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In Ozark, Jacob Snell tells someone to calm down after murdering someone in cold blood. "Right now, you go home, relax, maybe get yourself a frozen custard."

Osage Beach has two famous frozen custard places - Randy's and Andy's. They have VERY similar signs and I'd bet there's a dispute somewhere in their history. We have an Andy's right near our house. It's aight.

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Culver's is known for frozen custard. Frozen Custard is definitely a thing in the midwest. Not exactly sure how it's different from FroGurt/FroYo (choose the term from your region). Maybe more or actually has real milk? Not sure.

It's good as is all the places that have something similar. Blizzards, etc.

KetamineCal's avatar

I think it's the addition of egg yolk. Been a while since my Midwest days, though.

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this was a big thing in the midwest when we lived in Indi/Bloomington.

you don't really see it much in the northeast, rather more Italian ice operations.

i just thought of it as "good soft serve ice cream" and it was good

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When I first visited No 1 in Philly, he said they have "Water Ice" which I guess is how Italian Ice is known as.

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It's a PA version of granita

TheBuckeyeBear's avatar

Flavor Brigade in Pleasanton has both frozen custard and Italian ice!

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heyalumnigo's avatar

I was thinking more wooter ice

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Drewe’s in St. Louis. There’s even a vending machine in the airport.

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Abbott's Frozen Custard doesn't exactly claim their founder "invented" frozen custard in their origin story, but it is implied.

Whenever our cousins would come to visit, they would always want to make Abbott's their first stop in spite of the fact that they are all allergic to dairy.

https://www.abbottscustard.com/about/

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Substack weirdness

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Substack has seemingly been acting up today. A bunch of y'all had told me that they couldn't post because the site said you had to be a subscriber. I double-checked and it was set to the right settings. I also reset the settings at 10 am US Pacific. Did any non-subscribers have any problems posting today?

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Update: Substack said it was a system problem that has been fixed

dcblue's avatar

When I saw the replies below I refreshed and I was in.

GoldenSD81's avatar

That was happening to me this morning but it is working now.

AndyPanda's avatar

Same here. I wondered if it was a planed change, because it was repeatable (Never assume any web-based malfunction isn't a bad cookie or cache entry until tested!). Glad it got fixed.

Cugel's avatar

Moi, but is fine now, thanks.

DC Trojan's avatar

It's working for me now, thanks for tinkering with it.

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I had purchased some ground bison at the butcher to make bison burgers if Cal won. Instead we failed to show up.

GoldenSD81's avatar

Sometimes you eat the bison and sometimes the bison eats you.

Cugel's avatar

Such a bad game I want to forget it ever happened.

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Reminds me that the CGB website used to have Eating the Enemy feature. It was fun to read even if I didn't make the dishes.

Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Got some great pics and videos of bison in Wind Cave National Park from the 2020 Coast to COVID road trip…a herd took over the road and they literally walked all around our stopped car. It was awesome.

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Howard Univ. teams are the bison. They don't have a Ralphie but they do have both male and female costumed mascots.

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Elsewhere in college

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Washington pulls away from Arizona in the 3rd. Both QBs were slinging it, but Penix had 516 passing yards. Huskies win 49-39.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404013

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Sonny Dykes rolls to 6-0 as TCU beats #8 Oklahoma State in OT 43-40

https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401404095

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Stanfurd beats Notre Dame 16-14. Drew Pyne completes less than 50% of his passes. Stanfurd stops their 11 game losing streak against FBS teams.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404016

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that is really bad - as you might expect I'm not a particular fan of Notre Dame but they can't be letting themselves get beaten like that.

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In the battle of the undefeated, Campo beat Acalanes 27-24

https://twitter.com/JasonAppelbaum1/status/1581141151301574656

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Go Cougs!! I guess that was a 4th down hail mary?

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well, I wouldn't be eating it, so why not I suppose

Wiata78's avatar

Maybe they heard their opponents had a peanut allergy.

Bowlesman 80's avatar

Apparently, a team whose defense was more responsible for the team's only points than the offense.

Hey, maybe the Bears should stock up on PB&Js!

