She is the ideal glue guy on a basketball team. She defends the best offensive post, is tough as nails, rebounds, can shoot the 3 and mid range and rebounds the hell out the ball. She and Kemery may not have the star rankings of the outgoing transfers, but they have slotted in very nicely to this year's team.
Providing funds to Ukraine should presumably be high on Republican's wish list as money is being spent to defeat Russia without risking any American lives. Why any Republicans would be against this is befuddling...
...until you realize (1) Republican's don't care about the risk to American lives, (2) Republicans want defense spending to go to defense contractors, and (3) Republicans support the successor state to the USSR and a former KGB spy.
Trump saw dollar signs, wanted (still wants) to build a hotel in Moscow, therefore Putin/Russia = good, and all republican support for Russia (and therefore distain for Ukraine) stems from that.
House Ways and Means Committee voted to release TFG's tax returns. They also revealed that no audit was completed in the first two years of him being in office, despite it being required by law. The IRS started an audit after the W&MC asked for it in 2019, but the bulk of the work was assigned to one person and never completed. Rep Doggett says that there were "tens of millions of dollars in these returns... without adequate substantiation".
Just streamed For All Mankind. Fun premise, some fun episodes, Season 1 was good, season 2 was a lifetime movie until the last episode when it actually moved the story along, & season 3 was uneven but entertaining.
Watching some teams is like having broken glass ground into your eye, so maybe it was the best, or only, source, for an eyewash. Several Pac fanbases, Cal included, have members who should be able to relate.
Mat Ishbia purchases majority share in PHX Suns to value the franchise at about $4.0b. Mat is the son of Jeff, the founder of United Wholesale Mortgage.
The Immaculate Reception gets its name from the rule on receptions that was in force in 1972. If a pass is touched but not caught by an offensive player it must be touched by a defensive player before another offensive player can legally receive it. Honestly, that was the rule in 1972.
What is lost to time is the controversy surrounding the play. It was not clear that the ball had been touched by the defender on the play (Jack Tatum). It wasn't even clear who had touched the ball, although clearly it had to have been touched by someone. Probably because Harris grabbed the ball before it touched the ground the officials let the play stand.
John Madden reportedly remained salty about the Immaculate Reception until his death.
Well, it's clear now. Watching the "best quality" YouTube video of the play, the ball clearly goes past the Pit receiver and Tatum is right there. The location of the ball and the way it caroms back towards Bradshaw/Harris (physics!) doesn't allow for any other intrepretation than the call that was made. It's possible that the receiver's hand was between the ball & Tatum, but some portion of the ball had to touch Tatum. In any case, it would not have been overturned if they had video review.
Devastating Giants news as Scott Boras says F-you to management and their silly ‘medical issue’ and pushes Carlos Correa to the Mets. 12/$315M.
Correa’s medical were fine with Minnesota and NY…the Giants are so cheap. Zaidi is nothing short of a disaster…there’s no way they can spin this…no one is going to want to sign with this team.
It would take a lot at this point to convince me Farhan is not still on the Dodgers' payroll. He is absolutely atrocious. The team is actually going to be worse in 2023 than they were in 2022. What. The. Fuck.
See, respectfully clapdoc, I don’t buy that for a second. All of these owners are making $100’s of millions…it’s funny money…the TV deals alone would pay for the Correa contract. He gave them instant legitimacy, even though he likely is in fact a sore horse.
Now, though, the Giants lineup is borderline embarrassing for a Major League club worth $3.5B. They’re gonna finish 4th in the NL West, and are way closer to the Rockies than they are to the Doyers and Padres. Plus, the PR hit they took from this in regards to future free agents is devastating.
It really makes you wonder, Scootie, as he literally could not have scripted a worse offseason for the team if he'd tried...this is Jim Knowlton-level incompetence, which makes sense because Larry Baer IS a Cal guy after all...but the big play was...(checks notes)...oft-injured Mitch F-ing Haniger, who missed 3 months last year with a sprained ankle. This should go well.
