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[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

"I’m scared sh*tless right now. I have no idea how the next few months or years are going to play out. But that fear beats the indignity of being muzzled."

He knew the risks, understood what was at stake, & still walked away because it was the right thing to do.

Moral courage.

[mike wardlow @mikewardlow]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist 60

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

NEW: Dr. Fauci was concerned in January 2021 that the second dose of the COVID shot “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

@SenRandPaul and I released the texts between Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and Vivek Murthy below.

While I’ve been conducting oversight for years, now that we have the documents and Fauci’s government-issued phone, my investigation has only just begun.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Holy crap.

They said the Covid vaccine had a 12.6% miscarriage rate for pregnant women but it was actually 82%.

Fauci and his co-conspirators need to be thrown in jail.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

The price of standing for girls and women

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

FDA initially refused to consider the mRNA flu shot because Moderna did not use a true placebo - they compared mRNA to a traditional flu shot.

In the study, 2% of participants who received the mRNA vs. 2.8% who received the traditional flu shot developed the flu. Side effects were significantly greater in the mRNA group. Hospitalization and death were not reported.

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

“It really hurts right now, but just so thankful for the journey” ❤️

@HuskerSoftball's Jordy Frahm reflects on her career after bowing out of the #WCWS.

[mike wardlow @mikewardlow]

@NDSUsoftball BELLA DEAN

[mike wardlow @mikewardlow]

@wilkins_caden Congrats!

[mike wardlow @mikewardlow]

@NDSUsoftball BELLA DEAN! 👊💪

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Employees don't care about:

- Pizza Fridays
- Chocolate treats
- Discounts at the gym
- Office chair racing league
- Rainbow-colored stress balls
- Inspirational quotes on the walls

Employees care about:

[Ross Peterson @RossPeterson_]

I know of another high school coach at a school in Central Iowa, who recently resigned from his position for the exact same reason. Parents think they rule the roost. They are chasing out good sometimes great, sometimes Hall of Fame coaches! Coaches with decades of experience have said to me “ it’s not the kids it’s the parents”.

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

High School Playoffs.
Winning a high school state championship is special.
The players go to school with each other, in most cases for years, parents know each other, and it means something to the community.
High school athletics bring people together and form a bond forever.
High school athletics can't be replaced.

[mike wardlow @mikewardlow]

This stuff happens more than you'd expect. Too bad.

[Maren Angus @Maren_Angus]

"If you f– us, we f– you.”

Athletes from multiple programs are now speaking out, alleging a pattern of toxic behavior and raising major questions about how it kept happening.

Full story: https://t.co/lk92PPZ19u

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

Parents: You’re raising a child, not an athlete. Teach them respect, hard work, how to be a good person. Show them what character & work ethic are. Hold them accountable. Teach them that they won’t ever get what they don’t earn. Strong, well-rounded kids find success much easier!

[Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville]

My NIL bill is simple.

You get five consecutive years to play five seasons with one free transfer. If you choose to transfer again, you sit out a year.

Proud to be leading the charge to SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS.

[Game 7 @game7__]

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way.

Allow me to explain why.

Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots.

Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion.

He spent two nights in the ICU.

There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed.

This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close.

The full story behind today is insane.

In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes.

At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world.

Then everything slowly fell apart.

After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear.

Not regular nerves.

Actual, debilitating terror.

He was afraid he was going to die.

Afraid something was going to happen to his kids.

Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep.

At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour.

He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall.

His hands were trembling.

He had no appetite.

Spasms would jolt him awake at night.

He was losing focus over putts.

Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing.

An MRI finally revealed the cause.

A lesion was growing on his brain.

It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety.

Think about that.

The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation.

His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear.

In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy.

Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye.

They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing.

He walked out of the hospital two days later.

Started putting again two days after that.

He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open.

But he was nowhere near the same player.

In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes.

His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open.

For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers.

And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with.

Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD.

He kept it hidden for over a year.

He described being hypervigilant on the course.

A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was.

He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry.

He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds.

He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone.

He said he felt like he was living a lie.

Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf.

On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly.

He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything.

The PTSD.

The crying.

The fear.

All of it.

He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back.

Then he showed up at Memorial Park.

He opened with a 64.

Then a 63.

Then a 65.

Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out.

259 total.

A tournament record.

21-under par.

Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard.

Wire to wire.

Led every single round.

His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open.

Nearly seven years between victories.

Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see.

This is a guy who was a basketball player first.

He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future.

He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025.

The seventh player to ever receive it.

And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days.

The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here:

https://t.co/5ngVyMCs78

There is a reason this one hits different.

Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries.

Things you can see.

Things that heal on a timeline.

Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain.

Something that turned his own mind against him.

And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical.

It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay.

Three weeks ago he said the words out loud.

Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

If coaches want to limit kids from transferring they’ll have to form real, caring relationships with players while also helping them develop on & off the floor individually. When kids feel like they don’t matter, that’s when they leave. Develop all your kids; don’t diminish them!

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Spend time with your parents while you still can.

-Their time isn’t unlimited
-Their stories are your roots
-Their wisdom was earned the hard way
-They probably have a real food recipe you’ve never tried
-One day, you’ll wish for one more conversation

Start today!

MAHA

[Planet of Gymnastics @planetofgym]

“The administration set Ashley up for failure, set the team up for failure, and ultimately set the program up for failure.” - Sydney Converse, 2015-2020 Iowa State gymnast, sends statement to Planet of Gymnastics