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A dumpling is some sort of cooked dough. It is often wrapped around a filling but doesn’t have to be. Tell the DBD about a type of dumpling that you enjoy.
i am enjoying my "new car" now that older one left for college. Subaru WRX.
i get it for at least a year until younger one learns to drive. and since it is a stick my wife is not inclined to drive it much, even though she was originally excited about the prospect of learning and driving a sportier car.
Looks luxurious and technological, and the design *looks* futuristic and sporty, but I don't get the impression that it's going to be a fun car to drive aggressively.
WaPo notes how (un)successful new Trump Kise is doing counseling his client. WaPo noted that Kise has given Trump good advice - keep his mouth/Truth finger quiet to keep from incriminating himself and stop being so combative with the Federal government. But it also noted that Kise refused to sign his last filing, which was quite combative as Trump appears to prefer to listen to Halligan, Corcoran, Bobb, Epshteyn, and Trusty who pander to Trump's whims. And pandering to Trump's whim is putting his lawyers in legal peril as Bobb had to get a lawyer as she was a note taker during meetings for the fake-electors scheme. Epshteyn had his phone seized by the FBI. And Corcoran is under investigation for obstruction of returning documents to the government. MAGA - Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
NC sheriff resigns after getting caught on tape via racist rant. FYI: He was the sheriff of Columbus County, so the sheriff literally worked in Whiteville.
SPAC deal. These have been falling out of favor. Folks seems to have forgotten about it, but there were several SPAC deals in the early 2000's including Wheels of Zeus (Woz) a vehicle started by Steve Wozniak when the IPO market was going through a nuclear winter.
I made a very good decision to skip the Cal game to catch The B-52s' farewell tour in DC on Saturday. They were as fun and irreverent as ever. Great set, and Cindy Wilson was killing it on vocals. 19/19
Went snorkeling in Big Fisherman's Cove on Catalina (where $C's marine bio research facility is) and saw a record number of lobsters (50+) and rays (30+), as well as beautiful kelp, grasses and neon blue fish. Was much more entertaining than the Cal game that I could barely get enough service to check in on.
Top Gun: Maverick - we watched that this weekend, was my daughter's idea, and my wife was okay as well. To be honest, I thought about roughly first 75% was completely silly - but if I'm also 100% honest, I did like the last fighting was at least entertaining.
Went to the All Things Go one day festival on Saturday. Thoughts as follows:
I wasn't familiar with Faye Webster or Lucy Dacus, not my usual cup of tea, but I enjoyed their sets. Hippo Campus and King Princess were supremely ignorable. Mitksi... I have enjoyed some of her tracks; I HATED her performance. Like, might never listen to her music again hated. Bleachers was like a really good Jersey bar band but my dudes, you can't tell the crowd to get hyped if they aren't' with you already. And Lorde was fantastic.
My only issue is that in the 10 year jump, Rhaenyra went from looking like the little feral boy in Mel Gibson’s Road Warrior to an actress that now bore little to no resemblance…they might as well have cast Jessica Chastain.
I just watched last week's episode and had the exact same response. It took me a solid 10min to be 100% sure it was the same character. Also the king not dying after he collapses at the end of Ep 6 and then having a ten year jump and he's still kicking seemed rather silly.
I finally started watching this a couple weeks ago. As someone who spent the first two seasons of Game of Thrones thinking "who was that again? and why are they allies/enemies?" I appreciate the much more narrow focus of HotD. And I appreciate the accelerated timeline as well.
I like Chinese and Japanese dumplings. Russian and other ex-Soviet state dumplings suck. The worst are eastern European dumplings, essentially balls of dough you put in soup/stew meant to give people enough calories so they don't starve behind the Iron Curtain.
My coworker is Afghani and everytime we have a business trip he loves to find a great middle eastern place. In Bellevue we found a place that had amazing Manti.
I'm new to dumplings, but I LOVE them, especially good pot stickers. I was introduced to a wonderful place on Southside, I think it's called Dumpling Kitchen, on Durant (the entrance faces Durant, same side as King Pin). Fantastic pot stickers.
Idaho State is winless. Charlie Ragle's record probably wasn't helped by hiring Dovonte Neal
as an assistant coach (who never coached at any level) and arrested six months later for first degree murder. Idaho State and Cal Poly play each other in two weeks.