First, I will note that I have no idea what the medical issue was or how legit it was. I'll also note that whatever comes out of Scott Boras' mouth has to be looked at skeptically.
But ultimately, this will not help with the perception among the fan base that the current Giants ownership is cheap and only feints at spending money on the roster.
Injuries have dogged Correa his entire career. 7 IL stints in 8 years, and he’s a lock to miss 25 games a year. Chances are slim he plays another 12-13 seasons.
ALL this was known by the Giants. Whatever this issue is may not have been, but they were never getting Cal Ripken-longevity here. Why even pursue him in the first place?
Latest is Boras may file a grievance against the Giants, seeking the $35M he lost because of San Francisco.
My Bay Area media source says Giants ownership was on board and spoke with Boras directly but that it was the Front Office that hated the deal…Farhan doesn’t give out deals like the Correa one, that’s for sure.
Regardless of what the injury is, or what transpired, the Giants look like complete idiots….this is Cal Athletic Department ineptitude, which makes sense, because Larry Baer is a Cal guy…
There could be a legitimate issue; its why there is a requirement of clearing a physical, and its not unprecedented to have a deal cancelled due to findings in the physical. Happens more often in football and with pitchers, but a player with a history of physical issues could just happen to have a physical issue of some type.
Yes, he is. Moore would have sat and didn't want to. Novosad might be willing to learn something. Plus, if Nix continues to run very much, there is a good chance someone else gets on the field at some point!
Rice is not exactly a frequent player in the top-flight booster/investor CFB world, nationally or in Texas, so this is a bit of a surprise. I'd love to know who is underwriting this.
I have some left over Cal football trivia fun facts that I didn’t have room for during the season. I’d like to share them today as my holiday gift to you.
Cal had a three game series agains Mills College in the 1930s, losing the first contest 9-3 in ’35, tying 0-0 in ’36 and winning 47-0 in ’37.
Cal’s 2016 national champions were the last college football team to not yield a touchdown for an entire season.
The Bears were beating UCLA so badly in 1954 (38-0 at the half) that in the third quarter Pappy Waldorf used members of the Cal band on offense and the rally committee on defense. The final score was 55-6.
Cal end and kicker Bill “Razzamatazz” Kowelski (1920-1922) was so quick that he held for his own point after and field goal tries.
A records twenty-five Cal football players have won the Heisman trophy including two for quarterback Kerry McGonigal.
During the Bears’ 27-27 tie with the Sorbonne in Paris in 1978, a riot broke out in the stands when concession stands ran out of both camembert and brie.
Heh, you had me going at first and I even attributed the "2016 national champions" to a typo. After an entire season of giving us true fun facts you make a heel turn and give us a bundle of lies and falsehoods today--I respect the long game you played here.
The dead giveaway was the score of that game against UCLA; we know that with a member of the CAL band on the field, a score would NOT have been given up.
As I write this, it is now officially winter, the winter solstice having come and gone at 1:48 PM PST. The thermometer tells no lies.
EDIT: Today is the shortest in terms of daylight hours. Yesterday, I read that tomorrow's daylight hours will be longer by (checks notes) 2 seconds. By mid-February, the change in daylight hours will be about 2.5 to 3 minutes from day-to-day.
Girl Scout Cookies
hmm...are orders going out now? I guess i should keep an eye out at the grocery stores now.
Usually not until Feb/March.
we just got our order from a friend and there were no cookies!!
we got some chocolate mint type things and cashews. i guess they are trying to diversify .. but honestly i can buy nuts and chocolate anywhere.
i cant get thin mints or tagalongs anywhere else.
DBD Street Journal
Wells Fargo settles Consumer Financial Protection Bureau matter for $3.7 billion.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/wells-fargo-cfpb-settlement-00074740
welp, someone isn't getting as large a bonus this year.
