Uniforms for the Army-Navy college football game have never looked cooler.
Please consider donating to my most recent Donors Choose Project. I am the 6th grade volleyball coach and we desperately need a new net!
Here’s the best part, your donation is eligible for a matching donation (cue the NPR fundraising drive pleas!) By entering “INSPIRE” code from now until October 9th each donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Or, enter the code “HoraceMann2012” and each donation will be matched up to $100.
Thank you so very much!
Signal boost!
14 Adorkable Photos Of The U.S. Olympics Team Dancing | BuzzFeed
These should have been the official portraits. (Pictured: Gabby Douglas)
How can you not root for this girl?
This is the same guy who split his suit at World’s and gave everyone quite the show.
Whoa. I agree with Barkley on something guys.
Cleveland fans, we are fantastic.
RETURN OF THE BAT After nine years away from the team, designated hitter Jim Thome rejoined the Cleveland Indians yesterday, where he began his major league career in 1991. He left the team in 2002 as a free agent, a move that angered many fans at the time. “Maybe I said some things that weren’t right,” Thome said yesterday. “Maybe you’re given a second chance to say you’re sorry. Maybe that’s why I’m sitting here.” (Photo: Joshua Gunter/ The Plain Dealer)
We love Thome in Cleveland — we get angry, but we get over it if you were good to us.
This is Dorothy Kamenshek, a star player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League who helped inspire the lead character in the movie A League of Their Own. Kamenshek played first base for the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches from 1943 to 1951 and again in 1953, and finished among the league’s top 10 career batting leaders, with an average of .292. She was named one of the top 100 female athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated, winning batting titles by hitting .316 in 1946 and .306 in 1947. Kamenshek died in 2010. (Photo / caption via the New York Times)
Obvious must-reblog.
I’m really going to miss the sweater vests.
The Clevelander that I am, Lebron James is certainly not my favorite person.
I am happy, however, to hear that he is using his fame for good.
Now, alongside State Farm, James has high school dropouts in his sights. The insurance giant recently launched a program called 26 Seconds, due to the staggering fact that a student drops out of high school every 26 seconds in the United States. The basketball star appears on the 26 Seconds website and helped launch the campaign.
James, who went straight to the NBA after high school, first announced his participation last Wednesday on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s weekly radio show. (Krzyzewski coached James in the 2008 Olympics.)
“First of all, ‘26 Seconds’ is basically an initiative behind kids staying in school,” James said on the show. “Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of school, and that’s not good. I think in America, we all know when kids graduate, they have a better future in life.”
I just hope he realizes that he is a role model for many kids, and that his actions on and off the court do send them a message.