Cal Poly lost again. Beau Baldwin is now 3-15 (1-11 conference) as HC @ Cal Poly. Spencer Brasch has completed more than 60% of his passes in only two of his 11 games (one was 60.5%). He is starting again now that the starter got injured.
Texas beats West Virginia 38-20. #17 A&M loses to MS State 42-24. #16 Baylor loses to #9 Oklahoma State 36-25. Oklahoma gets smashed 55-24 by Sonny Dykes. So at least FS has that going for him.
EDIT: If Mrs Slug and I had our way, it would have been a small wedding and would have involved only family and a few friends and would have been limited to (checks notes) about 20 people, maybe less. The actual guest list was about 200 people.
My first wedding was about 120 people. It was lovely but honestly too much. My most recent wedding was about 35 people, and it was just the right size IMO. I only wish we had the venue a bit longer into the evening.
Same, only regret was giving as many spot to my in-laws for their friends when we could have replaced them with a handful of friends that were a little bummed they didn't get an invite.
Sure why not. We'll have to pay $6 million per annum to the new coach, a bump above what Wilcox is getting. Meanwhile Musgrave collects a cool $1 million via salary and talent fee.
Football players and fucked up fingers are so common. Tory Holt, Anthony Munoz, Ronnie Lott, Booger McFarland all come to mind when looking at that picture.
Iowa's QB Petras threw a TD, doubling his TD pass total to two. Then again, that one TD was more than Plummer threw. The Hawkeyes' lost to the Fighting Harbaughs 27-14.
Iowa's physical mascot is Herky the Hawk and they use a hawk's head as their icon. However, the Hawkeyes are not named after a hawk. It is named after Natty Bumpo's nickname from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."
Oregon beats the Cardinal 45-27. Despite CU sucking, Stanfurd (1-3, 0-3) is still in last place in the Pac12. The Card don't play CU or Arizona this year.
Three Pac-12 teams are in the bottom 5 rush defense in FBS. #124 Stanfurd 5.85 ypc. #125 Arizona 4.93 ypc. #130 CU is 6.69 and they're not even close to #129 South Florida (5.96 ypc). CU gives up nearly 300 yards rushing per game. Frighteningly, CU is not last in the country. That's Hawaii at 6.90.
Nope we can't lose - and hopefully the clock is ticking on some significant staff adjustments. Speaking of Geep Chryst, what are our TE's doing on the field? Mostly not blocking nor targeted in the passing game. He must be pretty bummed about Musgrave's approach.
Utah grinds up Oregon State 42-16. OSU's QB Chance Nolan went to the bench allegedly with an injury but after he threw two picks. OSU went with their 3rd string QB and former Cal commit Ben Gulbranson - who also threw two picks.
I was surprised how competitive this game was. This plus the game at OSU brings SC down to Earth for me. Their D is only so so. They may win the conference, but I don’t think they are a national title contender at all. They could easily lose to one/more/all of UCLA, Oregon, Utah, UW, Wazzu (assuming they play them, not sure of schedule)
I don't know what counts as "mainstream" or perhaps more appropriately "sane" opinion among my fellow alumni, but the defense seemed like the obvious weak point before the season started, like the plan *had* to be "score early score often" to stay in games. I've frankly been surprised that it's gone as well as it has so far, the halftime changes in scheme 1) happening and 2) seeming to work are a bit of a novelty after the previous regime. Given how pathetic the last couple of years were, winning the conference would be a delight (for me that is). This team is nowhere near national championship calibre and that's completely okay.
They definitely look leaps and bounds better than last year, and are in the top band of PAC 12 teams for sure. But I think if they played Georgia or something the result would likely be similar to what happened to Oregon
I didn't watch the whole thing but UCLA was broadly doing what they wanted during the phase that I did see. I'm always here for anyone denting the bizarre belief of Washington fans that the sleeping giant has awakened, even if it is UCLA.
Odd move. Maybe they thought he wasn't going to bring the team back to the success he enjoyed in his first few years as coach (34-7 from '15-'17, and 33-19 since then).
They looked awful Sat v a fired-up Illinois team in Bielema’s return. But if Wisconsin administrators were waiting for an uninspired performance v. a mediocre conference foe at home, they sure got it.
Chryst’s record at Wisconsin is 67-26…meanwhile, Wilcox is 29-30. One of them is looking for a job tho…puzzling.
