Wendy Schuller

PARENTS: If your son plays sports, hear me out. Predators are targeting athletes on purpose. Boys with a platform. A reputation. A starting spot. Something to protect — that’s exactly why they’re picked. The scheme: a predator poses as a girl, sends an explicit photo, and once your son sends one back — the trap closes. “We got you now.” This moves fast. Faster than most parents realize. Shame keeps boys silent, and silence is what predators are counting on. This is a growing crime and it’s happening on the same apps your son uses every day. Have this conversation before he needs it: if this ever happens, he comes to you. No shame. No punishment. Just help. LEARN MORE: timtebowfoundation.org/while… 🎙️: Parenting in a Tech World

Mike Leach on Halloween candy 😂 Amazing.

In an emotional moment, Thad Matta revealed that JJ Sullinger recently donated a kidney to his former Ohio State teammate Terence Dials. “Maybe the greatest thing that I’ve ever seen in my coaching career ... that’s what coaching is about.”

This might sound absolutely crazy - but now might be a GOOD time to buy a house. Almost no competition, very little demand, rising inventory, 7%+ rates, all while seller’s are approaching a slow holiday season. Lowball offers might get accepted here for those who are patient and play the numbers game.

White Shadow Guest Star, Mickey Mantle. Season 3 Episode "Reunion, Part 2." Jake takes Kenny on the town, and The Mick remembers Reeves played in the NBA. A little miffed Coach never mentioned he met The Mick to Vitaglia. I mean, I understand it was an emotional time.

Amazon released this “highlight reel” of the Rocky franchise in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first film. Inject this directly into my soul.

Pilates seems to be a challenge for a lot of people 😂😂😂😂

I went to Farrell’s as a child. It was absolute magic. It was THE place for birthdays & special celebrations for those of us who grew up in the 1970’s 🍨

This is why we have never wanted to plant pumpkins and let customers come pick their own from the fields. It’s also why all of our pumpkins get displayed on tables instead of on pallets or on the ground.

Washingtonians.

Baylor football is wearing a six-year-old's artwork on their helmets today. Her name is ILaria Ramirez. She is from Cameron, Texas. She is a patient at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Medical Center. Here is how it happened. Baylor players went over to the children's hospital and sat down with the pediatric patients. Not a photo op, not a walk through and wave. They actually sat down at tables with the kids and drew together. Blank Baylor Bear heads. Markers. Make it yours. ILaria made hers pink and teal. She put a bear right in the middle of it. And then she did two things that nobody told her to do. She gave it a name. She called it the Helmet of Hope. And she picked three words to go around the edge of it. FAITH. VICTORY. STRENGTH. A six-year-old chose those. Not a marketing department. Not a coach. Not her parents. Her. Baylor took her drawing, turned it into a decal, and put it on every single helmet for today's Gold Rush game against Louisiana Tech. Not a sticker on one guy's helmet. Not a patch on the sleeve. Every player on the field wearing a first grader's bear on the side of their head. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and gold is the color for it worldwide. Baylor asked the entire stadium to wear gold today. Head coach Dave Aranda on why: "ILaria is one of us, and so we represent her and want her and her family to know that we're fighting along with her." And linebacker Kyler Jordan, on what today actually is: "Way bigger than football." Here is the number that sits underneath all of this. Nearly 1 in 285 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer before they turn 20. One in 285. Before 20 years old. Which means in a stadium that holds 45,000 people, the math says a few hundred of them have already been through some version of what ILaria is going through right now. That is why the gold matters. That is why a helmet decal matters. Somewhere in that building today there is a kid who knows exactly what a hospital room looks like, watching a Division I football team run out of the tunnel wearing a drawing made by a girl who is six. FAITH. VICTORY. STRENGTH. She picked those words herself.

Children who take music lessons develop a larger corpus callosum, the bridge between the two halves of the brain, and the change is permanent. A 2005 review in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences found that early music training produces structural brain changes that persist into adulthood, even if the person stops playing. The review was led by Gottfried Schlaug at Harvard Medical School, one of the leading researchers on music and the brain. He found that children who started instrumental training before age seven had a significantly larger anterior corpus callosum than non-musicians, and the size difference was still visible in adults who had not touched an instrument in years. The corpus callosum carries signals between the left and right hemispheres. A larger one means faster, richer communication between the two sides, and the effect shows up in tasks that have nothing to do with music: spatial reasoning, verbal memory, and the ability to process multiple streams of information at once. The music built the highway, and the brain uses it for everything. Schlaug also found that musicians had larger cerebellums, the region involved in timing and motor coordination, and more grey matter in the areas that process sound. The brain had physically reorganised itself around the demands of the instrument, and the reorganisation was visible on a scan. The age window matters. Children who started before seven showed the largest changes. Children who started after ten showed smaller ones. Adults who took up an instrument for the first time showed the least structural change, though they still showed some. The brain is most willing to be rebuilt by music during the years when most parents are debating whether to sign their child up for lessons. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1659…

A memo, obtained by The Athletic, from the NCAA's secretary-rules editor and expected to go out to conferences and officials, clarifies the protocol to be used "When a replay review requires time to be restored ..." in a game.

HOLY SH!T! THIS IS HORRIFIC!!! Senator Mark Kelly’s daughter’s pitbull kills a baby seal 🦭 and refuses to let it go!!! The dog’s actions reflect being homed with a treasonous bastard, just like Mark Kelly. nitter.gq/AZJohnnyC/status/20958…

Why do data centers HAVE to be farm land or people's fields? I drive past 6 different abandoned buildings that could do the job and not take away land for food.