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  1. Good point ! Note Tenn has a black line. Kentucky and Florida go with the dark blue.
  2. Great responses above by Surly. Thoughts and prayers for all, Post Oak !
  3. More on the story. Note that Latu, the accomplice, was also permitted to remain and play for Wisconsin. And that it is reported they pled guilty though the court records are sealed contrary to the statement by deLaura's attorney. Very sad case. If there is a defense for Texas St, it is they followed the protocol at Wash St, Arizona, and Wisconsin. It seems deLaura left Arizona because he missed the last 8 games due to ankle injury and the emergence of the 2nd QB Fifita who was P12 Offensive Freshman of Year. Would be interesting to know how many teams recruited deLaura from the portal. (excerpts) Last fall UW-Madison officials became aware of the civil suit filed in the matter. Based on the information available to the UW-Madison Office of Legal Affairs and UW Athletics officials, the matter being reported that involved Latu prior to his time as a college student does not violate the UW Athletics Student-Athlete Discipline Policy, university misconduct policies, or reporting or disclosure requirements. Latu remains a member of the Wisconsin football team.” The complaint states the girl, an acquaintance of de Laura and other players, attended the championship game at Aloha Stadium with her mom and friend and brought leis to give to some of the players after the game. The court filing, obtained by HawaiiNewsNow, said they were told instead to drive to St. Louis High School. The girl then received a text message from de Laura telling her to meet in the second-floor stairwell of the parking garage area because he needed to talk to her. The girl went to the stairwell while her mom and friend waited in the car. According to the court records, the girl said Latu was in the stairwell with de Laura, who demanded she “engage in sex with the two of them simultaneously, immediately.” She refused, the complaint said. According to HawaiiNewsNow, the document says the players “physically overpowered her.” She later told her mother, who contacted police. The report described a text message from de Laura in which he admits the two players sexually assaulted her, and he “eventually apologized.” Latu and de Laura were “charged and eventually pled guilty” to sex assault 2, the civil complaint says. The document doesn’t provide a date and states that “neither received any jail time pursuant to their guilty pleas.” The players were instead “required to write letters of apology” to the girl. https://theathletic.com/4489270/2023/05/04/arizona-qb-jayden-de-laura-wisconsin-db-kamoi-latu-settle-civil-sexual-assault-suit-report/
  4. Oh well, postseason is the one. The honorees were chosen by a vote of the league’s head coaches. Players were picked regardless of position and coaches could not vote for their own student-athletes. https://big12sports.com/news/2024/1/17/2024-big-12-softball-preseason-team-unveiled.aspx Look forward to your predicted starting lineup and impact players including newcomers. Strengths, weaknesses included. I am expecting Atwood to be all world this year and Martinez as well. 3 weeks from today. At this time, the UCLA and San Diego schedules do not list any TV coverage. Early though.
  5. Went to the B12 site to see if any first place votes. Who do you think voted for us ? Are coaches permitted to vote for their own team ? 2024 Big 12 Softball Preseason Poll School (First Place Votes) Points 1. Oklahoma (9) 81 2. Texas (1) 73 3. Oklahoma State 62 4. Baylor 59 5. UCF 48 6. Texas Tech 35 7. BYU 28 8. Kansas 27 9. Iowa State 20 10. Houston 17 Sooners Selected as Favorites in 2024 Big 12 Softball Preseason Poll - Big 12 Conference (big12sports.com)
  6. A naive question from someone who does not follow closely (but follows everything Burnt Orange) Would things be better if Donewald had not left ? (not in defense of RT)
  7. https://www.memorialhermann.org/patients-visitors/patient-stories/recovering-traumatic-brain-injury Vic very nearly lost his 14 year old son in 2010 due to a wakeboarding accident. Thus his strong faith and comments which may not be apropos at times. He attributes his success to his father, who motivated him, pushed him through rehabilitation and kept him optimistic
