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HARD EDGE- 🥷 Amazing 🙌official visit, everything about it was first class. That defensive staff has me jacked up to be a mountaineer. 🟡🔵 Coach Zac Alley Coach Andrew Warwick Rich Rodriguez West Virginia Football West Virginia Sports Now Sidelines - West Virginia ⛰ Chris Anderson Keenan Cummings Brandon Huffman

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12,136 views • 1 year ago

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2027 Team Thad 6’0” G Justin Frison out of Houston HS (Memphis, TN) had a dominant EYBL session in Memphis. 15.5 PPG | 9.5 AST | 6.5 REB | 2.9 STL | 52.5% FG | 50% 3PT (10-20) Frison is now hearing from these schools, his agency Sports Network LLC tells me: Creighton UAB Wichita State West Virginia Xavier Ole Miss Nebraska Murray State Miami Ohio Belmont I was most impressed with how Frison controlled the game this weekend. Sets up his teammates extremely well (EYBL leader in ASTs) and is pesky on the defensive end (EYBL leader in STLs). Doesn’t matter if he has the ball in his hands or not, Frison is a net positive on the court. Expecting his recruitment to blow up this summer. MM+/HM- schools should be all over him. Justin F.

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🏈 Madison HS just beat Lake Braddock 47-19 in Virginia state playoffs and now meets Oscar Smith HS in VHSL Athletics finals Sat, Dec. 14, 5 PM at James Madison University. Why did I just spend my Saturday reporting at a football game in Vienna, VA? Same reason I have spent six months covering a story with G that I call Friday Night Lies. Read the timeline on our findings here: Our local journalism Fairfax County Times Pearl Project is helping protect the integrity of youth sports and the values of transparency and accountability in public schools. My friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl once told me: “Sports is a democracy,” and I take from that this important value to uphold: playing by the rules with integrity. Youth sports is so powerful and made such a big difference in my life as an immigrant girl from India, transplanted to West Virginia. If you have a story to share about questions related to the integrity of youth sports in your community, write to me at [email protected]. This story has struck a nerve. I’d like to tell the wider story too. Support the journalism of the Pearl Project here:

Asra Nomani

20,827 views • 1 year ago

On 1 January 1962, the first SEAL Teams were officially established: SEAL Team ONE in Coronado, California and SEAL Team TWO in Little Creek, Virginia. On 6 June of that year, President John F. Kennedy made the following remarks at West Point to the U.S. Military Academy graduating class: “This is another type of warfare, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin – war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It is a form of warfare uniquely adapted to what has been strangely called ‘wars of liberation,’ to undermine the efforts of new and poor countries to maintain the freedom that they have finally achieved. It prays on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training.” For more on the history of the SEAL Teams, visit the Navy SEAL Museum website and make plans to visit this year.

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Jack Carr

39,723 views • 7 months ago

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Q Jonathan Macri: "You're extension eligible…you're currently the longest-tenured Knick" (applause) Deuce McBride: "Crazy" JM: "How much would it mean to you to be a Knick for the foreseeable future?" Deuce: "Man, I would love it. When I came to New York I didn't know anything about it. I knew it was fast-paced. I came here on an AAU trip when I was like 16 and I couldn't stand the City 😆 I stayed in Chinatown. We played at Basketball City. And I couldn't stand it. And then I came up here, like I said, I see somebody wearing my jersey from West Virginia and, man, to sign that first contract extension, I loved it. And I just feel like, I want to be here. I felt like I've earned it, I've put in a lot of work, not just this year, you know the whole organization knew what I was dealing with this playoffs, just playing, you know, through injury, through a difficult injury––everything you do is through your core, through your groin, through your hips. And I just want to stay here. Hopefully we come to some type of agreement" Full 🏆 KNICKS FILM SCHOOL 🏆 Deuce interview at Fanatics Fest is a MUST:

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114,231 views • 19 days ago

🏈 🔥 WATCH all the way through the end of this video to see spirited high school football players at South County High School exercise their civic duty to speak up for celebrated football coach Gerry Pannoni, who just lost his coaching job in a case of alleged retaliation in Fairfax County Public Schools. What’s more: FCPS allegedly shut down the South County football program and let go ALL of the coaches until a new coach is named and removed access to coach access to Hudl, a video platform, hurting students who are being recruited by colleges. In June 2024, I began reporting a local high school story for the Fairfax County Times Pearl Project with sports reporter G, and it became Virginia’s biggest youth sports scandal: controversial recruiting practices at Hayfield Secondary School in Fairfax County Virginia that led to a wider community reckoning on the issue of integrity in sports and calls for the resignation of fcpssupt Michelle Reid for her mishandling of the case. Today, at South County High School in Lorton, Va., about 300 football players, athletes and students streamed out of Door No. 1 at 2 PM to march on Laurel Crest Drive, shouting, “Reinstate Coach P.” Last year, Pannoni and other coaches raised red flags about alleged recruitment problems at Hayfield, and the school district official told coach Pannoni on Friday that he had lost his job. Parents and coaches say they are hearing that Reid is allegedly planning to retaliate against all the coaches for embarrassing her. FCPS denies the charge. FCPS sent a media relations officer to follow the march. He sat in the back of an FCPS security cruiser. FCPS Superintendent Reid investigated Pannoni for an audio tape with parents, indelicately describing the Hayfield recruiting as akin to “grooming.” We have learned that the principal had allegedly told Pannoni that students didn’t feel “safe”around the coach. The students I interviewed reveal a different story: speaking about Pannoni’s positive impact on their lives. “We love Coach Pannoni,” said many a student. This story speaks to wider issues about transparency, accountability, and integrity in both governance and school districts. Today, high school students spoke out when the issue touched their lives very personally, speaking up with clarity for a coach they respect. At the end, you will hear some students ask me who I am and I softly introduce myself with the Fairfax County Times. One calls us heroes for documenting this story and investigating its details. We are not heroes, but the story speaks to the heroic mission of local journalism in bringing truth to communities, from South County High School to beyond. We couldn’t report it without brave whistleblowers. Read all of our coverage here:

