JT VanGilder

#KState grad #EMAW, #49ers & #Chiefs fan, #Sinfonian, #KSUMB, moderate, and generally nice guy; sometimes I write words for @bringonthecats

[K-State T&F/XC @KStateTFXC]

Taking home some hardware

🥇 Tah Chikomba
🥉 Uroy Ryan

#NCAATF x #EMAW

[K-State T&F/XC @KStateTFXC]

NATIONAL CHAMPION 🥇

Tah Chikomba takes gold in the long jump, breaking his own school record at 8.37m (27-5½)!

#NCAATF x #EMAW

[KSHSAA @KSHSAA]

With KU officially getting the nod to host NCAA regionals....The 4A, 3A and 2-1A State Baseball semifinals, consolation and finals will now take place in Manhattan at Tointon Family Stadium. Same schedule.

[Kellis Robinett @KellisRobinett]

Former K-State football coach Bill Snyder on the passing of his good friend Jim Colbert:

[Colbert Hills @colberthills]

Rest easy, Mr. Colbert. You will be deeply missed.

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

History made.

@kennedee27

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died.

Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today.

His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing.

He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it.

He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages.

In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted.

As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan.

His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century.

After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless.

Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23.

The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president.

Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

[11Point7 College Baseball @11point7]

Kansas State could, in fact, miss the postseason all together.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

NEW BALL GAME

@tysmo34 clears the bases with his first grand slam of the season!

📹ESPN+

[KSU Baseball Analytics @ksu_analytics]

Grand Salami time for Ty Smolinski, to get right back in it in the 2nd‼️

[JT VanGilder @jtarkman]

@TheGameKMAN @1350KMAN @gavin_hiatt1 @LifeofFitz @MitchTheFort @iamtimeverson @ColeDeutschend1 Gavin and Tim E are 1a & 1b.

[K-State T&F/XC @KStateTFXC]

RECORD BREAKING JUMP‼️

Tah Chikomba becomes the NCAA lead in men’s long jump this past weekend + the 2nd longest mark in Zimbabwe history😤

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

CATS WIN!!!

#EMAW

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

THERE IT IS 💥

@kennedee27 breaks the junior single-season home run record with his 17th blast of the year, tying the all-time single-season record!

[KStateStatsInfo @KStateStatsInfo]

.@KStateBSB: Dee Kennedy becomes the 5th Wildcat in school history to hit 16 home runs in a single-season, tying the junior single-season record held by Heath Schesser (1997).

He now ranks 10th all-time in career HR (27), surpassing first-rounder Kaelen Culpepper.

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

GRAND SALAMI!!!

@kennedee27 blasts his 16th home run of the season, tying the junior single-season home run record!

T8 | K-State 11, Arizona 1

[K-State Athletics @kstatesports]

Nostalgia best served first thing in the morning

@KStateFB x #EMAW

[scottwildcat @scottwildcat]

Mike McGuirl will remain the last K-State Wildcat Men’s Basketball player who played his entire collegiate career while exhausting all eligibility at K-State for at least another 3 years depending on how long Kostic stays. McGuirl’s final season was in 2022.

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

Well deserved 👏

@BGmadliak has been named the Buster Posey Award National Catcher of the Week‼️