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There are stupid TV execs all over the place, so anything is possible, but I'm just not expecting it this time. What's being reported is that the bigger payouts are tied to how well the games perform from a viewership standpoint. No one knows what the thresholds are for higher payouts, but if you're one of the remaining nine Pac-12 teams, that can't sound good. This site ( https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/ )has the week-by-week TV ratings for games last year. Pac-12 games with USC or UCLA were almost always the highest game of the week. If you take out all the USC and UCLA games things drop off real quick. My guess is the TV deal is terrible and teams start looking for new homes with urgency. Can someone more in-the-know fill me in on the Big-12 deal: If they add more teams, do the networks payout more to keep the per-team share the same? That's what it sounded like when people were discussing CU. Or is the pie just cut into more slices?

I'm an old white guy. Even reading the twitter comments I don't get it.

Welp, the Big-12 may not quite be dead on the side of the road after all. Colorado to the Big-12 broke earlier today and may get approved by the Big-12 as soon as this week. They would start play next year. With lack of a TV deal, it feels like this may not be the only defection.

I only recognized BB King and Muddy Waters. Not familiar with Ivory Joe Hunter at all, but based on that photo, I might have to go down a YouTube rabbit hole latter today.

I was curious when that episode of Gilligan's Island aired. It was January 9, 1965. When that aired, there were still four Japanese holdouts playing advanced Where's Waldo-san.

What pisses me off about this weather, is after I go for my late afternoon run and then get in my backyard barrel sauna for 20 minutes, my hot tub circuit breaker is always tripped because the external heat makes the temperature go above 105. The extra 20 steps to walk to the sub panel to flip the breaker is a major drag. Also, my wife sets the house temperature to 73 which feels really cool to me.

That doesn't look like a persona-use home bathroom to me. The germ-phobia part of my brain wants to die.

Who the best guitar player is mostly personal taste, a lot like what the best color is or best flavor. Everyone's different. That said the poll is so bad it makes my head hurt. My always-evolving personal top guitar players: David Gilmour Echoes Comfortably Numb Neil Young Cortex the Killer Powderfinger Walk like a Giant Ramada Inn Dead Man Theme Mark Knopfler Once upon a time in the West Telegraph Road Brothers in Arms Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather Collins Shuffle Rude Mood Kirk Hammett / James Hetfield Orion Fade to Black For Whom the Bell Tolls Jimi Hendrix Stone Free All along the watchtower Duane Allman Statesboro Blues Whipping Post Billy Gibbons La Grange Cheap Sunglasses Slash Bent to fly Welcome to the Jungle Paradise City Joe Bonamassa Drive Sloe Gin Matthew Bellamy Thought of a Dying Atheist Supremacy J.J. Cale Cocaine Call me the Breeze Santana Smooth Black Magic Woman Robin Trower Day of the eagle Too Rolling Stoned Tim Henson Playing God Neurotica Snowy White Another Blue Night Ongoing There are so many great guitarists from Buckingham to Lifeson to Summers to Nelson to Page. The list goes on and on. If you were going to pick 4 names for a Poll, Dave Matthews just isn't making my cut.

I think the assumption from most folks following such things is that someone associated with Ukraine killed him, but has there been any official (or unofficial) confirmation of that?

If I was Fitzgerald, I would: Hold a press conference tomorrow. Clearly accept the firing for cause. Clearly state that Hazing is wrong. Tell the victims how sorry your are it happened on your watch. Claim to not have known about the type and extent of the hazing. Then say some crap like "Since the buck stops with the Captain, I need to accept responsibility for my program and to learn to do better next time." If nothing comes out in the next few weeks that show he did know details, the above might be a path to another multi-million dollar job. ...but It would be so much more entertaining if he does the above and then photos drop of him playing Car Wash.

I'm really pleased to see that 99% of the replies to that tweet are not supportive of Danny or Fitzgerald. This is so cut and dry, there should be no grey area about his firing.

Does the stabber have any kind of GoFundMe page? Asking for a friend.

