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On June 1st, the @tigers had the worst record in the AL. They were 9 games out of the wild card and 11.5 games back in the division.
They have gone 34-21 since.
Now, they trail the WC by 1 and the division by 3.5 (closest they’ve been since May 15th)
This is amazing
BRUTAL: This #Cowboys fan had his girlfriend commentate the final minutes of Dallas’ game against the Ravens — and she CALLED the choke job.
“Lamar throws the ball really far… they caught it at the 49”
“He kicks it. It’s good. It’s good. OH MY GOSH”
🤣
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what was it like to take down a future HOFer in Derrick Henry on two critical stops in Rio?
Jaishawn Barham.: “it’s football.”
reporter: “it didn’t mean anything?
Barham: “no, it’s football.”
Read this.
Case Keenum has been in the NFL since 2012. Until Monday night, his two kids had never seen him play a game.
Not one. Not ever.
Here is what he said before kickoff.
"It means everything. It's incredible because we always say 'Keenum's can do hard things.' So we'll do some hard things tonight. And hopefully I can show them tonight how it's done."
He is 38 years old. He was the third quarterback on the Chicago Bears depth chart.
Caleb Williams was ruled out. Backup Tyson Bagent went into concussion protocol. So the job fell to the guy nobody expected to take another snap in his life.
It had been 1,009 days since Case Keenum started a regular season NFL game. The last one was Christmas Eve of 2023 with the Houston Texans.
His son Kyler was born in November of 2019. His daughter Cadence was born in April of 2021.
Which means Case Keenum has been an NFL quarterback for every single day that either of his children has been alive, and neither one of them had ever seen him play a game. Cadence was two years old the last time he started one.
He arrived at Soldier Field carrying what looked like a paper sack, dressed like a man on his way to a parent teacher conference. The internet had a wonderful time with it. Somebody said his wife must have packed him a lunch.
That wife is Kimberly. The family calls her the logistical ninja, because she is the one who has packed and unpacked their whole life through the Houston Texans, the Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the Denver Broncos, Washington, the Cleveland Browns, the Buffalo Bills, Houston again, and now the Chicago Bears.
This is also the man who threw for 19,217 yards at Houston, which is still the most in the history of college football, and then went undrafted.
Then the game started.
24 of 34. 247 yards. Two touchdowns. No interceptions. Not sacked one time.
Eight yards to Luther Burden III in the first quarter. Forty one yards to Kalif Raymond in the third. Then in the fourth he kept it himself and walked it in from a yard out.
Three touchdowns from a third string quarterback.
Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7.
When it ended he walked off hyping up the crowd in the north end zone, and the whole stadium stood up for him.
And then came the part nobody could have written.
Keenum went out to do his postgame interview on the SportsCenter set. His daughter came with him. Five years old, out on that stage next to her dad, waving at a stadium full of Chicago Bears fans who were still standing there cheering for him.
Fourteen years of practice squads and backup jobs and new cities and moving trucks.
He said it himself when he signed here. More than knowing how to get hit, he knows how to get back up.
The first NFL game his kids ever got to watch, their dad won it, and he scored three times doing it.
Keenums can do hard things.
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DJ Moore went to lunch at ZJ's Family Restaurant in Hamburg, New York.
It is a family diner. Not a place with a velvet rope. Booths, a counter, regulars.
Somebody in there recognized him, and quietly paid for his meal. They never told him who they were. They just did it and let the server deliver the news.
So Moore pulled out cash and handed it to his server, a woman named Carol Poules.
"This is for everyone's meal that's sitting here, and the rest is for you."
Six or seven tables. Plus everybody sitting at the counter. A couple hundred dollars, and then a tip on top of that for Carol.
Her words.
"It was so exciting, it was a pinch-me moment. Very cool. He just seems like a good, genuine person."
One of the people who got a free lunch out of it was a woman named Carol Conklin.
"Nothing's ever happened like that to us before where someone will buy your lunch."
