If Scotland plays Mexico in the knockout stage, it will force everyone to quit drinking. There will be no alcohol left on Earth after this one… #worldcup
School suspends a 5-year-old for fighting.
Dad gets called in. Expecting him to apologize, punish his son, and play the good little parent.
Instead the dad listens to his son:
“This kid was picking on me at recess. I asked him to stop. He didn’t.”
Then the dad turns to the principal and says what every father in America has been thinking:
“So you don’t even know what the bully was doing to my kid… but you’re suspending MY son for ending it?”
He looks at the bully kid and says:
“You gonna think twice before you bully my son again.”
Then he turns to his boy, gives him knuckles right there in the office in front of the principal, assistant principal, counselor, and nurse:
“Son, I’m proud of you. You ain’t suspended. You got a three-day vacation. It’s hunting season. Let’s go.”
Zero tolerance policies are a joke.
They only tolerate one thing: kids who won’t defend themselves.
This dad just reminded every weak administrator in America what real parenting looks like.
Raise men. Not victims.
The gorilla-philosopher has become an internet star
A 13-year-old male gorilla named Kiyomasa from a Japanese zoo, after quarreling with his partner, went to the corner of the enclosure, sat in the classic pose of Rodin’s “The Thinker,” and immersed himself in deep thoughts.
HEARTBREAKING: #NFL HCs and GMs LAUGHED AT Darren Sproles when he measured in at the combine and was only 5-foot-6 and weighed in at 170 pounds.
Sproles called his dad: “They laughed at me”
His Dad replied: “You know what to do”
Sproles became a legend.
In the summer of 2010, David Fajgenbaum was everything a young man could hope to be.
He had been a Division I college quarterback. He spoke multiple languages. He was in his third year at one of America's top medical schools, the University of Pennsylvania. He had his whole life mapped out in front of him.
Then his body turned on him.
Almost overnight, his organs began failing. His lymph nodes swelled. He was exhausted beyond anything he had ever felt. Within days, he was rushed to the emergency room. Weeks of testing followed. Finally, doctors gave it a name: Castleman disease — a rare and catastrophic condition where the immune system attacks the body's own organs.
There was no cure. There was barely a treatment.
A priest came to his hospital room and read his last rites.
David said goodbye to his family.
Then, somehow, an aggressive round of chemotherapy pulled him back from the edge.
But it didn't hold. Within three years, he collapsed again. And again. And again. Five times in total, he came to the edge of death. Five times, chemotherapy bought him a little more time.
After the fifth collapse, his doctors sat with him and said the words no patient wants to hear: his body had received the maximum amount of chemotherapy a human being can survive. If he relapsed again, there would be nothing left to give him.
He would die.
Most people, hearing that, would have spent whatever time remained saying goodbye.
David Fajgenbaum picked up a medical journal.
From his hospital bed, between treatments, he began doing something no patient had ever done before — systematically studying his own disease with the full knowledge of a trained physician. He analyzed thousands of pages of his own medical records. He tested his own blood samples, looking for patterns invisible to everyone else because no one else had both the data and the desperate motivation to find them.
And he found something.
In his lymph node samples, a specific protein signaling pathway called mTOR was firing at abnormally high levels — essentially sending the immune system into a frenzy that destroyed his own organs. It was a clue no one had spotted because no one had looked in quite that way before.
Then he searched for something that could stop it.
He found it in an unlikely place: a medication called sirolimus, already approved and available, commonly used to prevent organ rejection after kidney transplants. No one had ever tried it for Castleman disease. But on paper, its mechanism was a near-perfect match for what David had found in his own blood.
Under his doctor's supervision, he began taking it.
Within days, his symptoms vanished.
Not improved. Vanished.
The man doctors had given up on walked out of the hospital. He finished medical school. He married his girlfriend Caitlin. He became a father. He became one of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at Penn Medicine.
And then he turned around to face everyone still waiting in the dark.
He founded the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, building the first global research effort for a disease that had none. He launched Every Cure — an organization that uses artificial intelligence to search all existing approved drugs for hidden matches with diseases that currently have no treatment. The idea is simple and revolutionary: there are over 1,500 approved drugs in the world and over 7,000 diseases with no treatment. The cures may already exist. They just haven't been matched yet.
Over 15 years, Fajgenbaum and his partners have helped advance 28 repurposed drugs — 14 directly led by him. MedicalXpress
A priest once came to read him his last rites.
Today, David Fajgenbaum has authored over 100 scientific papers, appeared on TIME's list of the world's most influential people in health, and continues to take his small sirolimus tablet every single morning the pill he found himself, in the darkest room of his life, when no one else was looking.
He didn't wait to be saved.
QB Routes on Air Drill
- The drill focuses on routes on air, transitioning from the quick game to drop back passing concepts.
- Coaches use these drills to specifically work on down-the-field throws.
- One of the primary basic routes practiced during these sessions is the snag.
- Coaches should act as defenders, such as a corner or a linebacker, to provide realistic looks for the quarterbacks.
- During the snag concept, a coach playing the linebacker role should widen to simulate defensive movement.
- The drill is designed to give quarterbacks various looks they will encounter during a game.
Jason McManus
@CoachMacJason
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2006 John Curtis (LA) running Cutback Dive out of the Split Back Veer
Thanks to all the coaches who responded to my email this morning to get me right!
O-Line Covered Step Drill
- This offensive line drill utilizes the lines on a turf field or painted boxes to simulate old-school board drills.
- To maximize individual time, coaches can line up multiple players along every five-yard line to get a high volume of repetitions in a short period.
- The first movement, or the power step, is a short step used to transfer weight from the backside big toe to the lead leg to create power.
- On the coach's second command, players execute the drive step, which provides the actual movement and force of the block.
- Players must ensure their second step lands in front of their first step, driving that foot up the crotch of the defender and upfield.
- While players in the drill may fall forward without resistance, in a game scenario, this momentum is used to strike the defender in a proper fit.
Jay Long, Head Coach, Chadron State
@CoachJayLong
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