If this was alleged to have happened at a single summer training camp during a single year, Fitzgerald might be able to reasonably claim he didn't know about it. But the claim is this shit is a year-over-year tradition. The head coach definitely knew about it, and if he claims he didn't, he was asleep at the wheel. Forcibly holding someone down and dry-humping them as a group. Forcing QB and Center to strip and take snaps. Forcing freshman to strip and do stuff against their will. I don't really see a path for Fitzgerald to keep his job. The 6-month investigation already said the claims are 'largely substantiated'. This isn't some #metoo over reaction, this is the type of crap that needs to be called out and eliminated. The Big 10 looks like it has a coaching opening.

I stopped wearing a watch to dress up around 1990. Never missed them. About 5 years ago I got my first GPS smart sports tracking watch and have worn a watch everyday since.

Yes, it's hot, but I'm calling BS on weather folks. It seems like all the weather sites, including NWS, weather.com, accuweather.com, as well as local TV, etc, are all trying to claim the hottest Feels Like or Heat Index. NWS for Austin 6/20 7:10PM: Accuweather.com - Austin tomorrow 6/21 97 feeling like 114? Really?

Is 'poppers' now slang for unprotected buttsecks? I'm I the only one who has no idea what a popper is: I live a boring life.

Less than Meh. Maybe I'm jaded, but the teaser seems to lack any sense of Joy. It doesn't look fun, exciting, or interesting. And based on that teaser alone, I feel like I already know the plot. Compare that to the original Cars trailer that had humor and looked like something new.

I'm not sure what to make of this. At first I though it was a survivor-style competition show, but it seemed to lean more and more toward a scripted comedy pretending to be reality TV like a Reno 911. In any case, I don't even recognize a third of the 'Stars'.

Lol. I think you might be misjudging the power comes with winning 6 National Championships.

NN is a great concept and a terrible FCC order; both are referred to as NN. The FCC order is a poster child for the wrong way to do things. It pulled ISP under Title II of the Telcom act of 1996, but the FCC claimed they were only going to selectively apply it. FCCs words were "light touch" (Quotes are theirs). You are subject to a giant law, but only the parts we see fit; those taxes listed in the law? oh don't worry about them, we'll never apply them. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-15-24A1.pdf https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.pdf Free the Internet by regulating it via an old law that doesn't really apply. This was a terrible Order; it needed to be repealed. Now do you understand? It's really not that hard.

Serious question, are the folks here that are for "net neutrality" referring to something to enforce the the ideas and core principles of net neutrality, or are they wanting the return of the FCC 2015 Order that placed ISP as Title II common carriers? The two are not the same.

So if you ask ChatGPT something it doesn't know, it gives you a dumb-ass answer just like a random drunk down at the bar.

Anyone use Creatine? I always thought of creatine as something for body builder and sprinters, but one of the running podcasts I listen to on Spotify (Trail Runner Nation Ep 612) talked about the benefits of creatine for distance runners as well as recent research about improved cognitive functions. It was the brain stuff that tipped the scale for me. I started it about 2 weeks ago, with the first week being a 'load' week of 25mg/day, then dropping to 5mg/day from then on. I knew creatine causes your muscles to hold more water, so I expected my weight to go up a little, but I gained almost 10 lbs in a week, and at the end of the first week my lower legs felt almost bloated. I'm at week 8 of 18 training for a hard race this summer and my milage was supposed to be ramping up, but I had to cut my 10 mile training run last Sunday to 7 miles because my feet were swollen and my calves uncomfortably tight. I backed off running this week and didn't run until Thursday and the legs felt a little better, but still much tighter than they should be. I'm hoping that was the result of loading up on creatine in the first week and as my body gets used to it, the legs will get back to normal...Google searches are not real clear. Anyone have good or bad experience distance running and doing creatine?

The party is on this thread: Still not much activity...

It's still going to be available on the maybe-legal-may-be-not-I'm-not-a-lawyer-so-I-can't-tell underground streaming sites like https://v2.sportsurge.net/ , right?