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  1. Best WR Trio in Longhorn History? | Sloan Thomas, Roy Williams & BJ Johnson Join! | Texas Football June 16th
  2. It's good for the WNBA to have great player battles that fans watch like Reese vs CC. It's one of the things that could help grow their league. Magic vs Bird Jordan vs Isaiah Shaq vs Olajuwon Duncan vs LeBron LeBron vs Steph
  3. Disagree -- Reese is having a quality rookie season too. Her numbers are great for a rookie. "Angel Reese continues to set records in WNBA" https://sports.yahoo.com/angel-reese-continues-set-records-120024362.html
  4. Big Noon Conversations: Texas’ Steve Sarkisian on the SEC move & learning from Saban & Pete Carroll 44 minutes ago
  5. Sure hope UK 'whoop's' aggy today 😁
  6. WNBA great rips media outlets over Angel Reese coverage after flagrant foul on Caitlin Clark: 'Nasty work' Swin Cash, a three-time WNBA champion and four-time WNBA All-Star, called out the media for its coverage of Angel Reese’s flagrant foul on Caitlin Clark during their matchup Sunday "To have the only highlight of Angel be that foul is nasty work by these outlets," Cash, who is currently an executive with the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA, wrote on X. "U know what you're doing while also questioning her intent is nonsense! They got it right, it was a flagrant 1 it was called by the refs & the players played on." Cash then offered her support for Reese and told the WNBA rookie to keep her head up. "Smh Keep Pushin & Competing Angel," the Basketball Hall of Famer added.
  7. Terrible base running by UNC...
  8. I'll take the loss, and accept Flagrant 1 😋 Just remember, intent is not a required element for flagrant 2 foul.
  9. Nice to see Clark and Reese with fair comments on the hard foul. Flagrant 1 and move on...
  10. He was "BuzzRock'd" 😋
  11. Editorial... As a serious basketball fan, I regret to report that all this mean girl stuff following Caitlin Clark’s professional debut has persuaded me to return to my longstanding policy of total indifference to the WNBA. Maybe I’ll be back, maybe not. It depends. I’d like it to be about basketball, not gender politics, not race and certainly not electoral politics. I get enough of those things everywhere else, thank you. Like most relatively normal sports fans, I tune in to ballgames partly to get away from all of it. As a major follower of the NBA playoffs, it’s occurred to me that one of the best things about the emergence of European stars like Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic in the league is that people don’t talk about race the way they used to. Nobody can blame a Slovenian player like Doncic for America’s racial divide nor a Serb like Jokic — although his own country has known its share of ethnic hatred. I hear Doncic giving interviews in confident, idiomatic English — his fourth language — and I wonder if maybe the 25-year-old hard-court magician isn’t an intellectual genius, too. He certainly plays like one. But even Doncic couldn’t have led the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA Finals without his teammate Kyrie Irving, a Jersey Black guy with a history of espousing truly mad opinions. (He’s flirted with flat Earth theory, to choose a merely silly one.) But who cares? The dude’s a wizard with a basketball and plays the role of elder statesman on the Mavericks. He’s not running for office. Play ball! Which is pretty much my opinion of Caitlin Clark, the most remarkable female shooter and passer I’ve ever seen — although there are a lot of players I’ve never seen. After witnessing her moving with the strength and assurance of Steph Curry early last season, I watched every Iowa women’s game I could find on TV. One aspect of Clark’s game that’s been overlooked is what a terrific teammate she is. It’s not every high-scoring point guard — Clark broke the all-time NCAA scoring record during her four years at Iowa — who’s beloved by everybody on her team. Or so it appeared. The Hawkeyes played like a team of friends. Partly that’s because with Clark doing the handle, the ball went where it needed to go pretty much every time. Credit, too, Coach Lisa Bluder. So why diminish Clark’s accomplishments by referring to her, as one New Yorker profile did, as “a white woman from a red state”? Or as Washington Post columnist Candace Buckner did as a “white knight galloping in to save the Dark Continent known as the WNBA”? (She was being sarcastic.) Red state/blue state, let’s call the whole thing off. Media-enhanced political tribalism is bad enough without having it invade every corner of American life. It’s undeniably true that Clark’s surprising celebrity is partly due to what I call “Taylor Swift syndrome:" the newly awakened zeal of young American women for female role models. So far, I’d have to say that Clark is handling it awfully well, her newfound fame. She didn’t run to reporters for a good cry when she was left off the U.S. Olympic team; she said she could use the rest and looks forward to the 2028 games. Laid low by a nasty cheap shot delivered by Chicago guard Chennedy Carter, Clark simply got back up, dusted herself off and got back in the game. In a men’s game, such a foul might have triggered a bench-clearing brawl. (We had a couple of those in high school.) In the NBA, veteran Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins pointed out, players get ejected, fined and suspended for that stuff. Clark limited herself to anodyne comments about basketball being a highly competitive and emotional sport. Seeing the big picture, tennis great Martina Navratilova tweeted, “The players in the WNBA need to realize that Caitlyn Clark is helping all of them. Now and in the long run, Caitlyn is the tide that will raise all boats!” NBA motor-mouth Charles Barkley said pretty much the same thing — 100% correct, both of them.
  12. Caitlin: "It's just a part of basketball," she told reporters. "It is what it is. Just trying to make a play on the ball and get the block. It happens." Reese offered a similar take on the situation. "It was a basketball play. I can't control the refs. They affected the game obviously a lot today," she told reporters. "I'm always going for the ball. Y'all are going to play that clip 20 times before Monday." Upgrading the call to a flagrant 1 was clearly the right call. Reese may have been making a natural basketball play, but she made clear contact with Clark's head in the process.
  13. WNBA kinda like WWE Women's Wrestling?? Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese recently told reporters she will "take the villain role" if it helps grow women's basketball, and she is dressing the part for Sunday's game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever. As Justin Tasch of the New York Post noted, Reese will wear custom-painted Reeboks with a Joker design for the highly anticipated contest: "I let Marvin do whatever," Reese said of the shoes that were painted by Marvin Baroota, per Tasch. "He drops the shoes on me at 10 o'clock the day before we leave. He brings the shoes to me and I'm just like, 'All right, I'll wear these.'" She isn't the only one with head-turning shoes paying homage to a famous villain in Sunday's game. Clark broke out the Kobe Grinches for the contest:
  14. “If you ain't rubbin', you ain't racin'.”
  15. Defensive car crash CF wall 💥
  16. Field's wet.. they just over water or did it rain there between games???
  17. UNC vs Tenn starting now 🎉🎉🎉🎉
  18. 🙄 NBC is also covering "THE OPEN" in July
  19. Father's Day today... BDC lost his Dad almost 2yrs ago Might be destiny...
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