All of this is absolute horseshit. People love the hate. The get off on it. They are so excited to vote for someone who is going to harm the people they hate that they will vote for him forever. It's that simple and it's never going to show up on any poll, but it's as clear as day.
Harris just ran Clinton's campaign all over again, but with more pop stars. You can't shame America into voting for someone, but that's all the DNC knows at this point. Everything about how the DNC navigated Biden's 2nd run, his cancelation, and then the forcing of Kamala into the Democratic ticket without an actual primary was a total shit show. She was always qualified for the job, but has never shown the ability to actually campaign well. And it really showed.
More than any of the MAGAs, I'm livid at the Democratic party for falling asleep at the wheel and taking their stance as the "sane" party for granted. I'm livid at mainstream media for sane washing Trump and his antics, providing a huge double standard in terms of how he was presented vs. Kamala. I'm livid at mainstream media for immediately falling back to blaming black & latino voters when you just need to look at the white male statistics. And I'm going to stop, because the rest of my thoughts shouldn't be put in public until I've calmed down.
Edit: Oh yeah, and f*** Californians for thinking convicts don't deserve basic human rights. We can get off our high horses. We've now voted against gay marriage and for slavery -- we're not better than anyone else.
Pretty much that. ^^^^ Again, it's the economy, stupid.
You can't run a campaign on preserving democracy when people are worried about being able to eat, stay warm, have a home, and a job that pays well enough to earn those essentials and a few nice things to take your mind off your paycheck-to-paycheck existence. Democracy quickly becomes secondary, even tertiary, if you're poor and don't feel safe.
Sanewashing Trump is the byproduct of the opposition (Dems) failing to run a campaign on the bread-and-butter issues that highlight just how bad Trump is. The Dems could have run rings around Trump on economics, immigration, and foreign policy but failed to do so. They ceded the ground on all three issues. That's called POLITICAL MALPRACTICE.
I dunno, Trump was pretty hysterical - the weird focus on demonizing transexuals and immigrants was pretty bananas. I think the D message could have been better, but really the problem was not primarying Biden and trying to run on a new candidate in only about 90 days
The TV campaign here in swing state GA highlighting trans support by Harris and Dems was very effective marketing for those in the middle who felt that too much Dem focus has been on those types of things vs food on the table, money in pocket. Think Sparky from 80s/90s Berkeley in less cloths and clown make-up. It was RELENTLESS. Not sure how hysterical Trump actually was on the topic, he just knew what buttons to push (he is a marketer by trade, not a builder).
1. Those are GOP ads you are talking about, taking snips of comments from debates from years ago. This is not actually an issue of Kamala focusing too much on these issues in this election. The only ppl talking about this are Republicans.
2. To the idea that GOP is talking about kitchen table issues…. Yeah right!!!! Lol. WTF does this have to do with the kitchen table??????? It’s just lizard brain hate stoking nonsense. It works, no doubt, but give me a fucking break about the idea that GOP is being practical and Dems are not.
In retrospect, pushing Biden out was only rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Which leads to my most biting criticism of the Democratic party leadership - they are incrementalists when they need to fully reassess issues and their platform and offer the American polity a new direction.
The one thing that frightens me most about the next Trump presidency is the isolationism and the degrading of America's relationships with our allies. That and the likely devastation from the wars in the Ukraine and in Gaza. The loss of human life could have been prevented by defeating Trump; truly, this is a tragedy of immense proportions. That he wasn't defeated is on the Democrats.
Yes, my concern is the same. The cascading dominoes of T pulling support for Ukraine, Ukraine losing badly, China becoming emboldened to invade Taiwan, and so on…
Hope it does not happen! There is maybe a sliver of hope in a broken clock is right twice a day kind of way, in that T is buddies with Putin but really adversarial with Xi, and so perhaps that may damage the relationship between those two dictators
And re the D party - agree! Just a run a goddamn primary; it is not complicated. They need to stop putting their thumb on the scale and annointing ppl the presumptive nominee, like HRC in 16 and Zombie Joe this year. They tried to annoint HRC in 08 too but thank god the voters were given other options as well
There is a big battle in South Georgia re funding a large monkey breeding facility- large as in capacity for 30,000(!) monkeys. This SC escape can’t be helping the GA case.
