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Goals: Play on Fri, play on Sat, play on Sun. 10k+ hrs of practice. You knew all along. You did it son, welcome to the #NFL. @SnapFlow50
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There is no place in the world like Neyland Stadium and Knoxville Tennessee. #Vols
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liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk:
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Tennessee offered DeSean Bishop a walk-on spot. No scholarship, pay your own way.
He resented it.
Saturday he scored the touchdown that beat Arkansas with 1:57 left.
Here is what he says saved him.
Start with Saturday.
Tennessee and Arkansas were tied at 17 with seven minutes to go. Bishop broke a 59 yard run to set up the end of it, then took it in from the 8 up the middle.
He finished with 19 carries for 138 yards. The Volunteers won 24 to 17 and they are 5 and 1.
The Saturday before that he ran for 220 yards against Auburn.
Now go back.
He is from Knoxville and he went to Karns High School, about 15 minutes from the Tennessee campus.
Two schools offered him a scholarship. Coastal Carolina and Appalachian State.
Tennessee offered him a place on the team and nothing else.
He has said he did not like it at first. He took it anyway.
He hurt his ankle and redshirted. He was the backup the next year and ran for 455 yards.
In January of 2025 Tennessee finally put him on scholarship.
That season he ran for 1,076 yards and 16 touchdowns and made second team All SEC. The Athletic now ranks him the eighth best draft eligible underclassman in the country.
Now here is the part that got away from everybody.
In July, at SEC Media Days in Tampa, an ESPN reporter named Peter Burns asked him about his faith. Burns asked because Bishop's teammate Arion Carter had told him to.
Here is some of what Bishop said.
"Man, I'll tell you, I wouldn't be here without it."
"My Lord and Savior has treated me very good. More than I honestly deserve."
And this about the road to it.
"I came up from a lot of tribs and trials just to get to the spot I am now."
Then he said this.
"When God swooped in and saved my life, it came with all this that I've received now, so all glory to Him."
He said he was saved from "a really dark place, a path of destruction that I was on."
He has never said what that was, and nobody has asked him to.
He also did not pretend it is finished.
"It's a daily battle," he said.
Then he turned it outward.
"I encourage you to at least try to find a relationship with him. It changes your life for the better."
The clip went everywhere, hundreds of thousands of views. Kirk Herbstreit reposted it. One writer called it the most important 90 seconds of the entire event.
So that is the kid who walked on at the school down the road from his high school and did not like the terms.
Saturday he carried it 19 times and scored the one that won it.
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For almost 10 years you barely hear his name. That's because he's flawless at his job. Reid Ferguson appreciation post. Also a great human.
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We're the most technically advanced civilization in history. And the least competent at the same time.
SpaceX can catch a rocket. Delta can't land you at JFK on time, makes you rawdog the flight, and loses your bag.
Amazon gets you a package in 4 hours. The DMV needs 6 weeks for a license.
AI can pass the bar exam. Public schools can't teach kids how to do basic math.
Your watch can detect AFib. Your insurance needs 3 weeks to approve a visit.
Your car can spot a pedestrian and brake on its own. Your city can't keep needles off the sidewalk.
AI can design a new protein. Your hospital can't send you a correct bill.
AI can draw a building in minutes. The city takes three years to approve a duplex.
Satellites and cameras can track a car across the city. A man with 30 arrests walks out the next morning.
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On this day in 1536, William Tyndale was executed for translating the Bible into English 🏴
Betrayed and arrested near Antwerp, he was condemned and burned at the stake. His last words were:
“Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.”
Tyndale gave his life to one great cause: putting the Word of God into the hands of ordinary Englishmen and women in their own tongue.
His translation laid the foundation for the English Bibles that followed, including the King James Version, which preserved a remarkable amount of his language.
Within only a few years of his death, Henry VIII authorised the English Bible to be read openly in every parish.
Tyndale’s prayer was answered.
He stands as one of the great martyrs of the English Reformation - a man who believed that Scripture belonged to the people, not to be hidden behind a clerical monopoly.
He famously declared that the ploughboy in the field should know more of Scripture than a priest who sought to keep it from him.
“The Word of God ought to be in the mother tongue… for the people to read and understand.” - William Tyndale 🏴
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A projected ~9M CHRISTIANS in Texas will forget to vote in the midterm elections. That election is projected to be decided by less than 300k votes.
If godly people will not engage in politics, godless people will (and are).
FAITH IN ACTION: Southern Baptist Convention president fires back at calls for pastors to stay out of politics, urging Christian leaders to 'step up' ahead of midterm elections.
Willy Rice argues that abortion, marriage, gender identity and immigration are deeply theological issues that demand a pastoral voice in the public square.
Rice says the political and theological left never withdrew from politics — and that their silence created a vacuum conservative Christians are now paying for.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/souther…
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My dream Gen X retirement community isn't a golf course or a luxury resort.
It's a fully renovated 80s/90s shopping mall.
Half the building is apartments. The other half looks exactly like the mall we grew up in.
The Waldenbooks is now a massive library where you can spend hours getting lost in books.
The food court is part of your meal plan, so you can grab an Orange Julius, a slice of pizza, Chinese food, or sit down for a proper meal at Shoney's whenever you want.
The movie theater plays classics every night.
The arcade is free and packed with Pac-Man, Galaga, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, and every cabinet game we spent our allowance on.
Sam Goody is still there. You can browse CDs, listen to Bowie, The Ramones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or whatever you love. They even host monthly dance nights for anyone who still remembers MTV when it actually played music.
The Sharper Image has massage chairs you can reserve whenever your back reminds you that you're no longer 25.
The pharmacy is still an Eckerds.
Blockbuster is fully operational. You can rent movies, video games, and spend 30 minutes wandering the aisles before choosing something you'll probably fall asleep watching.
There's an aerobics studio offering Tae-Bo, Richard Simmons, MTV's The Grind workouts, and every fitness craze we survived the first time around.
There are fountains everywhere, a lazy river because we've earned it, and plenty of benches where people can sit and talk instead of staring at their phones.
Every morning we go mall walking before the stores "open."
Every evening we meet friends at the food court.
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. No influencers.
Just books, music, movies, arcades, friends, nostalgia, and the feeling that for a few hours, it's 1995 again.
Honestly, I'd put my name on the waiting list today.
