not that this exists, but it would be great is some school where Shrubbers. and their main mascot could be Roger the Shrubber, who arranges, designs, and sells shrubberies.
In the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers were referred to as Cavaliers and Parliamentarian soldiers were "Roundhats." Maybe some of the Cavaliers fought pro-bono, but I assume most were paid. It's a strange choice of representation for a University founded by Thomas Jefferson.
In this case, being a Volunteer was a paid profession, specifically the volunteer soldiers mustered to fight in the War of 1812 under Jackson and in the Mexican-American War under Crockett.
Cornelius Vanderbilt earned the Commodore nickname because he started a ferry service for Staten Island when he was 16. He never served in the navy. On a related note, Harland Sanders was discharged from the US army as a private. His title is honorary as a Kentucky Colonel.
Serena Williams gets a benign cyst removed from her neck that she described in the lede of this article as "the size of a small grapefruit". I dunno, Serena, maybe there is a ball of roughly that size that you could have used to describe it.
Mets lose badly. get shut out again. Dodgers up 2-1 in series.
lets hope the "resilient Mets" find a way to win tonight. i would take younger child to game, but they have tickets to Billie Eilish at MSG tonight w/ their mom.
I still find it hard to believe that there's a position called long-snapper who's not just a center. I'm waiting for teams to start carrying a designated "holder" for FGs and PATs who plays no other position.
David Binn was Cal's designated long snapper while in college. He played his NFL career mostly in Dallas and, IIRC, 1 season in San Diego. He had something like 20 years in the NFL when he retired.
I think you're thinking of LP Ladouceur, who spent 16 season with in the NFL - getting first waived as an UDFA from the Saints before spending 16 seasons with the Cowboys. LP is not closely related to legendary De La Salle Coach Bob Ladouceur
ICYMI: in 2022, Weber State lost to Montana State 43-38 after its long-snapper Grant Sands directly scored 8 points for Montana State in 2022 by sailing four snaps into the end zone on punts. Montana State also scored TDs on 3 of the four safeties after they also received the ball back too.
1993 was one of the most eventful seasons in California football history. The Bears won their first five games attaining a ranking of 16th in the nation and were leading 13th ranked Washington by two scores late in the 4th quarter of what seemed destined to be a sixth straight win. But the Bears lost that game in heart-breaking fashion and lost their starting QB, Dave Barr, to injury. Cal was beaten decisively in their next three games (34-7, 42-14 and 41-0) but they rebounded in spectacular fashion when Barr returned. First the Bears came from behind to beat Arizona then ended a six-game losing streak in the Big Game by thrashing Stanfurd in Palo Alto, 46-17. They closed out the regular season by beating Hawaii then thrashed Iowa in the Alamo Bowl, 38-3. One of the highlights of the season was a remarkable comeback win over Oregon, 42-41 after trailing, 30-0. The winning score came on a 26-yard pass from Barr to Iheanyi Uwaezuoke with 1:17 remaining. Barr hit Mike Caldwell for the two-point conversation to provide the winning points.
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There was someone sitting near me that day who vociferously booed the team when they came out for the second half. He tried to high five me after the Bears went ahead but I refused him.
[WaPo] Russia - banned from the Olympics - created a program to essentially corrupt the Olympic boxing federation to ensure that the female XY-gene Algerian and Taiwanese boxers were admitted to the Olympics and create a controversy to create conflict in Western countries.
There's this weird phenomenon on Twitter where various Trump supporting accounts (including Elon Musk) will post clips from Kamala interviews and add a comment saying something like: "LOL, how dumb!" They were out in force after this interview.
Except when you actually watch the clip, her answer generally seems . . . fine? Or if it doesn't, you can tell it was cut off before she was about to add more to it. The strategy must be to assume that people won't actually watch the clip.
They're clearly trying to sway the low information voter. They really don't care about anyone else. It's all about bulk engagement and enragement, nothing more. This will play into their strategy to turn out the "committed" Trump voter.
i sort of forgot about Erin Burnett. i think i saw a lot more of her reporting back when i worked in finance and got a lot of news from Bloomberg all day long
Trump went to the Economic Club in Chicago and was interviewed by Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. Micklethwait has been a financial journalist for nearly 30 years, including the Editor in Chief of the Economist & Bloomberg for the past 18. And when Trump started spouting nonsense, Micklethwait would take none of it.