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Air Force's run happy offense has only completed 24 passes all season long. That being said, their leading receiver has 3 TDs (same as Cal's leading WR) and only trail Cal as a team in receiving TDs by 3.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/2005

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USC's Caleb Williams chucked 5 TDs, 381 yards, no INTS. USC had no turnovers, was +1 on turnovers, punted only twice. They still lost to Utah 43-42 in an entertaining game as the Utes go for 2 with less than a minute to go.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404017

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it certainly kept my attention for the full 60 minutes of playing time. Some atrocious refereeing but I maintain that if your team loses by 1 in the final minute of the game, it's not really the (bad) officiating you need to worry about. Anyway, Utah's always a risk especially when you have an iffy defense, interested to see what the back end of the season brings.

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Unless the bad officiating happened in the final minute, and caused the change in outcome. But that wasn't the case here. Even though there were officiating issues in that last minute.

Utah always gets fired up for USC, and at Rice-Eccles is a different animal for anyone to deal with.

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It really was a masterful performance of Pac12 refereeing. If that bungling of the clock in the last minute had resulted in Utah losing, they'd have been absolutely justified in being upset.

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If it had, you would have had 40,000 Utes come over the wall. That would not have ended well.

FiatSlug's avatar

"Forty thousand whaaat? Did you say utes?"

SGBear's avatar

A blocked kick is not a deadball. Bonus: Piesman award

https://twitter.com/phqbclub/status/1581117582907944960

dcblue's avatar

Reading through the comments below the tweet, nobody agrees on what the applicable rule is.

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Aside from the rules tidbit, and the resulting eventual touchdown, this clip is remarkably bereft of description. This listener is left bewildered as to exactly what's going on.

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Beau Baldwin competes with Charlie Ragle to see whether Cal Poly or Idaho State is worse.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/football/ncaa/2022/10/15/idaho-state-outlasts-cal-poly-for-first-win-40-31.html

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Tennessee beats Alabama in a hum dinger 52-49. Alabama also had 17 penalties for 130 yards and is now ranked dead last (#131) in the FBS penalty yards.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401403921

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There were 101,915 fans at the stadium. Afterwards, the TN fans tore down the goalposts and tossed them in the Tennessee River.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34810603/vols-seek-help-replacing-goalposts-torn-tide-win

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seeing all that orange reminded me of the Cal game we all went to. that was one of the better trips ...

heyalumnigo's avatar

Except for the actual game itself.

Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

They got fined $100,000 by the SEC for storming the field and the University President pretty much said FU-K YEAH!!

We don’t have that….

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Cal has a set that they probably won't need much for the next couple of weeks.

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Wazzu can't buy a fourth down conversion (0-4). Neither QB was super sharp. Beavers top Wazzu 24-10.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404015

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UNLV and Wazzu both with bad looks…yet another kick to Wilcox’s gut.

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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The neighbor of Rep. Lauren Boebert's (Q, CO) alleges that LB shot and killed her dog in response to it attacking the rep's goats. If there's one thing that I've learned, Americans value dogs A LOT.

https://twitter.com/GayresisterGary/status/1581869784165072896

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Dr Oz doesn't seem to have been unduly dented by being a piss-sipping dog murderer, so perhaps Rep Boebert will escape electoral punishment.

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I suppose if you're a raging anti-Semite, that's the appealing play, rather than just pretending to be mad about raging Semites on Twitter if you're Elon Musk

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The guy who started Parler got a mysterious infusion of cash after marrying a Russian, I wonder if Kanye is going to get a lady in the bargain

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Federal Prosecutors seek 6 mo + $200k fine for Bannon vis-a-vis his contempt of Congress. Mmmm... FAFO indeed.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/steve-bannon-sentencing/index.html

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He certainly hasn't been spending money on grooming products, so he's probably going to be able to afford the fine

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The shortest UK PM term was George Canning with 119 days back in 1827.

Liz Truss: Hold my beer.

https://www.politico.eu/article/liz-truss-prime-minister-uk-conservative-party-finished/

Matt's avatar

Canning left office because he dropped dead...

DC Trojan's avatar

Truss' political career might be in similar shape at the rate she's going.

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Hershel Walker pulls out an honorary badge as proof that he (didn't) work for the police. I got wings from TWA as a kid, so now I'm totally a pilot.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/politics/herschel-walker-police-badge-georgia-senate-race/index.html

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This debate was on Friday. He did better on the Saturday debate, which he didn't go to.

https://www.arcamax.com/politics/politicalnews/s-2738277

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Good thing MLB cancelled the playoffs...

Dodgers lose to the Padres.

dcblue's avatar

Took me awhile to figure that out.

Newellbany's avatar

I hate playoff baseball.

