Eastsider 4 Lyfe

can't keep a good man down.....

[Eastsider 4 Lyfe @TheEastsider17]

My Man

[Jarrett Payton @paytonsun]

I definitely didn’t have Bill Belichick breaking down @WalterPayton film on my bingo card today. This is amazing, @Realrclark25! #NGL #Bears @insidetheNFL @NFLFilms

[William Jackson @Willie_jackson_]

A father of 6. Dead in Kuwait. Hidden for 6 months. 🚨
Sergeant Davios — NYPD officer, killed in the Iran war — wasn't counted as a war casualty because he was Black. Hegseth's Pentagon buried his name with his body. Racist, incompetent, and unforgivable. Say his name. 🔥

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️Let me introduce to you the Top 100 Names In The Epstein Files….‼️

[G @G__Chain]

Sal Sanchez 🆚 Azumah Nelson

📆 JULY 1982 📍 MSG , NYC 🏟️🗽

Mexico + Ghana’s finest ✨🥊

Sal tragically died month later 🕊️

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

He’s purely African 💯

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Ernie Davis' father died in an accident shortly after he was born.

His mother could not raise him on her own, so when he was 14 months old she left him in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, with her parents. His grandfather was a coal miner. He raised the boy until he was 12.

Then Ernie went to Elmira, New York, to live with his mother and his stepfather.

At Elmira Free Academy he earned eleven varsity letters. His basketball team won 52 straight games over his last two years and he scored 1,605 points.

About thirty schools offered him a scholarship. He said he picked Syracuse because it gave him the best chance to carry the football.

They gave him number 44. That was Jim Brown's number.

He broke most of Jim Brown's records with it. 2,386 rushing yards. 6.6 yards a carry. 35 touchdowns.

As a sophomore he scored 16 points in the Cotton Bowl against Texas, finished the season undefeated, and Syracuse was the best team in the country.

In 1961 he won the Heisman Trophy. He was the first Black player ever to win it. President Kennedy asked to meet him and shook his hand.

Then comes the part of this story most people do not know.

The Washington Redskins took him first overall in the 1962 draft. Their owner had kept that roster all white long after the rest of the league integrated, and the Secretary of the Interior had just told him to sign a Black player or lose the lease on his stadium.

Ernie Davis refused to play for them.

He was traded to the Cleveland Browns for Bobby Mitchell and a first round pick, and he was going to line up in the same backfield as Jim Brown.

In July of 1962 his neck swelled up. Doctors thought mumps, then mononucleosis.

On August 1 they told him it was acute monocytic leukemia.

He went to Johns Hopkins. He got into remission for four or five months. He came to the facility and practiced without contact and sat with Paul Brown working on game plans.

On August 18, 1962, Cleveland put him on the field at a preseason game, in a spotlight, in uniform, and let the crowd see him.

That was it. That was the only time Ernie Davis ever stood on that field in front of people.

He died at two in the morning on May 18, 1963, at a hospital in Cleveland. He was 23.

Both houses of Congress stopped to eulogize him. More than 10,000 people came through the wake in Elmira. A message from President Kennedy was read at his funeral.

He is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Syracuse retired number 44 in 2005.

He is the only man to win the Heisman Trophy, go first overall in the NFL draft, and never play a single professional down.

For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

[Eastsider 4 Lyfe @TheEastsider17]

@KarenNe42198784 @YourAnonNews Fuck Dat Bitch.....she did anything 2 keep a WhiteMan Happy.....Fuck Dat Bitch

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

RIP: West Virginia 4⭐️ DE commit Chris Wilson Jr. died last night in a shooting.

Wilson was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead on scene.

Tragic 😔

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

ESPN once ranked Myron Rolle the best high school football player in America.

He never played a single down in an NFL regular season game.

Today he operates on children's brains.

Rolle grew up in Galloway Township, New Jersey. His parents are from the Bahamas. He went to the Hun School of Princeton and by 2006 the recruiting services had him at the top of the board, a five star safety every program in the country wanted.