I hope they enjoy their Jelly of the Month subscriptions
I'm sure she's going to still fill up her cheese drawer in her fridge.
They write a check, but no one goes to jail. I should have majored in white collar crime.
WORLD CUP
They're coming home: no British fans were arrested at the World Cup this year
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/no-british-fans-arrested-world-cup-report-2022-12-15/
that is genuinely shocking
Messi brushes off Salt Bae
https://twitter.com/zekedabolina/status/1604555751980007424
I just googled who Salt Bae is and am annoyed for having wasted 20 secs of my life on that. I blame you guys!
Surprised many ppl didn't know him. Not that you needed to anyway though.
When a commoner turns into a celebrity thru social media, this is what happens.
I intuitively knew who he was or, at least, remember seeing his image in a gif. He's kind of famous for throwing salt.
He's famous for transferring pathogens from his forearms to food served to customers.
He does sell a famously expensive and not very good steak.
I had to do the same.
Same
I'm not even going to bother goggling him. The comments here indicate I won't have any interest in him.
Salt bae needs to be punched in the face repeatedly
I think a swift kick to the balls could help also
I think he needs to be given a million papercuts and then buried in salt.
Who does he think he is?
Salt Bae.
Messi had a few people in his neighborhood
https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1605298648543547393
The team essentially had to escape ala the USO scene from Apocalypse Now
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/argentina-world-cup-heroes-airlifted-helicopters-street-party-overflow-rcna62707
The aerial shots of the celebrations in Argentina have been incredible
Messi has a few people on his lawn
https://twitter.com/AlbicelesteTalk/status/1605329527961538561
Bruh.
https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1605322391194071040
Peanut
Tuitele - fifth leading scorer on the WBB team.
https://calbears.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/peanut-tuitele/21378
She is the ideal glue guy on a basketball team. She defends the best offensive post, is tough as nails, rebounds, can shoot the 3 and mid range and rebounds the hell out the ball. She and Kemery may not have the star rankings of the outgoing transfers, but they have slotted in very nicely to this year's team.
Butter.
Almost killed a character on a Freaks and Geeks episode we watched recently.
-s, by Charles Schultz.
Ball
Strike.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Putin - angered by Zelensky's trip to Washington DC - says that he will continue to kill Ukrainians because the world won't let him do it freely.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-725439
Providing funds to Ukraine should presumably be high on Republican's wish list as money is being spent to defeat Russia without risking any American lives. Why any Republicans would be against this is befuddling...
...until you realize (1) Republican's don't care about the risk to American lives, (2) Republicans want defense spending to go to defense contractors, and (3) Republicans support the successor state to the USSR and a former KGB spy.
Trump saw dollar signs, wanted (still wants) to build a hotel in Moscow, therefore Putin/Russia = good, and all republican support for Russia (and therefore distain for Ukraine) stems from that.
Kellyanne Conway may have violated ethics laws by selling her company to a dark money pool controlled by a judicial activist.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/trump-conway-leonard-leo-00074690
I'm sure that will have zero repercussions
House Ways and Means Committee voted to release TFG's tax returns. They also revealed that no audit was completed in the first two years of him being in office, despite it being required by law. The IRS started an audit after the W&MC asked for it in 2019, but the bulk of the work was assigned to one person and never completed. Rep Doggett says that there were "tens of millions of dollars in these returns... without adequate substantiation".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats/
Here's a summary of Trump's taxes:
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/documents/jctreport.pdf
I predict this photo will age poorly
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/702894623761498112
The committee also rebuts the claim that Trump couldn't release his tax forms because he was under audit. He wasn't.
My world is shattered
Time to Close Down the Elon Musk Circus
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/21/elon-musk-twitter-press-00074881
DBD AV Club
Just streamed For All Mankind. Fun premise, some fun episodes, Season 1 was good, season 2 was a lifetime movie until the last episode when it actually moved the story along, & season 3 was uneven but entertaining.
