Claude Johnson
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Proud dad of @_cashed_out_ @CorneliusNation and @CarnegieJohnson ; @ABRAMSbooks author, @PUMA partner, historian, and @BlackFives founder. Views my own.
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EVERY time we sit together our sons
@DEdwards__
and
@CorneliusNation
score two 65+ yard TDs each!!
😂
#goblue
💎〽️‼️🙌🏽
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Full circle, from sneaking in here in 6th grade and getting kicked out to 10 years later owning the field, “full circle like exactly what the fuck karma is, full circle like every single thing I ever did”
@CorneliusNation
@UMichFootball
@_cashed_out_
@CarnegieJohnson
@BigSean
🙌🏽
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Every time I sit by these two
@UMichFootball
dads, their sons score touchdowns! 😂
@blake_corum
🙏🏽
@DEdwards__
🙏🏽
#GoBlue
#MichiganVsEverybody
〽️💎
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How long was that touchdown? 12 years!! 😭😭😭😭 So proud and happy for you
@CorneliusNation
‼️
💪🏾🏈📚
#GoBlue
💎〽️
TOUCHDOWN, MICHIGAN!
Cornelius Johnson with his first touchdown as a Wolverine.
We are up 44-10 with 2:33 to go.
#GoBlue
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Congratulations
#MGoGrad
@CorneliusNation
@UMich
@UMichFootball
#legend
so proud of you! 🔥🎓
#GoBlue
💎〽️
#worktodo
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Proud 💪🏾🏈📚‼️ Godspeed!
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I’m so proud of new high school graduate Cornelius Johnson, bound for the University of Michigan. Congratulations!
#dedication
#hardwork
#earnedit
#newchapter
#unheardof
#gogetit
#fly
#goblue
〽️
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Every time we run into Gus Cornelius Johnson
@CFBONFOX
before a game,
@CorneliusNation
scores two epic TDs for
@UMichFootball
! 😂 Thanks for chatting with us Gus and for your on-air shout out of our family!
#GoBlue
💎〽️
@_cashed_out_
@CarnegieJohnson
@BlackFives
🙌🏽
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Thank you
@UMich
@UMichFootball
@CoachJim4UM
@FBCoachDBrown
! As parents and family we really appreciated the patience, wisdom, and regard you showed us while recruiting
@CorneliusNation
! A fun, insightful, and memorable experience!
#NoQuestion
❤️📚🏈🔥
#GoBlue
🔵〽️
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Dropping off
@CorneliusNation
at college this past weekend feels 😢😁 like
@UMich
gained our family, and our family gained a university. 💪🏽🏈📚
#grateful
#humble
#honored
#unheardof
#transcend
#fly
#speedinspace
#goblue
💎〽️
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Big thanks 🙏🏽 to Michigan alum, correspondent, and 7X Emmy winner
@shomaristone
for his wisdom and mentorship of my son
@CorneliusNation
! Here at the
@UMichFootball
alumni networking event tonight!
#GoBlue
〽️💎
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An immensely powerful Theodore Roosevelt quote by
@CoachJim4UM
.
@UMichFootball
tried every possible thing. Everything. Players, coaches, staff, parents, the university. We should all be very proud. I wish EVERYONE would follow their model. EVERYONE. 😷
#goblue
#unheardof
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I can't believe this but I was just a guest of
@UMichFootball
's
@CoachJim4UM
and his Dad, Jack Harbaugh on their
@AEDPodcast
! Lucky sports dads, chatting! We talked recruiting, father-son, and more. Fun! Not sure you understand how contagious this 〽️ thing is. OMG.
#GoBlue
💎〽️🔥
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As a football dad in the recruiting process (AND a Stanford grad!) I was thoroughly impressed and won over by
@UMich
and
@UMichFootball
as the best choice based on all the on/off-field factors combined, but ultimately it was
@CorneliusNation
’s decision to make! 👌🏽
#GoBlue
🔵〽️😍
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Lets go!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#GoBlue
〽️💎
#ShrineBowlBound
✅
WR Cornelius Johnson (
@CorneliusNation
) from
@UMichFootball
has officially accepted his invitation to play in the 2024 East-West
@ShrineBowl
!