Dubs go in to Boston and win 118-112 in a back-and-forth game. Jaylen Brown was out. Curry/Wiggins/Hield/Anderson/Draymond were key in the fourth quarter.
The last time the Golden State Warriors played in the TD Garden, the Boston Celtics beat them by 52 points. Wednesday night in Boston, it was more like when the Steph Curry and the Warriors beat them 2 out of 3 in the 2022 NBA Finals.
They're fine, though I generally object to the proliferation of "alternate" uniforms for NBA teams (it's to the point where you can barely tell which team is which anymore). It's my most "angry old man" take. One road, one home jersey! Simple!
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Entering the ACC Championship, the California men's soccer team was the only conference team – out of 15 – that wasn't awarded a penalty kick this season. But that changed in Cal's first-round match at 14th-ranked North Carolina's Dorrance Field on Wednesday night. Tied 1-1 – after trailing 1-0 early – the Golden Bears earned a penalty kick when Malcolm Zalayet was fouled in the box, and junior forward Alfredo Ortiz converted the chance to give the Bears a 2-1 lead over the Tar Heels it wouldn't relinquish.
California volleyball returns home this week for the start of a four-match homestand, first welcoming No. 16 Georgia Tech – Cal's sixth ranked opponent in its past seven games – to Haas Pavilion Friday at 7 p.m. PT before facing Clemson the next day at 7 p.m. Both games will be broadcast on ACCNX.
The California women's tennis team sends Golden Bears to compete in the ITA West Sectional Championships and ITA Conference Masters Championships starting Thursday, with qualification to the NCAA individual championships on the line, while five Bears travel to Arizona State for the Thunderbird Invitational.
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team will go for a second straight win to open the 2024-25 season when it hosts Cal Poly on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. PT on ACC Network Extra (ACCNX).
The Golden Bears (1-0) started the season with a decisive 86-73 victory against CSU Bakersfield on Monday. They led by as many as 18 points in the contest and trailed for just 17 seconds early in the first half.
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will host several thousand youth from schools around the East Bay as part of its annual School Haas Rock game when it hosts Idaho State at 11 a.m. PT on Thursday. The annual event, hosted at Haas Pavilion, serves as an opportunity to entertain and educate local youth at the elementary and middle school levels and bring them into a university setting.
BERKELEY –California senior forward Karlie Lema was named ACC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, highlighting a trio of conference postseason honors earned by the Golden Bears on Wednesday. Lema was additionally selected to the All-ACC First Team, while junior goalkeeper Teagan Wy was named Second Team All-ACC.
James “Jimmie” Schaeffer coached California in their first season after the permanent switch to football, 1915. Schaeffer was a one year transitional coach, he’d served as head coach the previous six seasons when the sport was rugby. Perhaps Schaeffer’s greatest accomplishment for the university was discovering his successor, Andy Smith, then coaching at Purdue. Schaeffer had been touring the midwest trying to accumulate football knowledge from successful coaches for his one year stint when a bartender suggest he meet with Smith. Upon talking to the young coach Schaeffer became convinced that this was the man to lead the Golden Bears into the football future. It took some doing but he convinced the California administration to hire the Pennsylvania native. Meanwhile Schaeffer didn’t do bad at all with the ’15 squad going 8-5 including a season-ending victory in Los Angeles against U$C, 23-21, avenging a loss against the same team in Berkeley earlier in the year. Three of that season’s contests were against the Olympic Club (all wins). One was a loss to the Commercial Club and there were wins against Originals and Sherman Indians.Two games each against St.Mary’s and Washington and one against Nevada rounded out that season’s schedule. Schaffer never had a losing season in six seasons as a head coach at California.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season.
