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  1. 41 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

    Renaming RLM with a generic name (not after any person);

    Associating Heman Sweatt's name prominently at Painter Hall (ode to Sweatt vs. Painter)

    "Educate....about history and context" as to the rest.

    And I'm pretty sure they've previously removed all random Confederate-related statues of people that had no association with UT or Texas.

     

     

    They also removed statues of people who had large association with Texas (Albert Sidney Johnston - general United States Army, Texian Army, and the Confederate States Army and John Reagan - US House of Representatives from Texas, U.S. Senator from Texas) and people who had nothing to do with the Confederacy (Woodrow Wilson - I count US president as association with UT or Texas; otherwise watch out George Washington).

  2. 19 hours ago, LTtxfan said:
     
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    In a revamped lineup set for August, college football reporter Laura Rutledge is set to host ESPN's NFL Live alongside analysts Marcus Spears, Dan Orlovsky, Keyshawn Johnson and Mina Kimes.   
    https://247sports.com/Article/ESPN-r
     
     
     

     

     

    "If you have a problem with Keyshawn Johnson, you have a problem with yourself." - Keyshawn Johnson

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  3. Back to Florida, am I reading it correctly that UF fans really started doing the gator bait thing in the mid 1990s?

    Lawrence Wright, who popularized the phrase, "If you ain't a Gator, ya Gator bait, baby," after saying it following a win over Florida State in 1995, told The Gainesville Sun he was upset with the decision to remove the cheer and wants to talk to Fuchs.

    "I'm not going for it," the former safety told the Sun. "I created something for us. It's a college football thing. It's not a racist thing, It's about us, the Gator Nation. And I'm black. What about our history as the Gator Nation? We took a program from the top five to No. 1 in the country. I think I've done enough, put in the sweat and tears, to get to offer my opinion about something like this."

  4. 3 hours ago, WBT said:

    Made it onto Jeopardy today

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    This team moved from the National League to the American League in 2013 & won a now-controversial title in 2017

     

    Is this the team that has an undisputed 2017 World Series championship per the governing authority on the sport, MLB itself, or does something like darts also have an NL and AL?

  5. On 5/12/2020 at 8:48 AM, Randolph Duke said:

    We see what one top-5 finish since 1956 looks like at Georgia Tech.

    Here is what one top-5 finish since 1956 looks like at Texas A&M. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M:

    hall_of_champions8.jpg

    That is one empty hall. Wow.

  6. On 5/9/2020 at 10:53 AM, orangecat92 said:

    Shula was a part of one of the best MNF games ever, the year the undefeated Bears came into Miami, without McMahon starting.  The game was huge. To say Miami was jazzed for this game would be a severe understatement.  Marino, Super Duper and Clayton, wow!  Bears were not the same without McMahon.  One of the biggest what ifs in the history of the league.  What if McMahon had been healthy his entire season?  Would Chicago have been the second undefeated team?  Probably yes.  15-1 and winning the super bowl, crushing the Patriots.  

    True, but let us not forget that Shula can coach a backup QB to an undefeated season + Super Bowl. :)

  7. RIP Coach. I'd take him over Lombardi. This is pretty impressive from Yahoo Sports:

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    Shula’s great 1972 team passed just 259 times in 14 regular season games and had just 264 net passing yards in three playoff games as it relied on a great running game and a standout defense. When Shula went back to the Super Bowl at the end of the 1984 season, it was with second-year quarterback Dan Marino, who set records with 5,084 passing yards and 48 touchdowns that season.

  8. On 5/2/2020 at 12:02 PM, Hank Chinaski said:

    Meh. I get it from an economic/marketing perspective (which obviously guides these decisions), and if anything there will only be more playoff teams (not fewer).

    But it doesn't make the sport itself better, just more profitable. 

    It is sort of stupid that we have a sample size of 162 games to determine the best teams, and then the "champion" is decided by a few games. The more playoff teams they add, the less interesting it gets IMO. 

    Yes, we all know. Nobody cares about the NBA regular season because 53% of teams make the playoffs. In fact, nobody really cares about the first round either. It shows that people only want about 8 playoff teams in a 30 team league.

  9. Thanks for putting the Astros back in the NL where they belong, but that's not likely to happen. They won their lone WS in the AL. They're stuck there for the long haul, but I'll go with it here. The biggest mistake you have is placing the Cards in the South (Mid-South sounds odd). They aren't separating from the Cubs. The NL North (odd to have an East, South, and West but no North) would be Cards, Cubs, Rockies, and Brewers. There really isn't a great option for team #4 in the NL South. It'd either be Cinny or Washington. Think I'd prefer the Nats to stay in division with the Braves. The AL South has the same 'who is team #4' problem. KC is far away from Nashville/NO and TB. Baltimore is the only other viable option, which places KC in the AL North and Cleveland in the AL East.

  10. On 4/23/2020 at 1:09 PM, WBT said:

    Remember how Manfred's justification for suspending Luhnow and Hinch was that his 2017 warning to all teams said that GMs and managers would be held responsible for what their organizations did, even if they weren't personally involved.

    That 2017 warning came after the Red Sox apple watch incident.  But now the very same Red Sox were found to have committed violations in 2018 but the GM and manager won't punished because they didn't know about the rules violations.  So that's cool.

     

    That's the part that surprised me the most. Luhnow said he didn't know. Suspended. O'Halloran said he didn't know. Not suspended. And this is the Red Sox's second offense in two years!

    I read the report to find out. It's got

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    Each Club’s General Manager and Field Manager will be held accountable for ensuring that all of the rules outlined herein are followed by players and Club personnel.

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    the prohibition on utilizing the replay room to decode signs was not effectively communicated to Red Sox players, and most Red Sox players said that they were unaware that MLB’s rules in 2018 prohibited Watkins from using the replay room during the game to decode signs.

    Not looking good for the bosses.

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    The Club’s front office took more than reasonable steps to ensure that its employees, including Watkins, adhered to the rules.

    Wait, what. I thought the players were employees?

  11. On 4/22/2020 at 5:12 PM, pacman said:

    I read the 15 page report. The only useful part is how Watkins worked (pretty simple) and why it stopped for the 2018 post season and beyond (MLB sat in the replay room starting then). The remaining 14 pages are either a cover-up or joke.

    The most egregious reads as a 'why this isn't a big deal':

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    even when Watkins utilized in-game video to revise his advance work, the information was only useful if the opposing team did not again change its sequence after Watkins passed along the information to players, and, only then, if the Red Sox baserunner was able to recognize the sequence provided by Watkins and also inform the batter through a gesture that was understood correctly by the batter.

    Can you imagine if the Astros report said 'the information was only useful if the opposing team did not again change its sequence after the trash can bang passed along the information to players, and, only then, if the batter heard the bang before the pitch, understood the bang's meaning, and had time to swing.'

    The second worse is

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    Each Club’s General Manager and Field Manager will be held accountable for ensuring that all of the rules outlined herein are followed by players and Club personnel.

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    the prohibition on utilizing the replay room to decode signs was not effectively communicated to Red Sox players, and most Red Sox players said that they were unaware that MLB’s rules in 2018 prohibited Watkins from using the replay room during the game to decode signs.

    So where's the punishment for Cora or O'Halloran?

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    The Club’s front office took more than reasonable steps to ensure that its employees, including Watkins, adhered to the rules.

    Oh. I thought the players were employees?

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