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Richard Kimball

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  1. Thanks for correcting the record. There are way too many people that want to post something shocking, and I'm not talking about @justhookit, I'm talking about the guy who is supposed to be a professional providing no context and a false narrative. The Horns basketball team has been through a tough 24 hours. Tempers are running high. There was no need to throw click bait out there. Way too much of our media sees reporting as nothing more than a grab at clicks by posting whatever is most inflammatory. Even if the story had been true, players had a lot more on their minds than a post-game nicety. That said, going to the fans and reaching out to them, like you describe, is something that should be lauded. Both the players and the fans at the game recognized that the University of Texas is bigger than a coach.
  2. Did you, now?
  3. For me, it's this, and I'm not sure there's a second place. He didn't write this, but it, combined with the video is heart wrenching, and also brutal. The photos of him with June Cash when they were young, and her looking at him in anguish in the video, which was filmed a few months before she died, the "House of Cash" closed to the public, his framed gold record for "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" with the cracked glass, and at the end when he closes the piano and places his hands on the cover make this an intensely personal piece of work that still speaks to everyone. Sometimes it seems like everything in entertainment is fake, especially the emotions. This isn't. It's real, and it's a masterpiece.
  4. Yeah, I did it next week.
  5. Never cared for the show, but this was one of the all time best openings. It was worth watching just to see Heather Thomas come through those swinging doors in the blue bikini. It's also is a reminder of how terrific some of the action sequences in movies were before everything went CGI. It's two-fold. First, those stunts were dangerous, and when you watch stuff like the guy hanging onto the helicopter, you know it's real. A guy really had to get on a helicopter and hang onto the runner. Saw a sequence recently where they showed before and after on a CGI scene with Supergirl and the Flash. in the CGI scene, Supergirl flies out of the scene like a bolt of lightning, while the Flash uses his arms to create a wind storm. In the before CGI sequence, Supergirl jumps about a foot off the ground while the Flash waves his arms around. You know nothing is at risk in these CGI sequences. The second thing is that it's a different kind of actor and special effects person doing the scenes. The old guys like Hal Needham were a little bit outlaw and also incredible risk takers. The new people are mostly in front of green screens on a set and the special effects people sit in front of computers for hours. It doesn't seem like they have an understanding of anything outside of the studio.
  6. The original Superman with Christopher Reeve was three movies. His trip to earth and growing up was a fuzzy, reverent show. His life in Metropolis with Lois Lane was an early super hero sitcom, complete with bad puns. After Luthor fires his missiles, it's like one of the later Japanese Godzilla movies, with miniature sets and physically impossible action sequences (I mean beyond the impossibility of a man with super strength flying. Even if he could do all that stuff, the things he did wouldn't have worked even in the physics of the created world.) I don't know what the hell that "flying with Lois" sequence was about.
  7. Damn, dude. Less than 24 hours and one guy negged to hell and back, and here you are, feeding us straight lines. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. I'll let someone else give it a shot.
  8. So, was that "Fuck you" or "Fuck, yeah!"? Here's the plan. Bezos buys the team. Hires Deion as coach. Changes the name again to the Washington Primes. Logo is this:
  9. Rhule's an above average coach. His specialty is finding guys with the right measurables and developing them by coaching fundamentals. He looks for length, speed, and absence of arrests. He likes the three star guys that are happy just to get an offer, cause he knows they will put forth maximum effort to prove something. He wins the games he should win. You never had those "what the fuck?" games like I got so frustrated with the Longhorns about ever since Mack retired while on the job, where they'd have a team they should slaughter, and then go out looking like they've got a Pepsi bottle stuck between their butt cheeks. His quarterback management, both at Baylor and Carolina, is goofy. IMHO, QB management killed him at Carolina. At Baylor, he lucked out with Charlie Brewer, but ran off Zach Smith, a four star out of Grandview, for transfer Anu Solomon, who was also a four star, but tore up his shoulder in Arizona, and didn't have enough arm strength left to pop a balloon with a dart. His recruiting is pretty bad, in terms of getting the top rated guys, and he's stuck in the JoePa mythos. Not the Jerry Sandusky stuff, but the plain uniforms, lunch bucket, blue collar attitude. Not sure how he'll fare in the NIL era, but his recruiting classes would be in the 30-40 ranking if he was at Ohio State or Bowling Green. TL;DR Good coach, not elite, can take you to a top 20, probably not to the promised land.
  10. Like you wouldn't, anyway.
  11. Keep us posted on how things are going. Do you have all your family in a safe location? Stuff like this reminds us of what's important. Quite a few years ago, I had a fire and then wrecked my car. Realized if I lost my keys it wouldn't make any difference. Family was still there, so it was all good. But, Hook 'em, and stay safe.
  12. Wow. Kick goes into one rear and out the other.
  13. Already got a lawyer for her and her friend.
  14. Big 12 to Dana Holgorsen:
  15. I've been almost exactly where you were. Not cancer, but different condition with one of my daughters. She's okay now, and I get asked to do counseling sometimes for people going through similar situations. One of the questions I got asked some was, "how were you so strong?" I wasn't strong. I asked God to kill me and heal her. I laid on the floor and cried, begging him to kill me and make her healthy. There wasn't a door that said, "give up." What? Kill myself? The rest of my family needed me, too. The ONLY option I had was to move on and keep praying, even without hope, and help my family the best I could. Praying for you, and seriously, remember, your wife and the rest of your family also need you.
  16. Jerry was trying to get the new stadium built, but was having trouble with the finances because the team had three straight 5-11 seasons. He brought in Parcells and let him run things until the team got back up enough to complete stadium financing. I believe he signed Owens over Parcells' objections a few days after the financing was secured. It was a way to say, "daddy's home," and let Parcells know he wasn't in charge, anymore. Owens was good on the field, but he was also the precursor to the Cowboys becoming the Kardashians of pro football. They used to capture eyeballs because they were good. Then, they captured eyeballs because they were bizarre. The act is old, now. It's like Lindsay Lohan. She used to be a hot girl doing crazy things. She's not hot, anymore, and nobody cares about "Lindsay Lohan did something crazy" headlines.
  17. She must hate Arizona State.
  18. They gave up Cooper and got this guy?
  19. Don't plunge the knife in too deep, there. Gonna confess, I feel a little bad for Frost. He won Nebraska's last national championship as a QB, and 25 years later, the student section, none of whom were even born in his glory days, were chanting to fire him. BTW, I may be looking for a new reporting job. My publisher is an Alabama Crimson Tide and Minnesota Vikings fan. He told me the hit on Ewers was a clean hit. I told him Pearson didn't push off. We'll see what happens.
  20. A State, plz
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