I'd have to do some searching for the coolest European hockey jersey, heavy preference for animal themed. Probably fall back to a Calgary Stampeders CFL jersey if nothing grabbed my fancy.
I'd probably pick the home jersey of the Yomiuri Giants. I like that it looks like an SF Giants jersey with the same font, but then has Yomiuri on the sleeve.
i have a Yomuri Giants tshirt from our trip there last summer. i forget what player it was but must have been one of the fam favorites since there were only 2-3 choices.
I recently bought an away jersey from Arsenal in the English Premier League. So if I got a freebie I'd get the home jersey with a different player's name on it.
Never. They are always have been and always will be an arch rival and thus an enemy. Do people really think that Furd was being totally altruistic in helping us get to into the ACC? Nonsense, they need us and the rivalry. I've no time for this softening on Furd hatred. It degrades the stupidity that is sports hatred.
Even Duke and Miami always seemed to be on the side of inviting us, so it's hard to hate them THAT much. UNC voted against, but that seemed to be more about political pressure from their board than the chancellor not wanting us (reports from the Cal insiders was that they were a yes until some last minute shenanigans). Clemson was a hard no, but from what I can tell their fan base has been mostly cordial about it.
So it's pretty easily FSU that is the most hateable.
One bad inning. Unfortunately I think Knack has given up most of his runs on HRs. His control was not great and Vientos put together a good AB fouling off lots of FBs and Knack finally grooved one on like the 10th pitch.
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers pitching plans in Game 2 blew up by the second inning, and the Mets returned the favor with a 7-3 win on Monday afternoon at Dodger Stadium to even the National League Championship Series at one game apiece.
Edwin Diaz makes it exciting in the 9th by walking the first 2 batters. ends up striking out the next 3 to end the game/inning after finding the strike zone.
STOCKTON – Three Golden Bears are tied for 19th individually after shooting under-par first rounds at the Pacific Invitational on Monday at Stockton Country Club. The California men's golf team ended the opening round of the three-day, 54-hole tournament in a tie for fifth place with a 3-under-par 281.
San Diego (-12) is the leader after 19 holes played, with host Pacific (-9), Grand Canyon (-8) and California Baptist (-8) separating the Bears from the top of the leaderboard. The Cal lineup was paced by 1-under-par 70s by Daniel Heo – who already owns two top-six finishes in as many tournaments this fall – freshman Ziqin (Eric) Zhou, who made his collegiate stroke-play debut, and fellow rookie Matthew Miyamoto.
BERKELEY – The California women's tennis duo of Makenna Thiel and Berta Passola Folch – the last two Golden Bears competing in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships – lost to the top-seeded and 17th-ranked Reece Carter and Alexia Jacobs 8-2 in Monday morning's doubles quarterfinals at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The California football team's Bay Area Appreciation Day game on Saturday, Oct. 26 vs. Oregon State at California Memorial Stadium is set for a 1 p.m. PT kickoff on ESPN2, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Monday.
The Golden Bears (3-3, 0-3 ACC) will take on their former Pac-12 Conference foe Beavers (4-2) for the 77th time in history. It will be the third-ever nonconference matchup between the two programs and first since 1960.
Johnny Olszewski (aka Johnny O) is one of the greatest running back running backs in Golden Bear history. He was a first team All American in his senior year (1952). He ran for over a 1,000 yards as a sophomore and finished his career with 2,504 yards rushing, was the fourth overall pick of the 1953 NFL draft and spent nine seasons in the NFL and one in the old AFL. However his is a story of what might have been. In a big clash versus U$C on October 26,1951 the then junior RB was a victim of dirty play by the hated Trojans. In full view of the California rooting section, an opposing linebacker twisted Johnny O’s knee after he was tackled and prone on the ground. The resulting injury effectively knocked Olszewski out of the game as he only managed one more carry before limping off. Bear fans, coaches, players and administrators were outraged at the poor sportsmanship (a hall mark of U$C athletics). Glenn Seaborg even wrote about the dastardly deed in his book Roses From the Ashes decades later. As good as Johnny O was for the rest of his career (he missed several games in the immediate aftermath of the injury) it was said that he never had the same explosiveness that had typified his pre-injury running style.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
And some thought egregious no-calls adversely affecting Cal were a relatively new thing. Even in those days it should have been a personal foul. There are plenty of accounts where PCC officiating set the standard for later Pac-8/10/12 calls of debatable quality. Probably had to see it to decide on ejection (probably not replayed on Sports Center that night!).
