Mark Escobedo @escobedo_mark - Twitter Profile

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Tom Theodorakis

@TT_Army_AD

18 days ago

I love Army Football.

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Army Football

@ArmyWP_Football

21 days ago

Day 1 🔊 WE ARE BACK! #GoArmy

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Army Baseball

@ArmyWP_Baseball

about 1 month ago

The stars at night, are big and bright! We're heading back to the @PeakDotEvents Battle at the Ballpark in 2027, for a Lone Star-sized weekend against Air Force, Notre Dame and Nebraska! Game schedules, tickets and broadcast information will be released at a later date.

ArmyWP_Baseball's tweet photo. The stars at night, are big and bright!

We're heading back to the @PeakDotEvents Battle at the Ballpark in 2027, for a Lone Star-sized weekend against Air Force, Notre Dame and Nebraska!

Game schedules, tickets and broadcast information will be released at a later date. https://t.co/jLOH19dbqi

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Mark Escobedo @escobedo_mark

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Reggie Dobson

@RD1096

Father of 1 Amazing Daughter, West Point Graduate, Former Army Football Player, Former Army Officer, No-Excuse Dreamer !!!

Army Football Alum, Bear Down, Bulls, Hawks, CUBS, and Father of Daughters-The True Ladies Man!

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Athenaeum Book Club

@athenaeumbc

6 months ago

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

athenaeumbc's tweet photo. A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

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Black Knight Nation

@BKKnightNation

8 months ago

2025 Fenway Bowl Recap | Army 41, UConn 16 | Black Knight Nation Podcast https://t.co/9ZWtn9M1ab

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Mark Escobedo @escobedo_mark

8 months ago

@barstoolsports Beat Navy!

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Barstool Sports

@barstoolsports

8 months ago

Average P4 team at a bowl game: half our roster opted out of this to hit the portal or get ready for the draft Army at a bowl game:

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Black Knight Nation

@BKKnightNation

8 months ago

HONORS: Will Jeffcoat earned second-team all-American honors from the Football Writers Association of America #ArmyFootball #AllAmerican 📸 Larry Pickett

BKKnightNation's tweet photo. HONORS: Will Jeffcoat earned second-team all-American honors from the Football Writers Association of America #ArmyFootball #AllAmerican

📸 Larry Pickett https://t.co/hvhOPcJWmD

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Jeff Monken

@CoachJeffMonken

9 months ago

#BEATnavy!

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Drunk Old Grad

@DrunkOldGrad

9 months ago

All the way from 2003! 😜 this is how Spirit Videos used to be. 🔥 #BeatNavy Center Stall 🏴‍☠️

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Tom Theodorakis

@TT_Army_AD

10 months ago

Beat ‘em!

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Jon Gruden

@BarstoolGruden

10 months ago

I got to ask @ArmyWP_Football's Head Coach Jeff Monken how today's transfer portal landscape works at the service academies... and the answer might shock you!