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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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Over on the basketball board, somebody was complaining about how slow things are around here (from a posting perspective) during the off-season. So much for that.

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The question I would ask would be if this is a typical sentence for juvenile offenders, or were they given special treatment being star athletes? If this was in Texas, where high school football players are demigods, maybe so, but have not heard about such things in Hawaii. I won't speculate about ...

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Per the Star's story, JDL responded to the girl's text to him after the incident, admitted guilt and apologized, and she turned the texts over to authorities.

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It’s hard for me to imagine he gets booted unless Fisch & Co genuinely didn’t know. He went through the legal & civil processes, so not sure what the punishment would be for something that happened 3+ years and 2 schools ago. Maybe making him do some community service? Attend counseling? Suspension...

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What's crazy to me is that, prior to last night, the Lakers and Warriors hadn't met in the playoffs since 1991. You'd think they'd have been going at it in the West more frequently, as they did in the 60's and 70's. But, despite the Lakers' 12 titles in LA, they've only been to the title game recent...

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Rodney Peete. And his Dad went to U of A and the kid ended up at SC. Prior to that, IIRC, you'd hear about Fred Sims from Sunnyside who went to Oklahoma, but wasn't drafted, and somebody will no doubt pipe up about a Volpe or Bates or somebody. But it's still unusual and comes off a bit like Hansen...

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I realize things are slow for sports in Tucson this time of year. Congrats yet one more time to Salpointe, the Texas Longhorns, the Atlanta Falcons, and Bijan Robinson and family for being the 8th overall pick. By everything I've heard, he's a great player and a good guy; all fine. Nobody from an Ar...

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Irish27 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:27 pm
TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:22 pm Otherwise, I think I'd suggest a clean break and let somebody come in and do it completely their way.
The same should be said for the baseball program.

March 27th.

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The 5-0 run in the post-season last year to get to OKC was quite a surprise after the 8-16 conference season. And this year, they're sitting at 3-16. I'm not convinced it's a great idea to try to maintain continuity and keep things in the family, rather than getting the best coach from wherever that...

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LOL. Probably not too far-fetched. Get some west coast based hoops officials for the LA games. Of course, you need to send a crew chief out from Chicago to keep an eye on them and make sure Izzo or whoever doesn't blow a gasket on the road trip. Meanwhile, if some of the in-bred refs are gone before...

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Yet more fallout of the USC/UCLA move. The Big Ten can pay more, so Pac-12 refs (who can still eventually work at least some games in LA) cross the street. It's kind of like big box monopolies using their cash and leverage to squeeze smaller retail outlets. I'm not a fan of the way Pac-12 refs have ...

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So presumably they did one for Utah, too, but who knows. Still bullshit. If it's a 3 way co-championship, put it out as such, once, rather than somebody's idea of separate "appropriately" phrased pats on the head. Every loser employed by the Pac-12 should find a real job.

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By winning at ASU, Arizona Men's Tennis won a share of the conference title, along with Utah and USC. Wonderful accomplishment. But the official Pac-12 conference Twitter account only mentioned USC getting it's share and played it casually as just another one of many they've won through the years, i...

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I'm sure there are some there. I saw a few games in that funky little stadium. Actually preferred the old Comisky, believe it or not. Bad outing by Urias, and the Cubbie pitcher saw his no-hit bid blown in the 8th. Hopefully Dustin May does better, but it'll be in 47 degree weather with some rain li...

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Oh, man. Now you did it to me with Tommy's chiliburgers. Haven't had one of those in a while. There are like 20 of them, but none near where I live. I think the last time, I was living in Tucson and doing business and staying near Universal. On the way to a Dodger night game, I dove off the 101, wen...

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I am remiss, and OF COURSE I had a DodgerDog. Nicely grilled, and you CAN get the oversized foot-long Deluxe (or whatever they call it) for another couple of bucks. The only issue there is missing onions with just little sealed condiment packs, which I believe is true now most places, like Hi Corbet...

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Just back from what may go down as "The Scherzer Suspension Game." Dodgers lost, although it was a beautiful day at the ballpark. But, screw all that. My question: If the Dodgers are going to copy the Giants with garlic fries, why do they suck so much? I hate the Giants as much as the next guy, but ...

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https://i.imgur.com/pEFg9o1.jpg Just as a point of comparison. First, you've got USC, anticipating a top ten season, with an impressive crowd. (Based on ASU fan comments about our attendance, it's only because there's nothing else to do in LA.) Then, you've got a shot of our crowd. Finally, the big...

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What I saw that was hilarious he asked for 45k at their spring game And yesterday he got what was generously rounded up by a friendly sportswriter to 5,000. "We say we want to be a football town. (The) crowd ... (was) not what a football town should be." Well, good luck with that. When you have a b...

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The whole angle is straight out of ASU's playbook. Deny that Arizona's a college basketball blueblood because you can't hang. The easily provable reality is that the national media confirm our status frequenty, even to a surprising extent to this alum and long-time fan. Jealousy is okay, particularl...

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Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes At the moment, that appears to be the only logical option, but geez. I recognize that we'll probably get two or three portal transfers in, but we are officially very ...

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The Steiner napping thing reminded me of a funny bit. When I was a kid, we lived outside Chicago, where Jack Brickhouse did the Cubs and Bulls on WGN. "The Brick" was known to party a little. Maybe it was more the time difference than that, but one night I was watching a Bulls game at the Lakers. Ju...

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Yeah, Monday has kind of a superior know-it-all attitude to go along with the monotone voice. It's not like you're going to be able to go into the finer points of mechanics or all of the unpublished "rules of baseball" as a quick-in/quick-out radio color guy. I don't think most people care about tha...

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There's sort of a cottage industry of web-types trying to make a living ripping whatever the Pac proposes. Based on dismal history, it's pretty low-hanging fruit. I'm already on record as voting for the Big XII (which would presumably have a western division as "the new Pac"), rather than waiting fo...

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I am NOT a fan of most sports announcing. My usual move is to set the sound at about 10, so you can hear big roars by the crowd, but the annnouncers' non-stop inanities are just faint buzzing in the background. But when they're good, they're good. It just struck me how well Jessica Mendoza hits the ...

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Now that we're 3-9 in conference play, and we'll hit the halfway point by Easter Sunday, the pitching staff this weekend will be juggled. I realize that some players may benefit from gaudy stats compiled against lesser opponents in the early season or mid-week. You don't know who may have physical i...

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Interesting doings. Kailyn was in line to be the starting PG, but Adia flipped Jada Williams from UCLA, and by all accounts, she's great. But that still would have been just two point guards on the roster, with Kailyn having the edge in experience. This is kind of the transfer portal at it's worst, ...

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The athletic department got a little desperate to get people to show up, so they brought in the San Diego Chicken. He was pretty funny, and he'd climb in and pound away at the pep band's drum kit. But the crowd was so flat and bummed that he eventually kind of threw up his hands and gave up. I think...

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Didn't really go along with Lev's storyline, which infers that fans are being unrealistically demanding. I don't particularly care what kind of post-game speeches Chip makes; that's up to him. I do care whether our administration continues to emphasize baseball at least as much as Byrne did, that th...

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