I don't know what they think their ceiling is. Six conference championships since 1993, a long streak of bowl games, and Chryst was what, 6-1 in bowl games or something? It's not like they're squandering Florida talent in recruiting or something.
Chryst and Wisconsin as a program and especially their offense have been trending down lately. Supposedly their DC Jim Leonard was a target of Nebraska and this was a preemptive move to keep him.
he rain-soaked 2022 Singapore F1 grand prix got off to a late, messy start. What wasn't messy, though, was Red Bull driver Sergio Perez's driving. Perez started in P2 but quickly jumped ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc at the start of the race, giving himself a lead he never relinquished. Despite a humid, soggy track that wouldn't dry up until the final laps, Sergio Perez's masterful driving held off an almost equally brilliant performance by Leclerc to take the win in Singapore.
“It was certainly my best performance, I controlled the race. The last few laps were so intense. I gave it everything for the win today,” said Perez after the race. However, there's a chance Perez's hard-fought win could be taken away, due to a potential penalty for possibly driving too close to one of the day's many safety cars. For some reason, the powers that be at the FIA decided to make their decision regarding Perez's fate until after the race, so we have to wait until later in the day to see if Perez's victory stands.
Going to an F1 race is kinda ridiculous. I've been to the Singapore Grand Prix and either you pay a huge amount of money to get an elevated box seat or else you see a tiny section of the track and they're going so fast that you can't see who is who. So you end up watching it on TV. And it is insanely loud.
I've been to a variety of motorsports events, and I think they're all more enjoyable from the comfort of the couch. Although I would like to attend one of the WEC's 24-hour races someday...
I tuned in about 1/3 of the way through the race and I couldn't even tell there were spectators until the first overhead shot. It's not a great track and it seems like a waste of the location to have to run it at night in part for Euro broadcast times.
Rally Comm seems to come out stumbling every year and start to pick it up somewhere mid-season, though rarely make it to the level I remember from my youth.
I agree but I also realize that isn’t happening. Wilcox can go 5-7 and he will be welcomed back and it’s only a 50/50 chance he replaces his OL coach and OC.
So I’m kind of detached from the greater college football world. Who would be people’s short list of OC’s and O line coach replacements for Musgrave and McClure? Are they even realistic choices? Genuinely curious because I have no idea. Really makes you appreciate the Coach M days. Having an O-line impose its will on a defense and they couldn’t do anything about it sure was good times.
I don't know anybody so I did a quick search and this came up. Not sure of the credibility of the website. I looked for someone with west coast ties or someone that might fit Cal.
Why isn't this a daily topic here? It's been so gratifying to watch this offensive proceed so methodically as the Russians scramble in desperation and leave their troops twisting in the wind. Onward to Svatove and Kherson!! Слава Україні!
It's certainly a concern, but that decision would be entirely on Putin and the Russians. I don't see what tactical or strategic advantage it would provide; it would be entirely an act of malice and desperation. Moreover, I'm certain they've been warned in no uncertain terms that it would trigger serious consequences if they were to do it.
DBD Automotive
i am enjoying my "new car" now that older one left for college. Subaru WRX.
i get it for at least a year until younger one learns to drive. and since it is a stick my wife is not inclined to drive it much, even though she was originally excited about the prospect of learning and driving a sportier car.
Bruh. Check out the Audi Skysphere. Lame name. Sweet mobile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi4ockpiEbo
Looks luxurious and technological, and the design *looks* futuristic and sporty, but I don't get the impression that it's going to be a fun car to drive aggressively.
Han Solo's blaster sells for over $1m. Interestingly, Wild Bill Hickock's actual pistol sold for less than a quarter of that ($235k).
https://www.rockislandauction.com/news/han-solos-blaster-from-star-wars-a-new-hope-sells-for-1-05-million
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
WaPo notes how (un)successful new Trump Kise is doing counseling his client. WaPo noted that Kise has given Trump good advice - keep his mouth/Truth finger quiet to keep from incriminating himself and stop being so combative with the Federal government. But it also noted that Kise refused to sign his last filing, which was quite combative as Trump appears to prefer to listen to Halligan, Corcoran, Bobb, Epshteyn, and Trusty who pander to Trump's whims. And pandering to Trump's whim is putting his lawyers in legal peril as Bobb had to get a lawyer as she was a note taker during meetings for the fake-electors scheme. Epshteyn had his phone seized by the FBI. And Corcoran is under investigation for obstruction of returning documents to the government. MAGA - Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/30/trump-lawyers-kise-corcoran-bobb/
NC sheriff resigns after getting caught on tape via racist rant. FYI: He was the sheriff of Columbus County, so the sheriff literally worked in Whiteville.
https://www.insider.com/north-carolina-sheriff-resigned-caught-tape-fire-his-black-officers-2022-10
that's a little too on the nose
pqtm
https://twitter.com/lmauricecpr/status/1576667694996213761
None of Florida's representatives or senators voted for Federal disaster relief package.