I wonder how Jack Clark would do as the FB head coach. Obviously he would have to get great OC and DC, but he would be a program manager, kinda like Bird was with the Pacers.
Not to equate the two, but there are a lot of similarities between the fall of the P12 and U.S. democracy. A lot of careless hubris combined with a succession of precisely the wrong decisions = the unfathomable becoming real.
We scoff at the labeling of "coastal elites", but it's a truth. The way Democrats campaign is extremely out of touch with reality. They don't understand Marketing 101: Perception IS Reality.
I've dropped various social media channels and trimmed all political topics from other platforms. I'm going to intentionally not read/watch the news. Instead, I have decided to commit to about 7-9 credits per semester at my local JC, read more, do more work, do more fun stuff with my wife, and generally commit to living in a bubble for three years.
I'm seeing this attitude around a lot, and I feel similarly. Of course I'm not going to detach from the news COMPLETELY, but so much attention dedicated to Trump and his nonsense is just exhausting. Just wait out the four years and move on.
Marquez Dortch left Mississippi State with one catch to go to Cal. He didn't play at Cal, reportedly because he had injuries, which reduced his value as a speed-only guy. This year, he went to Troy. He is second string, played in 7 of 9 of Troy's games. He has two catches for negative 2 yards.
College, though, is any player's chance to build a solid foundation for life after football. So many doors remain closed if an athlete fails to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by a college education.
Kent State is bad. Really bad. Poor Flashes. They only had 114 yards on offense. They gave up one pick, failed to converted a 4th down, and punted 10 times. Ohio beat them 41-0.
Apropos of this I looked up famous WF alums and they include Carroll O'Connor (aka Archie Bunker), Jesse Helms (racist senator of yore), Arnold Palmer (you can ask the president-elect about him) and Sopranos creator David Chase.
I remember when we played him in Kidd's second season. I think Duncan may have been a freshman. He was kind of invisible that game. Randolph Childress was the guy I was afraid of. We won in a close one. I recall some Kidd heroics to close it out.
The whole idea of breakdancing as something to grade/score doesn't make sense to me. It is an artistic expression. (one I don't get, but that's on me). Similar to marching band, a type of performance art that doesn't make sense to everyone.
Marching band is something that is scored and has performance criteria. (Ever been to a band competition, never mind a Drum Corp International competition?)
Breakdancing by definition is something that breaks from standards and is all about individual expression. Which is fine, and what much of art is about. And worthy of appreciation. Just not in a comparative way.
The most bizarre ending to a soccer match I’ve ever witnessed. Twelve seconds earlier, it was 2-1 Stanford. Then ‘Furd committed a penalty resulting in a free kick that ND converted into a goal with eleven seconds left. It looked like a certain tie at the end of regulation until ‘Furd’s amazing shot from beyond midfield.
Beans
Cats beans are so cute.
Pinto. and like a Pinto, fire comes out the rear when hit.
I was once behind a Pinto and in front of an Audi at the Bay Bridge toll plaza and thought "oh shit this is how I'm gonna die isn't it"
I almost think a person has to be of a certain age to get that remark.
pqtm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbjtSALr38E
Politics
lots of narratives and reasons. this is the primary one i am going with ..
Harris Asked Voters to Protect Democracy. Here’s Why It Didn’t Land.
In more than 200 interviews, voters worried not about an endangered country, but about paying rent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/harris-voters-democracy.html
All of this is absolute horseshit. People love the hate. The get off on it. They are so excited to vote for someone who is going to harm the people they hate that they will vote for him forever. It's that simple and it's never going to show up on any poll, but it's as clear as day.