Georgia kicks off the 2024 election cycle with early voting. First day volume smash the previous record by about 50%, presumably as nobody trusts absentee votes being counted anymore.
Yesterday evening, Trump held a town hall event in Oaks, PA (outside Philadelphia). Conditions inside the event venue were so hot that people were fainting. This prompted a question from the candidate - "Would anybody else like to faint? Let's not do anymore questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?"
I'll let the Washington Post described what happened next.
"For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped — sometimes stopping to speak — as he turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist.
He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night."
The New York Times was decidedly more kids gloves in reporting the moment, describing Trump as a candidate known for "improvisational departures", making a "detour".
COMMENT: I don't know who I'm more angry with and disappointed in - WaPo or the Times. The man's stoned or in a full-blown episode of cognitive decline in front of hundreds of people. Say it as if the republic depends upon truthful reporting.
Both candidates have been hitting non-traditional media channels. Apparently, polls have showed that voting bases have ossified so the candidates are now going after the so-called "low information voters"
This is a deranged position brought on by deranged circumstances.
Single issue voters typically undercut their position by failing to see that they are not an island unto themselves. Even if their issue is paramount to them and no one else, they need others to help them achieve that goal. Electoral politics is not the place in which to make unwieldy demands.
EDIT: it's even more deranged when you realize that AAPAC has effectively cut itself off from *anyone* who can carry influence in advancing towards their goals. The Squad is not enough, and will have limited influence in the 119th Congress, especially if that Congress is majority GOP.
I watched about 20 or 30 mins and fell asleep and had no interest in watching any more. Felt like actors acting out a fantasy of what it is to be an actor
[NC State Hate Week]: UNC is by far and away the best public academic program in North Carolina, but it does not have the full suite of engineering. So NC State has the state's preeminent engineering programs. Also, NC State - despite being in an urban area - is the home to the state's best agriculture and vet programs. NC State has a full offering of liberal arts majors - but kids gravitate toward Business Administration - so NC State has a giant BA department with nearly one in six students having that major. One in three is an engineer or biomed. One in 12 is agriculture. Outside of the hard sciences, it is not easy but not hard to get into NC State (40% total acceptance rate). NC State is a weird mix of nerds, hayseeds, and completely average kids. NC State is a big school, but it is the distant third to Duke & UNC in terms of sports awareness in the state. So they have this weird quiet fandom that only explodes on the scene when they are good, which is rare.
NC State has a fun hand sign- put your pinkie and index fingers up, point your thumb straight out, then bend your remaining two fingers together to make the wolf snout. Move those same two fingers together up and down on your thumb to make the "wolfie" talk/howl. Imagine shadow art on a stadium scale.
Utah announces that Cam Rising's injury is season ending. It is unclear if he will go pro in football, pro in a real job, or pro in college football by perpetually getting extensions
Honestly, he should probably go into coaching. He has absorbed so many injuries that I can't imagine he will last any time in the pros without pain, and possibility disability.
Too bad, because he seems to be a really good guy and teammate, and when right, is a transformational player.
They had a good sized crowd that looked to roughly match ours. They also had a student make a field goal! I don't think the sign game was up to the same standard though.
The 10-second run off is *supposed* to be an antidote for a team trying to preserve time by committing a penalty, which was the old timing rule.
Therefore, a 10-second runoff could be invoked by the officials on either a defensive or an offensive penalty. But I don't think the rule is knowing in its application, if you get my drift. See the Oregon vs. Ohio State game as evidence of that idea.
You're not supposed to say that part out loud. Now the NCAA will institute a rules change. Or how a few of the NFL rules came to be, due to something the Raiders did. See Holy Roller.
It's like the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter - except it's the academy of flying war machines.
https://twitter.com/webflite/status/1845993019616473437
What about if they're flying rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong?
Let's say you get a coupon that allows you to get a free jersey from another country's professional league. Which one are you getting?
recently walked by this store in NYC where it seems that you can get many of these items
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SxF1WyXMh8FEvKge8
i was telling older daughter that i could get her a replacement Del Piero soccer jersey from the one they had when they were 3!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N6ZXirvG2DHaWGL97
FC St. Pauli
https://www.fcsp-shop.com/en/clothing/jerseys-more/jerseys/
I'd have to do some searching for the coolest European hockey jersey, heavy preference for animal themed. Probably fall back to a Calgary Stampeders CFL jersey if nothing grabbed my fancy.
