D.O.

Living the Dream...

[D.O. @derekolson84]

💥 BOOM 💥

[Wayzata Boys Hockey @WHS_boyshockey]

Good luck Cade De St. Hubert and Rhys Wallin at West Point!@ArmyWP_Hockey #GoArmy

[D.O. @derekolson84]

Well done Hawke!! So amazing to see your success in Hockey and life payoff!!

[Seattle Kraken @SeattleKraken]

From Mazama, Washington, to Seattle 🥹

With the 148th overall selection in the 2026 #NHLDraft, the #SeaKraken have selected Washington native & defender Luken Huff!

[Footysm ⚽️ @Footysm]

🅾️🅾️ Wayne Rooney: On Lionel Messi performance against Austria:

“I’ll say this now, what we’re witnessing right now is just completely mental. I’ve played at the absolute highest level, I know what the physical toll of this game is, and Messi scoring twice today to break the all-time World Cup goal record? It’s just insane.

How are we all sitting here acting like this is normal? The man is 39 years old. At 39, most lads are sitting on a beach, or struggling to get out of bed for a Sunday league kickabout, let alone dominating the biggest tournament on Earth. It defies logic.

He’s out there gliding past players, reading the game three steps ahead of everyone else, and finishing like he’s still in his mid-twenties.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who still doubts Lionel Messi as the greatest to ever play the game simply is not mentally OK. It’s that simple.

There’s no footballing argument left to have. Even if your brain has been completely disconnected, your eyes alone just sitting there watching what he is doing on that pitch should tell you absolutely everything you need to know. You don't need a tactical breakdown. You just need to look at the screen. To do what he’s done throughout his career was incredible, but to reach the pinnacle of the World Cup record books at 39?

We will never, ever see anything like this again. We just need to stop trying to analyze it and appreciate that we're looking at the absolute best to ever lace up a pair of boots”

[not Johnny Manziel (parody) @JohnnyFootbalI]

Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk and Sam Bennett’s first shift together on the Florida Panthers

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

The boy is living the absolute dream

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

They just played this at UFC America 250 and it is one of the greatest things I have ever seen 🇺🇸

God bless America

[Bubba Elofskey  (v2) @BubbaV239368]

@awfulannouncing Sportsnet's Montage

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

ESPN on ABC showed off a One Shining Moment-esque NHL montage (to "Baba O'Riley") to close out the Stanley Cup Final coverage. 🏒📺🎥🎙️ #StanleyCup #NHL

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

ROD THE BOD

[U.S. Air Force @usairforce]

What’s better than a rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels over Washington, D.C.?

Watching it from four different views for #UFCWhiteHouse as part of #Freedom250. 🇺🇸

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

82 years ago today, Easy Company enters the town of Carentan. 🪖

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up.

His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot.

Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war.

By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company.

A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it.

What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand.

Winters had 12.

He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected.

It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good.

In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger.

At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector.

When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name.

The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives.

The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position.

Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife.

If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction.

And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."

[Jonny Lazarus @JLazzy23]

What a sick angle of Staal finishing his hit and getting to the net for his goal in Game 5

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The most surreal thing of our trip so far. Currently driving towards Louisiana and the radio station we were listening to started talking about our trip and played Ella Langley especially for us😭😭😭

[QBgami @QBgami]

Just realized the Europeans will be present to watch Joey Chestnut inhale 84 pork pistols on live television in honor of our nation’s independence.

That one will break them completely.

[D.O. @derekolson84]

So cool to see this in person! 🇺🇸

[FOX: NASCAR @NASCARONFOX]

"We love you, KB."

Denny Hamlin wins at Michigan and ties Kyle Busch with 63 career NASCAR Cup Series wins (9th all-time).

[CineHub @RoseElla1234]

One of the most iconic action scenes of the 1980s...
🎬 The Terminator (1984)

#TheTerminator #ArnoldSchwarzenegger

[D.O. @derekolson84]

@GinoHard_ @hockeylogic is part of this history!!

[D.O. @derekolson84]

#StanleyCup

[BucciOT.Com @Buccigross]

Gonna be an epic collision course Stanley Cup Final. Game 1 tonight on ABC. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