Todd Kent

Husband, father, coach

[Todd Kent @kent_tlkent]

@Mariners We call this #Toddlike in our family.

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@CoachCoriSmith Loree Payne at NAU and Scott Rueck at Oregon State

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@usahockey anyone else think Eruzione and Gresky might start this off with fistacuffs? @billburr

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@KirkHerbstreit @49ers @RamsNFL @NFLonPrime Bring him out to dog beach in Santa Cruz!

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@Mariners Cool-but does he own a 1996 Mariners post season ticket uncut sheet? Back in the day when we could buy 20 game package for $150 and a World Series ticket was $25!

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@longoffthatee And you will throw out the first pitch of WS game one! I’m just here for the positive vibes…

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@KarlTheFog the liquid version is delicious. @calicraft

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@M_Hanny17 back with the Mariners! @DiscretionBrew to celebrate for this Santa Cruz @Mariners fan! Welcome back Mitch!

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@joebartnick @allthingscomedy @billburr You crushed it!

[UCSC Athletics @UCSCAthletics]

Kaylee Murphy signs professional contract for Portuguese team https://t.co/rVQmNNe9Kg

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@nut_history His son hit before him that season.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[UCSC Athletics @UCSCAthletics]

Coach Todd Kent announces retirement https://t.co/6rSTwMm4jd

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@danacarvey Well isn’t that special.

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@CoachLaKose Looks like a great place to grab a glass of Mountain Dew!

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@Coachjkpruitt @Coachjkpruitt can flat out coach!!! Throw in an incredible Univeristy like Elmhurst and there is no limit to what you can accomplish. Go get it done Coach!!!

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@C2CAthConf @CNUathletics @cnuwbb @umwwbasketball You forgot Kaylee Murphy UC Santa Cruz.

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@scott_peterson4 @ZayasRiley UC Santa Cruz tournaments are a great way to build a teams resume and potential SOS! We consistently host some of the best teams in the country every season. Incredible facility, vacation destination, beach, Redwoods, and great competition. But I’m also a little biased. 😀

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@scott_peterson4 C2C!