PRO
Tampa Police drop case against Antonio Brown because [reads about what happened]... oh boy, that's a mess.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35297704/prosecutors-drop-case-antonio-brown
OSKI DID IT FIRST
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1605024550064115713
Watching some teams is like having broken glass ground into your eye, so maybe it was the best, or only, source, for an eyewash. Several Pac fanbases, Cal included, have members who should be able to relate.
Steph-less Warriors get absolutely shellacked 132-94 by the Knicks.
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401468618
will probably be worse today vs Nets
Mat Ishbia purchases majority share in PHX Suns to value the franchise at about $4.0b. Mat is the son of Jeff, the founder of United Wholesale Mortgage.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35292815/sources-mat-ishbia-finalizing-suns-purchase-4-billion
He was also a walk-on member of the Michigan State basketball teams when they were contending (and winning!) a national title.
RIP Franco Harris
The man who caught the Immaculate Reception.
The Immaculate Reception gets its name from the rule on receptions that was in force in 1972. If a pass is touched but not caught by an offensive player it must be touched by a defensive player before another offensive player can legally receive it. Honestly, that was the rule in 1972.
What is lost to time is the controversy surrounding the play. It was not clear that the ball had been touched by the defender on the play (Jack Tatum). It wasn't even clear who had touched the ball, although clearly it had to have been touched by someone. Probably because Harris grabbed the ball before it touched the ground the officials let the play stand.
John Madden reportedly remained salty about the Immaculate Reception until his death.
Well, it's clear now. Watching the "best quality" YouTube video of the play, the ball clearly goes past the Pit receiver and Tatum is right there. The location of the ball and the way it caroms back towards Bradshaw/Harris (physics!) doesn't allow for any other intrepretation than the call that was made. It's possible that the receiver's hand was between the ball & Tatum, but some portion of the ball had to touch Tatum. In any case, it would not have been overturned if they had video review.
NNNOOO. Not Franco??
My guess is that the umps will not have FTX patches on their shirts this year.
Some of the call-management payments may not have come through.
Devastating Giants news as Scott Boras says F-you to management and their silly ‘medical issue’ and pushes Carlos Correa to the Mets. 12/$315M.
Correa’s medical were fine with Minnesota and NY…the Giants are so cheap. Zaidi is nothing short of a disaster…there’s no way they can spin this…no one is going to want to sign with this team.
#FireFarhan
I heard that the Giants physical showed that Correa could no longer hear what pitch was coming
Bah-dum-dum....TSSSHHHH.
It would take a lot at this point to convince me Farhan is not still on the Dodgers' payroll. He is absolutely atrocious. The team is actually going to be worse in 2023 than they were in 2022. What. The. Fuck.
Payback for Ned Colletti.
Giants dodged a bullet with Correa backing out of that deal.
See, respectfully clapdoc, I don’t buy that for a second. All of these owners are making $100’s of millions…it’s funny money…the TV deals alone would pay for the Correa contract. He gave them instant legitimacy, even though he likely is in fact a sore horse.
Now, though, the Giants lineup is borderline embarrassing for a Major League club worth $3.5B. They’re gonna finish 4th in the NL West, and are way closer to the Rockies than they are to the Doyers and Padres. Plus, the PR hit they took from this in regards to future free agents is devastating.
Farhan has been, and continues to be, a disaster.
It really makes you wonder, Scootie, as he literally could not have scripted a worse offseason for the team if he'd tried...this is Jim Knowlton-level incompetence, which makes sense because Larry Baer IS a Cal guy after all...but the big play was...(checks notes)...oft-injured Mitch F-ing Haniger, who missed 3 months last year with a sprained ankle. This should go well.
First, I will note that I have no idea what the medical issue was or how legit it was. I'll also note that whatever comes out of Scott Boras' mouth has to be looked at skeptically.
