Bear Down Wildcats

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That's a good start. Chip no doubt got friendly with DBacks radio guy Tom Candiotti when he was the manager there. Wonder if Tom taught Clark anything about the knuckler? I'd love to see the reaction of college players to that.

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That's a good start. But, I look at our roster, and it looks like we'll be wiped out and almost starting over, unless there's a sudden unexpected influx from the transfer portal. In two years under Hale, we went 2-0 in terms of making the NCAAs, but obviously this year involved a lot of luck. His po...

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Well, when he says he's "tight" with Crow, and if ABOR chair Fred DuVal is buds with Crow, and statements are made that the ABOR would make it "expensive" for Arizona to abandon dear old ASU for the Big XII, that sounds like something of a Mafia kiss of death. Particularly with Crow's absolute obses...

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If you want to talk about a trap game, how about Rutgers? 3,000 miles away and likely bad weather (cold, at least) in late November. That's after flying back and forth to Michigan in early November, then playing Nebraska, and before playing USC. Well, they wanted it...now they're going to get it. An...

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Santa Clara went 7-6 at home against Stanford (0-1), Washington (1-2), BYU (1-2), Cal, and U. San Diego. On the road, they went 10-9 against Stanford (1-0), WSU (1-2), Loyola Marymount (0-3), Portland (1-2), Pepperdine, and U. San Diego. To get in the NCAA Tournament, they went 4-0 to win the WCC To...

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I would love to see the numbers if you break out the PAC12 Network as it's own category Yeah...listing P12N as an equivalent channel to ESPN under "cable" is completely misleading, especially since it's so often unavailable outside the conference footprint and often requires paying a premium over b...

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Anybody concerned about Isaiah Rutherford transferring out? I had him penciled-in as a starter. With the timing of Dylan Wyatt transferring in, I'm kind of guessing he gave the staff an advance heads-up about it, and they passed along the info about available PT to get Wyatt and help cover for the l...

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Glad to see the team took a charter to Fayetteville. Otherwise, travel looked a little funky to get there. Hopefully they found decent accommodations. At least it's not like the Lexington, Kentucky regional. They have some country music festival going on at the same time, so the hotels are all full....

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They're not the first, and won't be the last, organization to be caught in the middle of the culture wars. Damned if you don't (the boycott mentioned above) and after the reinstatement of the drag nuns, damned if you do (after yesterday's 13-4 Nationals loss at Dodger Stadium, Nationals pitcher Trev...

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Here's the Dodd story...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... ng-pac-12/

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As you would expect, TCU is impressive. In terms of top opponents, in early season tournaments, they beat Vanderbilt and Arkansas and lost to Louisville. In home games, they got swept by Florida St and lost 2 of 3 to Texas and UNC Wilmington, but they took 2 out of 3 from Oklahoma St, Cal St Fullert...

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https://i.imgur.com/J3S02yc.jpg So here's an overview. Baum-Walker stadium seats over 10K, if you include people sitting on the grass in left field. Dimensions are: LF 320, LC 375, CF 400 RC 365 RF 320. Weather should be mid 80s in the afternoon with about 50% chance of rain all weekend. You can fl...

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Where do I sign? Mandalay and over the bridge to Allegiant (hopefully with no concert by the pool this time.) But it's more the trip to Stark Vegas that concerns me.

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It's interesting. You want to have a competitive post-season tournament. You're very fair, and you have the automatic bids to all the conferences, and all the highly rated teams get in. Then you fill-in the rest, using various criteria. Some want it to be very simple and automatic with conference fi...

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So I saw one of those far-too-early crystal ball projections on bowl games. They put us in the Sun Bowl. I rolled my eyes and said no frickin' way. But, Wilner listed each team's schedule, and I couldn't help myself. We wound up in a four-team tie-breaker situation...and went to the Sun Bowl. Having...

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WOO-HOOO!!!

