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"CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Jason Arnie Owens helped carry his father’s casket to the hearse, then turned to embrace a relative. He never made it to the cemetery." Oh, I think he made it there.

Real CFB names for this year (stolen from various sites that do "best names" each season)... Decoldest Crawford Shitta Sillah Blazen Lono-Wong Hot Rod Fitten Bumper Pool Kool-Aid McKinstry Major Burns Dan Smith, BYU

Holy shit what a day. Today was the very best in so many ways. Thoughts, some about the meet, but most not. This is the single hottest gathering of humans I’ve ever been to. Almost all the fans are coaches, athletes at every level, and families of athletes. One older dude I’m friends with ran for us in the Olympics in the late 80s and early 90s. Has kids in college. Multiple ex wives. And a different 25yo with him at the bars every night we went out. The old distance guys make up for partying that they didn’t do in 20s-30s by looking like a Mormon set free from Utah. And my new favorite because she runs my favorite race, is German, and not ugly at all… Luna Thiel. She’s not the hottest but she checks every box for me. And was nice when going around talking to fans after competing in her events while watching. Shame that 4x4 didn’t make the finals. Would love to watch her run in person. I’m technology inept otherwise I’d link her instagram. I’ll upload pics from today. Sad it’s over. Tired. Ready to go home. All in all 3 meet days, 4 nights was the perfect length and price. I did get an offer for an interview as an administrator or teacher, and coach at a local HS. You damn bet I am flying back out to take the interview even if I don’t have a chance of accepting it. It’s been historic. It’s been FAST. It had moments I’ll never see again in my lifetime. It had moments some athletes have waited a lifetime for (Winger in the jav; Ziemek in decath) It was full of youth and promise. 3 of our 4 ladies on he 4x4 in the final were collegiate this season and McG young enough to be in college still. It had upsets! Women 4x1. It had… upsets. Men 4x1. It had sweeps! Men 1 & 2. It had falls. Women 100h. 3 of 4 DQ at some point. No politics (except one protest group from the Tigray Genocide in Ethiopia - which I suggest y’all look up). . It had the very best of humanity. Joys. Cheers. Toasts to other team victories. It had Jamaicans! Oh It had Jamaicans. They are the lifeblood and passion of the sport worldwide. It had shared meals, restaurant tables with multiple languages, peak of human physicality from every nation and race. It had fans who respected and enjoyed each other. It had the unexpected. No traffic. No sirens. No arrests that I saw. No violence. Just fun. It had the sentimental - a proposal one night. It had the hysterical - the French decathlon winner said in his stadium interview when asked if he was tired after these two days… “no I don’t want to sleep. I just want to drink!!!” It had a team of staff and volunteers from the WAC (purple shirts) that was courteous, nice, never running people off like yellow shirts at American events. They ran the meet and managed the people near perfectly. Lines to get in through detectors and ticket scanners never once took more than 2 minutes. Seriously. It had tears - Thankful ones of my saintly wife supporting me to do this even though the cost and missing 4 days with my family. I love this sport, by my family is everything to me. And without them I’d be lost, alone, sad, or some combination of all three. Joyful tears of seeing my favorite American runner just bitch slap the 400m hurdle record and do it running into my face where I sat in the front row on Friday at the top of the back stretch. Excited ones to do this with Sean. He’s been a mentor to me from the time we were rivals and I was HC at another school, to me changing schools years ago (after taking a 5 year coaching break) and asking if he needed a 4x1 coach not knowing where that would lead. This year began with my first state title in indoor. HOLY SHIT!!! ones when mondo did his thing. The power and energy of the entire world, the entire packed stadium cheering on some Swede from Louisiana… it was even more electric than McGs record because it was the capstone to the meet and it ended on a Randy Moss gif sized explosion from everyone. EVERYONE was ecstatic. (his girlfriend more. Hot damn.) Sincere ones. For winger especially but also for every athlete who stood on that top step, got that gold, and cried like a baby to their anthem. Humble ones. To hear our national anthem so many times. Yet at the right time in sports. Not when every little league, AAU, travel soccer tournament, etc begins. Especially when it’s likely parents will get in a fight, an adult will make a kid cry, or someone will say something dehumanizing to an official. Not for the ordinary and the commonplace. No. Our anthem represents courage, honor, and our nation. It’s For the extraordinary, for the exceptional, for the champion. Never heard the anthem like that before. Ever. Hope I get to hear it that way again some day and feel even just a tenth as grateful my soul is and full my heart is now. night assholes. Tomorrow is always another day to go fast. FeedTheCats. (IYKYK)

Last day! Yesterdays womens 4x100 was absolutely electric. And the medal ceremony was damn cool. Hitting some last places today before the PM session. Track town pizza. Wild duck - what a absolute dive bar. Love it. Athing is likey out for the 4x400… either her or Muhammad. Florida Twitter just announced diggs is running tonight in the relay for sure.