  8. Excerpts from KXAN article: Head coach Vic Schaefer understands it’s a tall order to go into K-State’s house and beat them, especially with how they defend. The Wildcats (16-1, 4-0) are second in the country in field goal percentage defense, allowing teams to shoot 31.5% from the field on average. And they’re fifth in the country in scoring defense, allowing just over 51 points per game. Anchored by 6-foot-6 center Ayoka Lee in the paint, the Wildcats’ defense is stout. “It’s pretty scary going into Manhattan to play against a team like that,” Schaefer said. “They’ve to great chemistry on that end of the floor, and they’ve got the aircraft carrier inside. If you get off the bounce, there’s 6-foot-6 waiting for you, ready to throw it in the fifth row.” To complement their tough interior defense, the Wildcats are also No. 2 in the country in 3-point shooting percentage defense, allowing teams to shoot a measly 22.1% from long distance. Schaefer said his team has to “have a plan” when attempting to put the ball in the bucket because the opportunities won’t come as often as they typically do. Earlier in the season, the Wildcats topped Iowa 65-58 and “held” star guard Caitlin Clark to 24 points. Clark shot 9 for 32 including 2 for 16 from 3-point range. At the time, the Hawkeyes were ranked No. 2 in the country. From a size perspective, the Longhorns don’t have anyone who can match up with Lee, so running the offense while she’s on the floor will look slightly different. Senior guard Shay Holle said it’s going to take a team effort to slow Lee down. “We’ve been focusing on ball pressure a lot in practice, and we’ve got to have help-side defense,” she said. “One person won’t be able to handle all of that, so it’ll be a team effort for sure.” https://www.kxan.com/sports/no-10-texas-faces-toughest-defense-of-the-season-against-no-12-kansas-state/
  9. WNBC (NEW YORK) NBC EAST live stream - TheTVApp Army All Star Game
  10. Good conversation above sent me to Google. Johns Hopkins article on the ACL and female athletes. Entire article worth a read. Excerpt: The structure of the knee joint in women plays a big role in putting them at a higher risk for an ACL tear. Women’s joints — including the knee — generally have more looseness and range of motion than men’s. Women also often have less muscle mass around the knee, contributing to more instability, which can lead to a ligament tear if the ligament gets overstretched. Technique differences also play a role. When coming down from a jump, female athletes tend to land in a collapsing pattern, moving their knees inward and often not bending them enough. The combination of these factors makes an ACL tear more likely. What can female athletes do to prevent ACL tears? Sports injuries are always a possibility, even if you do everything right. But there are steps you can take to minimize risk factors related to your technique, training and lifestyle. The following recommendations are all equally important in preventing ACL tears and other sports injuries: Practice good technique. While not a guarantee, proper technique when training and playing a sport can help ward off sports injuries. Work with your coach and/or your sports physical therapist to identify improper form and correct it. Avoid working out while overly fatigued. When you’re tired, it’s easier to make mistakes or forget about good technique. Getting enough sleep and stopping a workout before exhaustion sets in help to prevent injury. Work to develop muscle groups evenly. Core and extremity strength are equally important. Focusing on one while ignoring the other increases your risk of injury. Create a balance between strength and flexibility. Both tight and overstretched muscles are more prone to injury. Working on strength and flexibility in moderation is key. Eat a balanced diet. Poor nutrition leads to decreased strength, endurance and attention. Eating well can help improve your focus and performance. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/acl-injury-or-tear/acl-tears-in-female-athletes-qa-with-a-sports-medicine-expert
  11. Bloomberg/Yahoo article on current status of auto market. Excerpt: Automakers aren’t motivated to cut prices because they’re making more money selling fewer cars. Consumer spending on new vehicles reached a record $578 billion in 2023, its third consecutive year exceeding a half-trillion dollars, according to researcher J.D. Power. Consumers’ average monthly car payment in December was estimated to be $739, up $9 from a year earlier, J.D. Power said. While 2023 was a big improvement over an inventory-constrained 2022, the challenges seen at the end of the year are expected to persist. Cox Automotive predicts US auto sales will be up less than 2% in 2024. That means the figure is unlikely to top 17 million in annual vehicle sales anytime soon, as they did for five consecutive years prior to the pandemic. Toyota executives say sticker price shock is forcing more car buyers to downsize when they trade-in and some consumers are opting for late model used cars instead of new. Even so, they expect the momentum to build toward 16 million in annualized sales into 2024 as vehicle availability improves and other brands boost incentive spending to spur demand. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/car-sales-slow-us-buyers-110000582.html
