AG2G! Gods Plan! Couldn’t have wished for it any other way. After a great conversation with Coach Gonzales and Coach Brennan, I am beyond humbled and grateful to announce that I have received my 1st offer from the University of Arizona! #BearDown#GodD11D 💙❤️
The janitor saw a soldier crying alone at the gate. What he did next left the whole terminal speechless.
It was just past 6 a.m. at a busy airport when Army Corporal James Whitfield sat down in an empty row of seats at Gate 14 and put his head in his hands.
He had just missed his flight.
Not because he was careless. Not because he overslept. James had been held up in a security line for 40 minutes, his military ID triggering an additional screening that morning of all mornings. By the time he reached the gate, the door was closed. The plane was already pulling back from the jetway.
He was supposed to be on it to say goodbye to his mother.
She had passed away three days earlier. The funeral was in eight hours, two states away. And James a 26-year-old who had spent the last year deployed overseas, had come home just in time to miss it.
He didn't make a scene. He just sat there in his uniform, quietly falling apart.
That's when Marcus Webb noticed him.
Marcus, 58, had been mopping the floor near the gate when he looked up and saw the young soldier. He set his mop aside, walked over, and sat down next to him without saying a word. After a moment, he asked, simply: "You okay, son?"
James told him everything.
Marcus listened. He didn't offer empty words. He didn't say it'll be okay. He just sat with him in the quiet for a moment, nodding slowly. Then he stood up, took off his work gloves, and said, "Wait here."
Marcus walked to the nearest ticket counter. He had $800 in his checking account, his rent was due in five days. He asked the agent for the next available flight to James's destination. She found one leaving in two hours. The ticket cost $794.
Marcus paid for it without hesitating.
When he walked back to Gate 14 and handed James the printed boarding pass, the soldier stared at it like he didn't understand what he was holding.
"I can't let you do this," James said, his voice breaking.
Marcus shook his head. "You already can't stop me."
A gate agent who witnessed the exchange later shared the story online. Within hours, thousands of strangers had found Marcus's GoFundMe and covered his rent three times over. He refused most of it, asking that the rest go to a veterans' fund.
"I just saw a young man who needed to be somewhere. I had the money. He needed it more than I did that day. That's all it was." Marcus Webb, airport custodian
James made it. He walked into the funeral home twenty minutes before the service began, still in his uniform.
His family said his mother would have loved the story.
They'd never met before that morning. They've talked every week since.
WEMBY JUST DROPPED A BAR:
"The lack of experience is a strength of us...because we could do impossible stuff because we don't know it's impossible" 🥶
(h/t @ohnohedidnt24)
🇺🇸👤❤️Une CONDUCTRICE Uber en difficulté confie son rêve de finir ses études. Quelques heures plus tard, un PASSAGER paie SECRETEMENT sa DETTE UNIVERSITAIRE.
En 2018 à Atlanta, Latonya Young, mère célibataire de 3 enfants, conduit Uber le soir après son métier de coiffeuse.
Lors d’une course après un match de foot, elle confie à son passager Kevin Esch qu’elle a dû arrêter l’université à cause d’une dette de seulement 693 $.
Quelques jours plus tard, sans rien dire, Kevin se rend à Georgia State University et règle la dette. Latonya peut reprendre ses études.
En décembre 2019, elle obtient son diplôme… et Kevin est présent à la remise pour la féliciter. Ils sont restés amis depuis.
(CNN; People Magazine)
Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul says $200 million isn't as much money as athletes think
"I got guys, 22, making $200 million over the next four or five years. I'm constantly telling them that's not a lot of money based upon where you're starting, because you're starting from zero"
"How do we understand how to compound that. Everyone's not going to play into their 40s. They're done when they're 33. They're paying a 51–55% tax"
"Not to mention jeans today, the ones they want that they're buying in excess, which they probably don't really need, cost $2,000"
"No athlete can afford to fly private all the time, yet we see so many athletes on Instagram flying private"
"I fly Delta. I cannot afford to fly private, and that's okay with me. I'm just trying to get where I'm trying to go to make the money. I'm not trying to spend the money"
"The times I do fly private, you will never see it on Instagram because it's not for show"
So apparently that Wemby and the nuns concept campaign for @Nike comes from Asher (📸 Insta: @asherhyde), a 20-year-old design student from the a University of Southern California.
The budding artist shares snippets of his life and samples of his work with over 90K followers and he's got some killer NBA and Wemby ad concepts.
Good rainy morning from Arlington National Cemetery.
Specifically, the final resting place of your hero husband Staff Sgt. Alan Shaw.
His grave now has some fresh roses placed in front of it, alongside two American flags, a reminder that Americans truly appreciate his sacrifice.
God bless you and your family on this Memorial Day 🙏🏻🇺🇸
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Love to see it! Graduates of Meharry Medical College participate in the #PassThePhone challenge alongside fellow doctors from their class.👏🏾🎓 (🎥: @k.jamere_) ✍🏾:#TSRStaffJRx
***Incident Update***
Incident Commander Chief Covey provides an update on the hazardous materials incident in Garden Grove. Our next update will be provided tomorrow morning unless there is a change in incident status.
I interviewed the most loyal player in college football. @thenoah_fifita1
Noah Fifita is one of only five senior QBs in the nation still playing for the team that recruited him - @ArizonaFBall
We talked about the expectation for 2026, the pressures of being a @HeismanTrophy candidate, and what made him stay loyal to the program.
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