Defense may win championships (and they have it!), but watching this lineup mash the ball is a lot of fun!
Hitters:
@BryceBohnhoff .500, 1.119 OPS
@IsaacGauthier21 .429, 1.250 OPS, 4 2Bs, 3B, HR, 13 R
@HudsonMere78432 .391, 1.311 OPS, 2 2Bs, 2 3Bs, 13 R
Nolan Whitmore .375, 3B, HR
@Nwebs17 .348, 2 2Bs, 3B
@daultyfaulty .333, 4 SB
@SPennycuff49956 .333, 2B, 3B, 10 RBI
@CanesMidwest
Solid off-season @JAYoung_MV29! Keep grinding!
Excited to see what these young men can put together in 2027!
Pitchers: (Part 2)
@JAYoung_MV29 9.0 IP, 4 H, 12 K, 2.3 ERA, T87
@dillon_sam17171 6.2 IP, 5 H, 7 K, T85
@NoahAdams44 6 IP, 4 H, 14 K, T84
@Dagg_Thompson2 6 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 13 K, 0.0 ERA, T84
@CanesMidwest
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That’s a wrap on the fall season!
✅ 11-1 Record
✅ PBR September Slugfest Champs
✅ PBR Survivor Series Runner-Up
✅ Campus Visits to Wright State, Indiana State, Eastern Illinois, & Wabash College
Individual Fall Stats 👇
Solid take!
Jim Carrey Just Explained Depression Better Than Most Therapists
Jim Carrey: “Sadness is just from happenstance, whatever happens to you or doesn’t happen to you.”
“Depression is your body saying, ‘I don’t want to be this character anymore.’”
“You don’t want to carry this persona that you’ve created for the world.”
“I heard Jeff Foster talk about depression as ‘deep rest.’”
“Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character you’ve been trying to play.”
“Sometimes, what feels like breaking down can be a signal that something in your life needs attention.”
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Ohio State's quarterback is out, and the freshman next in line once flew to Columbus on a visit with no scholarship offer from them.
Julian Sayin was the player who hosted him that weekend.
Luke Fahey is the one in line for Sayin's job now.
He is from Mission Viejo, California, and he went to Mission Viejo High School there.
His parents met at Ohio State and then moved to California, so he was raised a Buckeyes fan about 2,000 miles from the stadium.
In June last year he took his official visit to Columbus with nothing in hand. If Ohio State did not offer, he was going to commit to Indiana.
The offer came two days later. He committed eleven days after that.
Here is what had been happening at home.
Fahey shared the Mission Viejo quarterback job with a kid named Draiden Trudeau for two full seasons. His sophomore year and his junior year.
He was a sophomore sharing snaps when Mission Viejo beat De La Salle 27 to 14 for a state championship. He threw for 2,184 yards and 26 touchdowns that season and still was not the full time starter.
In Southern California, players move schools over a depth chart. He stayed at Mission Viejo for four years.
Here is the reason he gave.
"It speaks to what my dad and mom have preached to me since I was a little kid."
"That you can't up and leave. Loyalty is one of the biggest things in my family."
As a senior he threw for 3,199 yards and the Orange County Register named him its offensive player of the year.
Then 247Sports moved him from a four star down to a three star, after he had already committed.
He enrolled in Columbus in January and passed a five star on the depth chart by August.
Ryan Day on how he did it. "He works his tail off in terms of his preparation." "He's in here early and leaves late."
But the thing worth knowing happened after a road game at St. Paul.
Fahey was the best player on the team. He stayed behind and was the last person picking up trash in the visiting locker room before the bus left.
One person saw him do it. His head coach.
Here is what that coach, Chad Johnson, says about him.
"He's the best leader I've had in 25 years of coaching. He's the total package."
Eric Sondheimer at the Los Angeles Times is the one who found that, back in December.
Now the case against all of it. Fahey has thrown thirteen passes at this level. Day has not named a starter, and Tavien St. Clair, the five star he passed, is taking reps with the first team again. This can still go the other way.
But Sayin went down at Indiana. The school Fahey was ready to commit to.
And Ohio State's next game is in Los Angeles, up the freeway from Mission Viejo High School.
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New PR.
Trusting the process and putting in the work with @CoachRCarlton & @21rorka.
@CanseMW2029
@Baseball_MVHS
@CTrinkle23
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“And now you know… the rest of story. Paul Harvey. Good day!”
Christian McCaffrey's grandpa was the fastest man on Earth, and at the 1960 Olympics he was quietly helping the CIA try to flip a Soviet athlete.
That's the family tree behind this jersey swap, and the rest of it is even better.
His name was Dave Sime. He showed up at Duke on a baseball scholarship as a premed kid, taught himself to sprint by reading every track book in the library, and in 1956 he tied the world record in the 100-yard dash. Sports Illustrated called him the world's fastest human and put him on the cover.
At the Rome Olympics he lost the 100 meters in a photo finish and took silver. On that same trip he was working on getting a Soviet long jumper to defect.
Pro baseball teams wanted him and the Detroit Lions drafted him, but he went to med school and spent his career in Miami doing more than 10,000 eye surgeries.
Then his youngest daughter Lisa went to Stanford to play soccer and fell for a wide receiver named Ed McCaffrey. Ed played 13 years in the NFL and won three Super Bowls, the first one with the 49ers.