Felix running tonight in the 4x4 semis. Still hoping irby gets another shot. She ran for one of our rival schools and her hs coach is staying with us.

Ran Pre’s Trail for my workout this morning. So I’m basically a distance runner now (narrator’s voice: he’s not).

Will post more pics from tomorrow and Sunday. Not first row tomorrow. Wanted to be up higher to have a good view of the entire 4x1. Then Sunday on the home stretch. Hoping for some more special moments! And everything about this trip and meet make it my new number one sporting event of all time ahead of the Baylor mbb national title and watching the Indy 500 in the Andretti suite a few years ago. (Sorry humble brag. Just giving context of how unreal this is)

My other head coach (hs track) and I bought tickets Wednesday and flew here this AM. Got a rental one mile from track for cheaper than a hotel. Today was breathtaking. Never been here before. Feel like a kid at Christmas again.

Just stopping in to add my appreciation of the aggy tradition in Omaha and looking for another 2&Q!

Season 2 very meh so far. Doesn't smack me with the same appeal as season 1. And maybe that's because I was on a sabbatical for a couple months when I binged S1 last September. S2 seems poorly written, forces the issue of her personalities/internal scenes, and the glaringly obvious bad choices she's made in the first two episodes like staring at the guy she was avoiding when mashing the elevator "close door" button instead of just turning her fucking back. I'll watch the rest, but only because my favorite shows are all on break right now and watching Breaking Bad and G-O-T over again for the 3rd time each needs a break every now and then. Maybe S1 was as bad, but I'm not going to go back and watch it now - or likely ever.

A gaggle of goobers.

100% thought that’s what I was opening. Where is our sweet prophet?

Thought the details you mention somewhat telegraph that is was coming eventually - imp nothing happening yet between the two. We'll see how it plays out. I am sure Rue will be super excited and it won't fuck with her sobriety at all. Am I the only one who was surprised Rue was back home? I thought for sure she'd be a drug-addled lackey for that old lady in no time. Didn't think the show would get too dark and involve human trafficking, but certainly thought she'd be stuck in that way of life longer.

Well I've had enough internet for the day. Did that not make it as a thread on TOS? I don't even remember hearing about that on the news. Horrific.

The Aristocrats!

softball school.

Username certainly does not check out. I have it, somewhat minor in my right ear. Probably from shooting without ear protection in the 90s. Been wearing muffs and plugs ever since. I just deal with it now. Haven’t found anything that works but mostly tried OTC and natural remedies and nothing with a professional ENT specialist. I haven’t been able to identify and triggers like alcohol or caffeine. But I definitely do use white noise to fall asleep. Very annoying trying to do so without.

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I've seen a lot of dumb aggy shit over the years here and a the old site. I've never seen the gloves with a hole cut in them for their rings. Or the boot flare on their "coveted" boots. That vide of those fucking goobers sliding on concrete in boots and boxers is shit out of a bad movie. If anyone tried to make me do that shit in college I'd have told them to pound sand. But individualism and creative thinking are not aggy traits.

Was going to name either one of our boys Agnes if they were a girl. Shockingly my wife was the one to point out how I wouldn't like people calling her Aggy. Wanted to name our sons after towns in Texas, or at least their middle names. I guess she didn't like Waxahachie.

Damn. Sad. Also, not to challenge RD but didn't chick ball win aggy a title in 2011?

made the homesick texan recipe for dart bowl enchiladas at christmas eve dinner with my family. that got me into watching schitt's creek because my siblings kept talking about and quoting the season 2 episode - family dinner. slammed and went hard as always.

Now it's officially the Christmas (Advent) season. Gotdam national treasure, this story is. And this, this is pure fucking poetry, ""oooh like over thurr- look at the Santa up on the roof kids.” I know bitch I'M THE ONE THAT FUCKING PUT HIS FAT ASS UP THERE LAST WEEK"