I'd probably pick the home jersey of the Yomiuri Giants. I like that it looks like an SF Giants jersey with the same font, but then has Yomiuri on the sleeve.
https://investor.fanatics.com/news/news-details/2022/Yomiuri-Giants-Nike-and-Fanatics-Announce-Comprehensive-Long-Term-Partnership/default.aspx
i have a Yomuri Giants tshirt from our trip there last summer. i forget what player it was but must have been one of the fam favorites since there were only 2-3 choices.
I recently bought an away jersey from Arsenal in the English Premier League. So if I got a freebie I'd get the home jersey with a different player's name on it.
Jumbo Visma Lease a Bike - cycling team jersey
otherwise known as the Killer Bee's.
https://d1lk6qpkbduawh.cloudfront.net/_1701x927_crop_center-center_85_none/1650866/Trainingskamp-World-Tour-Denia_2022-12-22-103141_ntpv.webp
Frenemy
ACC teams other than Dook, FSU, Clemson, Miami. Most of the ACC voted to give us a lifeline so respect.
And begrudgingly, Furd is closer to being a Frenemy than an enemy. We'd be in the Pac-3 if they just bailed and left us.
Never. They are always have been and always will be an arch rival and thus an enemy. Do people really think that Furd was being totally altruistic in helping us get to into the ACC? Nonsense, they need us and the rivalry. I've no time for this softening on Furd hatred. It degrades the stupidity that is sports hatred.
"the stupidity that is sports hatred" Seems to be a lot of that counterproductively going around these days.
Even Duke and Miami always seemed to be on the side of inviting us, so it's hard to hate them THAT much. UNC voted against, but that seemed to be more about political pressure from their board than the chancellor not wanting us (reports from the Cal insiders was that they were a yes until some last minute shenanigans). Clemson was a hard no, but from what I can tell their fan base has been mostly cordial about it.
So it's pretty easily FSU that is the most hateable.
I just hate Dook because I'm a huge UNC BB fan. I bet the UNC admin probably wanted the top tier research part of the arrangement.
Yeah, I mean I can see how Duke basketball and Miami football fans can be irritating.
PRO
Raiders trade Devante Adams for a conditional 3rd round pick to the J-E-T-S Jets. Teams back up with A-A-RON.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41809130/jets-finalizing-trade-raiders-wr-davante-adams-sources-say
Addition by subtraction for the Raiders. You don't want someone in your clubhouse who doesn't want to be there.
Yankees keep up their end of the bargain for a possible subway series, win game 1 easily 5-2.
Mets finally figure out how to hit and score w/ a barrage of early HRs. beat Dodgers 7-3.
One bad inning. Unfortunately I think Knack has given up most of his runs on HRs. His control was not great and Vientos put together a good AB fouling off lots of FBs and Knack finally grooved one on like the 10th pitch.
Dodgers slammed early by Mets, comeback falls short in NLCS Game 2 loss
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/10/14/24270174/dodgers-grand-slam-landon-knack-mets-brent-honeywell
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers pitching plans in Game 2 blew up by the second inning, and the Mets returned the favor with a 7-3 win on Monday afternoon at Dodger Stadium to even the National League Championship Series at one game apiece.
Edwin Diaz makes it exciting in the 9th by walking the first 2 batters. ends up striking out the next 3 to end the game/inning after finding the strike zone.
Bills beat Jets as Rodger's pick kills their comeback effort that included his successful hail mary at halftime. Both teams' kickers had off nights.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401671684
I saw 2 consecutive doinks watching for about 15 min at the gym.
CAL
Comments aren't working on the post about the Cal line vs NC St, but I wouldn't lay 9.5, much less 10, on Cal against anyone just now.
[MGOLF] Bears In Fifth After 18 At Pacific Invitational
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/14/mens-golf-bears-in-fifth-after-18-at-pacific-invitational.aspx
STOCKTON – Three Golden Bears are tied for 19th individually after shooting under-par first rounds at the Pacific Invitational on Monday at Stockton Country Club. The California men's golf team ended the opening round of the three-day, 54-hole tournament in a tie for fifth place with a 3-under-par 281.