Harris just ran Clinton's campaign all over again, but with more pop stars. You can't shame America into voting for someone, but that's all the DNC knows at this point. Everything about how the DNC navigated Biden's 2nd run, his cancelation, and then the forcing of Kamala into the Democratic ticket without an actual primary was a total shit show. She was always qualified for the job, but has never shown the ability to actually campaign well. And it really showed.
More than any of the MAGAs, I'm livid at the Democratic party for falling asleep at the wheel and taking their stance as the "sane" party for granted. I'm livid at mainstream media for sane washing Trump and his antics, providing a huge double standard in terms of how he was presented vs. Kamala. I'm livid at mainstream media for immediately falling back to blaming black & latino voters when you just need to look at the white male statistics. And I'm going to stop, because the rest of my thoughts shouldn't be put in public until I've calmed down.
Edit: Oh yeah, and f*** Californians for thinking convicts don't deserve basic human rights. We can get off our high horses. We've now voted against gay marriage and for slavery -- we're not better than anyone else.
Pretty much that. ^^^^ Again, it's the economy, stupid.
You can't run a campaign on preserving democracy when people are worried about being able to eat, stay warm, have a home, and a job that pays well enough to earn those essentials and a few nice things to take your mind off your paycheck-to-paycheck existence. Democracy quickly becomes secondary, even tertiary, if you're poor and don't feel safe.
Sanewashing Trump is the byproduct of the opposition (Dems) failing to run a campaign on the bread-and-butter issues that highlight just how bad Trump is. The Dems could have run rings around Trump on economics, immigration, and foreign policy but failed to do so. They ceded the ground on all three issues. That's called POLITICAL MALPRACTICE.
A chicken in every pot trumps vague, specious, hysterical claims.
I dunno, Trump was pretty hysterical - the weird focus on demonizing transexuals and immigrants was pretty bananas. I think the D message could have been better, but really the problem was not primarying Biden and trying to run on a new candidate in only about 90 days
The TV campaign here in swing state GA highlighting trans support by Harris and Dems was very effective marketing for those in the middle who felt that too much Dem focus has been on those types of things vs food on the table, money in pocket. Think Sparky from 80s/90s Berkeley in less cloths and clown make-up. It was RELENTLESS. Not sure how hysterical Trump actually was on the topic, he just knew what buttons to push (he is a marketer by trade, not a builder).
Yes of course that is effective but:
1. Those are GOP ads you are talking about, taking snips of comments from debates from years ago. This is not actually an issue of Kamala focusing too much on these issues in this election. The only ppl talking about this are Republicans.
2. To the idea that GOP is talking about kitchen table issues…. Yeah right!!!! Lol. WTF does this have to do with the kitchen table??????? It’s just lizard brain hate stoking nonsense. It works, no doubt, but give me a fucking break about the idea that GOP is being practical and Dems are not.
In retrospect, pushing Biden out was only rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Which leads to my most biting criticism of the Democratic party leadership - they are incrementalists when they need to fully reassess issues and their platform and offer the American polity a new direction.
The one thing that frightens me most about the next Trump presidency is the isolationism and the degrading of America's relationships with our allies. That and the likely devastation from the wars in the Ukraine and in Gaza. The loss of human life could have been prevented by defeating Trump; truly, this is a tragedy of immense proportions. That he wasn't defeated is on the Democrats.
Yes, my concern is the same. The cascading dominoes of T pulling support for Ukraine, Ukraine losing badly, China becoming emboldened to invade Taiwan, and so on…
Hope it does not happen! There is maybe a sliver of hope in a broken clock is right twice a day kind of way, in that T is buddies with Putin but really adversarial with Xi, and so perhaps that may damage the relationship between those two dictators
And re the D party - agree! Just a run a goddamn primary; it is not complicated. They need to stop putting their thumb on the scale and annointing ppl the presumptive nominee, like HRC in 16 and Zombie Joe this year. They tried to annoint HRC in 08 too but thank god the voters were given other options as well
Cal
Go BEARS!
some one had to do it
Isn't this how "28 Days Later" started? Or was that Planet of the Apes?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeys-escape-south-carolina-research-facility-police-search/
There is a big battle in South Georgia re funding a large monkey breeding facility- large as in capacity for 30,000(!) monkeys. This SC escape can’t be helping the GA case.