Ed and Lisa had four boys, and all four played big-time college football. Max played receiver at Duke, the same school where his grandpa set records. Christian was the Heisman runner-up at Stanford. Dylan played QB at Michigan. Luke, the youngest, was a quarterback at Nebraska who transferred to Rice, switched to receiver, and got drafted 100th overall in 2024.
Three of them made the NFL. Christian had played with or against every brother except Luke, which is why he said going into Monday that this game would complete the cycle.
Luke has one thing on his famous brother too. He ran a 4.47 forty at the 2024 combine, and Christian ran a 4.48 back in 2017. So the fastest McCaffrey brother, by one hundredth of a second, is the kid who spent most of college playing quarterback.
The 49ers won 23-17 and Christian punched in two touchdowns. After the whistle Luke was already out of his Commanders jersey while Christian pulled off the one with the captain's C.
The man who said no to the Lions ended up grandpa to three NFL players. He died in January 2016, before any of them had played a down.
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Tyrese Haliburton broke down during his postgame interview with Jeremiah Johnson 🥹
So good to have you back, 0 💙
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🚨🚨 NFL #Colts legend Edgerrin James once used money from his first NFL signing bonus to purchase two rundown buildings in his hometown of Immokalee, Florida, and transform them into a recreational center for local children.
The former Indianapolis Colts running back grew up in a community affected by poverty and drug-related problems. After reaching the NFL, he wanted to create a place where children could safely spend their time and pursue their interests
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You almost certainly know someone who stutters and have never noticed. About 1 in 100 adults does, and most of them hide it by swapping out words in their head a split second before they come out.
An NFL locker room after a game takes that trick away from you completely.
People who stutter can usually feel a block coming right before it hits, so the brain reroutes on the fly. You were about to say "Thursday" and it comes out as "later this week." You were going to say "touchdown" and you say "the score" instead. If you've done that your whole life, you can sound pretty much fluent to everyone around you.
But some words don't have a backup. There's no other way to say your own name. Same goes for your quarterback's name, the team you just played, the score, or what down it was. Speech researchers list names, numbers and dates as the words people who stutter dread most, because there's nowhere to reroute to.
So picture what a postgame interview actually is. You've got a circle of reporters with cameras, questions coming at you from every direction, and almost every real answer is made of names and numbers. You don't get ten seconds to plan a path around a hard word, and every time you get stuck, it's on tape for anyone who wants to clip it.
That's what happened to KC Concepcion at the Combine back in March. Clips of him getting stuck in front of reporters went around and people piled on. He answered with an Instagram post saying he's stuttered since he first started talking and that he wants to be a role model for kids who are scared to speak up.
For adults, this stuff is about as hard-wired as it gets. Around 5% of kids stutter at some point and roughly 80% of them grow out of it, which is how you get down to 1% of grown-ups. Twin studies put the genetic share somewhere between 50 and 80 percent. His dad, who also played football, has the same stutter.
A week before the draft he wrote a letter to all 32 GMs in The Players' Tribune. He told them they'd probably heard he stutters, and then told them he's the best receiver in the class. Browns GM Andrew Berry liked it so much he called KC himself. Cleveland took him 24th overall.
So think about this for a second. A guy who's spent his entire life steering around the words that scare him ended his letter to every team in the NFL with "Did I stutter?"
POWERFUL: #Browns rookie WR KC Concepcion has battled a stutter his entire life but he still makes it a point to speak with the media after every game.
KC continues to show incredible courage and is an inspiration to everyone who struggles with a stutter.
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Your Phone
Does not belong in the dugout.
Does not belong in the weight room.
Does not belong in the cages.
Does not belong in the locker room.
Does not belong in the class room.
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POWERFUL: #Browns rookie WR KC Concepcion has battled a stutter his entire life but he still makes it a point to speak with the media after every game.
KC continues to show incredible courage and is an inspiration to everyone who struggles with a stutter.
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We have to start denouncing and renouncing this type of brash ignorance.
This isn’t about Hurts commitment to football, it’s about medical professionals carelessness and negligence.
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You notice anything?
Look at what separates the two groups.
It isn't technology.
It isn't complexity.
It's one variable: how much the state is involved.
At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply.
At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.
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Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.
Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.
The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.
That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.
A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
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Here's where your kids will actually grow up, get married, buy a house... and stay close to Mom and Dad
This a different way to view things, perhaps this is whay you really want?
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas hands his 21-year-old son a check for $10,000.
"Okay. You're on your own," Kirk says.
Michael looks at the check. "That's great, Dad, but I still have two years of college tuition left."
Kirk doesn't care. The lesson has started. The bank is closed.
For the next 30 years, Kirk Douglas proudly brags to his other children and everyone who would listen: "Michael never asked me for another dime. I gave him that money, and that was it. I made him a man."
He believed his extreme tough love had worked perfectly. Until Michael finally sat him down three decades later.
"Dad, you remember those beautiful, soft Italian leather suitcases you bought me for Christmas back then?" Michael asked.
"Yeah," Kirk smiled.
"Well, I found out that each suitcase could hold exactly 22 kilos of marijuana."
To pay his tuition and survive his father's brutal lesson in self-reliance, Michael became a drug smuggler. He moved product across the country using the exact same bags his father bought him.
Society glorifies tough love. We are told that cutting the safety net and applying maximum pressure is the only way to build true character.
But when you push someone to the absolute edge, they don't always learn the moral lesson you intended. Sometimes, they just learn how to survive by any means necessary.