#GoBlue
|
#ShrineBowlWhosNext
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Caught up with
@umichbball
head coach
@JuwanHoward
at
@BlairAcademy_NJ
’s live period event this weekend. Perhaps 80-100 other
@NCAA
coaches. Howard and asst coach Howard Eisley were there to watch 〽️ recruit
@jabri40
go off!
#hype
#goblue
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With
@CorneliusNation
we ran into
@UMichFootball
coaches
@FonzoRB29
@WRTreezy
and
@jross_iii
at the
@WeAreAFCA
this morning on our way home from the
@19AllAmerican
!
#GoBlue
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This is big. Not justice yet but as
@VanJones68
says, “a strong step in the right direction.” Thank you Jay-Z and Gov. Walz. I would imagine more appropriate charges forthcoming.
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In case you’re wondering, he dragged his foot and stayed in bounds. Pass was complete! 🔥
Cameron Smith covering Michigan signee Cornelius Johnson
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@TheMightyLady1
@DjExplainsItAll
@dj3rdeye1
Also, dismantling white supremacy is an ongoing practice. White people are realizing, wtf am I doing? So I’m OK with this. It’s not the only step, it’s the first step. Now let that continue in all areas of their life, like 1000 times a day.
#undowhitesupremacy
#BlackLivesMatter
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Really enjoyed opportunity for our family to sit down with
@UMich
President Dr. Mark Schlissel during
@CorneliusNation
’s official visit this past weekend!
Webblog: Positive Cornelius Johnson Visit Rumblings - Hearing
#Michigan
definitely helped its cause just as the 2019 Greenwich (Conn.) Brunswick 4-star wideout is closing in on a decision (VIP)
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@BriceMarich
Actually four! You forgot 4-Star WR
@CorneliusNation
from Connecticut!
#NSD2019
@wick_football
@Gatorade
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👇🏽 It’s a BIG deal. Wilson was a hateful white supremacist who refused to speak out about lynching, and Princeton was know as the only Jim Crow university in the North because of him. Bye! (1912, NY Age)
Five years ago, I wrote that Woodrow Wilson's name should fall from Princeton University because of his racist legacy.
This week, it finally happened: The School of Public and International Affairs voted to remove Wilson's name from their school.
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Michigan: “One More Year”
Everyone else: “One More Fear”
@CorneliusNation
💎〽️
.
@valiantuofm
started a "One More Year" fundraiser to retain Blake Corum, Trevor Keegan, Zak Zinter and Cornelius Johnson for the 2023 season.
All four of them are officially coming back:
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WATCH: It was a unique, unforgettable, full-circle moment to be on the same screen with my son
@CorneliusNation
talkin' about
@BlackFives
and
@UMichFootball
! Thank you
@SamWebb77
and
@247Sports
!
#GoBlue
#MakeHistoryNow
@ABRAMSbooks
@PUMAHoops
@lids
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Day One completed. Proud, humbled, and grateful to be here at the
@19AllAmerican
with
@CorneliusNation
🏈🔥😍
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You’ve got to go see the amazing new Death of a Salesman on Broadway starring
@WendellPierce
as Willy Loman with an all-Black cast! Powerful, moving, iconic, real! Wow!
✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Headed to San Antonio with
@CorneliusNation
@UMichFootball
for the
@19AllAmerican
bowl!
#DVR
@NBCSports
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So proud of Greenwich Country Day School grad
@CarnegieJohnson
who was elected by his classmates to deliver the student commencement speech last week, the first African American student to do so in the middle school’s 92 year history. (And I say HYHYHYFRFR, all right!)
💪🏽🏀📚
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@stanverrett
Remember those
@DTHballet
artists who paved the way for that amazing
@mistyonpointe
Firebird 🔥 ... like Stephanie Dabney, and then my sister Christina Johnson, here as the Firebird with Eddie Shellman! 😉
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Sam 🙌🏽 you are 5⭐️ with us!
Remember when he was that under the radar kid from Connecticut? Look at
@CorneliusNation
now!
