Rod XL

Physical Therapist. Bar spitter. Forever growing.

[From the Hawkeye of the Storm @FromTheHawkeye]

Perhaps the NCAA moment of the day...

The player on the right in this interaction is 6'8 btw 😳

Prairie View A&M's Hassane Diallo:

(*looks in awe*)
"You a freshman?"

7'8 Olivier Rioux:

"Yep."

Diallo:

"You BIG boy!"
(*silence*)
"Where you from?"

Rioux:

(*pause*)
"Canada."

Diallo:

(*looks in awe again*)

[🇵🇸Mr. lil harlow & the big steppers⛷️ @Nore_MCC]

Today's Jazz album rotation 💽

A tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Scenery - Ryo Fukui
COWBOY BEBOP - The Seatbelts
Concert in Japan - John Coltrane

[Atlanta Hood Historian @kodakk6000]

They only let the best rappers on earth at the time be on Swagger like us & T.I. was on that shit don’t talk to me bout no damn 50cent 😂

[NATE @NATERERUN]

After booking the Michael Jackson impersonator they helped him get his car out 😭

[NATE @NATERERUN]

Y’all this lady booked a Michael Jackson impersonator just to dance battle him as Janet Jackson 😭

[Hip Hop Historian @HHistorian50532]

Best Lebron HS highlights you’ll ever find are tucked away on old streetball DVDs

[🦅 @JayZ0verrat3d]

youll think all she do is back you down then she turn around and hit a nowitzki off 1 leg lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

[MichaelPorterTruther @MPJTruther]

Michael Porter Jr. plays NBA basketball while wearing the brace that stroke victims are given to re-learn how to walk

He is averaging 25.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists on 50/40/80 while disabled

The mentally toughest athlete in American sports

[Hip Hop Historian @HHistorian50532]

George Floyd AKA “Big Floyd” was rapping on DJ Screw tapes in 1994, he also played High School football with Big Pokey & Big Moe.

Pictured below in middle row, George Floyd (left) and Big Pokey (right)

RIP to all three

[COOLEE BRAVO @ItalianFiesta]

Dis exactly when yo mama would walk in and ask what you watchin

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Fred VanVleet revealed that on Kawhi’s first day in Toronto, he said he had no plans of staying

“I don’t know why they traded for me. I don’t want to be here. I’m not staying here.” 😅

(🎥 @hellowelcomepod )

[Mike Jagacki @Mike_Jagacki]

Mark Daigneault said something that should reshape how every defender thinks about the game:

“The players are too talented and the teams are too good to let them have their way… What does the opponent want the game to look like — and how can we disrupt that?”

That’s not just a quote. It’s a defensive philosophy.

Too many defenders grow up thinking defense is about reacting — sliding laterally, staying in front, and seeing what will happen to them. But at the highest levels, the offense isn’t going to beat itself. If you allow great players to dictate where they go, when they go, and how they go, you’ve already lost the possession.

What Daigneault is really describing is disruptive control. The idea that defense isn’t passive, but active. Rhythm is offense’s greatest weapon, and disruption is defense’s.

The best defenders don’t wait to react to what the offense is doing. They decide what the offense is allowed to do. They determine the terms of engagement. That is one of the biggest mindset shifts for developing defenders.

[35KYSports @35KYSportsMedia]

Big Russ tells the story of how he asked Coach Pitino to move Russ to the two guard spot before Louisville’s trip to the Bahamas. That decision helped spark one of the greatest turnarounds in program history. Russ went from thinking about leaving after his freshman year to becoming a national champion and a first team All American. Moments like that show how much a father’s voice can matter in this game.

Full interview is in the bio on Corey’s Corner on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

[300k Tray @TraySold]

Boy them PS2 games will cheat you in the worse way 😂😂

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

When T.J. Ford broke out the slip-n-slide move in 2001 👀

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

The gradual physical decline associated with age is subtle, and it starts neurologically, primarily with BALANCE

Not with standing upright and walking (that comes later)

but being able to move laterally, shuffle, skip, sprint, cross your feet, be in a split stance, level changes

These movements require muscle and power, but more than that, they require good peripheral vision, vestibular function, knowing where your body is space

You wont notice youve lost them until you go to do them, and CANT

[Jordan Jones @JordanJones2025]

Senior Year Varsity Highlights

.438 Avg | 31 RBI's

[Maxisnicee @maxisnicee]

Zion @ Media Day 🤣😭😂

[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

🤝

[Niko @nikotaughtyou]

Worst commissioner ever lol called the sport a “highlight sport”. Get him out my face.