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Soldier-poet Maksym Kryvtsov gave voice to an anguished but resilient Ukraine before he was killed in battle earlier this month https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-mourns-poet-soldier-who-found-darkness-beauty-on-front-lines-044892a2?st=nhls3p16qnm36jk&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Roger and Earl played against each other in the 1978 preseason and regular season.

Here you go. KD is currently 10th all time in NBA scoring. He is 25th all time in FGA.

The OSU comparison to Wisconsin? Stassen.com allows you to compare programs’ wins over periods of time. I chose the Gundy years, 2005-2021 (the database stops there). OSU has the 14th best win percentage over that period, unsurprisingly better than Texas’. Wisconsin has the 10th. As you note, Wisconsin has 3 conference titles to OSU’s 1. It has 5 division titles to OSU’s 1. The Badgers were in six major bowl games over that period to the Cowboys’ 3. No, Wisconsin is not in any way a blue blood. And there is nobody outside the IR8 footprint that would see them as “like” OSU. Or tOSU. This just shows how myopic college football fans can be. I will be curious to see what ratings look like next year. You mentioned IR8 ratings as being decent. It will be interesting to see what they are when the games are on down cable channels and when Texas fans interested in their conference competitors are tuning in to MSU-Auburn instead of OSU-WVU.

I was referring to the report that Russia took some senior officers off the flight.

I think I will! just later, though.

And what is the point of this thread? For me, there is a lot of schadenfreude. The IR8 profited from being in a conference with Texas, and decided to be parasites rather than symbiotes. Instead of setting up a conference office that was pro-Texas, they did the exact opposite. They assumed the legislature would keep Texas in the B12 and the B12 could keep Texas from being too big. I am enjoying watching this play out. Sorry for partying.

…and I think you’re getting a $5M per year/per school premium on the contract (based on comp of last contract Fox/ESPN split to this contract), to help OU and Texas leave a year early. That will disappear on the next contract.

It will be interesting to see a redo of this chart next year, when B12 teams have no high ratings games against Texas and OU to use in the rankings, and more of the games are on cable and streaming channels.

Do we suspect a mole?

I’m old. That’s why my curiosity is not so much about how this works wrt sex, but rather, how does this work when one of the throuple gets seriously sick. Or bankrupt. Or a child is seriously sick.

I can see the implicit threat- “you shoot down our planes and your POWs will be killed”. Clearly, they see concern about citizens’ lives as a weakness. Such a monstrous culture

Yeah, it will take time to unravel. We know, as background: -Russian aviation isn’t as safe as western. -Planes gets shot down by AD by accident (see 2014 777, Iran Air 655, that Korean airliner shot down by Russia). I suppose Ukraine could shoot one down by accident, too. -Russia Anita allowing the kind of investigation that could provide proof as to what happened. -Russia already blew up, last year, a building housing Ukrainian POWs, point being they don’t give a shit about them and and feel free to kill them as needed (and, of course, blaming it on Ukraine). -repeating above comment’s note, my first thought was “why would they be flying those dudes?”

I don’t know how it varies school to school, but I know a few guys that collect Texas rings and they start in the four figures with the more desirable ones hitting five figures.

Fatah is less extreme than Hamas. Now, mind you, they are ready to pay pensions to Oct 7 attackers, per their “pay to slay” policy, so they’re no prize themselves …

I am looking fwd to our SEC friends debating our B12 friends over the relative CFP worthiness of three loss SEC teams and two loss B12 teams.

…and then Michigan woke up.

Yes, but they’re drunk

My daughter had sepsis as an infant. 11 days in the hospital on an IV. It’s scary, but very treatable. Know how you can help? Get out there and give them some relief staying in the hospital with him, if possible.

I can believe this. I can also believe 20k dead Russian prisoners on top of this. I can also believe well over 20k conscripts from Russian held areas of Ukraine. I can also believe Ukrainian POWs also conscripted and put in the front of meat wave charges. Russians are complete bastards.

While DKR was coach, the SWC had a roster limit rule. There were no unlimited scholarships

Royal was an OU alum, old teammates were boosters, and he believed in collegial sportsmanship (while beating that ass). He didn’t believe in cheating, though, and Fairbanks and Switzer did.

I know nothing about Iowa’s NIL competitiveness. I do know they have a decent story to tell about OL development. But, there is something I’ve been wondering about B1G NIL… The SEC has been the best conference because that’s where the best concentration of players is, along with programs that have rabid and large support. Their supporters, though, are mostly big southern dummies. The B1G has large support, too, not as rabid, but (probably?) more prosperous. The B1G has a better media contract to support their ADs, and they have the potential for larger NIL support than their southeastern “peers”. I don’t know how many B1G teams have an institutional desire for nationally competitive football (Michigan, tOSU, PSU, USC, Washington, Oregon, NU…Illinois? UCLA? Iowa?), but they have a lot of potential to make noise, right? And aren’t we learning, with NIL that geography matters less to portal transfer than HS recruits?

I couldn’t bear to listen to Corby and Bob discuss Terry’s meltdown postgame Wednesday

Royal said, in response to the accusation that Texas bought players, too: “If I ever turned the Texas Exes loose on buying players, there wouldn’t be any left for anyone else”.