San Diego (-12) is the leader after 19 holes played, with host Pacific (-9), Grand Canyon (-8) and California Baptist (-8) separating the Bears from the top of the leaderboard. The Cal lineup was paced by 1-under-par 70s by Daniel Heo – who already owns two top-six finishes in as many tournaments this fall – freshman Ziqin (Eric) Zhou, who made his collegiate stroke-play debut, and fellow rookie Matthew Miyamoto.
[WTEN] Bears Bow Out Of ITA Regionals
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/14/womens-tennis-bears-bow-out-of-ita-regionals.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's tennis duo of Makenna Thiel and Berta Passola Folch – the last two Golden Bears competing in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships – lost to the top-seeded and 17th-ranked Reece Carter and Alexia Jacobs 8-2 in Monday morning's doubles quarterfinals at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
[FB] Bears, Beavers Set For Afternoon Kickoff
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/14/football-bears-beavers-set-for-afternoon-kickoff.aspx
The California football team's Bay Area Appreciation Day game on Saturday, Oct. 26 vs. Oregon State at California Memorial Stadium is set for a 1 p.m. PT kickoff on ESPN2, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Monday.
The Golden Bears (3-3, 0-3 ACC) will take on their former Pac-12 Conference foe Beavers (4-2) for the 77th time in history. It will be the third-ever nonconference matchup between the two programs and first since 1960.
It’s time again for Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts.
Johnny Olszewski (aka Johnny O) is one of the greatest running back running backs in Golden Bear history. He was a first team All American in his senior year (1952). He ran for over a 1,000 yards as a sophomore and finished his career with 2,504 yards rushing, was the fourth overall pick of the 1953 NFL draft and spent nine seasons in the NFL and one in the old AFL. However his is a story of what might have been. In a big clash versus U$C on October 26,1951 the then junior RB was a victim of dirty play by the hated Trojans. In full view of the California rooting section, an opposing linebacker twisted Johnny O’s knee after he was tackled and prone on the ground. The resulting injury effectively knocked Olszewski out of the game as he only managed one more carry before limping off. Bear fans, coaches, players and administrators were outraged at the poor sportsmanship (a hall mark of U$C athletics). Glenn Seaborg even wrote about the dastardly deed in his book Roses From the Ashes decades later. As good as Johnny O was for the rest of his career (he missed several games in the immediate aftermath of the injury) it was said that he never had the same explosiveness that had typified his pre-injury running style.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
And some thought egregious no-calls adversely affecting Cal were a relatively new thing. Even in those days it should have been a personal foul. There are plenty of accounts where PCC officiating set the standard for later Pac-8/10/12 calls of debatable quality. Probably had to see it to decide on ejection (probably not replayed on Sports Center that night!).
[WGym] ICYMI: Cal gets the commitment of a five star player Imani White
https://x.com/cgn_recruiting/status/1843449111825264992
[WBB] ICYMI: Cal gets the a commitment from an ESPN 100 player Taylor Barnes
https://x.com/SCNext/status/1844875640165761208
[WBB] Jayda Noble's sneaker game is next level
https://www.kron4.com/video/cal-wbb-player-makes-a-splash-with-sneaker-design/10103299/
POLITICAL STUFF HERE
Georgia kicks off the 2024 election cycle with early voting. First day volume smash the previous record by about 50%, presumably as nobody trusts absentee votes being counted anymore.
Bingo.
OH MY GOD HE STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TARRIFFS WORK
Yesterday evening, Trump held a town hall event in Oaks, PA (outside Philadelphia). Conditions inside the event venue were so hot that people were fainting. This prompted a question from the candidate - "Would anybody else like to faint? Let's not do anymore questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?"
I'll let the Washington Post described what happened next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/
"For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped — sometimes stopping to speak — as he turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist.
He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night."
The New York Times was decidedly more kids gloves in reporting the moment, describing Trump as a candidate known for "improvisational departures", making a "detour".
COMMENT: I don't know who I'm more angry with and disappointed in - WaPo or the Times. The man's stoned or in a full-blown episode of cognitive decline in front of hundreds of people. Say it as if the republic depends upon truthful reporting.
Both candidates have been hitting non-traditional media channels. Apparently, polls have showed that voting bases have ossified so the candidates are now going after the so-called "low information voters"
Yeah, that's pretty much the smart play at this point.
Arab-American PAC doesn't endorse either presidential candidate because Biden/Harris refuses to condemn Israel's actions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/14/arab-american-pac-presidential-endorsement-michigan-00183606
This is a deranged position brought on by deranged circumstances.
