Emboldened by successful Transformers franchise, Hasbro goes on to support dud movies based on Battleship, GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, Clue, and Ouija Boards - Hasbro's CEO says no more.
If my calculations are correct this will be the 50th Big Game in Memorial Stadium played before fans and it will be my 31st in Berkeley. Saw my first in '64 and have only missed '78 and '80 since.
First Big Game at Cal Memorial in front of fans was in 1923. Afterwards, every even-numbered year from 1924 through 1942, 1946 through 2018, 2022, and tomorrow will be the 2024 Big Game.
1923, 1924 through 1942 - 11 Big Games
1946 through 2018 - 37 Big Games
2022 and 2024 - 2 Big Games
There was no Big Game in 1944 due to World War II (Stanf*rd had no football team), and the 2020 Big Game was played without fans due to the pandemic.
Justin Wilcox is rightfully under fire right now but no one can deny his Big Game record. He has as many wins over the Furdies (four) as Bruce Snyder, Nibs Price, Mike White, Sonny Dykes, Tom Holmoe and Ray Willsey combined. Those six coaches combined for four Big Game wins in 33 seasons.
BERKELEY – Freshman Jeremiah Wilkinson scored a career-high 23 points off the bench to lead a short-handed California men's basketball squad to a 78-69 win over Air Force in the Cal Classic on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion.
Wilkinson, who came into the game with 11 points through the first four games of the season, made 8 of 12 shots from the floor with two 3-pointers for Cal, which improved to 4-1 despite being without three starters – Jovan Blacksher Jr., DJ Campbell and BJ Omot – due to injury.
The California women's basketball team (5-0) will face its toughest test of the young season when it hosts SEC opponent Auburn (3-1) at Haas Pavilion on Friday at 6 p.m. PT. The Tigers earned an at-large bid to last year's NCAA Tournament and enter Friday's game having received votes in this week's AP Top 25 poll.
A win against Auburn would give Cal its second win this season over a team that played in last year's NCAA Tournament after having already defeated Gonzaga.
BERKELEY – The California beach volleyball team signed two Class of 2025 standouts as announced by head coach Meagan Owusu. Hannah Demiter and Olivia Hoyt will join the Golden Bears next fall.
"We are thrilled to welcome Olivia and Hannah to the Cal beach volleyball family," Owusu said. "They have both been trained by some of the top club coaches in the country, so they come with a strong base of skill and knowledge of the game. They bring a lot of strength and versatility, and we cannot wait to see them in Berkeley next year."
WACO, Texas – California women's tennis All-American Katja Wiersholm lost in the NCAA Singles Championship round of 16 on Thursday at Baylor to end the Golden Bears' fall postseason campaign. Thirty-third-ranked Wiersholm – who became an All-American on Wednesday when she advanced to the round of 16 – fell to Auburn's 32nd-ranked DJ Bennett 7-6(5), 6-3 at the Hurd Tennis Center.
Brock Purdy left yesterday's practice early, didn't throw a single pass, and didn't attend media session. Lynch said he had an MRI and followed up with some bromides. What else does this snake-bit season need?
Despite a huge fourth quarter from LeBron James and another monster night from Anthony Davis, the Lakers faltered down the stretch at the free throw line to fall to the Magic, 119-118, snapping their six-game win streak.
Anthony Davis’ dominance continued with 39 points, nine rebounds, three blocks and two assists. He also passed Lamar Odom to move to 20th in Lakers franchise history with scoring. LeBron James caught fire in the fourth, finishing with 31 points on 5-8 shooting from range with 10 rebounds and seven assists.
The real story here is that Franz has arrived. Paolo injury may turn out to be a blessing long-term, cause Franz has looked like an all-NBA guy for the past few weeks while no one has been watching.
We watched the last couple of min of the game. Couldn't believe he went with the step back 3. I picture the clip of Kerr with his arms out stretched and then going to his head when Steph took that 3 against the Clippers where he dribbled through 4 clippers and then did the turn around 3 at the top of the key.
I've always liked him and really wanted him to land with Warriors in the Kuminga draft, but didn't ever guess he had this in him. He's been dominant since Paolo's been out.
NY Giants didn't just demote QB Daniel Jones. Jones has struggled with injuries and they benched him to start Tommy DeVito. And they officially demoted him to third string:
The Washington Caps were in the division league until a few days ago. Then Alex Ovechkin got injured with a leg injury. Word came back yesterday: broken fibula.