  12. Washington Huskies vs Texas Longhorns Live Stream - StreamEast
  13. Sry, not familiar with Austin cardiologists. From an echocardiogram ? If not, echo would be first step. If image issues, consider a Transesophageal Echo (TEE). As you mention, thorough evaluation would be best. (I am not a physician)
  14. Great story about Matt Nader saving a person's life at a Westlake game on Dec 9. Lengthy, but a good read. (excerpts) 'That's exactly what happened to me' Nader and a few of his buddies left the Westlake-Galena Park North Shore state semifinal game a few minutes early; the outcome had already been determined and they wanted to beat the traffic coming out of the Pfield. Meanwhile, Wolters and Shirley Aldana, his partner for the past 13 years, had the same idea. But minutes later, Wolters was on the ground as Nader ran to him. Nader ripped off Wolters' shirt and got to work. "I felt for a wrist pulse and couldn't feel anything. So I felt for a neck pulse and didn't feel anything," Nader said. "He was in labored breath, or agonal respiration, which is a body's last-ditch effort to gasp for air. That's exactly what happened to me" in 2006. "This guy is not breathing," Nader recalled. "I'm doing chest compressions. I can tell that it's working. I'm doing chest compressions for about 10 minutes. Someone comes over to spell me for a little bit, and then I get back in there and continue to do it." Nader remembers that two people — he does not know their names — arrived with an AED, but it failed twice. Luckily, the Pflugerville Fire Department arrived at the stadium, and three men — firefighter/paramedic Jared Muncher, firefighter/EMT Nathan Mitchell and supervisor Bobby Ortiz — relieved Nader and continued to work on Wolters. After what felt like 10 more minutes, Nader heard Muncher's emphatic words: "We've got a pulse! We've got a pulse!" Nader said he hopes Wolters' story will inspire more people to learn CPR because one never knows when such an emergency will happen. Most people freeze. He calls that the "bystander effect." Nader, 34, is best remembered as the Westlake player whose heart stopped during a 2006 football game at hot and humid Tigerland Stadium in College Station. He was lucky that night. Some Westlake parents, including his own, happened to be doctors and rushed to the field during the game against A&M Consolidated. They performed CPR on the field to help him start breathing again, and Paul Tucker — a cardiologist and the father of current Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who was Nader's teammate — used an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to shock Nader's heart back into rhythm. https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2023/12/23/westlake-matt-nader-heart-saved-man-life-aed-defibrillator-cpr-football-playoff-game-hero/71920866007/
  15. MyGoodStream | Watch live sports in HD If no access to ABC, check the above stream.
  16. siap, has this been discussed ? Very little publicity. Barnes and Beard back in Texas. 2023 Hall of Fame Series - San Antonio Frost Bank Center, San Antonio, Texas December 16, 2023 4:00 PM CT - Women - Miami vs. Baylor - Big12 Now on ESPN+ 6:30 PM CT - Men - California vs. Ole Miss - SEC Network 9:00 PM CT - Men - NC State vs. Tennessee - ESPN2 https://www.hoophall.com/events/hall-of-fame-series-san-antonio
  17. Player quotes from Statesman. Note Sheffield's complimentary comments and Elliott's toward Wisconsin. Sophomore libero Emma Halter led the way Halter finished with 19 digs, two off her season best. And it wasn’t just the number of digs, it was who she was stopping, the types of shots she was stopping and then what Texas did in a number of instances after her stops. Numerous spike attempts by 6-foot-9 Anna Smrek, 6-foot-4 Sarah Franklin — Wisconsin's second- and first-team All-Americans, respectively — that would normally hit the floor, didn’t get there. And in several instances Halter’s plays extended rallies that ended with Texas scoring. Asked if she was “in the zone,” Halter replied: “Oh, I would definitely say it was one of those moments for me and for this team. We train so hard for these moments and this is the time to trust your training. ... And yes, I do think I was in the zone today.” She credited advance work by associate head