The A's have had five 100-win seasons in Oakland, the Giants have had four in SF. NONE of those incredible teams won the World Series. Oakland's four rings and the Giants' three were all with sub-100-win teams.

I think MLB should adopt the equivalent of the MLS's Supporters Shield, given to the best record in the regular season. Make it an equal trophy to the one given to the winner of the October tournament.

HeyStudentsBears's avatar

i (still) like baseball.

BUT i think that this idea of expanding the playoffs to keep up w/ the NBA is actually ruining baseball.

Newellbany's avatar

I still love baseball, too! But if I have to see one more crappy St. Louis Cardinals team win the World Series, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

In the NBA, the juggernauts almost always compete in the finals. The Super Bowl tends to have worthy teams. But in baseball...heck, even the damn ROYALS won the World Series! And the money-grab expansion of the playoffs increased the likelihood that dogshit teams will keep winning. (in other words, I agree)

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How many Super Bowls have super snooze fests? Not sure the SB tends to have "worthy" teams, IMHO.

Bowlesman 80's avatar

What you're describing amounts to a participation trophy on steroids. Some of these teams never played against each other in the regular season. You need to prove it to the end and head-to-head.

This being said, what might you change with the College Football Playoffs?

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The day the Dodgers crash out of the playoffs is always the best day of the year.

AndyPanda's avatar

Always fun to see that though the Dodgers can and have amassed enough talent that they can Dave Roberts-proof the lineup in the longhaul of the regular season, his tinkering with the lineup and misanagement of the greatest assemblage of pitching in the history of the game will fail at some point when forced to play teams capable of competing without having nearly 40 games against the Dbacks and Rockies to fall back on.

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The only game played on Saturday as far as I can remember.

Cugel's avatar

I'm not someone who routes against Dodgers - but with Bob Melvin as head coach (former of the A's, and a very nice guy anytime I saw him at a Cal Basketball game) I guess was sorta, kinda routing for them.

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Hallelujah, a great and glorious day.

Bowlesman 80's avatar

But, Roberts meant the 2023 WS, okay?

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Reminds me of the scene in The Replacements where Gene Hackman tells Jon Faverau (MLB and FB for one play) to create a turnover and get him the ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rplwk3p85jg

heyalumnigo's avatar

Eagles are 6-0 and the Phillies are in the NLCS. What's in the Philly drinking water?

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Jets and Giants both playing well also. hasnt happened in a long time.

if only the Knicks could figure it out ..

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49ers fall to Atlanta on the road 28-14

https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/10/16/23407520/49ers-falcons-week-6-loss-game-recap

The 49ers looked like a team missing its starting offensive tackles, cornerbacks, three defensive linemen, safety, running back, and linebacker. We know this team was banged up coming into today, but it looked like a preseason game at times.

Atlanta scored on its opening drive after marching 11 plays for 74 yards. They went up two scores after Jeff Wilson fumbled trying to reach the ball for a first down. That’s a no-no, and he paid for it.

San Francisco ended up punting the ball, and they did on their following possession. The Falcons didn’t struggle to move the ball as they scored on nine plays in just over five minutes to take a two-possession lead.

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Jaylinn Hawkins had a pick and a fumble recovery TD in the endzone.

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At least the Raiders didn't lose...

HeyStudentsBears's avatar

someone was a big Bills fan here no?

my younger one is very much into all the big 3 sports right now and i was thinking we'd go to the Jets-Bills game on Nov 6.

100p start. hopefully still not-too-cold football weather

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TNT signs all EJ, Kenny, Charles, and Shaq to 10 year deals.

When Inside the NBA was at the Warriors playoff games, No 2 and I went and sat in the raised seats in front of the set. After they were done, No 2 had one of the 2K16 game cases that EJ, Kenny, and Shaq announced. He got EJ to stop over and sign the case.

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Tom Brady: The sun got in my eyes. My cleats slipped. The ball was over inflated. I wrenched my shoulder. My offensive line sucked. IT WASN'T MY FAULT

https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401437785

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Reminds me of the scene in The Replacements where Gene Hackman tells Jon Faverau (MLB and FB for one play) to create a turnover and get him the ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rplwk3p85jg

heyalumnigo's avatar

dammit...reply fail.

Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

That’s what happens when you miss practices to go to your former owners wedding.

Cugel's avatar

He's such a joke, if I was in the OF, I would hate to play with him.