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@SGeikas
@RealBillRussell
@MSNBC
@BostonGlobe
You served to help defend the right to kneel or sleep or put on two hats or listen to headphones or go to the men’s room or do whatever else someone wants to do during the national anthem. It’s a made up sports tradition, like the 7th-inning stretch. 🇺🇸✊🏽
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Congrats to
@ShotDiva
#MichelleCarter
for
#Gold
in the SHOT PUT! 1st US woman since 1960! Let's go
@Wheaties
box! 🇺🇸
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@Thee_Matty_D
Thank you Matt! To you and the whole
@UMichFootball
recruiting team. We feel grateful, humble, and blessed.
#GoBlue
〽️
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I mean
@umichbball
coulda done THIS with 0:09 like
@CarnegieJohnson
but that’s OK let’s go with the brackets!
#GoBlue
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Ayyy my new book just made Top 5 on
@USATODAY
’s recommended sports summer reading list. Let’s goooo!!! No pressure! 😂 But seriously thank you!
💪🏽🏀🖤📚‼️
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Most folks know about Jesse Owens and his amazing 4 gold medals in Berlin's 1936 Olympics (100m/200m/broad jump/relay), but few realize that black athletes ALSO won gold in the 400m (Archie Williams), 800m (John Woodruff), and high jump (Cornelius Johnson) during that Olympiad!
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I hit a gym this morning feeling almost guilty wearing my
@UMichFootball
tee because it obliterated everyone in there including the dude with the
#Superman
tee and the one with the
@Jumpman23
jersey. 😂
#proud
💪🏽
#GoBlue
🐐
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💪🏾🏈 📚‼️
#GoBlue
💎〽️
- FIRST-CAREER TD ALERT -
Freshman wideout
@CorneliusNation
scored his first career touchdown with a 39-yard catch in the fourth quarter vs. MSU.
#GoBlue
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I’m officially an author. “THE BLACK FIVES: THE EPIC STORY OF BASKETBALL’S FORGOTTEN ERA” (
@ABRAMSbooks
) releases May 24 in bookstores and on
@audible_com
. Visit link for details, pre-orders, event schedule, and where to buy!
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Yes, I’m the first and only historian with a sneaker deal. No, I ain’t break a sweat. So gimme my respect. Not even my palms got sweaty but my fingers did feel like spaghetti 😂
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From our little section of the world, how were we LOUDER than y’all with the largest attendance in Beaver Stadium history??! 😂 🤫
#GoBlue
〽️💎
@UMichFootball
#MichiganVsEverybody
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Q: You know what’s one of the most amazing things about
@UMichFootball
?? ANSWER:
@umichbball
!!! 😂 〽️🏀🔥🥰
#GoBlue
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Such a pleasure to share
@BlackFives
history, personal business insights, and inspirational talk with the amazing students of the
@UMich
@MichiganRoss
#MREACH
program! Bravo! Thanks to Rhonda Todd (
@Educateequally
) and Dwana Jones (
@truth2empower
) for inviting me!
#GoBlue
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With gratitude, humility, and pride, I’m revealing the cover of my new book with
@ABRAMSbooks
and announcing its release date of Feb. 8, 2022. An epic
@BlackFives
Era historical narrative non-fiction that I hope you’ll enjoy. Please click the link.✊🏽
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@SaladAroma
@devvJosiah
@TheMightyLady1
@DjExplainsItAll
@dj3rdeye1
I mean that’s also correct. Both. It’s not one answer to this, man. All the above. ✊🏽
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If you’re a
@UMichFootball
fan, aren’t you glad it’s 2019?! Not 1905, when these articles about the radical new “forward pass“ appeared in the Detroit Free Press! Had coaches shook!! 😱
#speedinspace
🏈😂
#GoBlue
💎〽️🔩
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Unbelievable that the Harbaughs invited me to join their
#luckysportsdad
chat on The Harbaugh Podcast! “There’s no way that this is real, man it can’t be.” 💎〽️😍
#GoBlue
@UMichFootball
@CoachJim4UM
@Thee_Matty_D
@irainannarbor
@AEDPodcast
@CorneliusNation
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😢😢😢😢💔😔
Congrats
@kobebryant
on your amazing career and thx for stopping that time for a chat & pic. Best wishes!
#MambaDay
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There’s never been a narrative nonfiction with a matching shoe, until now.