Totally unexpected. For once, the NCAA got it right: Stanford, Oregon St, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Nobody of significance left out. Guess we DID steal somebody's spot. Outstanding!

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I look at my informal 2-deep for the defense, and 11 of the 22 were four-year transfers-in at one time or another, with another 4 on the 3rd string. 4 out of 33 on offense. The transfer portal has had an unbelievable impact.

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After racking my brains and trying to remember the last time in my 50 years of being an Arizona fan that the NCAA did us any favors whatsoever, I'm not optimistic about our chances. But, maybe a couple of upset dominoes will fall in the right direction for us. In any case, the college baseball selec...

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To begin with, anything other than very broad tier academic rankings are false precision. And as to ranking schools overall, you might as well compare apples to toaster ovens. If you're going into pre-med, you don't necessarily care about somebody's ranking of the business school. And other than a c...

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Now Oregon's in the same position we're in: all-out for a guaranteed bid. They swept us in Tucson when we were in the worst of our 5-7 slump. But, it's all hands on deck now in one game for both teams. Very possibly double-digit pitchers in short bursts between the two. We drew 2,500 last night. Wis...

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Here's the full 2023 football roster, as we all look forward to the season. It's always good to see who's put on (or sometimes in the O-line taken off) weight, number changes, and so on. Should be noted that three potentially key transfers (WR Montana Lemonius-Craig: Colorado, DE Taylor Upshaw: Mich...

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Different colors of money. Athletics is virtually a different company within the University. Their revenues come exclusively from media rights, ticket sales, merch, direct donations, etc. Both Arizona schools get scholarship waivers for athletes, but that's it. As to academics, the University of Tex...

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Yeah. We might have had some advantage playing in the heat, but considering our pitching, that might not have been so advantageous. The RPI thing would no doubt help, but I still assume we have to win out. Meanwhile, Stanford's already going to host, and one additional loss is probably close to irre...

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It's kind of a weird format. If I understand it correctly, as the top seeds, either Stanford or Oregon St could go 1-1 and still make the semis, but as an 8-seed, we have no such realistic option, so we have to go 2-0. It's go-for-broke and go 4-0 for the NCAA bid anyway, and nothing else means anyt...

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Cats win, 12-3.

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Since no fan who isn't also a massive multi-million dollar donor has any influence on college athletics departments, I've been mostly sitting back waiting for events to unfold. I've said my personal preference would be to take action and move to the Big XII, but that perhaps a quick and large enough...

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Just a contingency; seems like we're stuck at something like a 50-50 probability either way. If we were in the Big XII, we'd be playing in the Texas Rangers' stadium with a retractable roof for any bad weather.

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Hate playing those fucks in their home area, but debatable how many of their fans will show for a 10 am Tuesday game. They've drawn around 3K for their bigger series games and over 5K for us. I'll agree with Hansen in his Sunday column, when he said 11 of the 14 games in the Pac-12 Tournament last y...

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That is funny after losing only 3 conference games all year...and at home, no less. UCLA seems to have cornered the market on unlikable coaches: Kelly, Cronin, Inouye-Perez, etc. Despite the usual attempts to manage any negative narrative, with family members currently involved with the institution,...

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Here's an excerpt: …the university had “conducted a thorough review of the athletics department, including its operation, culture and strategy” ahead of USC’s impending transition to the Big Ten conference. The university retained Gina Maisto Smith, a Philadelphia-based attorney from Cozen O’Connor,...

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I'm not usually a big fan of lists or rankings of any kind, and in particular those with questionable criteria and which compare apples to oranges. So UArizona is putting this out in a press release. This version has it's own issues, and I don't particular trust much rigor beyond the first few hundr...

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It's kind of like for anyone who's worked in an industry where technology changes the business significantly and there are mergers and acquisitions, and access to markets change. But within that, you can have people whose particular group has managed to stay insulated from all of it for a long time ...

