Justin Verlander just played his last game as an MLB pitcher.
Instead of his manager pulling him from the game, his daughter ran out to meet him on the mound.
Some sports moments feel like they belong in a movie.
This is one of them. ❤️⚾
Today, people across Canada and around the world are running for Terry Fox.
Forty-six years ago, one of the greatest athletic feats in modern history came to an end.
It changed the world forever.
This is the story of Terry Fox. 🧵
BREAKING: Canada just announced the biggest clean energy investment in North American history.
The $70 billion total investment will generate at least 14,000 megawatts of clean, renewable power – enough to power all the homes in Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver combined.
This is Nehemiah.
He’s the first child to spend 100 hours reading to animals at the Jacksonville Humane Society.
His stories comfort frightened dogs waiting for homes.
He's 11 years old.📚
Full story here: https://t.co/XYS3m7ieol
Meet Mason and Griffin.
While on a high school band trip in Hawaii, they spotted a man drowning, swam 300 yards offshore and saved his life.
Turns out, He was their travel agent, who then offered them a return trip to Hawaii in gratitude.
Full story: https://t.co/vYuxFNQsTu
Meet 73-year-old Dave Whitlow.
He spends 2 days a week cuddling premature and critically ill babies in the NICU.
For the past 8 years, he’s held them close and whispered, “Grow strong, grow smart, grow kind.”
Kindness always wins. ❤️
Timeline cleanse:
A lost robin chick wandered into an ape enclosure at a New Mexico zoo—and found an unlikely foster mom.
Eve, a momma siamang ape, cradled and nursed the tiny bird until it was safely reunited with its mother. 💖
Everybody thinks the world is getting worse but here are six incredible things that just happened:
→ A new giant dinosaur species was just discovered
→ Electric vehicle sales have grown 10x in just the last 6 years
→ Researchers developed a new super strength alloy that could transform manufacturing forever
→ A Chicago teen who had just learned CPR used it to save his father's life
→ The West African Leopard population is on the rise, after being endangered for years
→ Michigan passed a bill that allows children to run lemonade stands without needing a permit.
Look for the good.
It's everywhere.
🚨 Breaking Barriers Alert 🚨
Madison Shipman will make her regular-season debut as a Toronto Blue Jays analyst tonight.
She's the first woman to work the booth for a Blue Jays game on Sportsnet in history.
⚾👉@MaddiShip
Meet Kelsey Pfendler.
She rowed 2,400 miles alone across the Pacific in 43 days, beating the men’s record by nine days.
As if that wasn't enough, her $50,000 goal has now raised nearly $200,000 for mental health services.
✅ crossed an ocean
✅ crushed a record
✅ hero
At the World Cup, Uruguay and Cape Verde battled for 90 minutes.
After the match, fans from opposite teams exchanged jerseys with huge smiles.
Sports really can unite us like nothing else. 🌍 💖
In Venezuela, rescuers were combing through earthquake rubble, looking for survivors.
After hours of searching, they heard faint cries of a tiny puppy buried beneath a building.
This is the moment they pulled the little pup to safety.
11/10 good boi. 🐶
When people think of the World Cup, they think of the goals, the upsets and the final score.
But this year's World Cup has also given us reminders of kindness, courage, family and connection.
Here are the 10 most inspiring moments so far.
A Goodable Thread. 🧵
In Iran, a father wanted to help his blind son experience the World Cup.
So he used a tactile soccer field and guided his son's hand across it as the match unfolded.
Sometimes, the best assists happen off the field. ❤️
In California, a family lost their home in a devastating wildfire.
So firefighters sifted through the ashes for the family, hoping to find anything worth saving.
After hours of searching, they found this: a lost family wedding ring buried in the rubble.
Kindness wins. 💗