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1576310561750802432
because they are a bunch of shites who know they can count on other people to bail out their constituents.
Trump startup investors: Give us a better deal or we'll walk
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/trump-spac-truth-social-sec-00059769
SPAC deal. These have been falling out of favor. Folks seems to have forgotten about it, but there were several SPAC deals in the early 2000's including Wheels of Zeus (Woz) a vehicle started by Steve Wozniak when the IPO market was going through a nuclear winter.
DBD AV CLUB
I made a very good decision to skip the Cal game to catch The B-52s' farewell tour in DC on Saturday. They were as fun and irreverent as ever. Great set, and Cindy Wilson was killing it on vocals. 19/19
Went snorkeling in Big Fisherman's Cove on Catalina (where $C's marine bio research facility is) and saw a record number of lobsters (50+) and rays (30+), as well as beautiful kelp, grasses and neon blue fish. Was much more entertaining than the Cal game that I could barely get enough service to check in on.
A wise man. It was a brutal game to watch.
And I only watched the 1st half.
Top Gun: Maverick - we watched that this weekend, was my daughter's idea, and my wife was okay as well. To be honest, I thought about roughly first 75% was completely silly - but if I'm also 100% honest, I did like the last fighting was at least entertaining.
Have you thought of giving up movie-watching entirely? ;-) ;-)
HAHAHAHHAHA - it just was soooooooooooooooooooo unrealistic.
So... it was a movie?
It was such a silly movie!!!
The best kind!
They literally took nearly 30 years to copy Star Wars….
Mr Inbetween on Hulu is great…Australian show from ‘18-‘20.
Went to the All Things Go one day festival on Saturday. Thoughts as follows:
I wasn't familiar with Faye Webster or Lucy Dacus, not my usual cup of tea, but I enjoyed their sets. Hippo Campus and King Princess were supremely ignorable. Mitksi... I have enjoyed some of her tracks; I HATED her performance. Like, might never listen to her music again hated. Bleachers was like a really good Jersey bar band but my dudes, you can't tell the crowd to get hyped if they aren't' with you already. And Lorde was fantastic.
House of the Dragon: it's possible that Rhaenyra might be exceptionally stupid. Every decision is bad and backfires.
My only issue is that in the 10 year jump, Rhaenyra went from looking like the little feral boy in Mel Gibson’s Road Warrior to an actress that now bore little to no resemblance…they might as well have cast Jessica Chastain.
I just watched last week's episode and had the exact same response. It took me a solid 10min to be 100% sure it was the same character. Also the king not dying after he collapses at the end of Ep 6 and then having a ten year jump and he's still kicking seemed rather silly.
“They might as well have cast Jessica Chastain” is how I feel about 90% of the movies and shows I watch.
That’s completely fair…she’s so solid.
I finally started watching this a couple weeks ago. As someone who spent the first two seasons of Game of Thrones thinking "who was that again? and why are they allies/enemies?" I appreciate the much more narrow focus of HotD. And I appreciate the accelerated timeline as well.
I'm not liking all the frequent time jumps in this series. They don't give you a chance to settle into the world before scrambling everything again.
DUMPLINGS
I like Chinese and Japanese dumplings. Russian and other ex-Soviet state dumplings suck. The worst are eastern European dumplings, essentially balls of dough you put in soup/stew meant to give people enough calories so they don't starve behind the Iron Curtain.
https://mission-food.com/knedliky-czech-dumplings/
gyoza .. are my favorite form of the dumpling genre.
I love dumplings of all types.
East Asian jiaozi/gyoza, soup dumplings, shu mai, XLB, etc...
Central Asian manti
American chicken 'n dumplings
Tibetan/Nepalese momo
Indian samosas
Eastern European pierogi
Italian gnocchi/gnudi
So good all around. I've never met a bad dumpling.
this is the way
xiao long bao
Is this a reference to the Pixar short?