He picked Florida State.

Then he finished his bachelor's degree in exercise science in two and a half years with a 3.75 GPA, and made third team All-American in 2008.

And then he won a Rhodes Scholarship.

The interview was in Birmingham, Alabama, on a Saturday, the same day Florida State was playing at Maryland. The NCAA let him charter a plane. He sat for the interview, found out he had won, got on the plane, landed in College Park and played in the game.

Here is where it turns.

He was projected as a first or second round NFL pick. Instead he skipped the entire 2009 season and went to Oxford for a year to earn a master's degree in medical anthropology.

When he came back, the league had moved on.

The Tennessee Titans took him in the sixth round, 207th overall, in 2010. Two hundred and six players went ahead of a kid who had been the number one recruit in the country.

He never appeared in a regular season game for Tennessee. He spent a stretch with the Pittsburgh Steelers and got released.

That was it. That was the whole NFL career.

In 2013 he walked away from football entirely and enrolled at the Florida State College of Medicine. He was 26 and starting over in a field where everybody else had been pointed at it since undergrad.

He graduated in 2017. Then he matched into neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, which is roughly the hardest thing in American medicine to get into. Then a pediatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

In the spring of 2020 he was a resident working hospital floors during COVID.

Today he is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando. He runs the Myron L. Rolle Foundation, which does health and education work for children and families who need it.

Be honest about the football part. Nobody can prove Oxford cost him. Scouts had real questions about whether he would commit to the sport, and plenty of number one recruits never make it for reasons that have nothing to do with a scholarship.

But here is what we know for sure.

He was told he was throwing away a career. He went anyway.

And the thing everybody was afraid he would choose instead of football is the reason some kid in Orlando is going to wake up tomorrow.

For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.

He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.

Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.

He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.

Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.

He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.

He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.

He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.

The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.

The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.

Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.

He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

[Rookie Watch @RookieWatxh]

Dante Moore was just hit with one of the DIRTIEST SHOTS in the history of CFB.

Please pray for the healing of the Ducks QB and potential QB1 in the 2027 NFL Draft 🙏

[TMZ @TMZ]

Nolan Wells' phone allegedly had messages deleted after his final use.

🎥: CBS

[Brother Legend @BigBroLGND]

BREAKING: Nolan Wells had no water in his lungs. He couldn’t have drowned.

[combatsports @combatsporrt]

One of the most brutal beatings in the heavyweight history 🥶

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: The woman in this video was behind Donald Trump the day he was shot, where many viewers accused her of ‘giving the shooter instructions’ has allegedly been identified as FBI assistant director Janeen Diguiseppi, this is still a developing story,

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Did you ever learn about a white mother of five who was shot for driving a Black passenger?

Viola Liuzzo — Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965. She was from Michigan and drove to Alabama to help transport marchers after Bloody Sunday, ferrying activists between Selma and Montgomery in her own car.

Klansmen pulled alongside her car on a dark highway and shot her dead through the window, simply for driving a Black passenger.

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover then spread lies to the press smearing her character rather than honoring what got her killed.

She drove into Alabama to help people exercise a right they were being denied. She was murdered for it—and then her name was smeared by the FBI.

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[This Day In Gaming History @ThisDayGaming]

Remembering Elizabeth Peña on her birthday

Today we celebrate the incredible Elizabeth Peña, born 67 years ago. 🌟 From Mirage in The Incredibles game to her work in Prototype, her legacy continues to inspire. Let's honor her memory!

#ThisDayInGaming #ElizabethPeña

[The Associated Press @AP]

"I have to carve my own path": Melissa Barrera has started a production company to support pro-Palestinian creatives. She was dropped from the "Scream" franchise in 2023 for social media posts criticizing Israel.

#MelissaBarrera

[G @G__Chain]

Poetry in Motion ✨🦾