I didn’t think he had a chance to catch Gretzky this year until he got off to such a hot start. I didn’t make it out to watch training camp this year but will try to go to a practice or two when he gets ready to come back.
Browns are down by 1 and their offense has been struggling all game in the snow. Jameis Winston throws a pick at the Pittsburg 22 with 4:22 to go. Pittsburg needs to get some first downs to run out the clock. So Pittsburg dials up a Cal-special by running two straight running plays and an incompletion to go 3-and-out. No problem, just pin them deep with their pretty good punter - Waitman. Waitman shanks a 15 yarder. Winston then decides to suddenly become good, scoring a TD and winning the game.
Interesting telecast. "...game in the snow..." doesn't do it justice. The game was played in near white-out conditions. Grounds crew was out there with snow shovels frequently scraping off snow at the sidelines. There was an eerie quality to the on screen graphics of the line to gain, numbers, and 5-yard transversing lines as players seemed to run through them.
Mrs Slug and I watched the last 5 minutes of the game. I knew that the shanked punt was bad, I just didn't realize how bad because the camera angle was from behind the punter. As SGBear implies, that was the pivotal play of the game.
The MLB is such a shit show. If they didn't have the once-in a lifetime comet that is Ohtani, I'm not sure what they'd have to hold their hat on really.
I don't know whether to applaud St. Petersburg for exercising fiscal restraint and not subsidizing billionaires or berate them for being duplicitous bastards.
An article for which I saw a headline last week teased the Rays possibly going to Las Vegas permanently as the funding from Nevada isn't franchise specific. Didn't bother to find out what the writer thought would happen to the A's. I think that ship has sailed.
Let me get this straight. Elon Musk buys Twitter for the lulz, lays off 90% of the employees, and it's revenues implode by about 80% - if one were to believe the New York Times. Operationally, Twitter is very visibly a shit show now. And Trump's like "he'd be perfect to do the same thing to the US by cutting three-quarters of Federal jobs?". Oof.
It's all about the self-aggrandizement. And this is dangerous economically because I believe that Trump, Musk, et al, intend to run the dollar into the ground in order to boost crypto. It's as simple as that.
I also believe that there are other dangers for the US vis-a-vis foreign policy and actions that will damage the American presence and prestige on the world stage.
I know it's a huge jump for many, but it would not surprise me to find that JD Vance becomes president under any number of circumstances sometime within the next year because of economic or military circumstances. Trump is that dangerous and he's making appointments that do nothing to assuage those fears.
Interestingly enough, my mother-in-law also believes Vance will invoke the 25th A. to get Trump removed. I don't think Vance has the cache to pull this off and see no reason for him to do so when he can simply run in four years.
Under 25A, Vance would have to get a majority of Cabinet secretaries ("principal officers of the executive departments") to 1) remove Trump, and 2) to rebuff any attempt by Trump to retake office. This is a high bar to hurdle, and I don't think it would be easily done.
Trump would have to be incapacitated in some way for that to happen.
Trump appointees are not about appointing someone whose policies align with his own. Trump is not intelligent enough to have nuanced policies on a given issue. His appointees are simply a means for delivering spoils to those who have remained and who will continue to remain loyal to him. In the meantime, these appointees can do whatever the hell they want. All to say, Trump isn't intelligent enough strategize a takedown of the dollar. I agree, many in Trump's orbit carry an agenda that goes far beyond the red meat, parochial policies of Trump MAGA. Vance and Musk in particular would love to see the fall of the dollar and rise of crytpo as part of a broader deregulation that aligns with their anarcho-capitalists beliefs.
Well, it isn't Trump so much as it is the people he appoints that worry me. Trump appoints who he wants because he thinks they will be loyal to him; he cares for nothing else except to keep his sorry self out of prison. Trump's policies amount to this: how do I enrich myself and how do I keep myself out of prison?
If Trumps gets half of his appointments confirmed, though, that's enough to make things dicey. These people are not competent and as department heads, they could wreck things in that way. We are literally at the mercy of civil service folks doing their jobs and if those folks are gone, there are even fewer guardrails.
Agree to your first point, which is what I was attempting to say. My broader point was just about the perception that these appointees as a mere variant of political belief working within political norms, i.e. just wanting to see less regulation. Some, such as Vance and Musk, are acolytes of Peter Thiel and are adjacent to those who espouse the dark enlightenment, antiegalitarian society in which techno-autocrats rule. We may rightfully question a nonexpert such as RFK, Jr. running HHSA but my concern is that appointments such as RFK, JR., become a mere distraction to a much darker, more sinister force at work here.
