Everything posted by bierce
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Texas vs. UTSA: Austin Regional elimination game thread
Big loss, but not enough to explain away the complete collapse we've seen over the last 14 games.
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Texas vs. UTSA: Austin Regional elimination game thread
This isn't over, but the wheels really fell off this team a few weeks ago. #1 team in the country collapsing with 5-9 finish to the season if we don't have a huge comeback tonight.
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Baseball: Texas vs. UTSA Austin Regional game thread
This team's problem is obvious. It isn't the lack of hitting in the lower parts of the lineup. It isn't the taking first strikes. It's having way too many players sporting 70's porn star mustaches.
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Baseball: Texas vs. UTSA Austin Regional game thread
That worked so well a couple of innings ago.
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Baseball: Texas vs. UTSA Austin Regional game thread
Flores has one sac in his whole career, so wtf was that?
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Texas Baseball Regional Game 1 vs. HCU (Thread)
Reiki, Ayurveda, and aromatherapy treatment coming soon?
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Mack Brown is a Giant Crybaby Pt 337
Mack Brown doesn't get it. It's not about Belichick succeeding. It's about having Jordon Hudson around to be the face of the athletic department.
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Texas vs Clemson softball
In my opinion, she is series MVP if we win this.
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Texas vs Clemson softball
Because 25 batters faced all year. Has now thrown one strike while walking 2 batters. Outsmarting himself move.
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Texas vs Clemson softball
Goode is POG so far for that catch and the 2 run dinger.
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Scottie
I don't think I ever saw someone so completely demolish the competition on the last day of a major on a day when he couldn't hit a single fairway on the front nine.
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OL Nick Brooks arrested on DWI charge
As well as being "intoxicated due to the introduction of cannabis/CNS depressants" and being "unable to operate a vehicle safely." https://sports.yahoo.com/article/texas-longhorns-football-player-arrested-195154702.html
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Two Sport Athlete Jonah Williams To Start Tonight For Texas Baseball
Steve Sax on line 1.
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Bond lawsuit
Big risk here. Criminal defense attorneys almost always try to dissuade clients from filing civil litigation while the criminal process is ongoing. Filing a civil defamation suit after being arrested on a criminal charge carries real consequences in both forums. State prosecutors and the complainant's attorneys have to be loving this and trying to get him deposed ASAP. There is no 5th Amendment privilege in a civil case, so he has to face questions about damn near everything. Taking the 5th on anything will bite him in the ass in the civil case. Any answer given can later be used against him in the criminal case. I can't believe he filed this lawsuit. Except . . . he filed in federal court. Maybe he (or his legal team) hopes for a diversity fight before any depositions can be scheduled.
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ESPN: Quinn Ewers With A 96.1% Chance To Be NFL Bust
What a change in board opinion about Ewers in 3 months and 5 days.
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Maybe the most telling moment of the House settlement hearing for final approval
Judge Wilken, asking about the settlement being intended to cover the next ten years, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the future who are not yet in college: “Can you have a class of future people who aren’t known yet? ... Can they be understood to release claims for things that haven’t happened yet?" A little later she asked: "Is that the death knell?"
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Sean Miller with a huge portal addition
I don't see how anything I said can be interpreted into a suggestion that I think Vokeitaitis is some kind of recruiting miss. My intro was "I'm happy for this pick up," and my conclusion was "could be awesome, but don't give up on him if he appears to be something less than what you hoped in his first year here." I just don't think anyone should expect a 30 mpg, 20 ppg, and 10 rbg guy in year one in the SEC, but if we add Traore, then they will split the time, and that will work well for us. We will definitely have upgraded in the middle with those additions.
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Sean Miller with a huge portal addition
I'm happy for this pick up, but I'm not over the moon about it. He's a true freshman, so there is plenty of room for improvement, but he's not a plus shot blocker, a guy with big offensive range, or a guy you can expect to beat a guy of similar size and strength on the block. He is someone who seems to understand the game very well for his age, and he is terrific at positioning. Check out his transfer portal highlight vid, and you will see what I mean. There is nothing there that wows you with his athleticism, but it is a terrific exposition of understanding how to get into position to score. Give this guy 3 years of S&C training, and he could be awesome, but don't give up on him if he appears to be something less than what you hoped in his first year here.
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Texas Hoops Adds 2nd Portaler (Friday 4:35 pm)
Ok, you got me with that one. But I was thinking mainly of perimeter first players.
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Texas Hoops Adds 2nd Portaler (Friday 4:35 pm)
Not really. James had a really good year at it. Atchley was killer as a junior, but that was 17 or 18 years ago.
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Texas Hoops Adds 2nd Portaler (Friday 4:35 pm)
I've been trying to think of anyone we have had in the last 15 years who was both a plus 3 point shooter and a guy who could sky and be a great target for a lob. Nothing comes to me.
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Aggies BB to hire Samford's Bucky McMillan as new coach
McMillan is a very good coach. If you saw the inbound play he ran with the two guys running around for the first guy to get open on an elevator screen against Kansas, then you would recognize this guy can coach. This is brilliant stuff. I doubt A&M donors will get fully behind this hire, but if they do, then this could prove to be a very good hire. Of course, if he gets A&M to the Sweet Sixteen in the next three years, then he's gone, because let's admit it . . . It's College Station.
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Texas Hoops Adds 2nd Portaler (Friday 4:35 pm)
Yes and no. 44 PPG is not a fair picture when you consider the bench players numbers aren't included, Pope, Mark, and Weaver (when playing) were not primary scoring options for us last year, and Swain was third in fga on Xavier. Give each a maturation year and a bigger role in the offense, and you might see some big jumps in offensive production. Heide was on a Purdue team that ran an offense that was Kaufman-Renn/Smith/Loyer/or get the f out of the way. We could maybe use a big time scorer, but I'm more a lot more concerned about getting someone to a) help us on the boards and protect the rim, and b) get in the paint to disrupt the defense to create openings for the rest of the offense.
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Texas Hoops Adds 2nd Portaler (Friday 4:35 pm)
Nice acquisition. Still need a big guy and a plus penetrating guard.
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Is this the best thing ESPN has ever done?
That was a really moving clip. But the best thing ESPN did was hire Keith Olbermann to really put entertainment into the "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network." The punchline is that he hated being a sportscaster.