What's that?
A Pixar short film about dumplings and a boy named Bao. Very cute short film.
Turkish manti. Had some in Piedmont with my then-gf. Sadly looks like the place is long gone.
My coworker is Afghani and everytime we have a business trip he loves to find a great middle eastern place. In Bellevue we found a place that had amazing Manti.
Ling Ling potstickers are good.
Yeah, I like Pot Stickers, we had some as a side with the fired rice - I do like them, but they are a bit salty with the dumpling.
I'm new to dumplings, but I LOVE them, especially good pot stickers. I was introduced to a wonderful place on Southside, I think it's called Dumpling Kitchen, on Durant (the entrance faces Durant, same side as King Pin). Fantastic pot stickers.
Oh i was tempted to try that place out. Kids did Asian ghetto and I did Top Dog instead. Maybe next time.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Idaho State is winless. Charlie Ragle's record probably wasn't helped by hiring Dovonte Neal
as an assistant coach (who never coached at any level) and arrested six months later for first degree murder. Idaho State and Cal Poly play each other in two weeks.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/team?_slug_=idaho-state-bengals&id=304
Cal Poly lost again. Beau Baldwin is now 3-15 (1-11 conference) as HC @ Cal Poly. Spencer Brasch has completed more than 60% of his passes in only two of his 11 games (one was 60.5%). He is starting again now that the starter got injured.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/13/cal-poly-mustangs
lost to Sac State...Taylor has them on a roll and a half. Hire Troy, fire Crapcox
That game at Utah when Brasch had to start was among maybe the most overmatched I have seen us
The ACC Coastal division is bad. To illustrate my point, Duke is 4-1, 1-0 and is leading the ACC Coastal division.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/standings/_/group/1
Army punts only once and still loses to previously winless Georgia State 31-14. They are not going bowling.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay/_/gameId/401404137
Texas beats West Virginia 38-20. #17 A&M loses to MS State 42-24. #16 Baylor loses to #9 Oklahoma State 36-25. Oklahoma gets smashed 55-24 by Sonny Dykes. So at least FS has that going for him.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404087
The Mad Pirate is still mad.
https://twitter.com/AlyssaLang/status/1576583051114876928
lol at his kids not (yet) taking his advice
Incredible!
He's absolutely right.
My take: big weddings are a farce.
EDIT: If Mrs Slug and I had our way, it would have been a small wedding and would have involved only family and a few friends and would have been limited to (checks notes) about 20 people, maybe less. The actual guest list was about 200 people.
Our wedding was 25-ish people. It was a great, cozy size. Certainly helped with the budget, too.
My first wedding was about 120 people. It was lovely but honestly too much. My most recent wedding was about 35 people, and it was just the right size IMO. I only wish we had the venue a bit longer into the evening.
Ours were a total of 2 friends at Berkeley Law Court
Our wedding was about 100 people. It was beautiful.
Same, only regret was giving as many spot to my in-laws for their friends when we could have replaced them with a handful of friends that were a little bummed they didn't get an invite.
the meltdown in College Station is genuinely glorious. I cant wait for Bama to beat them by 30 this weekend
It truly is and that buyout is insane. Supposedly aTm boosters are willing to pay it.
Kansas... [checks notes]... yes, Kansas is 5-0 as they beat Iowa State 14-11.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404084
Syracuse is also 5-0, but it helps that they've only played L'ville, UConn, Purdue, Virginia, and FCS Wagner.
I would love for Cal to go out and try to hire the Kansas HC.
Sure why not. We'll have to pay $6 million per annum to the new coach, a bump above what Wilcox is getting. Meanwhile Musgrave collects a cool $1 million via salary and talent fee.
What is Kansas paying him now? I know it won’t happen since some bigger school will probably go and hire him for &6 million.
Kentucky has game-winning TD called back on a penalty with less than a minute to go against Ole Miss. Then this happened.
https://twitter.com/TheRebelWalk/status/1576290616928980992
An illegal formation penalty too...what a way to blow the game.
Former 49er QB Coach Rich Scangarello doing questionable things in Lexington?
This also happened to Will Levis' finger. [NSFL]
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1576261239512014849
Football players and fucked up fingers are so common. Tory Holt, Anthony Munoz, Ronnie Lott, Booger McFarland all come to mind when looking at that picture.