I share your concern. I worry about people who should have no access to enforcement power having any at all. Thiel and his ilk are a perfect example of someone who ought not to have any access to enforcement power or sway in diluting it. It's bad enough that Thiel has any influence at all in an economic sense; he can do enough damage that way. He also seems to have had some sway in his antiegalitarian philosophy on electeds with some sort of legislative power, JD Vance being just one. As you are probably aware, Thiel has been giving copious amounts to GOP candidates in Senate races. Not just Vance, but also Masters in Arizona and others. You want to talk about a threat to democracy? Thiel is very definitely that evil person.
ICYMI: Former UW RB Tybo Rogers pleads guilty to assault for this. He gets 2 years deferred, which will get dismissed if he keeps clean beyond a little bit of raping he's already allegedly done. So his sentence is effectively 24 hours of community service. He may be nuclear hot to touch, so his college career is essentially over.
State scores again, partly helped by a terrible angle by the safety. Now they're up by six with only 90 seconds left on the clock - so they need to score a tuddy.
When I went through the sports channels after dinner last night Michigan was beating up on Tarleton State . I’d never heard of it and looked them up and they’re part of the Texas A&M system. When I looked at the school’s website one of the lead stories was about inductions into the school Rodeo Hall of Fame.
Here's the rub. Ellison didn't go to Michigan. Here's another thing. Ellison has been divorced four times and has two kids - none are named Jolin. There are no references to Jolin Ellison on the internet and the folks at the UofM board then started sleuthing who she is. A picture was found with Ellison and a woman in a Michigan hat (Ellison in a Ukraine hat because apparently it's the only blue/gold he's got since most of his hats are red). She was identified as his long time tennis partner
Bottom line: Imma need one of y'all to take one for the team and start dating Mukesh Ambani, Sergey Brin, or some other superbillionaire. Look, I know they are probably not emotionally ready for you, but I have faith in your abilities, skills, and experience. You're a Golden Bear afterall.
Larry Ellison as in Oracle, with an estate (one of several) in Woodside, and an America’s Cup yacht sitting in the Oracle Redwood City lagoon? That guy?
DBD Street Journal
Emboldened by successful Transformers franchise, Hasbro goes on to support dud movies based on Battleship, GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, Clue, and Ouija Boards - Hasbro's CEO says no more.
https://tformers.com/hasbro-ends-financing-of-hollywood-movies-to-focus-on-gaming-/54048/news.html
MOB
, WOKE
https://x.com/wokemobfootball/status/1859783309225755070
bwahahahahaha!
https://x.com/AdmiralBear01/status/1859993812741099851
WtFC watch party for a Cal FB game?
CAL
If my calculations are correct this will be the 50th Big Game in Memorial Stadium played before fans and it will be my 31st in Berkeley. Saw my first in '64 and have only missed '78 and '80 since.
I think your calculations are correct.
First Big Game at Cal Memorial in front of fans was in 1923. Afterwards, every even-numbered year from 1924 through 1942, 1946 through 2018, 2022, and tomorrow will be the 2024 Big Game.
1923, 1924 through 1942 - 11 Big Games
1946 through 2018 - 37 Big Games
2022 and 2024 - 2 Big Games
There was no Big Game in 1944 due to World War II (Stanf*rd had no football team), and the 2020 Big Game was played without fans due to the pandemic.
Justin Wilcox is rightfully under fire right now but no one can deny his Big Game record. He has as many wins over the Furdies (four) as Bruce Snyder, Nibs Price, Mike White, Sonny Dykes, Tom Holmoe and Ray Willsey combined. Those six coaches combined for four Big Game wins in 33 seasons.
He has the good fortune of going up against some really bad Furd teams (so did Tedford).
Yeah, but Tedford had good teams so his wins are meaningful. But that loss in 2010 was so bad.
Ever the optimist, it was the first time I'd ever gone into a Big Game knowing we were going to lose.
Yup
[MBB] Wilkinson Leads Cal Past Air Force
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/21/mens-basketball-wilkinson-leads-cal-past-air-force.aspx
BERKELEY – Freshman Jeremiah Wilkinson scored a career-high 23 points off the bench to lead a short-handed California men's basketball squad to a 78-69 win over Air Force in the Cal Classic on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion.
Wilkinson, who came into the game with 11 points through the first four games of the season, made 8 of 12 shots from the floor with two 3-pointers for Cal, which improved to 4-1 despite being without three starters – Jovan Blacksher Jr., DJ Campbell and BJ Omot – due to injury.