🏈 🔥 WATCH all the way through the end of this video to see spirited high school football players at South County High School exercise their civic duty to speak up for celebrated football coach Gerry Pannoni, who just lost his coaching job in a case of alleged retaliation in Fairfax County Public Schools. What’s more: FCPS allegedly shut down the South County football program and let go ALL of the coaches until a new coach is named and removed access to coach access to Hudl, a video platform, hurting students who are being recruited by colleges. In June 2024, I began reporting a local high school story for the Fairfax County Times Pearl Project with sports reporter G, and it became Virginia’s biggest youth sports scandal: controversial recruiting practices at Hayfield Secondary School in Fairfax County Virginia that led to a wider community reckoning on the issue of integrity in sports and calls for the resignation of fcpssupt Michelle Reid for her mishandling of the case. Today, at South County High School in Lorton, Va., about 300 football players, athletes and students streamed out of Door No. 1 at 2 PM to march on Laurel Crest Drive, shouting, “Reinstate Coach P.” Last year, Pannoni and other coaches raised red flags about alleged recruitment problems at Hayfield, and the school district official told coach Pannoni on Friday that he had lost his job. Parents and coaches say they are hearing that Reid is allegedly planning to retaliate against all the coaches for embarrassing her. FCPS denies the charge. FCPS sent a media relations officer to follow the march. He sat in the back of an FCPS security cruiser. FCPS Superintendent Reid investigated Pannoni for an audio tape with parents, indelicately describing the Hayfield recruiting as akin to “grooming.” We have learned that the principal had allegedly told Pannoni that students didn’t feel “safe”around the coach. The students I interviewed reveal a different story: speaking about Pannoni’s positive impact on their lives. “We love Coach Pannoni,” said many a student. This story speaks to wider issues about transparency, accountability, and integrity in both governance and school districts. Today, high school students spoke out when the issue touched their lives very personally, speaking up with clarity for a coach they respect. At the end, you will hear some students ask me who I am and I softly introduce myself with the Fairfax County Times. One calls us heroes for documenting this story and investigating its details. We are not heroes, but the story speaks to the heroic mission of local journalism in bringing truth to communities, from South County High School to beyond. We couldn’t report it without brave whistleblowers. Read all of our coverage here:

Asra Nomani

15,047 views • 1 year ago

The way he's playing right now, it's hard to argue that 🇨🇦 Miles Sadler is not the BEST HS PG in the WORLD!! the West Virginia commit was just named the MVP of the prestigious Avance Global Cup event in Málaga, Spain, averaging: • 22.0 PPG • 8.0 APG • 6.0 STL (!!) • 55.3% FG Including a RIDICULOUS 21 PTS, 12 AST, 14 STL performance vs. Dubai Basketball. Sadler is a special talent who is going to be one of the best PGs in the COUNTRY from the jump at WVU. Not many players have his mix of speed, shot creation ability, basketball IQ, & passing dexterity. Has dominated no matter the competition - despite the questions about his size, it's hard not to see Sadler being in serious NBA conversations sooner than later. Ross Hodge miles WVSports.com WVU Barstool The Smoking Musket Ethan Bock Paul Biancardi Eric Bossi Jamie Shaw Jonathan Givony Bella Vista Prep Ben Pfeifer The Canadian Basketball Show Libaan Osman

The way he's playing right now, it's hard to argue that 🇨🇦 Miles Sadler is not the BEST HS PG in the WORLD!! the West Virginia commit was just named the MVP of the prestigious Avance Global Cup event in Málaga, Spain, averaging: • 22.0 PPG • 8.0 APG • 6.0 STL (!!) • 55.3% FG Including a RIDICULOUS 21 PTS, 12 AST, 14 STL performance vs. Dubai Basketball. Sadler is a special talent who is going to be one of the best PGs in the COUNTRY from the jump at WVU. Not many players have his mix of speed, shot creation ability, basketball IQ, & passing dexterity. Has dominated no matter the competition - despite the questions about his size, it's hard not to see Sadler being in serious NBA conversations sooner than later. Ross Hodge miles WVSports.com WVU Barstool The Smoking Musket Ethan Bock Paul Biancardi Eric Bossi Jamie Shaw Jonathan Givony Bella Vista Prep Ben Pfeifer The Canadian Basketball Show Libaan Osman

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67,290 views • 6 months ago