But ultimately, this will not help with the perception among the fan base that the current Giants ownership is cheap and only feints at spending money on the roster.
Injuries have dogged Correa his entire career. 7 IL stints in 8 years, and he’s a lock to miss 25 games a year. Chances are slim he plays another 12-13 seasons.
ALL this was known by the Giants. Whatever this issue is may not have been, but they were never getting Cal Ripken-longevity here. Why even pursue him in the first place?
Latest is Boras may file a grievance against the Giants, seeking the $35M he lost because of San Francisco.
Farhan Zaidi is the Giants’ Jim Knowlton.
Probably a good thing Crawford didn't immediately go elsewhere!
This team finishes 4th in the NL West, but will send Crawford off in style…
I'm not sure if this is Zaidi or if it's ownership getting cold feet at the last minute.
My Bay Area media source says Giants ownership was on board and spoke with Boras directly but that it was the Front Office that hated the deal…Farhan doesn’t give out deals like the Correa one, that’s for sure.
Regardless of what the injury is, or what transpired, the Giants look like complete idiots….this is Cal Athletic Department ineptitude, which makes sense, because Larry Baer is a Cal guy…
There could be a legitimate issue; its why there is a requirement of clearing a physical, and its not unprecedented to have a deal cancelled due to findings in the physical. Happens more often in football and with pitchers, but a player with a history of physical issues could just happen to have a physical issue of some type.
Wife was invited to ride a cable car with Correa today as a publicity thing. Guess that's cancelled. She had turned it down anyway.
Nah Correa just wanted to flip on NSD
Elsewhere in college
4-Star QB Austin Novosad flips from Baylor to Oregon, which was after 5-star QB Dante Moore flipped from Oregon to UCLA
https://twitter.com/Austin2novosad/status/1605549323827060736
he is local to me...really really good player
Isn't Bo Nix going back to Oregon?
Yes, he is. Moore would have sat and didn't want to. Novosad might be willing to learn something. Plus, if Nix continues to run very much, there is a good chance someone else gets on the field at some point!
Given the shape Nix was in by the end of the season, I have to think you're correct
What 5 star QB flipped from UCLA to Cal?
The appeal of Marques Tuiasosopo is too much as JT Daniels signs with Rice, his fourth college team.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35295207/ex-west-virginia-qb-jt-daniels-transferring-rice-fourth-school
A peripatetic dude. Have suitcase and condo-paid-for will travel.
Rice is not exactly a frequent player in the top-flight booster/investor CFB world, nationally or in Texas, so this is a bit of a surprise. I'd love to know who is underwriting this.
Tui is a great recruiter.
perhaps an oil or gas company, but why though
Eastern Michigan scores 33 unanswered points to put away SJSU 41-27 in the Potato Bowl
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401442004
33 consecutive, but not unanswered. It was a remarkably sudden and stunning turn of momentum over a blocked kick that led to a 2 point runback.
That one on the blue eyesore of a field was a bit of a surprise. The winning coach got a french fry bath.
I hope the Mayo bowl ends in a gatorade bath of mayo.
It is going to - in fact a guy that I follow on Twitter basically lobbied his way into the job for this year.
https://twitter.com/devalkk/status/1599936065615589376?s=20&t=BhMtaQuo5wcOz-Y-oBgxng
It has before. Really messy.
Toledo defeats Liberty 21-19 in the Boca Bowl
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=401442006
Good game; it started in pretty soggy weather, but improved.
I was very happy with that result.
CAL
I have some left over Cal football trivia fun facts that I didn’t have room for during the season. I’d like to share them today as my holiday gift to you.
Cal had a three game series agains Mills College in the 1930s, losing the first contest 9-3 in ’35, tying 0-0 in ’36 and winning 47-0 in ’37.
Cal’s 2016 national champions were the last college football team to not yield a touchdown for an entire season.