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If Washington and Oregon are running a back-door stealth operation to sneak off to the Big Ten, they'd be doing us a favor in doing it now, rather than stringing it out and leaving us hanging. Unlike Arizona and the UC system, both schools have boards of regents or trustees independent of their "Sta...

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Awww, man...

Etienne was my favorite.

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When it became clear it was pre-determined the Lakers/Warriors series would go more than 5 games, I switched over to the softball game to stay. Poetic justice to hit the walk-off slam for the mercy rule after they hit 2 consecutive batters and then snickered about it while meeting in the pitching ci...

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Complete children and floor-lickers for ASU. They're all-in on the idea that if they shovel enough bullshit, it'll work like a massive TV buy in a political campaign, and they'll somehow lift ASU to the heights. No, they've got major roster issues and they face major NCAA penalties. You can crutch b...

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https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-05-10/appreciation-denny-crum-louisville-ucla-basketball Here's a Times story on Wooden's influence on Denny Crum and UCLA low-balling him on salary; hence Louisville. I used to travel to Louisville on business. Obviously UK vs. UofL is very big, with L...

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For college football, we've entered the period where it's mostly about individual player workouts. The spring games are over, seems like most of the transfer stuff is done, and high school recruiting news is a trickle. (Having just written that, it would be hilarious if there was some eye-popping me...

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Whatever happens to him is fine with me. The guy's been a jerk for as long as I've known anything about him, which would be the Miles Simon bank shot to beat Cincinnati in Phoenix over 25 years ago. Note that he also insulted 1.3 billion Catholics world-wide while he was at it. As old-school/good-ol...

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The reason why I continue to throw my support behind it is because of the other 55-65 players on the team. They did nothing to deserve the disdain I feel toward the people involved in this disgusting situation. I agree with Carcasdragger's earlier comments about people being attacked. I assume all ...

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Connie Mack (HOF, 5 World Series titles) once said that pitching is 75 percent of baseball. Some today disagree with that number, but most peg it at a minimum of 60 percent. With that in mind, and without including names, here are our conference pitching ERAs, listed by number of innings pitched (10...

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Full transparency: they're like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears. So around the time of the first "Laykuhz", the sound goes way down, and I don't hang on every word. But I'd LIKE to be able to listen. Van Gundy is just an idiot; it's astonishing he was an NBA coach.

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Regarding Imus. I fully realize that in his long radio career (almost 50 years), he said some wrong things. Pretty hard to rattle along as a fairly outrageous and prolific comedian and have zero problems. I just remember walking in New York City as a kid in the early 70's, and everybody had his show...

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Impressive performance tonight, considering ESPN said the Lakers playoff run was done after losing in SF. Really dislike the ESPN announcing crew. The former Knick PBP guy, their former coach, and a former Knick player. Somebody in Bristol must think that's great; for a team that's won two titles in...

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Judgements, concepts, human reckoning from within moral quandary: we capture perspective through language that gives us place and fixity when we're trying to figure out where things in life should properly go. This a damn fucking good forum. Thank you, all of you, even those of you who irritate the...

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Obviously he's a great player. But I'd anticipate the zoo of having his father hanging around and expecting to be deferred to is going to be a distraction kind of like LaVar Ball, and the LA media will be all over it. Bronny's team played a tough schedule, but they lost 11 games. It'll definitely be...

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Okay, lots of emotion and opinions, but I have a question...hopefully for somebody with real legal background and specific knowledge to apply. Scholarships are renewable on an annual basis by a school. But my question is how absolute is the school's authority to rescind one versus potential legal l...

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The next school year hasn’t started yet, so I doubt there would be an issue rescinding his scholarship at this point. If this was August, it might be a stickier issue. Usually they let kids finish out the current semester and then refuse to have them on scholarship for the next one. Right, but we'r...

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Okay, lots of emotion and opinions, but I have a question...hopefully for somebody with real legal background and specific knowledge to apply. Scholarships are renewable on an annual basis by a school. But my question is how absolute is the school's authority to rescind one versus potential legal li...

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