Only Murders in the Building (S4 E7) The penultimate episode wraps up the mystery of whodunnit. This season is unique in that it isn't just whodunnit, but wheredunnit, dunnittowhom, and wazzitactuallydun. I expect the season finale episode will be the standard cliffhanger, opening the door to a new cast that is already brimming with stars and fantastic side characters. This has been the best season of the series. (19/19 WB Hulu)
Steve and Marty are doing commercials for my product, and I have to say they are absolutely delightful human beings. Exactly as kind and funny in person as one would hope they would be.
Scarlet Knights (Rutgers)
Black Knights (Army) Even though I'm pretty sure they aren't knighted. But being military, they do get paid.
Also, Midshipmen.
Right, there's another Knights team out there!
UCF Golden Knights.
College mascots that are a profession (besides Boilermaker)
not that this exists, but it would be great is some school where Shrubbers. and their main mascot could be Roger the Shrubber, who arranges, designs, and sells shrubberies.
A friend to old ladies and enemy to the Knights who say Ni!
Maybe we could just start calling UGA fans Shrubbers, with Between the Hedges being so important and all...
Can you get paid to be a Cavalier?
Weren't they more like a political party?
In the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers were referred to as Cavaliers and Parliamentarian soldiers were "Roundhats." Maybe some of the Cavaliers fought pro-bono, but I assume most were paid. It's a strange choice of representation for a University founded by Thomas Jefferson.
Mountaineers of West Virginia
Demon Deacons
Runnin' Rebels (UNLV)
Vandals (Idaho)
Sooners (Oklahoma)
Aggies (many)
Counterpoint: Rebels, Sooners, and Vandals are legal statuses, not professions.
ECU Pirates. Arrrrr
Corollary: Red Raiders (Texas Tech)
Blue Raiders too then. I never previously thought of raiding as a profession, but I guess so.
looting and pillaging is tough work and needs specialized training
Miners
Cowboys
Volunteers
Cornhuskers.
Massachusettes MINUTEMEN
I husked corn for free when we visited my farmer uncles in Nebraska when I was a kid. It was worth it.
In this case, being a Volunteer was a paid profession, specifically the volunteer soldiers mustered to fight in the War of 1812 under Jackson and in the Mexican-American War under Crockett.
Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt earned the Commodore nickname because he started a ferry service for Staten Island when he was 16. He never served in the navy. On a related note, Harland Sanders was discharged from the US army as a private. His title is honorary as a Kentucky Colonel.
PRO
Serena Williams gets a benign cyst removed from her neck that she described in the lede of this article as "the size of a small grapefruit". I dunno, Serena, maybe there is a ball of roughly that size that you could have used to describe it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/serena-williams-has-benign-cyst-removed-from-neck-and-all-is-ok/ar-AA1sn7Yj
LCS schedule
tonight - Yankees 500p ET, Mets 800p ET
tomorrow - flipped
Sabrina Ionescu hits a DEEP 3 w/ 1 sec left to put NY Liberty up 2-1 in best of 5 series.
2nd longest shot in WBNA Finals history, i read somewhere.she was closer to the logo than the 3pt line!
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/41839327/sabrina-ionescu-3-pointer-gives-liberty-game-3-win-vs-lynx-wnba-finals
As all Pac-then12 fans know from experience, Sabrina is in range if she can see the basket from where she takes the shot.
i didnt realize she was from Walnut Creek CA and played at Miramonte in Orinda (which would have been our arch-rivals)
Muck the Fats
i used to have that t-shirt!
Stomp the Mats!
Liberty also came back from 15 pt deficit - turning the tables from their game 1 loss of a big lead
Mets lose badly. get shut out again. Dodgers up 2-1 in series.
lets hope the "resilient Mets" find a way to win tonight. i would take younger child to game, but they have tickets to Billie Eilish at MSG tonight w/ their mom.
The concert will probably be more action-packed.
Tight-end who filled in as long-snapper won the NFC special teams player of the week award. First long-snapper to ever win the award.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/16/chicago-bears-cole-kmet-long-snapper-player-of-the-week/
I still find it hard to believe that there's a position called long-snapper who's not just a center. I'm waiting for teams to start carrying a designated "holder" for FGs and PATs who plays no other position.
Isn’t/wasn’t Cal long-snapper U? Seems to me there were a number of Bear long-snappers in the NFL.
They were until they forgot to go in to the game on a clear punting play
David Binn was Cal's designated long snapper while in college. He played his NFL career mostly in Dallas and, IIRC, 1 season in San Diego. He had something like 20 years in the NFL when he retired.