Single issue voters typically undercut their position by failing to see that they are not an island unto themselves. Even if their issue is paramount to them and no one else, they need others to help them achieve that goal. Electoral politics is not the place in which to make unwieldy demands.
EDIT: it's even more deranged when you realize that AAPAC has effectively cut itself off from *anyone* who can carry influence in advancing towards their goals. The Squad is not enough, and will have limited influence in the 119th Congress, especially if that Congress is majority GOP.
IMO this is a silly, self-defeating stance, but people are in their feelings right now.
DBD AV CLUB
Speaking of unspeakable things, I watched "Poor Things" on Hulu. What. The. Fuck.
My favorite movie of last year.
It was in my top ten.
I watched about 20 or 30 mins and fell asleep and had no interest in watching any more. Felt like actors acting out a fantasy of what it is to be an actor
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
The State of Floriduh fights against the Woke Agenda at colleges by axing various classes at public universities
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/14/florida-university-classes-ron-desantis-00183453
[NC State Hate Week]: UNC is by far and away the best public academic program in North Carolina, but it does not have the full suite of engineering. So NC State has the state's preeminent engineering programs. Also, NC State - despite being in an urban area - is the home to the state's best agriculture and vet programs. NC State has a full offering of liberal arts majors - but kids gravitate toward Business Administration - so NC State has a giant BA department with nearly one in six students having that major. One in three is an engineer or biomed. One in 12 is agriculture. Outside of the hard sciences, it is not easy but not hard to get into NC State (40% total acceptance rate). NC State is a weird mix of nerds, hayseeds, and completely average kids. NC State is a big school, but it is the distant third to Duke & UNC in terms of sports awareness in the state. So they have this weird quiet fandom that only explodes on the scene when they are good, which is rare.
NC State has a fun hand sign- put your pinkie and index fingers up, point your thumb straight out, then bend your remaining two fingers together to make the wolf snout. Move those same two fingers together up and down on your thumb to make the "wolfie" talk/howl. Imagine shadow art on a stadium scale.
Hey! That's the Banana Slug hand sign, except we wiggle the fingers to imitate the antennae
I make my wolfies do and say unspeakable things
UNC WR Tylee Craft has lost his battle with cancer. May his family, friends, fans, and teammates find solace of this painful loss
https://x.com/UNCFootball/status/1845193547646959770
Utah announces that Cam Rising's injury is season ending. It is unclear if he will go pro in football, pro in a real job, or pro in college football by perpetually getting extensions
https://twitter.com/BartleKSLsports/status/1845997669988348264
Honestly, he should probably go into coaching. He has absorbed so many injuries that I can't imagine he will last any time in the pros without pain, and possibility disability.
Too bad, because he seems to be a really good guy and teammate, and when right, is a transformational player.
Let's check in on the Pac-12 championship standings
https://x.com/collegefbonx/status/1845546096908505311?s=46
Yergawdamrite, Rece
https://twitter.com/avinashkunnath/status/1844882600877240755
Did the Oregon crowd answer? (I didn't watch)
They had a good sized crowd that looked to roughly match ours. They also had a student make a field goal! I don't think the sign game was up to the same standard though.
Their student looked like he maybe used to be a kicker. From what I remember, me made it with plenty of leg. And he wasn't wearing Vans.
Dan Lanning confirmed he purposely put a 12th man on the field to bleed time off the clock and put Ohio State is a terrible position to win
https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1845320775525429709
Lanning is showing us that the rules can be taken advantage of. No Lanning hate here. Respect for pushing his advantage. 10-second run-off has a flaw.
I thought the 10 second run-off was only for offensive penalties. Doesn't make sense to penalize the offense for defensive penalties.
The 10-second run off is *supposed* to be an antidote for a team trying to preserve time by committing a penalty, which was the old timing rule.
Therefore, a 10-second runoff could be invoked by the officials on either a defensive or an offensive penalty. But I don't think the rule is knowing in its application, if you get my drift. See the Oregon vs. Ohio State game as evidence of that idea.
Oh I see. Yeah that makes sense.
He's so damn hateable. Can't wait to watch them lose.
You're not supposed to say that part out loud. Now the NCAA will institute a rules change. Or how a few of the NFL rules came to be, due to something the Raiders did. See Holy Roller.
Reminds me of how our game ended at UNC.
Remember when we would beat teams in the last minute?
I can't remember, I think a lot of those brain cells died recently.