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This angle is bananas.
How can you not be romantic about college football? 🇺🇸
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Great video about a program that in so many ways represents the very best of high school football. I can’t say enough about this place and the impact it has on young men.
As we head into Homecoming weekend and prepare for our 82nd annual Spaghetti Supper, we look forward to celebrating our 160th anniversary as a school and 128 years of MBA Football.
Tomorrow night, @MBAFootball takes on Knoxville Catholic — welcoming back generations of past players to celebrate their legacy and cheer on the Big Red.
At MBA, football isn't the destination, it's part of the journey. For 128 years on The Hill, the game has shaped men whose habits here carry on long after the clock runs out.
#RollRed
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Bobby Plump is 90. Made the most famous shot in Indiana high school basketball history. Without him there is no Jimmy Chitwood, no "Hoosiers."
Today, the @HoopsHall joins fans across the state in wishing Bobby Plump a very Happy 90th Birthday!
Inducted into the HOF in 1981, Bobby’s place in Indiana basketball history was forever cemented on March 20, 1954, when his famous last second jumper secured a state championship for Milan HS, a moment that captured the heart of the nation and came to define the true spirit of Hoosier Hysteria.
Beyond his iconic high school career, Bobby’s dedication to Indiana’s basketball heritage has left an indelible mark on our sport’s community. Please join us in celebrating a true legend and honoring a lifetime of unforgettable contributions to Indiana basketball! 🏀
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RIP Dolly Parton. Can now join Kenny Rogers. This is still one of my favorite live performances ever. Back when singing was singing.
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A Tennessee legend. A Southern icon.
A voice for the ages.
Thanks for a life well lived, Dolly 🧡
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UT has one of the most storied traditions in all of college football, but not enough people know about the General and his place in CFB and US history. This uniform and unveiling honors tradition and history as well as any alternate uniform I’ve ever seen. Just exceptional.
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Third Saturday in full color.
For the first time since 1970, both teams will wear their “home” jerseys.
2026 in Neyland.
2027 in Tuscaloosa.
read more → 1tn.co/4qnwC7C
#GBO 🍊
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Good morning. I have a new sports media company. Welcome to Sport & State. My welcome column telling you what the site will be and where I see media going. This will be fun. Check us out: sportandstate.com/2026/08/18…
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This is a terrific follow if you’re a fan of American history. It’s reporting the events of this date in 1776, as if in real time. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s reports.
After South Carolina reverses its position, Continental Congress votes to declare INDEPENDENCE from Britain, adopting a legal separation from the Crown.
Charles Thomson, Secretary for Continental Congress, uses hash marks to note how many colonies voted for the severance from the Crown.
John Adams writes in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that “the second day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in American history.”
But although newspapers report the independence, no mass celebrations break out.
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On this day in 1776, the United States was actually born. Not July 4. July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to break from Britain, and John Adams was so certain of it that he predicted July 2 would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything except the date.
The vote came down to the wire, and one man had to ride through the night to save it. Delaware's delegation was split, one for independence, one against, which meant the colony's vote canceled itself out. The tie-breaker, Caesar Rodney, was 80 miles away in Delaware. He got word that he was needed and rode all night through a summer thunderstorm, sick and in pain, boots and spurs still on, and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast Delaware's vote for independence.
The other holdouts fell into place too. In Pennsylvania, the men most opposed, including John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for the sake of a united front. When the roll was called, twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single one voted against. New York simply abstained, waiting on permission from home.
And so, on July 2, 1776, it was done. The colonies had legally, officially declared themselves free. The next day Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day "will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," with "pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations." Fireworks and all. He was describing the Fourth of July two days early.
So why do we celebrate the 4th? Because that's the day Congress approved the final wording of the document explaining the decision, the Declaration of Independence. The vote to be free happened on the 2nd. The paperwork got finished on the 4th, and history remembered the paperwork.
The country was actually born in a rainstorm and a roll call on July 2, thanks in part to one sick man who refused to let a tie decide the fate of a nation.
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