coach Erik Sullivan for giving her an edge in knowing where Wisconsin players were likely to send the ball in certain situations. Madisen Skinner's night at the service line, not the net Skinner, the Big 12 player of the year, is best known for her often spectacular hitting kills. And she certainly had some of those among her match-high 18 kills. But her serving was the engine for an 11-0 run in the third set that made the score 15-3 and for a 6-0 spurt in the fourth set that made it 11-4. In the latter, Skinner had three aces in a five-serve span. For the match she was credited with six aces. That was double her previous career best. Last year, she had 10 for the entire season. She entered Thursday night’s match with 25. “We had scouted them pretty well and we kind of knew kind of their weaknesses and individual players we wanted to serve,” Skinner said. “And then just changing up (how deep into Wisconsin’s side of the court to put the ball) and working on my pace of the ball … That was that.” Said Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield: “With some players, when they start getting two and three serves, their serves get better. … And once (Skinner) starts getting her mojo and confidence back there and a little bit of rhythm, it just makes it tough for everybody.” Texas took advantage of several Wisconsin errors The Badgers didn’t come into this match with a 30-3 record by accident. But they didn’t play like a 30-3 team. They made hitting errors. They made serving errors. They made errors receiving serves. They even erred in deciding when to challenge officiating calls, using their allotment of two losing video reviews in a little more than two sets. Errors gave Texas five of their first 14 points in the first set. It the third set, it was five of Texas’ first 10 points and seven of their first 18. “We didn't play our best volleyball — that's not a secret,” Sheffield said. “But I would say most of it had to do with how (the Longhorns) were playing. I thought we were prepared to play. You know, it was — it was their night.” Elliot's comments from KXAN. “First of all, congratulations to Wisconsin,” Longhorns head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “They are a tremendous team and have so much size and present so many problems to what you do offensively. It was a battle out there. I’m just so proud of the way that our team has been sticking together and finding ways to pull this out and executing at a really high level right now.” “You can see the confidence that they have with one another and the way they’re playing for each other,” Elliott said. “It’s been such a fun transformation to see from where we started to where we are right now.”
  18. https://icelz.newsrade.com/tv/channel2.php?id=MzMyYWYxM2U0MDY3NDBjYTgwYWIzY2FlMzU1MmU3ODc=&channel=The Longhorn Network Chrome works best.
  19. KXAN published stat graphs for the season for all areas. Click link for complete article. Check the graph on quarter performance. (excerpt) https://www.kxan.com/sports-general/horns-report/by-the-numbers-stats-to-know-about-the-texas-longhorns-2023-season/ How many points do the Longhorns typically score each game? The chart below shows the number of points scored and allowed by the Longhorns in each game. The team is scoring an average of 35.1 points per game, while allowing the opposing team to score an average of 17.3 points per game.
  20. Pierce is in charge, but kudos to Rodriguez for his connections. (12 years at Pepperdine)
  21. Below is the Perfect Game rankings referred to in the above post. Click on link for entire list. Note this does not include portal. With the addition of Yeskie as pitching coach, LSU has a very strong coaching/recruiting staff. Combine with Marucci and NIL money... but you have to play the game on the diamond. HS commits Top 100 Points Avg Player College Recruit Rankings Class of 2024 | Perfect Game USA Texas - Perfect Game Baseball Player College Commitments
  22. Does Barron look 100% ? Seem to be favoring his right leg, noticed same when he got up from table at post game press conf.
  23. Piqued my interest @Js1. Cursory look at past opponents who have published schedule. Lone Star Invitational @McCombs 23-25 Feb Stanford, ULL, Colo St (great tournament) Texas St, Feb 28, (there) Apr 10 Tenn is coming down to play UT Arlington on 8 Feb and follow with a weekend @Baylor. Too bad we could not have scheduled in lieu of UTA or a Monday game. Suppose game at Clearwater affected. New B12 teams '23 record. UCF 40-21 BYU 35-17 UH 20-30 (Hope Nadia Taylor and Hope Trautwein can improve the program) Cinn - No program
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