Wizard of Oz.
Bird flu will make them fly.
Also The Hot Zone.
PRO
Dak Prescott's ham off the bone - Cowboys' season may be cooked
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42237405/sources-cowboys-prescott-likely-longer-4-weeks
Sadly, it was cooked with Dak Prescott healthy.
ouch ... a partial avulsion of his right hamstring, which means part of the tendon has pulled away from the bone
HAG and I both had avulsion type Achilles injuries.
Dubs go in to Boston and win 118-112 in a back-and-forth game. Jaylen Brown was out. Curry/Wiggins/Hield/Anderson/Draymond were key in the fourth quarter.
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401704738
Warriors ride defense, Curry to biggest win of the season over Celtics
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2024/11/6/24290127/warriors-ride-defense-curry-biggest-win-season-over-celtics
The last time the Golden State Warriors played in the TD Garden, the Boston Celtics beat them by 52 points. Wednesday night in Boston, it was more like when the Steph Curry and the Warriors beat them 2 out of 3 in the 2022 NBA Finals.
this was fun to watch. Warriors defense was solid against a team w/ Jaylen Brown. that being said, White, Tatum, etc all had good games.
17 yr old wore Wiggins jersey to school today. i am taking that as a sign of "good parenting"
they also texted me this photo from school hallways here in NY w/ nod to Klay
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PFchwwpfsAx7RqKq8
I do not like those white & red Warriors uniforms
https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1854338498473701716
I think they're the old Philadelphia Warriors throwbacks. They're alright.
They're fine, though I generally object to the proliferation of "alternate" uniforms for NBA teams (it's to the point where you can barely tell which team is which anymore). It's my most "angry old man" take. One road, one home jersey! Simple!
my younger child was asking the same. i told them that it was all in the quest of selling more stuff to people who will pay.
and you would be correct.
CAL
[WBB] Cal is currently smoking Idaho State. The Bengals have nearly as many turnovers as points.
[MSOC] Cal Posts Comeback Win At No. 14 UNC In ACC First Round
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/mens-soccer-cal-posts-comeback-win-at-no-14-unc-in-acc-first-round.aspx
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Entering the ACC Championship, the California men's soccer team was the only conference team – out of 15 – that wasn't awarded a penalty kick this season. But that changed in Cal's first-round match at 14th-ranked North Carolina's Dorrance Field on Wednesday night. Tied 1-1 – after trailing 1-0 early – the Golden Bears earned a penalty kick when Malcolm Zalayet was fouled in the box, and junior forward Alfredo Ortiz converted the chance to give the Bears a 2-1 lead over the Tar Heels it wouldn't relinquish.
[VB] Bears Host No. 16 Georgia Tech, Clemson
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/volleyball-bears-host-no-16-georgia-tech-clemson.aspx
California volleyball returns home this week for the start of a four-match homestand, first welcoming No. 16 Georgia Tech – Cal's sixth ranked opponent in its past seven games – to Haas Pavilion Friday at 7 p.m. PT before facing Clemson the next day at 7 p.m. Both games will be broadcast on ACCNX.
[WTEN] Bears Play At Sectionals, Conference Masters, ASU
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/womens-tennis-bears-play-at-sectionals-conference-masters-asu.aspx
The California women's tennis team sends Golden Bears to compete in the ITA West Sectional Championships and ITA Conference Masters Championships starting Thursday, with qualification to the NCAA individual championships on the line, while five Bears travel to Arizona State for the Thunderbird Invitational.
