Mike Vanlear

God Family and Sports

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

Can you run Circle Motion against zone?

The only adjustment we make:

Flash MIDDLE instead of finishing the cuts to the rim

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

Zones just aren’t used to dealing with constant movement, especially in and out of the middle of the zone

“Zone Motion"

[NewestMag @NewestMagazine]

33 years ago, 2Pac released ‘Keep Ya Head Up’

A West Coast classic with a message that still resonates generations later.

Pac was truly ahead of his time 🏁

[Sherrel Higbie @SherMarluv]

The gorgeous and talented,
Dorothy Dandridge.🌹

[Danielle knows a lot @Daniell64334313]

It was the Best‼️🔥💃
Ricky Roasted Them-🎯🔥#iykyk

[Mike Vanlear @michaelvanlear]

https://t.co/pDTAiwEw4m

[Truethingz™️ @Manlike_Solz]

2PAC’s verse on “Still I Rise” is arguably one of the greatest verses in hip-hop history.

[!Nspirenaire⚠️ @Inspirenaire]

This is a versus from over 30 years ago. Robert Towesend dies not get acknowledged enough for me .....he's done amazing amazing work in the entertainment industry. #RobertTownsend #Htown and #Portrait

[Amunet @VintageSitcoms]

Sade Adu is 67 y’all… this is aging like fine wine 🍷 🫶🏾🖤👏🏾 My late uncle used to fill every car ride with Sade. The Sweetest Taboo, Smooth Operator, No Ordinary Love, and everything in between. Hearing her voice now instantly brings those drives, and him, rushing back.

[90s WWE @90sWWE]

You Better Recognize

[Cayden Jones @Caydenj42]

2026–27 Basketball Season 🏀

Cayden Jones | Class of 2030
PG | Classen SAS at Northeast

Freshman season loading… 📈

Looking forward to competing, growing, and representing my school this year.

The work continues. 💯

#ClassOf2030 #OKHoops

[Hardwood Texas @hardwoodtexas]

Triva Corrales’ “Three-Point Line Crash” Drill

Develop perimeter rebounding skills for forwards, emphasizing timing and a high lead elbow to secure the ball after a missed three

[Rap Alert @rapalert6]

Happy 47th birthday to Mya. 🎈

[Pure Sitcoms @PureSitcoms]

I still can't believe Degrassi tried to portray Liberty as the geeky undesirable one, but face was TEA the whole damn show. 😭

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Pat Riley says he brought a 2x4 wood board into the Miami Heat locker room to teach his players about overcoming their fears

“I remember I brought a two-by-four into the locker room. I placed it down, all the guys were ready, and I walked across it without falling off. I said, ‘Somebody else come up and walk.’ A couple guys came up and walked across it and laughed, ‘I could do it too.’”

“I said, ‘What if we put that 200 feet in the air, spanning two buildings?’ Now it changes the whole thing. It’s called fear. Down here it’s easy, but up here is where you have to play.”

“My whole theory was that you can play on the floor, but if you want to beat Dwyane, or you want to beat Michael, or you want to beat Kobe, you’ve got to meet them at the rim. You’ve got to get up there at the rim and meet them there. Otherwise they’re going to dunk on you and embarrass you.”

“And there was also a subtle message. When you meet somebody at the rim, what happens? It’s a collision. I had one rule: if you meet him at the rim and you take somebody out, you’ve got to go out with them. You don’t want to hurt anybody, but you’ve got to meet him at the rim or it’s over.”

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Ernie Davis' father died in an accident shortly after he was born.

His mother could not raise him on her own, so when he was 14 months old she left him in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, with her parents. His grandfather was a coal miner. He raised the boy until he was 12.

Then Ernie went to Elmira, New York, to live with his mother and his stepfather.

At Elmira Free Academy he earned eleven varsity letters. His basketball team won 52 straight games over his last two years and he scored 1,605 points.

About thirty schools offered him a scholarship. He said he picked Syracuse because it gave him the best chance to carry the football.

They gave him number 44. That was Jim Brown's number.

He broke most of Jim Brown's records with it. 2,386 rushing yards. 6.6 yards a carry. 35 touchdowns.

As a sophomore he scored 16 points in the Cotton Bowl against Texas, finished the season undefeated, and Syracuse was the best team in the country.

In 1961 he won the Heisman Trophy. He was the first Black player ever to win it. President Kennedy asked to meet him and shook his hand.

Then comes the part of this story most people do not know.

The Washington Redskins took him first overall in the 1962 draft. Their owner had kept that roster all white long after the rest of the league integrated, and the Secretary of the Interior had just told him to sign a Black player or lose the lease on his stadium.

Ernie Davis refused to play for them.

He was traded to the Cleveland Browns for Bobby Mitchell and a first round pick, and he was going to line up in the same backfield as Jim Brown.

In July of 1962 his neck swelled up. Doctors thought mumps, then mononucleosis.

On August 1 they told him it was acute monocytic leukemia.

He went to Johns Hopkins. He got into remission for four or five months. He came to the facility and practiced without contact and sat with Paul Brown working on game plans.

On August 18, 1962, Cleveland put him on the field at a preseason game, in a spotlight, in uniform, and let the crowd see him.

That was it. That was the only time Ernie Davis ever stood on that field in front of people.

He died at two in the morning on May 18, 1963, at a hospital in Cleveland. He was 23.

Both houses of Congress stopped to eulogize him. More than 10,000 people came through the wake in Elmira. A message from President Kennedy was read at his funeral.

He is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Syracuse retired number 44 in 2005.

He is the only man to win the Heisman Trophy, go first overall in the NFL draft, and never play a single professional down.

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The short hair era in the 90s was UNMATCHED. 😮‍💨

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This Tupac video is why I believe you can talk to God about anything—even the things you’re afraid to say out loud. 🙏🏾

[🦋Sara @SaraMtshabi]

Reagan Gomez Was Beautiful Then And Still Looks Amazing 30 Years Later 🤎🤩

[Mike Vanlear @michaelvanlear]

My guy Riley continue to be great my guy

[Riley Ellefson @EllefsonRiley8]

Blessed