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  1. 1 minute ago, Telegraph_it said:

    Dorian you better turn north! I just got posted up on the panhandle in 30A and it would bummer to cut this vacation short. It would also be a bummer to fly home and get hit by this thing if it keeps on going west.

    A bigger bummer is if it gets in the Gulf and affects anywhere from Baton Rouge westward on Sept 6th or 7th

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Do they not put you under for a prostate biopsy now ?  They sound pretty fucking painful.

    Nope, they don't put you under.  I've had three, and for my first one they didn't even use a local anesthetic.  Worst pain I've ever experienced by far.  The last two used a local anesthetic, and it made a world of difference, but it is still a very unpleasant pain in the ass.

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  3. 8 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    What goes in to selection of a course for the qualifying rounds, and does the USGA provide any input into the course setup at the qualifying courses?  It seems you would want the qualifying courses to be set up with the same philosophy as the US Open course, to produce qualifiers whose game is more suited to US Open setups.

    Just curious, because that one Florida qualifier had a cut line at -11, and several other qualifiers had lots of players deep under par.

  4. 2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    I need to see a link for this.  Otherwise, well-crafted, but you missed the opportunity to use the word "ejected" in lieu of "injected".

    Mm, good catch!  But you can't blame the reporter.  After all - ejected, injected, ejaculated are all terms that Aggy use interchangibly.

  5. Oh man, bumping this thread because I just learned that tv commentator and former cyclist Paul Sherwen has died.  His analyses were always spot on and really made broadcasts come to life.

    https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/12/02/paul-sherwen/?utm_tags=nbcsemail1000&mi_u=0D6A6B46-ECEB-4175-A131-0CFD29CEF248

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    NBC Sports cyclist analyst Paul Sherwen died Sunday at age 62.

    Sherwen, one of the most well-known voices in the sport, was involved in 40 Tours de France, including 33 as a commentator and seven as a competitor. He also covered cycling at five Olympics for NBC in 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

    As a pro cyclist, Sherwen won British national titles in 1986 and 1987 and raced in prestigious one-day classics Paris-Roubaix and Milan-San Remo.

     

  6. 4 hours ago, SnowAggy said:

    Going to try to get some revenge for the Drake loss in '85 I guess.  Yes we lost to fucking Drake in 1985. 

    Always been a DU fan though, one of my HS buddies played DE there.

    I was at that game, sitting a few rows behind the Drake bench.  Miserable game.  Then somehow in our final game that year we turned around and beat a #7 Okie State team led by Thurman Thomas in one of the coldest and windiest games I've ever attended.

  7. At Petra, Jordan I somehow got caught up in an adventurous moment and decided to accept a rather sketchy Bedouin's offer for a clearly not sanctioned off-path "hike" out of the park on foot to the south, and to some nearby areas with good views into Petra.  After a few kilometers of nice level walking, the hike turned into some really serious rock climbing going up, up, up.  Now, truly in the middle of nowhere, after scrambling up a particularly steep climb and having an extremely close call with falling backwards to my death due to not being used to the weight of my backpack, I was glad for my guide's offer to let him to tote my backpack the rest of the way.  But the most dangerous moment was when we came to a crevasse/gorge and had to jump across it.  No way down at this point.  So, the only choice is to jump across and keep going up.  I told him I didn't think I could make it.  It was only about 8-ft which seems easy until you do it with no runup and just a push-off to get from one side of the cliff to the other.  He said to jump and grab for his arm, and he would make sure I didn't fall.

    Missing this jump would result in falling a couple hundred feet to a painful death wedged between some cracks in the rock, and obviously with no help close by.   I took what can only be described as a leap of faith.  He grabbed me just like he said, in a moment totally out of my control or physical ability to make it on my own.   We sat on a rock ledge for 10 minutes while I got my heart rate back down and stopped my involuntary shaking.

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  8. 2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2001-04-11/2001-04-11-colleges.htm

    04/10/2001 - Updated 05:35 PM ET
     
     
     
     

    "I am not being insensitive to animals, and there is no question that what they did was wrong," said Smith, last year's Big 12 Coach of the Year. "They exercised poor judgment. But the whole issue has been completely overblown..."

    "These are fine young men,..." Smith said.

    Yeah, right!

    I remember the story, but reading that again just stokes the fire of Baylor hatred!

    (also a downer: the linked story also included the news of Iowa State discontinuing baseball and men's swimming)

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