Allow me to explain:
1) They are an undefeated National Champion in the playoff era (this immediately narrows it down to 6 teams)
2) They were forced to play the second half of the year without their sign stealer, while every other power team was allowed to keep their sign stealer, but they kept winning anyway. (I know y’all will lose your minds over this one, but it’s a fact).
3) They lost their Unanimous All-American offensive lineman with a season ending injury during the biggest regular season game of the year, but they kept winning anyway (as a team that relied heavily on the run game).
4) Their head coach wasn’t on the sidelines for 6 regular season games, but they kept winning anyway.
5) They won it all in the new NIL era where every team was paying players, rather than the era of big SEC teams funneling money to players while most other teams on the country could not.
6) They beat the undisputed greatest coach of all-time in the playoffs.
I could keep going, but this is enough to make my point.
Baker Mayfield:
-Heisman Trophy winner
-#1 pick in NFL Draft
-walked on to Texas Tech and became starting quarterback as a True Freshman
-transferred to Oklahoma and beat out Trevor Knight when everyone told him he was crazy
-won a playoff game with the Cleveland Browns
-hottest wife in the NFL
-2-time Pro Bowler
-definitely spends 30 extra minutes with special needs kids at the hospital
-definitely holds the door for elderly women
-definitely drinks 15+ beers and has way too good of a time at a dive bar
Baker Mayfield is the Michael Phelps of Johnny Manziels.
If you’re not a fan of Baker Mayfield you’re not a fan of life.
Last year ESPN FPI didn’t have eventual national champ Indiana in initial Top 25 rankings & its No. 1 team Texas didn’t even make playoffs. Also didn’t rank Texas Tech. Good times
Look who came back to take a Tram Ride to the Top! It's Brad & Grandma Joy, who at 93-years-old became the oldest person in the world to visit all 63 U.S. National Parks after first visiting @gatewayarchnps in 2019.
Now they have a book out about their adventures and there are a limited number of signed copies for sale in the Arch Store!
A championship foundation. A familiar leader.
Mike Boynton Jr. has been appointed head coach of Michigan Men’s Basketball.
Read more about the next chapter in Ann Arbor. ⬇️
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Orville Wright died on January 30, 1948.
Kenny Loggins was born on January 7, 1948.
That means the guy who invented flight and the guy who sang “Danger Zone” from “Top Gun” were alive at the same time.
IT'S 'HEAR, HEAR,' NOT 'HERE, HERE.'
IT'S 'SNEAK PEEK,' NOT 'SNEAK PEAK.'
IT'S 'EXACT REVENGE,' NOT 'EXTRACT REVENGE.'
IT'S 'BY AND LARGE,' NOT 'BY IN LARGE.'
THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA.
Two countries split from the same colonial body in 1965. One picked economic freedom. The other picked handouts and racial spoils. You already know how this ended.
Singapore had no oil, no farmland, no hinterland. Just a swamp and a port. Lee Kuan Yew looked at that and trusted trade, low taxes, and hard money. Central planners hate what he did.
Malaysia went the other way. In 1971 Kuala Lumpur launched the New Economic Policy, a state program handing quotas, contracts, and university seats to ethnic Malays. Politicians decided who got what. A commissar fantasy dressed in liberal language.
Now let's look at the numbers. In 1965 both places sat around $500 per capita. Today Singapore clears $84,000. Malaysia sits near $13,000. Same climate, same starting line, one sixth the result.
The Singapore dollar holds its value because the Monetary Authority of Singapore manages it against a currency basket and refuses to print its way out of trouble. The ringgit has lost roughly two thirds of its value against the Singapore dollar since 1981.
You cannot subsidize your way to wealth. You cannot redistribute what you never let people produce. Every ringgit funneled through a quota is a ringgit some bureaucrat spent on his own vision instead of a customer's.
Malaysia bet on planners deciding outcomes. Singapore bet on people deciding for themselves. The gap between $84,000 and $13,000 is your answer.
That time @TimHowardGK went scorched earth vs. Belgium in the @FIFAWorldCup RO16. 🧤
His 16-save performance remains one of the most memorable in @USMNT history. 🇺🇸
Sure, it's complicated with everything, but the fact that US already played a half hour with 10 men and could have lost for a clearly incorrect call seems like penalty enough.
Here’s what I know about the Yankees:
1. The roster isn’t good enough and this was obviously the case opening day
2. Aaron Boone has proven he can’t lead a team to consistent effort + overall a higher baseline output given the roster at hand
3. Brian Cashman has proven too passive to run the most recognizable and commercial franchise in the sport
4. Matt Blake is the lone highlight on staff that has his flaws as well, however that’s normal to find of any staff member in history
5. Hitting coach James Rowsen has no idea what he’s doing (addition of “upper cut” to Austin Wells)
Seriously? Not much else is needed here
6. Aaron Judge needs to be far more outspoken with not just this group but every group he leads from here on
7. The Yankees need to figure out if they want short term solutions in Trent Grisham or a chance to see Dominguez/Jones (no right answer just pick a lane)
8. Hal Steinbrenner (despite it’s unlikelihood) is the only person important in all this
Without him agreeing he’s seen enough from this umbrella of ineptitude, this franchise will never win anything meaningful on his watch
Click the button or bare witness to your continued glass ceiling of wildcard births
Sometimes, a place can change a life.
For Theodore Roosevelt, that place was North Dakota's Badlands. After personal tragedy, he found peace in the rugged landscape, inspiring a lifelong commitment to conservation.
On July 4, we celebrated the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, built where that journey began.