go, wherever we land, is going to be so lucky to have you in their building."

Where they landed was Seattle. Three years, $45 million, back in the state where the whole thing started, about four hours from Cheney.

And last season, the Seahawks beat the Rams in the NFC Championship game on their way to winning the Super Bowl.

The team that let him go watched him go get another ring.

A kid nobody recruited, a truck that wouldn't start, three dollars in the bank, and a woman working doubles at a teriyaki counter so he wouldn't have to think about any of it.

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[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Regarding higher ed and the demographic cliff, it’s worth noting that population projections for each state are different.

The South as a region is expected to see a 3% increase in high school graduates.

New York is projected to see a 27% decline.

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

Lviv, just 45 miles from the border with Poland. Russia hit several residential buildings with cruise missiles. Many other Ukrainian cities were also struck in the massive overnight attack. Putin's only remaining tool is killing civilians and destroying their homes.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

Never thought I’d be building Career Technical Education curriculum and talking about Claude tokens in the same breath.

[4 News Now @kxly4news]

BREAKING: A fast-growing wildfire is forcing evacuations in Whitman, Adams, and Franklin counties. https://t.co/iQ9s0QX3iA

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

Either way, I suspect Fedorov is here to stay as a major figure in Ukrainian politics for a long time.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

The whole Fedorov situation in Ukraine is interesting. Obviously, I am not privy to everything happening behind the scenes, but every so often Zelenskyy or his government makes a decision that sparks concern many Ukrainians and journalists who I have come to respect.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

My intuition is that Fedorov is one of the good ones, and his record over the past several months seems to support that. My guess is that the public backlash will either prevent his removal, lead to his reinstatement, or even result in a promotion to another key role.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

@RonFilipkowski This needs an official investigation.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

@Noahpinion One of the clearest litmus tests of political consistency is Ukraine. If someone endlessly condemns every flaw in the United States while excusing or defending Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, I question whether they believe in the values they claim to uphold.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Fed data reveals nearly half of Americans under 30 now live with a parent — up 12 points since 2019.

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

@wartranslated The question is: are Russians willing to pay the price of full mobilization? It would come at an enormous cost, both to the economy and in lives. Much of Russia’s military infrastructure has already been wasted, and drones have made large-scale infantry attacks more difficult.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

One of the best games I’ve seen

Just two plot manipulators going at it

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

“Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.”
Hebrews 4:11 NIV
https://t.co/6ZZHuXk2LW

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

“Without understanding that past, we are unable to understand ourselves, for in a sense the past still lives in us and influences who we are and how we understand the Christian message.”

— Justo L. González

[David Ulyanchuk @DavidUlyanchuk]

Not everyone grows at the same speed. Wisdom is knowing when to walk with someone, when to challenge them, and when to step back or walk away.