The new Black Fives x PUMA TRC Blaze Court
“The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era”
Get both. Make History Now!
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Thank you, sons! I wouldn’t be a father without you! (Flex if you’re a Dad! 💪🏽😆)
#soproud
#blessings
#gratitude
#humility
#grace
#HappyFathersDay2019
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I’m proud, honored, and humbled to be a part of this amazing team on such an important project, to unbury the true history of basketball and its once-forgotten African American pioneers.
@PropagateCo
@russwest44
@BlackFives
#makehistorynow
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@WendellPierce
“We knew we were not at the bottom because the Negro was there.”
— James Baldwin
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Happy Father's Day, Dads! 💪🏽❤️ Shout out to my Dad, I'm proud and grateful to be your son! 🥰🙏🏽 Shout out to my sons, I'm proud and grateful to be your dad! ✊🏽❤️🙏🏽
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This amazing catch by 4⭐️
@19AllAmerican
WR
@CorneliusNation
(
@wick_football
vs
@TaftSchool
, both 4-0, tie score, 4th Quarter, 3rd and 20) set up the winning points AND brought the sun out! ☀️ Result: Brunswick 33-26.
#GoWick
#proud
@GreenwichSports
@GameTimeCT
@AABJerseyTour
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My new
@BlackFives
book goes deep into early
@NFL
star Leonard Lloyd Hudson’s background. A native of Iowa, Leonard signed with Rock Island in 1923 before moving to Chicago with a new name, “Dick Hudson,” later founding the Savoy Big Five all-Black basketball team there. 🏀🖤
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Wow! Such an honor to be featured on
@lithub
! Thank you for sharing this precious aspect of my new book, about unearthing important Black history that could easily have been lost forever. 📚🙌🏽
The Black Fives (
@ABRAMSbooks
)
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Thank you
@Spalding
for your kind words and this amazing memento of your 125th year making basketballs! That’s a LOT of all-time dribbles!!
“As a sign of our appreciation for the contributions you have made to the game of basketball through using the game’s past to inspire and inform the next generation of players.” What an honor! Thank you
@Spalding
and congratulations on your 125th year making basketballs!
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So proud of my older brother, Lawrence Johnson, 1st Sergeant Ret., US Army, who today earned his Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University, Summa Cum Laude, part time online as a
@DeptofDefense
Telecommunications Specialist at Fort Shafter, Hawaii.
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Bravo!! 👏🏽
INTERVIEW: Michigan wide receiver Cornelius Johnson led the Wolverines with nine catches and 64 yards in the Big Ten championship game.
"This was like a playoff game for us. That's the mindset I had," he said. "It's great to get the win."
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The book jacket author photo for "The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era,” my 480-page narrative nonfiction (hardcover) scheduled for release by
@ABRAMSbooks
on May 24, 2022.
📷
@janettebeckman
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Ayyy
@blairbucs
in the scene!
@UMichFootball
DE
@DavidOjabo
(Blair ‘18) and
@CarnegieJohnson
(Blair ‘23) in Orlando for the
@CitrusBowl
.
#goblue
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Did this last week. Feels like it’s what I did to 2019. (Yet I know I can do better.)
#keepgrinding
#keepgiving
#havefun
#stayblessed
#letsgoooo
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I’m proud of my 💯 son
@_cashed_out_
who took the actual SAT, completed the actual college application, submitted his actual grades, got actually admitted, and actually plays football for the University of San Diego, 3-peat champions of the D1-AA Pioneer Football League. 💪🏽🏈📚
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#goblue
💎〽️
@CorneliusNation
💪🏾🏈📚‼️
#staysafe
#staywell
🙏🏽
@UMichFootball
#speedinspace
🚀
Let’s gooooo!!
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Brilliant! Let’s goooo!!! 〽️💎
139 career receptions 👀
2,045 career receiving yards 🔥
National Champion 🏆
Graduate 🎓
Welcome to Equity
@CorneliusNation
‼️
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@oldyoungstaa
Because when I was little by mistake I dripped flaming melted green plastic on it from a burning Army man I was holding over the sandbox to pretend it was napalm coming down just like on late-1960s television? 🤦🏽♂️
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From 1933 to 1937, the Bennett women’s basketball team lost only one college game. In 1934, they played a 3-game national championship showdown with the Tribune Girls, an all-black squad led by Ora Washington, who’s being enshrined in
@Hoophall
this week!