The Bears were beating UCLA so badly in 1954 (38-0 at the half) that in the third quarter Pappy Waldorf used members of the Cal band on offense and the rally committee on defense. The final score was 55-6.
Cal end and kicker Bill “Razzamatazz” Kowelski (1920-1922) was so quick that he held for his own point after and field goal tries.
A records twenty-five Cal football players have won the Heisman trophy including two for quarterback Kerry McGonigal.
During the Bears’ 27-27 tie with the Sorbonne in Paris in 1978, a riot broke out in the stands when concession stands ran out of both camembert and brie.
Seasons greetings, y’all.
Heh, you had me going at first and I even attributed the "2016 national champions" to a typo. After an entire season of giving us true fun facts you make a heel turn and give us a bundle of lies and falsehoods today--I respect the long game you played here.
The dead giveaway was the score of that game against UCLA; we know that with a member of the CAL band on the field, a score would NOT have been given up.
FYI: Mills College is now a satellite campus of Northeastern (Boston).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College_at_Northeastern_University
Rugbear and Bob R. would have believed it.
Rob R. would have "disproven" all of it by citing Wikipedia.
Jack Plummer is in the portal.
Today is the early signing day for FBS football.
My take on Early Signing Day.
1. It's early signing day, so it's not the end.
2. We signed everyone who committed, so no last second negative surprises
3. Some upside surprise as we signed two previously uncommitted transfers who can immediately contribute
4. We will need to hit the portal for our areas of need - especially OL, maybe a TE or H-back. I would also like some PWO depth at QB, RB, DL, P/K.
Johnson, McKenzie, and Morrow back in spring as far as I know.
Cal gets a PWO. Size indicates DE/OLB
https://twitter.com/rj_stephens_/status/1605634687547846656
Thunder joins Lightning as RB Byron Cardwell reportedly signs with Cal
https://twitter.com/gregbiggins/status/1605608225155342344
It's official. Cardwell joins the Bears. This is a big one.
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1605610294650163200?s=20&t=6yGQmY4rQFXIfE0Z74oxXg
Cal signs a linebacker from Clemson
https://twitter.com/sallen45_/status/1605604864217665548
Sergio Allen is a MLB. He's an academic junior but has three years left of eligibility.
https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Sergio-Allen-105935/RecruitInterests/
His offers out of high school
Go Bears on this Winter Solstice day.
As I write this, it is now officially winter, the winter solstice having come and gone at 1:48 PM PST. The thermometer tells no lies.
EDIT: Today is the shortest in terms of daylight hours. Yesterday, I read that tomorrow's daylight hours will be longer by (checks notes) 2 seconds. By mid-February, the change in daylight hours will be about 2.5 to 3 minutes from day-to-day.
I just saw that Cal won a bball game! Picked myself off the floor.
UTA is bad, but they gave USF the business .. . who just gave ASU the business.
Cal played together and played pretty smartly. We are not good, but we're also not this bad.
Jack Plummer enters the portal?!
https://twitter.com/chris_hummer/status/1605682131694342144?s=20&t=hRjVAczEd0Hg5Pq2STlM-w
Cal quarterback Jack Plummer has entered the transfer portal,
@247SportsPortal
has learned. Plummer, who is listed as a graduate transfer, threw for 3,095 yards and 21 TDs this year while completing 62.5% of his passes.
I have no evidence this is remotely in the cards but maybe this plus the Sergio Allen signing is a window for DJU to come on down.
I just threw up in my mouth a little. DJU is terrible
I’ll take my chances with a former 5 star and Coach Spav.
Would love to see what Millner can do, I imagine we will also see transfers of Ethan Garbers and Miller Moss.
Garbers is supposedly close to a UCLA degree so might not. Be surprised if Moss, Justyn Martin and others dont come available though.
Meh, go watch DJU highlights. Huge kid who cant read defenses or make progressions. He's terrible
I totally forgot about Justyn Martin