Iowa's QB Petras threw a TD, doubling his TD pass total to two. Then again, that one TD was more than Plummer threw. The Hawkeyes' lost to the Fighting Harbaughs 27-14.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401405100
Iowa's physical mascot is Herky the Hawk and they use a hawk's head as their icon. However, the Hawkeyes are not named after a hawk. It is named after Natty Bumpo's nickname from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."
If you haven’t read Mark Twain’s “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” then today is your day: https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html
Hilarious, scathing criticism.
So, in other words, Iowa's mascot derives its nickname from same source that Hawkeye Pierce derives his.
Georgia have to come from behind in the 4th quarter to beat a bad Mizzou 26-22.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401403907
Oregon beats the Cardinal 45-27. Despite CU sucking, Stanfurd (1-3, 0-3) is still in last place in the Pac12. The Card don't play CU or Arizona this year.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404005
When Cal plays Furd, Wilcox should just remove Musgrave's pass portion of the play chart. All runs.
Cal got 9.3 ypc against Arizona. Oregon just racked up 9.5 ypc against Stanfoo.
Three Pac-12 teams are in the bottom 5 rush defense in FBS. #124 Stanfurd 5.85 ypc. #125 Arizona 4.93 ypc. #130 CU is 6.69 and they're not even close to #129 South Florida (5.96 ypc). CU gives up nearly 300 yards rushing per game. Frighteningly, CU is not last in the country. That's Hawaii at 6.90.
It’s actually not a bad idea for all the games, not just Stanford. Plummer’s downfield accuracy and decision making are suspect…
I just want to see us go full wildcat with Ott and another RB in the backfield.
Triple option would be nice.
Yeah we have so many RBs.
(I think she will get along well with GB49)
That would work, provided Cal’s O-linemen quit tackling the f-ing ball carrier. Happened twice FFS.
Whaddya need Plummer for, then? Millner could hand off just as well, probably.
EDIT: While you're at it, why punt? It probably wouldn't hurt our W-L record.
Arizona clubs CU 43-20. CU looked pitiful. Hopefully, Cal got their bad play out of their system as they go on the road this week to Boulder.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404002
The only winless FBS teams are CU and CSU.
Too bad they're not playing this season. That would be a pillowfight for the ages.
That would have been like the Crapple Cup 2008
Next week. Cal has a bye this week.
Ah yes. I hope we don't lose.
Not to worry, Cal has never lost on a bye week. You could, as they say, look it up.
Please post wiki page...thx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_(sports)#Bye_weeks
;)
We can definitely lose a bye week if one of our key players gets injured.
Or if we lose to Colorado first game off bye week, then that's a loss on bye week
We have never lost but we typically only win them by a score of 17-13.
Nope we can't lose - and hopefully the clock is ticking on some significant staff adjustments. Speaking of Geep Chryst, what are our TE's doing on the field? Mostly not blocking nor targeted in the passing game. He must be pretty bummed about Musgrave's approach.
And still won’t cover the spread against bye
Utah grinds up Oregon State 42-16. OSU's QB Chance Nolan went to the bench allegedly with an injury but after he threw two picks. OSU went with their 3rd string QB and former Cal commit Ben Gulbranson - who also threw two picks.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404006
I think I saw him go head first into the turf on a sack and he was out after that
USC pulls away from ASU in 2H, wins 42-25
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404003
ASU DT Nesta Jade Silvera did not get penalized for squirting USC QB Caleb Williams in the face with a water bottle.
https://twitter.com/CowardlyDoggo/status/1576422429898833921
I was surprised how competitive this game was. This plus the game at OSU brings SC down to Earth for me. Their D is only so so. They may win the conference, but I don’t think they are a national title contender at all. They could easily lose to one/more/all of UCLA, Oregon, Utah, UW, Wazzu (assuming they play them, not sure of schedule)
I don't know what counts as "mainstream" or perhaps more appropriately "sane" opinion among my fellow alumni, but the defense seemed like the obvious weak point before the season started, like the plan *had* to be "score early score often" to stay in games. I've frankly been surprised that it's gone as well as it has so far, the halftime changes in scheme 1) happening and 2) seeming to work are a bit of a novelty after the previous regime. Given how pathetic the last couple of years were, winning the conference would be a delight (for me that is). This team is nowhere near national championship calibre and that's completely okay.
