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C-Man

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  1. I refuse to believe this nobody journeyman is going to shut out the Stars on the road in Game 7.
  2. Woman Who Called Kid N-Word Raises Over $300,000 to Relocate (She’s now raised more than $500K) https://www.newsweek.com/woman-who-called-kid-n-word-raises-over-300000-relocate-2067470
  3. So it’s not on Victory+ tonight, huh? That’s weird.
  4. Make it four in about 5 mins or so
  5. Yikes. Three goals in 2:06 against Hellebuyck. Ouch.
  6. C-Man

    Spoon

    As far as their newer stuff goes, I really, really like this song:
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    Spoon

    I'm a huge fan though not sure I'm ready to call them the best American band of the last 30 years. I would put them behind Wilco at least. Saw them back in March at the small music festival in San Antonio. Band of Horses played right before them -- it was a great back-to-back but Spoon absolutely blew BoH out of the water. So crisp and wonderful. It was a sharp contrast to the last time we saw them when they played the second show at Tannahill's in Fort Worth. They played for like an hour, walked off the stage and didn't come back. That night was a shit show logistically so maybe they got annoyed with the venue (it is owned by notable douchebag Tim Love). I almost feel like they don't tour nearly enough these days, at least not in Texas. As far as the present lineup, my wife and I loved the guy who plays guitar and keyboards. That dude gets into it!
  8. ‘Scoop: Stephen Miller emerges as top contender for Trump's next national security adviser’ Woof. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1E3Qs2
  9. I knew this day was coming sooner than later. It's still hard. IMO, Pop is the greatest NBA coach/executive of all time. (Spare me the Red Auerbach/Phil Jackson talk today.) I'm sure I've told this story before. (But I'm gonna tell it again.) It's 1996 and I'm fresh out of UT and working for free as a sports intern at KMOL. I was earning some walkaround money covering HS sports for the Express-News. TV was my main gig and what I thought I wanted to do, though. As the intern, I got to cover all kinds of stuff that came through town -- the Alamo Bowl, and Oscar De La Hoya fight, etc. But the Spurs were the main thing in town, for good reason. As the only major pro sport in town, we covered them on a daily basis once training camp got going. With Pete Delgado and Don Harris back at the studio, I was the person they sent out to practices, shoot-arounds and all the home games with a videographer to get soundbites, run tapes at the Alamodome, etc. The 96-97 Spurs were fresh off a second-round loss to the Jazz and Bob Hill was back for Year 3 as HC. The Spurs were two seasons past having the best record in the NBA and a crushing loss to Houston in the WCF. Franchise player David Robinson was coming off summer back surgery (or something). He would miss the first 18 games of the season and the Spurs stumbled to a 3-15 start. Oddly enough, just as Robinson is about to start playing again, Pop fires Hill and names himself head coach. How convenient. I couldn't believe it. I *think* this was his first year back in SA as the GM and he'd never been a HC anywhere that mattered. And he seemed like an asshole. But Robinson is back and the Spurs could maybe win enough to sneak into the playoffs as the lower seed that nobody wanted to play. Well, it didn't quite go as planned. The Spurs were 3-3 in six games and then stunningly we learn that David is out long-term. To this day, I'm not sure if he was healthy enough to have come back near the end of the season but at that point, losses mattered more than wins. And the Spurs were doing plenty of the former. They cycled through players like Jamie Feick and Jason Sasser. As you can imagine, interest quickly waned. It wasn't long before the only reporters at practice or gameday shootaround were myself and the SAEN beat writer (can't remember if it was Jerry Briggs still or if he was on the national NBA beat; it might've been Tim Griffin). That was it. Let's fast forward to the night of March 14. The putrid Celtics are in town. Avery Johnson is out of the lineup because he's having his tonsils removed or something. Second-year PG Cory Alexander gets the start, plays 47 mins, makes five 3's, scores 22 points and dishes out 10 assists. The Spurs win and "boost" their record to 16-47. (The Celtics finished with the worst record in the league and had the most balls in the lottery hopper. Ask Rick Pitino how that turned out.) All I need for the news that night is a nice quote about Cory's game from Pop. We assemble in the post-game press room and I'm sitting on the first or second row. It's me, maybe the guy from the AP and Briggs or whoever from the EN. Oh, there's some videographers at the back of the room who will shout out a question if necessary. I can't remember if I got the first or second question. ME (with a smile creeping across my face): "So, uh, does Avery need to worry about his starting job when he's ready to come back?" Hey Pop, just smile, maybe laugh, and give me a Cory blowjob quote that we can run with 20 seconds of highlights on the 10 pm sportscast. Didn't happen. He thinks for a second and looks at me like I told him to go fuck himself. POP: "Who are you? You're with who? Why are you here?" Or something like that. It's hard to remember exactly. I was mortified. My face went flush. Somebody mercifully asked another question. Unbowed, I fired off another