Paul Allan

@wtamu grad. Fmr MRU Cougar tendy. Fmr College Sports PR. Dogs. Not that Paul Allen. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

My college roommate’s son is an assistant FB coach at Odessa Permian. #MOJO

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day. Philanthropist. Humanitarian. Fly high, Dolly.

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band.

Rest easy, Dolly 🤘

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Best of luck to #5 @MinnStFootball in season-opener at @CMUMavsFootball Thursday. Also, alma mater @WTAMUFootball hosts #11 @MountaineerFB (where niece Kimberly Allan works as Head Sports Performance Coach). #LetssssssGooooooo @HelmetAddict @JerryQuickel @WayneCavadi_D2

[Daily Faceoff Edmonton @dfoedmonton]

Genuinely he’s the only human on the planet who can move like this.

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@rocknrollofall La Grange
Mexican Blackbird

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Bill Rasmussen had some pretty strong hockey roots prior to founding ESPN. Along with serving as the comms director for the WHA’s New England Whalers (1974-78), in the 1960s he was the PxP voice of the Springfield Indians. The Indians were owned and operated by hockey legend Eddie Shore. #OldTimeHockey

[ESPN @espn]

ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen, whose out-of-the-box idea of a 24-hour cable sports network forever changed the landscape of sports media, died today at the age of 93.

A game-changer for the ages. Thank you for everything, Bill ❤️

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@Hanner66 💯

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Tommy John had 288 wins over the course of his 26-year MLB career ( his win total is 7th-most by a LHP in big league history and 2nd-most by any pitcher not in the Hall of Fame). He should be in the Hall of Fame. RIP TJ.

[Eagle Lake Expos @EagleLakeExpos]

Still stings but the Expos season came to an end last Thursday.

Good luck to all the teams heading to state and especially those who drafted Expos. @CaelWillaert to @WebsterSox, @DylanKopesky to @LeSueurBraves_ and @RistonWojcik to @UHBulldogs

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@TylerPartridge1 @ryan_schuh @Aspelund09 Other current nicknames. It’s a short list.
Big Dumper
Polar Bear

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

His nickname is Tugboat. Will immediately go to #1 on the Current Major League Best Nicknames List once he makes an appearance. @ryan_schuh @Aspelund09

[Tyler Partridge @TylerPartridge1]

Matt Wilkinson has been called up to the #SFGiants

When he makes his debut it will mark 2 Canadian baseball historical events:

1. It will tie the most🇨🇦born players to play in a single season in the modern era

2. He will be the 1st🇨🇦born player for the Giants since 1964

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Looks like @Osiecki24 had a turn at USIU, too.

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Sometimes it seems like it was a fever dream, but yes, there once was a NCAA DI men’s hockey program on the west coast. United States International University (USIU) in San Diego (1978-88). Played out of the Mira Mesa House of Ice. There’s a few great stories about the Gulls (Chris Chelios tried out for the team, but was cut before heading to Moose Jaw (SJHL) and future NHLer Shjon Podein played a semester for HC Brad Buetow there before transferring to @UMDMensHockey). #GreatWest @CHN_AdamWodon @KevinMcCabe987

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@Osiecki24 @TimHortons Right there with yah, Coach.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Another HUGE kick return for Trey Vaval to put the Blue Bombers in great field position!

#CFL

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@JoosNick @USBWA @RyanDBerryman @UNMLOBOS @IASTATEAD @CycloneATH Congrats, Nick!

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

Always, always find something from Mr. Reusse where I end up laughing.

“And now the scene switches to Dyersville, Iowa, where the corn was deemed to be magical in the “Field of Dreams,” the movie from 1989, where I’ve always contended the most unbelievable portion of the script was the tolerance of Ray’s wife, the Amy Madigan character.”

[Star Tribune Sports @StribSports]

Neal: The Twins’ Field of Dreams trip is a hassle, but a celebration of baseball worth embracing https://t.co/TuJfzFJSnk

[Paul Allan @PaulAllan5]

@Greseth The Skatin’ Aztecs!