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Yankees beat the Guardians to stay in their playoff series.

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Olympic Legends Natalie Coughlin, Mary T. Meagher & More Swim at Cal Alumni Practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXEU9pkVvs&ab_channel=SwimSwam

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[MTEN] Kikuchi Finishes As KPSF Open Runner-Up

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/17/mens-tennis-kikuchi-finishes-as-kpsf-open-runner-up.aspx

SAN FRANCISCO – Cal's Yuta Kikuchi capped an excellent run in the annual KPSF Open with an appearance in the final on Sunday at the Goldman Tennis Center, with the Golden Bear falling to pro player Govind Nanda. The Golden Bears had a strong showing overall in the outdoor 40K tournament, with six current Cal men's tennis players – Kikuchi, Alex Chang, John Kim, Lucas Magnaudet, Carl Emil Overbeck and Mikey Wright – along with alumnus Sean Hill competing in Golden Gate Park.

Chang, Kikuchi and Magnaudet along with Hill won in the opening round of 32 on Oct. 12, and then Hill and Kikuchi – who defeated Chang, 6-4, 6-3 – advanced out of the round of 16 on Oct. 13.

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[VB] Bears Follow Familiar Pattern Against Wildcats

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/16/volleyball-bears-follow-familiar-pattern-against-wildcats.aspx

TUCSON, ARIZ. – California volleyball (7-11, 0-8 Pac-12) closed out the weekend in a midday matchup against Arizona (12-7, 2-6 Pac-12) on Saturday, hoping to notch its first conference win of the season against a team that had lost four straight games. Just like many other Golden Bear matches of late, however, this particular one was characterized by a rough first set and two subsequent highly competitive sets that only just fell outside of Cal's reach. With the help of Wildcat senior Zyonna Fellows' career-high 12 blocks, Arizona was able to stop their skid and defeat the Bears, 3-0.

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[MPOLO] No. 2 Bears Hold Off No. 5 USC In MPSF Opener

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/15/mens-water-polo-no-2-bears-hold-off-no-5-usc-in-mpsf-opener.aspx

BERKELEY – Sophomore Max Casabella scored four goals – including a pivotal score on a penalty shot with less than two minutes to play – and the No. 2 Cal men's water polo team held off No. 5 USC 14-10 on Saturday afternoon in its Mountain Pacific Sports Federation opener at a raucous Spieker Aquatics Complex.

Casabella's final goal gave the Bears (14-1, 1-0) a 12-10 lead with 1:40 to go after the Trojans had cut a three-goal deficit to one. Cal goalie Adrian Weinberg then came up with a key save on USC's ensuing possession, and a goal by senior Marko Valecic put the game out of reach for the Bears.

Fifth-year senior Jack Deely registered three goals and three assists while sophomore Roberto Valera had three goals and two assists.

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[MSOC] Bears Fall To Dons

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/15/mens-soccer-bears-fall-to-dons.aspx

BERKELEY - The California men's soccer team held a 1-1 tie with visiting San Francisco at halftime of their Saturday game at Edwards Stadium, but the Dons added four more in the second half, and the Golden Bears fell, 5-1.

Cal's record stands at 3-5-4. USF has a 7-3-2 record.

"It's embarrassing to lose that way at home," said Cal head coach Leonard Griffin, coaching against USF for the first time since leaving his head coaching post with the Dons in 2021. "We have to take a hard look at ourselves in the mirror and try to figure out what are the next steps moving forward. There are still a lot of games to be played and a lot of games in conference. We have to pick the group back up and try to make progress."

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[WSWIM] Bears Breeze Past Washington St. In Pac-12 Dual Meet

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/15/womens-swimming-diving-bears-roll-past-washington-state-in-pac-12-dual-meet.aspx

PULLMAN, Wash. – Junior Isabelle Stadden set a pool record in the 100-yard backstroke and senior Eloise Riley was a four-time winner as the Cal women's swimming & diving team defeated Washington State 167-94 in a Pac-12 dual meet at Gibb Pool on Saturday morning.

Stadden, who won the bronze medal in the 100 back at the Phillips 66 National Championships last summer, finished the race in 53.90 – eclipsing the previous Gibb Pool record of 54.37 set last year by Utah's Ema Broome. She also helped the Bears set another pool record in the 400 freestyle relay as she teamed up with Riley, McKenna Stone and Ayla Spitz for a time of 3:21.92. That mark shattered the previous record 3:24.33 set by Utah last season.