[MBB] Homestand Concludes Against Cal Poly
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/mens-basketball-homestand-concludes-against-cal-poly.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team will go for a second straight win to open the 2024-25 season when it hosts Cal Poly on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. PT on ACC Network Extra (ACCNX).
The Golden Bears (1-0) started the season with a decisive 86-73 victory against CSU Bakersfield on Monday. They led by as many as 18 points in the contest and trailed for just 17 seconds early in the first half.
[WBB] Cal Hosts Idaho State In School Haas Rock Game
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/womens-basketball-cal-hosts-idaho-state-in-school-haas-rock-game.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will host several thousand youth from schools around the East Bay as part of its annual School Haas Rock game when it hosts Idaho State at 11 a.m. PT on Thursday. The annual event, hosted at Haas Pavilion, serves as an opportunity to entertain and educate local youth at the elementary and middle school levels and bring them into a university setting.
[WSOC] Lema Named ACC Offensive Player Of The Year
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/womens-soccer-lema-named-acc-offensive-player-of-the-year.aspx
BERKELEY –California senior forward Karlie Lema was named ACC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, highlighting a trio of conference postseason honors earned by the Golden Bears on Wednesday. Lema was additionally selected to the All-ACC First Team, while junior goalkeeper Teagan Wy was named Second Team All-ACC.
Lema is special.
It’s time again for Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts.
James “Jimmie” Schaeffer coached California in their first season after the permanent switch to football, 1915. Schaeffer was a one year transitional coach, he’d served as head coach the previous six seasons when the sport was rugby. Perhaps Schaeffer’s greatest accomplishment for the university was discovering his successor, Andy Smith, then coaching at Purdue. Schaeffer had been touring the midwest trying to accumulate football knowledge from successful coaches for his one year stint when a bartender suggest he meet with Smith. Upon talking to the young coach Schaeffer became convinced that this was the man to lead the Golden Bears into the football future. It took some doing but he convinced the California administration to hire the Pennsylvania native. Meanwhile Schaeffer didn’t do bad at all with the ’15 squad going 8-5 including a season-ending victory in Los Angeles against U$C, 23-21, avenging a loss against the same team in Berkeley earlier in the year. Three of that season’s contests were against the Olympic Club (all wins). One was a loss to the Commercial Club and there were wins against Originals and Sherman Indians.Two games each against St.Mary’s and Washington and one against Nevada rounded out that season’s schedule. Schaffer never had a losing season in six seasons as a head coach at California.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season.
These historic, rich facts should be compiled for reference somewhere and should be more than a DBD entry, IMHO.
I wonder how Jack Clark would do as the FB head coach. Obviously he would have to get great OC and DC, but he would be a program manager, kinda like Bird was with the Pacers.
Cal stuns NC in Chapel Hill. https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/6/mens-soccer-cal-posts-comeback-win-at-no-14-unc-in-acc-first-round.aspx
" I want Cal and Stanford to die on the vine"
- UNC WSOC coach Anson Dorrance (Aug 22, 2023)
Billboard material
[POLITICAL STUFF GOES HERE]
The Brothers Love Green Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc
Four More Years of Stuff Where You Can't Tell if it's real or The Onion
https://theonion.com/america-defeats-america/
Like the last four.
Not to equate the two, but there are a lot of similarities between the fall of the P12 and U.S. democracy. A lot of careless hubris combined with a succession of precisely the wrong decisions = the unfathomable becoming real.
We scoff at the labeling of "coastal elites", but it's a truth. The way Democrats campaign is extremely out of touch with reality. They don't understand Marketing 101: Perception IS Reality.
I've dropped various social media channels and trimmed all political topics from other platforms. I'm going to intentionally not read/watch the news. Instead, I have decided to commit to about 7-9 credits per semester at my local JC, read more, do more work, do more fun stuff with my wife, and generally commit to living in a bubble for three years.
I'm seeing this attitude around a lot, and I feel similarly. Of course I'm not going to detach from the news COMPLETELY, but so much attention dedicated to Trump and his nonsense is just exhausting. Just wait out the four years and move on.
