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  1. Well, we weren't gonna rep anything but Buck's and you have your own thread on the big board, soooooo.....
     
    Edited to add: It's interesting what Champ left OFF his list... Pit Room Killen's


    Watching Man Fire Food right now and Roger is at The Pit Room — is that the same as Killen’s?
  2. Mac Engel/FWST weighs in: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article213931159.html

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    WACO -- Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw swore under oath that BU had an "elaborate plan that essentially scapegoated the black football players and the football program for being responsible for what was a decades-long, university-wide sexual assault scandal."

    He also said administrators used "racially charged labels like, '300 pound black football player.'"

    Might want to keep that one out of the recruiting brochure.

    This is the reason why Baylor wants this testimony sealed, and other evidence suppressed.

    The motion came about 10 minutes after I called the federal court in Waco looking for the deposition. Draw your own conclusions.

    On Wednesday morning, however, the lawyers representing several clients against Baylor filed a new motion against the school to reveal McCaw related materials, among them a long statement he personally wrote and his entire deposition.

    In this filing are portions of McCaw's deposition, which reveal an administration that simply had no shame, nor any problem easily violating the very ethos on which the Baptist university is founded. Do unto others is apparently not an across-the-board Christian edict; Save Thy Hide is.

    In the portions of the deposition made available in the court filing, McCaw delivered damning accounts of how Baylor officials, including the Baylor police department, deliberately mishandled many allegations by young women who claimed they were raped.

    This is everything Baylor officials did not want out, and paints many members of Baylor's board as racist, paranoid and brain dead.
     

    McCaw served as Baylor's AD from 2003 to 2016 when he "resigned." In the deposition, he said he was urged to remain at BU, but that he left because he was "disgusted at that point with the regents, the racism, the phony finding of fact." He also said he did not want to be a part of "Enron coverup."

    'Finding of fact' is the term used at Baylor for the investigation completed by the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper Hamilton. Tales of the investigation include Hamilton lawyers asking Baylor employees, "Why are there so many black players?"

    In the deposition, McCaw asserts that Baylor Regent Chair Richard Willis "directed" the investigation to accomplish the goal he was seeking. The goal was to blame the football program.

    After McCaw left Baylor, per the deposition, he met with Baylor attorneys who told him they were looking at three different outcomes: A detailed document, a summary report, or "to whitewash the whole thing."

    McCaw testified that he visited the law firm in Philadelphia, which "resulted in the strategy of Baylor Regent Cary Gray writing 'false' and 'misleading finding of fact skewed to make the football program look bad to cover up the campus-wide failings.'"

    In this filing, McCaw also said that now retired Baylor police Chief Jim Doak "systematically buried rape reports, concealed them from McCaw when they involved sports, causing McCaw to learn from them through ESPN."

    McCaw also referenced one incident of a Baylor police officer putting a sexual assault complaint on hold while he ordered food.

    Despite McCaw's obvious motivations in the deposition, which is to spread the wealth of blame to his ex fellow Baylor officials, at least in the deposition he had rhetorical awareness to admit there were failures and shortcomings within the Baylor athletic department, too.

    According to multiple sources, one of the reasons current school officials are confident there will be no significant penalties from the NCAA when its investigation is complete is the problems within the BU athletic department were throughout the entire university.

    What McCaw's testimony reveals is there was dramatic differences on how this ordeal should have been handled between the Baylor board and two high ranking officials: McCaw, and former Baylor president Ken Starr.

    Wonder what former football coach Art Briles thinks?

    Baylor's mission as it relates to this scandal is to upgrade and update its Title IX procedures. It has spent tens of millions to do so.

    Baylor's other mission as it relates to this scandal has been to move on, which because both its language and its behaviors are both embarrassing and unbecoming of the largest Baptist university in the world.

    All of this should be miles beneath a place like Baylor, but instead makes it appear such behaviors are not just the actions of a misguided few but part of the culture that exists.

    So don't bother asking, "Have you no shame?"

    They clearly did not.

  3. 1 hour ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Am I the only one  that would welcome lonzo as part of a Lakers deal?  I imagine pop has the juice to  tell lavar to stfu. Assuming all that bullshit gets taken care of, he's  a pretty good player.  Engel land could probably work on his shot.  Although one of these stories said spurs weren't interested, but that could have just been speculation 

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  4. 1 hour ago, zman13 said:

    When they said "Richmond Virginia" my wife and I both burst out laughing.