On his way out, the room called out Go Bills. He said it right back.
Here is the part that makes it land a little harder.
DJ Moore has been a Buffalo Bill for about six months.
He did not grow up there. He did not pick it. Carolina drafted him in the first round in 2018, then traded him to Chicago in 2023. Chicago traded him to Buffalo on March 11 of this year for a second round pick.
Eight seasons, more than 8,000 receiving yards, three teams. He has spent his career being moved around by people who make those decisions in rooms he is not in.
And then he walked into a diner in a town of 60,000 people, in a city he got assigned to, and a stranger who had nothing to gain from it bought him a sandwich and disappeared.
So he bought the room.
Buffalo does this. This is the city where fans sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Andy Dalton's charity because of one throw, and where they gave more than a million dollars to a children's hospital in Josh Allen's grandmother's name after she died.
It goes the other direction too, apparently.
A guy who has been traded twice paid for six tables of strangers because one of them was nice to him first.
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Dr Jesse McGuire’s trumpet broke while he was performing the National Anthem
He grabbed the mic & sang the rest of the way 🇺🇸
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George Brett was selected w/the 29th pick in the '71 Draft, and retired with 1596 RBI
Mike Schmidt was selected w/the 30th pick in the '71 Draft, and retired with 1595 RBI
Still having fun. At least.
The @Tigers broadcast had a hilarious message for Jason Benetti after he dropped some historical knowledge 🤣
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From the Peter Chase File:
The five players this century who reached base safely at least 252 times in their rookie season:
--Aaron Judge
--Ichiro Suzuki
--Albert Pujols
--Mike Trout
--Kevin McGonigle
*The first four won rookie of the year honors
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Here’s an NFL Films video on Brady’s Psychologist at Michigan Greg Harden
Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way
“Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’”
“‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.”
“I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.”
“I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’”
“Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.”
“You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.”
“I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”
Microwave.. this is a great follow. If you know, you know. Awesome story.
Seattle drafted Vinnie Johnson seventh overall in 1979 out of Baylor, where he'd averaged 24 points a game and once dropped 50 on TCU.
Two years later the Sonics traded him to Detroit, and he spent the next decade doing the same job every night.
Coming off the bench.
Thirteen NBA seasons and he was never the guy. He was the guy who came in when the guy needed a rest.
He was spectacular at it.
In the 1985 playoffs he scored 22 points in the fourth quarter against Boston. Danny Ainge came out of that game and gave him the name that stuck forever.
"If that guy in Chicago is the Refrigerator, then Vinnie Johnson is the Microwave."
In Game 5 of the 1990 Finals he hit a 14-footer with 0.7 seconds left to beat Portland and clinch Detroit's second straight championship. After that they called him 007 too.
Two rings. 11,825 career points. Number 15 hanging in the rafters in Detroit.
Total career earnings: about $6 million. His best season paid him $1.4 million, at the very end, in 1990.
He retired in 1992.
Three years later he started a company in Detroit that made packaging supplies for automakers.
Here's what he said the point of it was.
"I really wanted to get into business and create some jobs and opportunities. I wanted to do something different outside of basketball, but the main thing was giving back to the city of Detroit for all the support they have given me."
General Motors gave him his break. He shifted the company from packaging into automotive assembly, which meant building whole systems for car manufacturers instead of shipping them parts in boxes.
Then he just kept going.
Piston Group today does more than $3 billion in annual revenue. It employs over 10,000 people across the United States, Mexico and Canada, in about three and a half million square feet of plant space. It supplies Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota and Chrysler.
It is one of the largest minority-owned businesses in the world.
Vinnie Johnson is worth somewhere around half a billion dollars.
He made $6 million in thirteen years of professional basketball. His company now generates roughly 500 times that, every single year.
And he built it in the city that watched him play, specifically so people there would have somewhere to work.
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Yaxel Lendeborg, Aday Mara, Morez Johnson Jr. and the national champions are back at the Big House