question before we wrapped things up. I wanted to show him I wasn't intimidated. (I was.) As I made my way to the room where we'd send the tape back to the station, KENS weekend sports anchor Chuck Mikitinic runs me down. He tells me he's appalled that Pop treated me like that. Said it was completely uncalled for and very unprofessional. Whatever. He's an asshole, I thought and I didn't think he was long for the franchise at that point. We made it through the year without incident and the Spurs kept losing. And losing. And losing. But I noticed a funny thing. The team competed. Every night. They were talent deficient for sure. But damn if they didn't play hard. I moved over to print journalism full time that summer and remained there until leaving the business In 2006. I left SA a year later for DFW and have not spoken to Pop since the end of that 20-62 season. A few times I was helping out with the Mavericks' playoff coverage but a Spurs-Mavs matchup never materialized before I left the business. I so wanted to pull Pop aside and ask if he remembered that March night at the Alamodome. (BTW, I'm pretty sure I was one of the first -- if not the first -- to get Pop's legendary "sideline reporter" treatment.) I didn't want to make him feel bad. I hoped we could share a laugh about it and I would (off the record) thank him for fulfilling my childhood dream of seeing the Spurs win the championship. I'd still like to see him in person again. I think the story would be far funnier to him today than it would've been in 2003 or so. Or maybe he'd ask me what I was doing there. Today is a bittersweet day to say the least. Pop is the Spurs as far as I'm concerned and they will always be my favorite professional sports franchise. It's Texas Football and Spurs basketball. Those are 1A and 1B and they're pretty much interchangeable. And that cantankerous motherfucker made the Spurs the envy of American professional sports. Thanks Pop. For everything.
  10. Can we get a Hurd burger afterwards?
  11. This is a topic near-and-dear to my heart as I graduated from UT's J School and spent nearly a decade working in news media, albeit mostly on the sports side. One thing I said back during Trump 1 was that his lasting legacy was the destruction of legitimate news journalism in this country. (Little did I know his sights were much higher -- now he's out to destroy America as we've known it for 250 years.) It started with "Fake News" and a propensity to lie more than any American we've ever seen. He's weaponized it now. Now he's threatening/suing CBS News, he's pulling funding for NPR and PBS saying they're spreading "radical, woke propaganda disguised as news." Then '60 Minutes' executive editor calls it quits last week as Trump laid into the show for continuously running segments critical (and accurate, mind you) of POTUS. This week, news comes out that Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone asked CBS to "delay stories about Trump until the sale of Paramount closed (I think the government has to approve the sale). Let this thread be the catch-all for all stories/thoughts regarding the press, whoever it might be, TV or print, liberal or conservative (I know we have a dedicated FOX News thread). Let me start with this -- 60 Minutes saying WDGAF what you're threatening, Dotard. Kudos to them. ‘60 Minutes’ Schedules Another Segment On Trump: His Targeting Of Law Firms https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-60-minutes-segment-1236383097/
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  12. That's bizarre. On my end, the actual content of what BLKNSTY posted would be hidden on my current setup. I would see that he responded (or maybe it says a poster you've chosen to ignore has posted) but the actual content is hidden/spoilered. I don't have many on ignore -- otherwise, I'd go find an example on my end.
  13. Right, but you have to click on the comment to read what was said. Otherwise you just know that the ignoree responded. The text is hidden. I think. At any rate, it doesn't really matter -- especially on a Friday.
  14. Again, Anthony unnecessarily escalated a situation that should've simply been a fight between teenage kids at a school event into a situation where somebody died at the hands of the other. Let school (or police) authorities deal with the aggressor if he was in the wrong (forgetting white vs black for a second). Pretty sure if you have them on ignore, the responses are hidden. You can see that somebody you have on ignore posted something but you don't have to click to look at it. I have one former Sopranos cast member on "Ignore" and every now and then I'm interested enough to see what kind of mind-numbing stupidity he's posted but I have to actively click on it to read it.
  15. Point taken. But just remove the empty-netters and the own goal and it's 4-4 in the third. Pretty much how I feel. Add in DeBoer's insane Game 7 record (it's like 8-0) and the Stars being 3-0 vs the Avs all-time in Game 7's. Let's get the first goal on Saturday night and go from there.
  16. Avs had two weird bounces for goals, a fluke-ass own goal and two empty-net goals. I hope we get the same puck luck on Saturday. 7pm start on Saturday.
  17. Wow — I’ve posted those cards a bunch after games the previous two postseasons and I don’t recall ever seeing a score as high as Makar’s there.
  18. Was just coming here to say Wyatt was -5 too. Two of those, though, were the empty-netters, right?
  19. And we are the “divers”?
  20. You’ve got to be kidding me
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