They definitely look leaps and bounds better than last year, and are in the top band of PAC 12 teams for sure. But I think if they played Georgia or something the result would likely be similar to what happened to Oregon
That USC offense is scary when it's running on all cylinders.
UCLA beats #15 UW 40-32
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404007
Not as close as the final score indicated.
I didn't watch the whole thing but UCLA was broadly doing what they wanted during the phase that I did see. I'm always here for anyone denting the bizarre belief of Washington fans that the sleeping giant has awakened, even if it is UCLA.
In a somewhat surprising move, Paul Chryst (brother of Cal TE coach Geep Chryst) has been sacked.
https://twitter.com/ESPNRittenberg/status/1576711189182271488
Odd move. Maybe they thought he wasn't going to bring the team back to the success he enjoyed in his first few years as coach (34-7 from '15-'17, and 33-19 since then).
I didn't get the impression that Wisconsin was having a bad season but since they aren't conference opponents yet, I wasn't really paying attention.
They looked awful Sat v a fired-up Illinois team in Bielema’s return. But if Wisconsin administrators were waiting for an uninspired performance v. a mediocre conference foe at home, they sure got it.
Chryst’s record at Wisconsin is 67-26…meanwhile, Wilcox is 29-30. One of them is looking for a job tho…puzzling.
we have room for another Chryst analyst on the staff
I am for having all of our coaches and administrators named Christ/Chryst.
If you don't like my idea, you're the anti-Chryst.
2-2 is a bad season in Madison.
I don't know what they think their ceiling is. Six conference championships since 1993, a long streak of bowl games, and Chryst was what, 6-1 in bowl games or something? It's not like they're squandering Florida talent in recruiting or something.
Chryst and Wisconsin as a program and especially their offense have been trending down lately. Supposedly their DC Jim Leonard was a target of Nebraska and this was a preemptive move to keep him.
Leonard is good, and they should keep him.
CU's Karl Dorrell has been sacked. So has DC Chris Wilson.
https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1576651921212862464
Interim HC, off a BYE…with our struggles on the offensive side of the ball, the younger McCown kid flashing something, and our lack of a pass rush?
Colorado’s going to give us everything we can handle at Folsom Field…
We should hire him so that he can give us inside knowledge of the Buffaloes and it will help us win.
Special consultant to coach Wilcox...
I saw Dorrell play at Memorial I think I was in high school at the time. UCLA led by Dorrell and Neuheisel made mincemeat of the Bears.
PRO
US Soccer Federation releases investigation report into sexual abuse within the women's league.
Named:
former-HC Racing Louisville FC - Christy Holly
ex-HC Portland Thorns - Paul Riley
ex-HC Chicago Red Star - Rory Dames
Already under investigation:
Houston - James Clarkson
Orlando - Amanda Cromwell & Sam Greene
Plus cover-up efforts by the teams and the league. Some heads are going to roll.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/03/nwsl-abuse-report-sally-yates/
I certainly hope so
Phoenix Suns lose at home to Adelaide 36ers. It's preseason, but still...
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34716390/phoenix-suns-lose-preseason-opener-australia-adelaide-36ers-shocking-upset-home
A few volts for Watt
https://twitter.com/JJWatt/status/1576606541213360128
Man, if I was the team doc that cleared him to play, I would have been like triple checking that I paid my malpractice liability premium
15 letter jersey
https://twitter.com/Twins/status/1576599697531310081
A bad weekend for kickers
https://brobible.com/sports/article/texans-kicker-kaimi-fairbairn-embarrassing-field-goal/
F1: Sergio Perez wins the Singapore Grand Prix thanks to a steady, consistent performance on a slick, difficult street circuit
https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/sergio-perez-pulls-off-masterful-win-at-rain-soaked-singapore-f1-gp
he rain-soaked 2022 Singapore F1 grand prix got off to a late, messy start. What wasn't messy, though, was Red Bull driver Sergio Perez's driving. Perez started in P2 but quickly jumped ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc at the start of the race, giving himself a lead he never relinquished. Despite a humid, soggy track that wouldn't dry up until the final laps, Sergio Perez's masterful driving held off an almost equally brilliant performance by Leclerc to take the win in Singapore.