I'm doing pretty much the same thing. Outside of WFC, I feel dead towards social media.
I'm sure you'll recover and be back at.
DBD AV CLUB
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Marquez Dortch left Mississippi State with one catch to go to Cal. He didn't play at Cal, reportedly because he had injuries, which reduced his value as a speed-only guy. This year, he went to Troy. He is second string, played in 7 of 9 of Troy's games. He has two catches for negative 2 yards.
Hopefully he’s getting some education out of it.
LOL. Like education has anything to do with NFL Junior.
College, though, is any player's chance to build a solid foundation for life after football. So many doors remain closed if an athlete fails to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by a college education.
100% agree.
With his resume it doesn’t look like the NFL is on his radar.
How many transfers, who do it looking for playing time, end up in the NFL?
Good question. I think the number is small, probably vanishingly small.
NIU beats W. Michigan 42-28
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401644762
Kent State is bad. Really bad. Poor Flashes. They only had 114 yards on offense. They gave up one pick, failed to converted a 4th down, and punted 10 times. Ohio beat them 41-0.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup/_/gameId/401644761
Who's the first Wake Forest player you think of?
Apropos of this I looked up famous WF alums and they include Carroll O'Connor (aka Archie Bunker), Jesse Helms (racist senator of yore), Arnold Palmer (you can ask the president-elect about him) and Sopranos creator David Chase.
Chris Paul. There was a certain nut punch to Julius Hodge/NC State player that made Chris' time w/ Wake very memorable to UNC fans.
Apropos: https://twitter.com/PabloTorre/status/1301210223999410176
Brian Piccollo - he is the Joe Roth of Wake Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4SF3h9tvtk
Except the Piccolo lived to go pro with Chicago.
Watched that as a kid. Jack Warden is my spirit animal.
Duncan
I remember when we played him in Kidd's second season. I think Duncan may have been a freshman. He was kind of invisible that game. Randolph Childress was the guy I was afraid of. We won in a close one. I recall some Kidd heroics to close it out.
I'll go first: Rodney Rogers.
Shadeur Sanders is making $6.3m this year and says he'll take $10m to stay.
https://finurah.com/2024/11/05/shedeur-sanders-nfl-decision-did-the-missing-eight-figure-nil-deal-force-his-hand/
WTF? We struggle to scare up $2.5 million.
That's a... look.
https://twitter.com/CollegeFBonX/status/1854329624169472097
App State's mascot is canonically a perennial freshman
https://appstatesports.com/news/2017/5/30/athletics-yosef.aspx
Look, sister, you have to embrace sucking and learn to enjoy it. Goodness knows that I have.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/42236536/aussie-breakdancer-raygun-stop-competing-backlash
The whole idea of breakdancing as something to grade/score doesn't make sense to me. It is an artistic expression. (one I don't get, but that's on me). Similar to marching band, a type of performance art that doesn't make sense to everyone.
Marching band is something that is scored and has performance criteria. (Ever been to a band competition, never mind a Drum Corp International competition?)
Breakdancing by definition is something that breaks from standards and is all about individual expression. Which is fine, and what much of art is about. And worthy of appreciation. Just not in a comparative way.
You have come up with a cool idea:
Marching Band vs Breakdancing!
Or perhaps you meant Breakdancing Marching Band--the mind boggles.
Evil unbelievably wins yet again
https://twitter.com/StanfordMSoccer/status/1854383175180419133
The most bizarre ending to a soccer match I’ve ever witnessed. Twelve seconds earlier, it was 2-1 Stanford. Then ‘Furd committed a penalty resulting in a free kick that ND converted into a goal with eleven seconds left. It looked like a certain tie at the end of regulation until ‘Furd’s amazing shot from beyond midfield.
well, imo, with it being 'furd and ND, evil was always winning.