Not only did Riley also swim the anchor leg on Cal's winning 200 medley relay team that finished in a time of 1:41.59, she claimed victories in the 50 free (23.55) and 100 free (50.53). Riley also won the 100 free during the Bears' dual meet victory over Utah on Wednesday.

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UW game tickets.

I've got 2 tickets if anyone wants them. I don't know what section they're in since I don't actually sit there. I think they're N end zone-ish.

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do 2 people hate themselves enough to go watch Cal shit over themselves?

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I guess there are some people that would like that.

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[WTEN] 3 Bears Move Into ITA Regional Quarterfinals

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/15/womens-tennis-3-bears-move-into-ita-regional-quarterfinals.aspx

STANFORD, Calif. – The Golden Bears continued their march through the ITA Northwest Regional Championships on Saturday at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium, with three members of the Cal women's tennis team advancing to the singles quarterfinals and three Cal doubles teams moving into the round of 16.

Cal's three pairs swept through the doubles round of 32. The second-seeded Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm defeated Washington State's Eva Alvarez Sande and Yang Lee, 8-4, the fourth-seeded and 57th-ranked Valentina Ivanov and Hannah Viller Moeller beat Cal Poly's Eliza Bates and Kennedy Buntrock, 8-1, and Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel bested Gonzaga's Tiegan Aitken and Kianna Oda, 8-3. All three Cal duos next play at 10 a.m. in Sunday's round of 16.

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Bears Reach ITA Regional Doubles Semis

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/16/womens-tennis-bears-reach-ita-regional-doubles-semis.aspx

STANFORD, Calif. – Two Cal women's tennis doubles teams advanced to the Monday semifinals after winning twice each on Sunday in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships at the Taube Family Tennis Center.

Cal's Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel posted a big win in the round of 16, upsetting the top-seeded and 12th-ranked Angelica Blake and Connie Ma, 8-6. The two Golden Bears then advanced to Monday with an 8-3 victory over Washington's eighth-seeded Sarah-Maude Fortin and Astrid Olsen in the quarterfinals.

The Bears' second-seeded Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm defeated Orgon's Jo-Yee Chan and Lillian Mould, 8-3, in the round of 16, before beating the Cardinal's Valencia Xu and Sara Choy, 8-4, in the quarters.

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[XC] Cal Back On The Course At Bronco Invite

https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/15/cross-country-cal-back-on-the-course-at-bronco-invite.aspx

SUNNYVALE – California cross country returned to competition on Saturday morning at the Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara. The women's squad took home 13th place overall, while the men's team took 15th.

Claire Yerby headlined the Bears' showing with her stellar performance in the women's 6,000-meter race. Yerby took 33rd place overall with her personal best time of 20:58, the mark being her fastest run by nearly two minutes.

"I felt great today, and knowing my teammates were out there with me really helped me keep pushing when it got tough," Yerby said.

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On the men's side, Garrett MacQuiddy was the top Cal-finisher for the second-straight meet. MacQuiddy took 53rd place overall and crossed the line in 24:34.1

i know this guy. he is the son of someone HAG and i went to HS with.

GoldenSD81's avatar

Has Musgrave been fired yet?

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pltm. alright, which one of you glorious bastards made that?

GoldenSD81's avatar

*slow clap*

If you made this, you are the hero we needed.

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I'll have to wait until I get home to see this. Company firewall has blocked this site.

Justbear's avatar

When I clicked on the link, a message popped up and all I click was "accept"

Bowlesman 80's avatar

That'll teach 'em.

And let's hope the supply chain crisis prevents a timely replacement of their goalposts.

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Dinner this weekend:

HeyStudentsBears's avatar

one of our favorite seafood restaurants, Row 34 in Portsmouth NH.

we usually have lobster rolls for lunch there but this time it was a pleasant surprise to have a nice dinner and a larger menu.

it is a a bit far from home but were up there for a very short weekend

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BBQ chicken, green salad, snow peas/mushrooms and a giant serving of bitter defeat.

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One of the faves that my wife makes (generally only when it's fall etc...) a Black bean and chorizo soup - last night, but had to make the chorizo on Saturday to make it super tasty. definitely more spicy than usual, 'cause of different red peppers this time, you have it with some avocados cubes and graded cotija cheese for the top, some corn chips as snacks to deal with the heat, and some great red wine (for other people, sniff) to have with it.