“It was certainly my best performance, I controlled the race. The last few laps were so intense. I gave it everything for the win today,” said Perez after the race. However, there's a chance Perez's hard-fought win could be taken away, due to a potential penalty for possibly driving too close to one of the day's many safety cars. For some reason, the powers that be at the FIA decided to make their decision regarding Perez's fate until after the race, so we have to wait until later in the day to see if Perez's victory stands.
Lewis Hamilton got fined EUR25k for wearing a nose stud.
Going to an F1 race is kinda ridiculous. I've been to the Singapore Grand Prix and either you pay a huge amount of money to get an elevated box seat or else you see a tiny section of the track and they're going so fast that you can't see who is who. So you end up watching it on TV. And it is insanely loud.
I've been to a variety of motorsports events, and I think they're all more enjoyable from the comfort of the couch. Although I would like to attend one of the WEC's 24-hour races someday...
Austin is not dissimilar. Great track though
I tuned in about 1/3 of the way through the race and I couldn't even tell there were spectators until the first overhead shot. It's not a great track and it seems like a waste of the location to have to run it at night in part for Euro broadcast times.
One of the absolute worst locations every.
I'd be fine if they got rid of all street circuits, including Monaco.
I get that, the worst there is with the new cars, no one can pass AT ALL. Terrible, but it still looks 100 better than Singapore.
(but I get you)
So do people here think Pujols is on PEDs? His second half turn around has been a bit suspicious.
Pads lose to the White Sox, Pads make the playoffs!!
A's thump (finally) the Mariners 10-3.
Raiders beat Broncos and Russell Wilson.
https://www.silverandblackpride.com/2022/10/2/23375688/final-score-raiders-32-broncos-23-week-4
CAL
FIRE WILCOX
FIRE MUSGRAVE
FIRE ANGUS
FIRE KNOWLTON
Year after year the only thing Cal football fans can count on for excellence are Oski and the band. Rally Comm pretty solid too.
I want to know why we didn't get any cannon shots except at the end of the UofA game. At least I don't remember any.
Oh man, you have no idea who you’re talking to, do you?
Nor do I care.
Rally Comm seems to come out stumbling every year and start to pick it up somewhere mid-season, though rarely make it to the level I remember from my youth.
Go Bears!!!
Cal's standing in the Pac-12 via statistics:
Passing YPG #8
Rushing YPG #7
1st downs #9
3rd down conversions #10
Punt return avg #3
Punting average #1
Fumbles lost #1
Fumbles recovered #9
INTs #3
Penalties #8
Defense YPG #9
Passing defense #10
Rushing defense #5
Defense PPG #5
Attendance #8 (better than Stanfurd)
Let's squeak out another 3 wins this season.
3? He needs another 5 or be shown the door.
Not gonna happen, at least not under Knowlton. He seems content with .500 football and the limited fan interest in a mediocre team.
This.
I agree but I also realize that isn’t happening. Wilcox can go 5-7 and he will be welcomed back and it’s only a 50/50 chance he replaces his OL coach and OC.
Happy Pappy Waldorf's birthday everyone. Born on this day in 1902. https://twitter.com/CalBearsHistory/status/1577043973452931073?s=20&t=7FzJI6XZy33ugP6AKjrUUw
So I’m kind of detached from the greater college football world. Who would be people’s short list of OC’s and O line coach replacements for Musgrave and McClure? Are they even realistic choices? Genuinely curious because I have no idea. Really makes you appreciate the Coach M days. Having an O-line impose its will on a defense and they couldn’t do anything about it sure was good times.
I don't know anybody so I did a quick search and this came up. Not sure of the credibility of the website. I looked for someone with west coast ties or someone that might fit Cal.
https://www.on3.com/news/2022-rising-star-assistants-you-need-to-know-matt-zenitz-coach-series/
Ukraine
Why isn't this a daily topic here? It's been so gratifying to watch this offensive proceed so methodically as the Russians scramble in desperation and leave their troops twisting in the wind. Onward to Svatove and Kherson!! Слава Україні!
Sort off - but I'm in concerned of seeing some small nukes blowing up.
It's certainly a concern, but that decision would be entirely on Putin and the Russians. I don't see what tactical or strategic advantage it would provide; it would be entirely an act of malice and desperation. Moreover, I'm certain they've been warned in no uncertain terms that it would trigger serious consequences if they were to do it.
Blinken has already said nukes by Russia would lead to nukes by NATO. In which case we are al scr...., probably.