[WBB] Cal Hosts Rematch Against Auburn
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/21/womens-basketball-cal-hosts-rematch-against-auburn.aspx
The California women's basketball team (5-0) will face its toughest test of the young season when it hosts SEC opponent Auburn (3-1) at Haas Pavilion on Friday at 6 p.m. PT. The Tigers earned an at-large bid to last year's NCAA Tournament and enter Friday's game having received votes in this week's AP Top 25 poll.
A win against Auburn would give Cal its second win this season over a team that played in last year's NCAA Tournament after having already defeated Gonzaga.
[BVB] Cal Beach Volleyball Inks 2 Recruits
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/21/cal-beach-volleyball-inks-2-recruits.aspx
BERKELEY – The California beach volleyball team signed two Class of 2025 standouts as announced by head coach Meagan Owusu. Hannah Demiter and Olivia Hoyt will join the Golden Bears next fall.
"We are thrilled to welcome Olivia and Hannah to the Cal beach volleyball family," Owusu said. "They have both been trained by some of the top club coaches in the country, so they come with a strong base of skill and knowledge of the game. They bring a lot of strength and versatility, and we cannot wait to see them in Berkeley next year."
[WTEN] Wiersholm Falls In NCAA Round Of 16
https://calbears.com/news/2024/11/21/womens-tennis-wiersholm-falls-in-ncaa-round-of-16.aspx
WACO, Texas – California women's tennis All-American Katja Wiersholm lost in the NCAA Singles Championship round of 16 on Thursday at Baylor to end the Golden Bears' fall postseason campaign. Thirty-third-ranked Wiersholm – who became an All-American on Wednesday when she advanced to the round of 16 – fell to Auburn's 32nd-ranked DJ Bennett 7-6(5), 6-3 at the Hurd Tennis Center.
Bob Myers (former GS Warriors exec) named to UC Regents. He's a UCLA grad.
https://x.com/KPIXtv/status/1859746371982557461
Go Bears!!! Beat Stanfurd!!!
PRO
Brock Purdy left yesterday's practice early, didn't throw a single pass, and didn't attend media session. Lynch said he had an MRI and followed up with some bromides. What else does this snake-bit season need?
If he's injured then they are finished.
Take that Jed York!
Free throws doom Lakers as Magic steal a victory late
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2024/11/21/24302958/lakers-vs-magic-final-score-recap-stats-box-score-lebron-james-anthony-davis-dalton-knecht
Despite a huge fourth quarter from LeBron James and another monster night from Anthony Davis, the Lakers faltered down the stretch at the free throw line to fall to the Magic, 119-118, snapping their six-game win streak.
Anthony Davis’ dominance continued with 39 points, nine rebounds, three blocks and two assists. He also passed Lamar Odom to move to 20th in Lakers franchise history with scoring. LeBron James caught fire in the fourth, finishing with 31 points on 5-8 shooting from range with 10 rebounds and seven assists.
The real story here is that Franz has arrived. Paolo injury may turn out to be a blessing long-term, cause Franz has looked like an all-NBA guy for the past few weeks while no one has been watching.
We watched the last couple of min of the game. Couldn't believe he went with the step back 3. I picture the clip of Kerr with his arms out stretched and then going to his head when Steph took that 3 against the Clippers where he dribbled through 4 clippers and then did the turn around 3 at the top of the key.
I've always liked him and really wanted him to land with Warriors in the Kuminga draft, but didn't ever guess he had this in him. He's been dominant since Paolo's been out.
NY Giants didn't just demote QB Daniel Jones. Jones has struggled with injuries and they benched him to start Tommy DeVito. And they officially demoted him to third string:
https://www.giants.com/team/depth-chart
But they did him a little dirty by making him play safety on the scout team.
https://twitter.com/DDuggan21/status/1859664567090950317
Update: he's been cut
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42545134/giants-granting-qb-daniel-jones-request-move-on
The Washington Caps were in the division league until a few days ago. Then Alex Ovechkin got injured with a leg injury. Word came back yesterday: broken fibula.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/42530455/capitals-star-alex-ovechkin-4-6-weeks-broken-fibula
I didn’t think he had a chance to catch Gretzky this year until he got off to such a hot start. I didn’t make it out to watch training camp this year but will try to go to a practice or two when he gets ready to come back.
GeeyyyyAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGHHH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-dent-mats-zuccarellos-cup-165820898.html
https://twitter.com/SpokedZ/status/1857234208063717575
Browns are down by 1 and their offense has been struggling all game in the snow. Jameis Winston throws a pick at the Pittsburg 22 with 4:22 to go. Pittsburg needs to get some first downs to run out the clock. So Pittsburg dials up a Cal-special by running two straight running plays and an incompletion to go 3-and-out. No problem, just pin them deep with their pretty good punter - Waitman. Waitman shanks a 15 yarder. Winston then decides to suddenly become good, scoring a TD and winning the game.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/playbyplay/_/gameId/401671875
Interesting telecast. "...game in the snow..." doesn't do it justice. The game was played in near white-out conditions. Grounds crew was out there with snow shovels frequently scraping off snow at the sidelines. There was an eerie quality to the on screen graphics of the line to gain, numbers, and 5-yard transversing lines as players seemed to run through them.
Mrs Slug and I watched the last 5 minutes of the game. I knew that the shanked punt was bad, I just didn't realize how bad because the camera angle was from behind the punter. As SGBear implies, that was the pivotal play of the game.
St. Pete's: here's the money to repair Tropicana Field's torn roof... [a few hours later]... psych!
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42530207/st-petersburg-approves-23m-repair-tropicana-field-roof
The MLB is such a shit show. If they didn't have the once-in a lifetime comet that is Ohtani, I'm not sure what they'd have to hold their hat on really.
I don't know whether to applaud St. Petersburg for exercising fiscal restraint and not subsidizing billionaires or berate them for being duplicitous bastards.
An article for which I saw a headline last week teased the Rays possibly going to Las Vegas permanently as the funding from Nevada isn't franchise specific. Didn't bother to find out what the writer thought would happen to the A's. I think that ship has sailed.
Ohtani, Judge named MVPs
Ohtani's third unanimous MVP in 4 years is just ridiculous. He didn't pitch this year so everyone had a chance, but it was still unanimous.
which one will win overall MVP? that is the real suspense ..
Well one dropped a gimme fly ball in the pivotal inning of the WS...So maybe Judge is the real MVP for the Dodgers WS run.
they vote for these things in advance of playoffs, right?
Yeah everything is voted on before the playoffs start
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Let me get this straight. Elon Musk buys Twitter for the lulz, lays off 90% of the employees, and it's revenues implode by about 80% - if one were to believe the New York Times. Operationally, Twitter is very visibly a shit show now. And Trump's like "he'd be perfect to do the same thing to the US by cutting three-quarters of Federal jobs?". Oof.
It's all about the self-aggrandizement. And this is dangerous economically because I believe that Trump, Musk, et al, intend to run the dollar into the ground in order to boost crypto. It's as simple as that.
I also believe that there are other dangers for the US vis-a-vis foreign policy and actions that will damage the American presence and prestige on the world stage.
I know it's a huge jump for many, but it would not surprise me to find that JD Vance becomes president under any number of circumstances sometime within the next year because of economic or military circumstances. Trump is that dangerous and he's making appointments that do nothing to assuage those fears.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Interestingly enough, my mother-in-law also believes Vance will invoke the 25th A. to get Trump removed. I don't think Vance has the cache to pull this off and see no reason for him to do so when he can simply run in four years.
Under 25A, Vance would have to get a majority of Cabinet secretaries ("principal officers of the executive departments") to 1) remove Trump, and 2) to rebuff any attempt by Trump to retake office. This is a high bar to hurdle, and I don't think it would be easily done.
Trump would have to be incapacitated in some way for that to happen.
Trump appointees are not about appointing someone whose policies align with his own. Trump is not intelligent enough to have nuanced policies on a given issue. His appointees are simply a means for delivering spoils to those who have remained and who will continue to remain loyal to him. In the meantime, these appointees can do whatever the hell they want. All to say, Trump isn't intelligent enough strategize a takedown of the dollar. I agree, many in Trump's orbit carry an agenda that goes far beyond the red meat, parochial policies of Trump MAGA. Vance and Musk in particular would love to see the fall of the dollar and rise of crytpo as part of a broader deregulation that aligns with their anarcho-capitalists beliefs.
Well, it isn't Trump so much as it is the people he appoints that worry me. Trump appoints who he wants because he thinks they will be loyal to him; he cares for nothing else except to keep his sorry self out of prison. Trump's policies amount to this: how do I enrich myself and how do I keep myself out of prison?
