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[FOX Sports Knoxville @FOXSportsKnox]

Tennessee freshmen Manny Green and Ralph Scott were tabbed as “freshmen standouts” in practice last week by @williampatteson 🍊

The #Vols held practice open to the media last Thursday morning, and Patteson shared his takeaways from the action on “The Playbook.”

Green and Scott’s “filled-out builds” were an immediate takeaway, and both had some impressive moments.

Green, a six-foot-seven wing, was a four-star recruit in the 2026 class, and showcased his two-way ability by being an active defender and knocking in multiple triples from behind the arc.

Scott, a six-foot-eight forward, was a consensus four-star recruit in the class, and displayed his potential on the wing despite some tough coaching from Rick Barnes.

Listen to “The Playbook” from 1-3PM ET weekdays on Fox Sports Knoxville - FanRun Radio.

[FLAVOLS @FLAVOLS]

@F0ODHub Yep…..

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

George Washington’s farewell party bar tab still survives. With just 55 guests, they consumed 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch.

In September 1787, just days before the U.S. Constitution was signed, George Washington attended a farewell dinner at Philadelphia’s City Tavern with fellow Constitutional Convention delegates and members of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry (then known as the Light Horse of Philadelphia). More than a tavern, City Tavern served as one of Revolutionary America’s leading centers for politics, business, and public life, where influential figures gathered to debate ideas, conduct business, and exchange news.

The surviving receipt has become famous because it offers a rare snapshot of 18th-century drinking culture. Madeira, prized for surviving long Atlantic voyages, was a favorite among wealthy Americans, while claret, porter, cider, beer, whiskey, and punch were all staples of social gatherings. The dinner marked a pivotal moment in American history, coming just before the Constitution was signed and the nation’s new government began to take shape.

Washington himself later became one of the country’s largest whiskey producers. At his Mount Vernon distillery, nearly 11,000 gallons of whiskey were produced in 1799, making it one of the largest commercial distilleries in early America.

[zaza @zazaxbtt]

George Foreman says he has made over $550,000,000 from his grill than his boxing career

‘I went from earning $5,000,000 on the rumble in the jungle against Muhammad Ali to making more than $200,000,000 of my name been on a kitchen grill’

‘There were months were I was been paid $8,000,000 per month,Hulk Hogan was offered the deal first and he missed it he got a meatball maker and I got a $550,000,000 franchise’

‘Without boxing I couldn’t have had anything I’m really thankful for being an athlete’

[Variety @Variety]

Walton Goggins saved Olivia Wilde's life on the set of "Cowboys & Aliens" when she was nearly stampeded to death by horses.

"I had a very bad horse accident, and he saved me. It was me and Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford galloping, like, full sprint across the desert with 40 horses behind us... this horse jumps and bucks me off in the craziest way. I fell off. I hit my head and my back, and I was laying [on the ground] but, unfortunately, I was on the other side of this kind of lip of dirt, meaning that all horses behind couldn’t see me. And there was also a lot of dust. I remember having my ear to the ground and I could hear it and it sounded like thunder, like they were coming towards me. I thought, it’ll be quick. It’ll be like, pulverized applesauce. Out.”

“Walt Goggins had seen [me] ahead of him and in a split second thought to turn his horse sideways right in front of me and let everyone kind of bash into him. people split the two sides around us thinking he had just gone insane, but he was protecting my body on the ground. And so I owe him my life. It’s crazy. He’s a real-life hero.”

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[Matt Devitt @MattDevittWX]

One of the most incredible storm damage pictures I’ve ever seen happened this morning in South Dakota. A 131 mph wind gust in the city of Highmore split the roof of the Catholic Church perfectly illuminating the crucifix. This is not AI, it’s been confirmed real by locals. Truly amazing. Credit: Joseph Mat @stormhour

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

A 49-year-old Hindu priest in Andhra Pradesh, India, who reportedly claimed he could fly using divine powers, died after jumping from a mountain peak. He succumbed to the fall at the scene.

[NASA @NASA]

That’s one big chandelier…

The @NASAHubble team captured this sparkling photo of the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster within our Milky Way galaxy. A globular cluster is a dense collection of thousands to millions of stars bound by gravity. https://t.co/hkks3ngsPU

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 126 years ago.

What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.

More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...

It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.

And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.

Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.

The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.

It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.

Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

Hoover Dam is once again going full red-white-and-blue every night through July 4.

The giant American flag will be raised overnight and visible to visitors starting Tuesday morning.

The top-of-dam and Memorial Bridge walkways will stay open until 10 p.m. each night.

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

America turns 250… and these answers prove we might need a history class before the celebration. 🇺🇸😂

“America is turning 58!” 😳
“We declared independence from AFRICA!” 🤣
“Was King Tut the King of Great Britain?” 👑
“George Bush signed the Declaration of Independence.” ❌
You won’t believe the rest… 💀

[FLAVOLS @FLAVOLS]

@AP @thoughtXopinion

[FLAVOLS @FLAVOLS]

@disneytipsguy Hope so!!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

This guy wore a black silk glove on one hand for almost thirty years, and the reason why is wild. Meet Richard Henry Lee, the man who actually proposed American independence.

Quick correction to what most people think. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration. But he didn't propose breaking from Britain. Richard Henry Lee did.

On June 7, 1776, Lee stood up in the Continental Congress and laid down the words that started everything: "Resolved, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." That motion, the Lee Resolution, is the thing that forced the vote. Jefferson was then assigned to write up the document explaining why. So the order people skip is this. Lee proposes the divorce. Jefferson writes the letter. Without Lee's resolution, there's no Declaration to sign.

Now the glove. Back in 1768, years before any of this, Lee was out hunting on his own land and his rifle exploded in his hands. The blast tore four fingers off his left hand. For the rest of his life he covered the damage with a black silk glove. And here's the part I love. He turned it into a weapon. When he gave speeches, he'd gesture with that gloved, ruined hand, and people couldn't look away from it.

Because make no mistake, this man could talk. People who heard him speak compared him to Cicero, the legendary Roman orator. He was the voice in the room. His own brother Francis Lightfoot Lee, who also signed the Declaration, was the quiet one. Richard was thunder.

He grew up at Stratford Hall in Virginia, the same house where Robert E. Lee would later be born into the same famous family. He helped lead the colony toward revolution, served in Congress, later became president of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and finished his career as one of Virginia's first United States senators.

A man with half a hand, who stood up and said out loud the dangerous thing nobody else would put in a motion, and changed the course of history with one sentence.

Richard Henry Lee. The man who moved that America should be free.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

[FLAVOLS @FLAVOLS]

@FoxNews He will try to continue being the Divider in Chief. Or just a rat bastard.

[FLAVOLS @FLAVOLS]

@On3 @Sheadixon @crainandcone How is Dinkywiz (blown out 2 out of 3 times vs Heupel) or Lea ahead of him? Thats just plain stupid or are you just basing it from last season only?

[Summitt Mindset @SummittMindset]

Pat Summitt’s grandkids walked through the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame for the first time and saw Grammy’s story on the walls. They’ve heard the stories. Today, they got to see the legacy🧡