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I am sure I am not the first to ask this, but is @Beau Vine Craig Way? Great write up on the region championship games.

We salute the Marine Corps vet who chugged a beer from her prosthetic leg at a Lakers game Hutsler enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2017, training as an electronics maintenance technician at Twentynine Palms, California. She first began experiencing pain in her right leg during boot camp, although it was initially diagnosed as a stress fracture. Nine months later, though, an MRI revealed a tumor growing on her foot. Hutsler was transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment in July 2018, but after months of surgeries and physical therapy, she was told that her foot would have to be amputated within five to 15 years. Instead, Hutsler decided to get it over with and have the leg amputated immediately. “I had just turned 22 at the time,” Hutsler told Marine Corps Times earlier this year. “I was like, I’m not going to waste my 20s knowing that I’m going to get my leg cut off. I’d rather be able to live a successful life with amputation than wait around for an amputation to happen.” Hutsler medically retired in January 2020 as a lance corporal but hasn’t slowed down, competing in snowboarding, track, field, shooting, swimming, archery, wheelchair rugby, and seated volleyball at events for disabled military veterans like the Warrior Games. Now, she can add champion beer drinker to that list. So cheers to Annika Hutsler, who found the best possible way to watch the Lakers lose. Cheers!

UT-Austin That Is Not In Austin

Just go all professional golf tournament on the school. Stephen Fuller Austin University of Nacogdoches as presented by The University of Texas at Austin. SFAUONAPBTUOTAA for short.

I am not afraid to admit that I have many kinks, but none are Iowa based. I have just gotten a kick all season long of how inept Iowa has been offensively yet here they are with a chance to win the west in the B1G and maybe really screw things up by winning the B1G. Hate might be a little strong but I certainly have no love for Michigan and Ohio State. Maybe I dislike Michigan a little less. I am one of those types that if Texas is not in the mix, then I root for maximum chaos. Unless Georgia loses to both Georgia Tech and LSU I think they are all abut assured of being in the playoff at this point. Hell, even if they lose both of those games they are probably still in. So I want Georgia to lose to LSU in the SEC title game, Iowa (or Illinois or Purdue) to beat Michigan in the B1G title game (because I want to see the mental gymnastics the committee would have to go through to put a 1 loss, non conference champion Michigan team in the playoff given their aggy-level weak non-conference schedule), Oregon to beat USC in the Pac-12 title game, and Texas to get into the Big XII title game and beat TCU. And, not that I think it would matter much, but if Clemson was to lose the ACC title game, that would be sweet. Although watching the committee trying to figure out what to do with Clemson if they do win the ACC would also be fun. College football is at its best when the craziness is at maximum.

I hope the winner of this game loses to Iowa in the B1G championship game 13-10 and Iowa gets its 13 with approximately 167 yards of offense and by scoring 2 safeties, a field goal, and a defensive touchdown with a missed extra point. I know it is unlikely this happens, but one can hope.

Mark "The Mechanic" Eaton. RIP but I hated and still hate the Jazz.

Yeah, but it may take half of forever to see Vandy enough to get even against them. I wish the SEC would hurry up and figure out the pods/divisions/permanent rivals and what the rotation will be for how often Texas will face the other teams.

Winsipedia has Texas with a losing record all time to 13 teams (of those that still play football at the D1 level): UCLA (3-4) Penn State (2-3) Vanderbilt (3-8-1) USC (2-5) Notre Dame (3-9) BYU (1-4) Syracuse (0-2-1) Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Northwestern, NC State, Air Force, and Minnesota (0-1 against all of these schools) http://www.winsipedia.com/texas

Nothing against NC State, but the only reason I would be excited about a matchup against them is the fact that Texas is winless all time against NC State. It just annoys me when I look at Texas' record against other schools and I see the teams that the Horns have never beaten. Notre Dame, UCLA, or UW would definitely be more exciting opponents. Utah...eh. Don't really have an opinion either way on them.

If and when the new harbor bridge is ever finished (a really big if right now) then Whataburger Field will lose some of its charm in my opinion without the bridge in the background and its lights.

This may be something that is a good idea; it may be a case of "you can't go home again". "This Is SportsCenter" ad campaign to be revived Say what you will about ESPN and what it has become, but when this campaign started it was one of the best. Still think the John Clayton one is one of the best.

I feel confident that no one will get the cities of Matagorda and El Paso confused with each other.

Wise man, indeed. Much wiser than myself. Also, I am a native of Lake Jackson, yet have never been to Lake Jackson Seafood. I don't think it was around when I was growing up there and I don't get back too often. Yeah, just looked it up and it was a Pizza Hut when I was living there. Unrelated topic, but the El Chico days are numbered. That was around when I was lived in Lake Jackson and I did not think it would ever close up.

I can argue with nothing you said. However, despite all of those things, Baylor got its football program off the mat and actually won the conference. Maybe that says as much about the rest of the Big XII as it does Baylor. Cannot say the same about aggy.

I do not disagree with you in that Nebraska and Miami feel different. I certainly did not mean to imply it was an apples-to-apples comparison. I am not sure anything could feel the same as aggy, and I hope that nothing ever does feel the same as aggy because that would mean there is a fan base out there just as weird as aggy. It was just the first two programs I could readily think of that were in a current state of fucked with no real end in sight.

Some in Louisiana put potato salad in their gumbo in lieu of rice. I think mashed potatoes would work better. And of all the proteins I have had in gumbo over the years, I cannot recall any of them being in a fried form. You, sir, are a gotdamn genius. Now I want fried chicken gumbo over some mashed taters.

Miami (The U, not the one in Ohio) compares to aggy right now in terms of we-are-so-fucked right now (in my opinion). Look at where they were from the early 80s to the early 2000s...and look where they have been basically ever since they joined the ACC. Perhaps Nebraska is also comparable to aggy right now in the we-are-fucked-and-it-will-take-a-while-to-get-unfucked-if-it-ever-gets-unfucked department.

I don't know if you have any songwriting talent, but this seems like the start of a sad country song.

I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, and several others that I am way to out of touch to know who they are. Except Luis Guzman. I have always liked that guy. ‘Alone At Night’: Erotic Horror Starring Ashley Benson, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Winnie Harlow, G-Eazy & Luis Guzmán Gets North American Deal & First Look Image