Founded in 1873, Bennett College began in the basement of a church. 70 students, men & women, attended classes at the school.
The Women’s Home Missionary Society worked with the founding church to establish Bennett College as a college for women in 1926.
#APeoplesJourney
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I feel encouraged about yesterday. Never seen so many peaceful protesters rallying in multiple cities for a single cause. Police in Flint and NJ marching with their neighbors was the move. White people reaching out took heart. Berlin, Toronto. Yes, but still long long way to go.
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I was thrilled to have this great convo with
@nyknicks
legend
@WaltFrazier
! A great man whose inspirational reach goes far beyond basketball and broadcasting. 🙌🏽🔥
@PUMAHoops
@PUMA
@BlackFives
#makehistorynow
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LFG 🔥🔥〽️〽️
JJ McCarthy and Cornelius Johnson connected for two deep Michigan touchdowns against Ohio State.
Field level video
@WXYZDetroit
@CBrit24
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A great day in
#Harlem
! The southeast corner of W. 138th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, the former site of the famous Renaissance Ballroom, once a Black cultural shrine, is now officially co-named NEW YORK RENS COURT.
🏀🏆✊🏾🎉
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At the
@nyumenshoops
vs
@CarnegieMellon
game with
@nyuniversity
Prof. David Hollander, renowned for his world-famous “How Basketball Can Save The World” class (and book of the same name) where I’ll be his classroom guest next month! Such an honor! Full circle! 🔥🙌🏽
Prof. David Hollander teaches the popular course, "How Basketball Can Save The World.” (Spring 2023: TCSM1-UC2550001) He asks his students to think deeply about WHY they love sports. From there, he explores the principles of sport/basketball that serve a much higher purpose.
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Facts 👏🏾
Michigan WR Cornelius Johnson (
@CorneliusNation
) says this
@UMichFootball
team is the "best college football team of all time."
They are the 4th FBS team ever to go 15-0 en route to winning a National Championship (CLEM 2018, LSU 2019, UGA 2022.)
🎧:
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When my sons were small we started a thing while watching TV: mute the volume during commercials. That pause breaks up mindlessness, creates valuable stillness, encourages self reflection, builds interaction with each other, and avoids brainwashing! It became a habit. Try it! 💯
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#JackieRobinson
signed a pro
#basketball
contract with the LA Red Devils a few months before his
@MLB
debut! #🏈🏀⚾️🎽
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Player autograph session with
@CorneliusNation
after the US Army East-West High School All-American Bowl. It’s Texas but amazing
#Michigan
fans COME OUT!! 💪🏽
#SoProud
#GoBlue
💎〽️😍
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Got to discuss my new book at the legendary
@Powells
in Portland, OR this week with long time friend, former
@Nike
co-worker, and fellow
@BlackFives
director
@keithhoulemard
! Keith is an expert moderator and storyteller who made it a fun and informative evening for the audience!
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Congratulations son! So incredibly proud of you!! ☘️
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✊🏽😷
Yesterday the US hit a record high for new COVID cases.
WEAR A MASK.
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@DrManax
@heyimamandarose
@wwp
Which one bothers you more, that there are SO many other ways to protest or that there are SO many other ways for police to treat unarmed African Americans?
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My book, available on
@amazon
, is a first-of-its-kind pre-NBA narrative nonfiction that humanizes forgotten African American basketball pioneers and their major contributions to the game! Please check it out!
💪🏽🏀🖤📚‼️
@BlackFives
@ABRAMSbooks
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Great to spend time with BIG EAST Conference commissioner Val Ackerman and executive associate commissioner Stu Jackson watching excellent basketball action! Thank you
@BIGEAST
@NovaMBB
@UConnMBB
@SetonHallMBB
@BluejayMBB
!
#BHM
#makehistorynow
Great to have the founder of the Black Fives Foundation in the building as his groundbreaking work to honor these trailblazers comes to life!
Claude is at Villanova-UConn this afternoon and was in Newark last night for Seton Hall-Creighton.
@BlackFives
x
#MakeHistoryNow
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