If Trumps gets half of his appointments confirmed, though, that's enough to make things dicey. These people are not competent and as department heads, they could wreck things in that way. We are literally at the mercy of civil service folks doing their jobs and if those folks are gone, there are even fewer guardrails.
Agree to your first point, which is what I was attempting to say. My broader point was just about the perception that these appointees as a mere variant of political belief working within political norms, i.e. just wanting to see less regulation. Some, such as Vance and Musk, are acolytes of Peter Thiel and are adjacent to those who espouse the dark enlightenment, antiegalitarian society in which techno-autocrats rule. We may rightfully question a nonexpert such as RFK, Jr. running HHSA but my concern is that appointments such as RFK, JR., become a mere distraction to a much darker, more sinister force at work here.
I share your concern. I worry about people who should have no access to enforcement power having any at all. Thiel and his ilk are a perfect example of someone who ought not to have any access to enforcement power or sway in diluting it. It's bad enough that Thiel has any influence at all in an economic sense; he can do enough damage that way. He also seems to have had some sway in his antiegalitarian philosophy on electeds with some sort of legislative power, JD Vance being just one. As you are probably aware, Thiel has been giving copious amounts to GOP candidates in Senate races. Not just Vance, but also Masters in Arizona and others. You want to talk about a threat to democracy? Thiel is very definitely that evil person.
Florida's Pam Bondi tapped to be AG
DBD AV CLUB
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
ICYMI: Former UW RB Tybo Rogers pleads guilty to assault for this. He gets 2 years deferred, which will get dismissed if he keeps clean beyond a little bit of raping he's already allegedly done. So his sentence is effectively 24 hours of community service. He may be nuclear hot to touch, so his college career is essentially over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z87eMMrftLU
Happy 10th anniversary to this ACC gem
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/12/16/13981024/wake-forest-virginia-tech-2014-game-overtime-6-3-0-0
Drake's OVO brand drops a new collegiate co-branding that includes Stanfurd. Trash.
https://us.octobersveryown.com/products/fw24-campus-varsity-jacket-stanford-red?Size=X-Small
Only $700. Is there a significance to the owl?
ACC [checks notes]... Thursday action.
NC State falls to GA Tech 30-29 in a wild game. The started with this weird pick six
https://twitter.com/GeorgiaTechFB/status/1859764741683675182
State falls behind by 9 with 6:40 to go.
State improbably scores.
Tech 3 and out.
State scores again, partly helped by a terrible angle by the safety. Now they're up by six with only 90 seconds left on the clock - so they need to score a tuddy.
https://twitter.com/CFBKings/status/1859808303070810580
All State has to do is hold a true freshman QB for 90 seconds and the whole field.
https://twitter.com/accnetwork/status/1859819899134071141
Check out the last play and what terrible angle and effort of the two cornerbacks.
Wolfpack lose.
Still can't believe we lost to this Wolfpack team.
When I went through the sports channels after dinner last night Michigan was beating up on Tarleton State . I’d never heard of it and looked them up and they’re part of the Texas A&M system. When I looked at the school’s website one of the lead stories was about inductions into the school Rodeo Hall of Fame.
#1 recruit in the ESPN 300 flips from LSU to Michigan. The rumors are that his NIL deal was $12m
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10144347-bryce-underwood-commits-to-michigan-from-lsu-amid-nil-contract-rumor-2025s-no-1-qb
The U of Michigan NIL then issued a statement thanking Larry and Jolin Ellison for their contribution to land Bryce Underwood
https://x.com/chengelis/status/1859748263697527285
Here's the rub. Ellison didn't go to Michigan. Here's another thing. Ellison has been divorced four times and has two kids - none are named Jolin. There are no references to Jolin Ellison on the internet and the folks at the UofM board then started sleuthing who she is. A picture was found with Ellison and a woman in a Michigan hat (Ellison in a Ukraine hat because apparently it's the only blue/gold he's got since most of his hats are red). She was identified as his long time tennis partner
https://mgoblog.com/sites/default/files/users/user33570/2022-03/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-20%20at%208.01.04%20PM.png
Bottom line: Imma need one of y'all to take one for the team and start dating Mukesh Ambani, Sergey Brin, or some other superbillionaire. Look, I know they are probably not emotionally ready for you, but I have faith in your abilities, skills, and experience. You're a Golden Bear afterall.
Larry Ellison as in Oracle, with an estate (one of several) in Woodside, and an America’s Cup yacht sitting in the Oracle Redwood City lagoon? That guy?
What a crazy story.