    As henrygandorf said, I guess they are trying to save money. I bet we'll see the "promotional consideration" for Richmond Tourist Visitor Board/Convention next week. I can't think of any other reason they would go there. Probably a nice place to live.

    Forgot to touch on that above. Yeah, that seemed weird. Let's go to Vegas -- about 5 hours from where the show is based -- and now fucking Richmond?!?! Think they spent the last half of each of the Arie's and Rachel's seasons in Europe.

  5. 7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    meme: germany has advanced from group in every tournament since 1954

    meme: someone big always crashes out of group

    italy are not here

    argentina, france and spain are through

    england are no longer massive until they prove otherwise

    uruguay are not massive but they have 2 stars on their crest and they are through

    portugal are not massive and have no stars on their crest

    the dutch are not here

    that leaves Brazil and Germany......

    If forced to take one, I'd take Brazil getting the boot if somebody goes. Germany is not losing to South Korea. Personally, I think they both go through with the thought we've already had our big "Group" upsets with Italy and Netherlands (realize they've never won it all) not even qualifying.

  6. 2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    you could see the entire time that she was going to send them both home.  this is probably my ~5th 1-1 date with a villain, and i've never heard the main bachelorette say, "i need to decide if i want to move forward with one of these, both, or neither."  "neither" is typically not on the table, but clearly that's where it was heading.

    i know it's a tv show, but i don't really understand how people can't just say what they would say in real life.  it's not that hard, if you're david.  you just say, "you know what, the guys, we all talk a lot, and jordan just puts his foot in his mouth, says obnoxious, inappropriate things, and i don't even think he realizes how he sounds, but honestly, since i fell out of the bed, i feel like i'm been missing out on time with just you and me, so let's talk about us, i don't want to talk about jordan, let's pretend he's not even here."  at that point, she would invariably say, "wait, what does he say?"  and then he could repeat some great jordan-isms, but make it like he says them to everyone, not just him.  he definitely jumped on the grenade, but it wasn't completely necessary.

    meanwhile, after david's suitcase got taken, the group was like, "shit, it sucks now jordan gets to spend the whole day with becca."  um, are they serious?  everyone watching knew that would be certain death for jordan.  those guys should've encouraged it.  it backfired on him in the worst possible way.  who asks "what are your weekends like," and then when he gets to answer the question himself, talks all about his modeling?  does he think that's a turn-on?  i don't really know any models, but i know a lot of actors, and when they're flirting with other actors, it's the last thing they want to hear about.

    as for chris, wow.  not only did he act like a total fucking needy, self-entitled douchebag, but he did a horrid job of explaining himself to becca afterwards.  those dudes gossip worse than the chicks.  you have to watch what you say around them.

    can't wait for next week (rolleyes) in richmond, virginia.  are they on a shoestring budget this season?  yikes.  six weeks til bip.

     

    I had a feeling David was going to lose the 1-on-1 -- and was glad it happened. (Wife accurately said both were going home.) Colton nailed it when he said David had the wrong attitude. Anyway, David is a fucking tool with terrible bullshit and Jordan wasn't a threat to anybody (the "What's your weekend like?" question was cringe-worthy). When he told her the real-life male model world was just like Zoolander, I knew his minutes were numbered. Jordan actually came off looking WAY better IMO than David. Would love to see them both in Paradise. Oooh baby!

    Chris basically did what Jean did last week. Dude cracked under the pressure. Let. The. Game. Come. To. You.

    2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    oh, and how about when david said, "i can tell when someone's being disingenuous, and jordan corrected him and said, "it's disingenuine".  yeah jordan, that's not a word.

    Yup. That immediately caught my attention too.

  7. 19 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    "I hated what Dallas did in the first round, but they made up ground on Day 2 to turn this into an average draft."

     

    Dallas Stars' draft history back to 2010 in a nutshell. Sturm was going over it last Thursday or Friday. They've absolutely face-planted with 1st round picks since 2010 but found some great players like Benn and Klingberg in Round 5. How do you not trade back in that situation and a pick or two?

  8. 3 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Morocco needs another goal or 2 goals from Iran

    Why? Morocco's out no matter what. What is the tie-break if somehow Iran scores late against Portugal? Spain and Iran would be tied in points but Spain beat them H2H -- is that where it ends?

  9. On 6/24/2018 at 3:05 AM, mycox said:

    You can also buy the ribeye and freeze it slightly and then cut it yourself. It's easier to cut when frozen a bit.

    This is what I did for my Philly Cheesesteak cook that I posted on the other board. Turned out great.

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