I think you're thinking of LP Ladouceur, who spent 16 season with in the NFL - getting first waived as an UDFA from the Saints before spending 16 seasons with the Cowboys. LP is not closely related to legendary De La Salle Coach Bob Ladouceur
I think you're right.
He was drafted by and played his entire career with the Chargers, except for one game with the Broncos.
Welp. That shows my memory ain't what it used to be.
ICYMI: in 2022, Weber State lost to Montana State 43-38 after its long-snapper Grant Sands directly scored 8 points for Montana State in 2022 by sailing four snaps into the end zone on punts. Montana State also scored TDs on 3 of the four safeties after they also received the ball back too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z1VJOx3tOQ
I'd bet the WriteForWeberState postgame reaction and analysis posts were entertaining reads.
CAL
It’s time again for Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts.
1993 was one of the most eventful seasons in California football history. The Bears won their first five games attaining a ranking of 16th in the nation and were leading 13th ranked Washington by two scores late in the 4th quarter of what seemed destined to be a sixth straight win. But the Bears lost that game in heart-breaking fashion and lost their starting QB, Dave Barr, to injury. Cal was beaten decisively in their next three games (34-7, 42-14 and 41-0) but they rebounded in spectacular fashion when Barr returned. First the Bears came from behind to beat Arizona then ended a six-game losing streak in the Big Game by thrashing Stanfurd in Palo Alto, 46-17. They closed out the regular season by beating Hawaii then thrashed Iowa in the Alamo Bowl, 38-3. One of the highlights of the season was a remarkable comeback win over Oregon, 42-41 after trailing, 30-0. The winning score came on a 26-yard pass from Barr to Iheanyi Uwaezuoke with 1:17 remaining. Barr hit Mike Caldwell for the two-point conversation to provide the winning points.
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 Cap'n Crunch, good and good for you.
I left the Oregon game after we fell behind 30-0 and went back to my fraternity. It's been one of my life's great regrets.
Especially in the Pac, games are rarely over at halftime. So much can and probably will still happen.
I stuck around for the second half and was rewarded.
There was someone sitting near me that day who vociferously booed the team when they came out for the second half. He tried to high five me after the Bears went ahead but I refused him.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
[WaPo] Russia - banned from the Olympics - created a program to essentially corrupt the Olympic boxing federation to ensure that the female XY-gene Algerian and Taiwanese boxers were admitted to the Olympics and create a controversy to create conflict in Western countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/
Kamala Harris went on Fox News for an interview. She didn't suck.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/16/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/harris-baier-fox-00184078
There's this weird phenomenon on Twitter where various Trump supporting accounts (including Elon Musk) will post clips from Kamala interviews and add a comment saying something like: "LOL, how dumb!" They were out in force after this interview.
Except when you actually watch the clip, her answer generally seems . . . fine? Or if it doesn't, you can tell it was cut off before she was about to add more to it. The strategy must be to assume that people won't actually watch the clip.
They're clearly trying to sway the low information voter. They really don't care about anyone else. It's all about bulk engagement and enragement, nothing more. This will play into their strategy to turn out the "committed" Trump voter.
i watched a little bit of this because Erin Burnett was talking about it on her show. agreed, she didnt suck.
i sort of forgot about Erin Burnett. i think i saw a lot more of her reporting back when i worked in finance and got a lot of news from Bloomberg all day long
Trump went to the Economic Club in Chicago and was interviewed by Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. Micklethwait has been a financial journalist for nearly 30 years, including the Editor in Chief of the Economist & Bloomberg for the past 18. And when Trump started spouting nonsense, Micklethwait would take none of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlWT6nYZ4OU
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/
The YouTube comments seem to have quite a different take than RollingStone’s.
DBD AV CLUB
Only Murders in the Building (S4 E7) The penultimate episode wraps up the mystery of whodunnit. This season is unique in that it isn't just whodunnit, but wheredunnit, dunnittowhom, and wazzitactuallydun. I expect the season finale episode will be the standard cliffhanger, opening the door to a new cast that is already brimming with stars and fantastic side characters. This has been the best season of the series. (19/19 WB Hulu)
Steve and Marty are doing commercials for my product, and I have to say they are absolutely delightful human beings. Exactly as kind and funny in person as one would hope they would be.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
End of 3rd quarter of Boston College vs Virginia Tech.
VT was up 28-0 at the half.
Now it’s 28-21.