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  1. When you look at the Sic-em TV ratings analysis, SDSU and SMU are both 3rd in their conferences. MWC is Boise then Fresno, then SDSU is just a little ahead of the pack. AAC remainders are USF, Memphis and then SMU is just a little ahead of the pack.
  2. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pac-12-expansion-with-san-diego-state-smu-may-be-necessary-before-league-inks-new-media-rights-deal/ Pony Express is necessary to save Pac. They ARE in pretty bad shape. Forget SDSU. Take the Owls and Ponies. "... the Pac-12 has focused its efforts on evaluating San Diego State and SMU. Pac-12 commissioner Georgia Kliavkoff has already toured San Diego State, CBS Sports previously learned. He is planning to visit SMU on Wednesday, according to Brett McMurphy. The Pac-12's next media rights deal will be heavily reliant on a digital streaming partner. Significantly more than half of each season's Pac-12 football games will be primarily available via streaming as part of the conference's next rights deal, sources tell CBS Sports. Such a ratio is unprecedented for a Power Five conference and for whichever streaming giant becomes the first to more fully embrace college sports. The move would likely upset Pac-12 coaches, athletic directors and administrators who rely on widespread visibility for their games via linear (cable) and network platforms for everything from athletic recruitment to university enrollment. The Pac-12 has long suffered from substandard distribution resulting after deciding to go with the standalone, wholly owned Pac-12 Networks. A heavy streaming deal would further limit the conference's visibility. The next Pac-12 deal is expected to be split between a streaming service and ESPN. With the Pac-12 seemingly unable to reach its compensation target -- believed to be approximately $30 million to $35 million per program annually -- it appears to be urgent for the conference to expand as a condition of completing a deal in the monetary range it seeks...."
  3. And its pretty typical from 70 years ago.
  4. That is kind of the opposite of everybody else. All the other reports are that the sides reached an impasse on Friday. Maybe Texas/OU/Big 12 agreed, but ESPN and Fox did not.
  5. The investigator figured telling Stern was a mistake. It leaked that he was going to wear a wire to get more people. So Stern's office killed the possibility that his story of more corrupt refs might be proven.
  6. And some of the ones who ridiculed them were ridiculed. Its called Surly for a reason!
  7. Pretty sad comment on the aggy graduate school that someone who is incapable of learning from mistakes got through their program.
  8. Bullshit. He took 3 steps after the pass was gone and shoved him in the chest. You don't do a complete flip when you are flopping. You have to be a KC fan. I don't think the NFL fixed the game, but there may have been some refs on the take.
  9. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25980368/how-former-ref-tim-donaghy-conspired-fix-nba-games Long story on it and the suspicion that the NBA blew up the investigation to see if more refs were on the take.
  10. NBA clearly has officials protect certain stars and has been for decades. Individual officials have been allowed to take out their biases against certain teams. There were two or three officials who just hated the Rockets and Hakeem Olajuwon. They would rapidly calls fouls and technicals and let other teams get away with muggings. Gambler money clearly impacts officiating in every sport. I think basketball probably worse than others as officials have so much leeway on what to call on every play.
  11. Well the NBA pioneered that. Bird, McHale, Parrish, Jabbar, Magic, Worthy all got different treatment.
  12. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/2023-big-12-football-schedule-by-team-key-games-dates-as-league-welcomes-four-new-members-next-season/ar-AA16XTkI Okie St. only gets one Texas team, at Houston. Guess nobody wanted their paid refs. All the Texas schools play each other. All the Big 8 except OU/KSU play. All the AAC schools and WVU play. Yes, we go to Houston. OU plays at Cincinnati and BYU.
  13. Does anybody think gamblers with millions on the game wouldn't try to influence refs?
  14. A few plays earlier one of the Chiefs defenders took about 3 steps and shoved Burrough with both hands right in front of the refs and flipped him. No flag. Actually more flagrant than Ossai's. 3 steps AFTER he released the ball.
  15. Yeah. Nothing quite Oklahoma St. level, but every time they could, they called a flag on the Bengals.
  16. Pretty sure UT sold the land. Eventually the medical center will head that way. But that's the only way the land gets developed. Its next to the old Holmes Road landfill. Maybe they could have called it the Vince Young campus. Its in the Madison high zone.
  17. It would still be remembered. But UH sure sounded like Houston A&M on that Houston campus deal. They acted total 3rd ward aggy.
  18. I don't know that the suggestion was to nuke Iran. The song simply went: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran; Bomb, bomb bomb, bomb, bomb Iran; Bomb Iraaan.... sung to the beach boys "Barbara Ann."
  19. In fairness, they tore Jeppesen Stadium down. The new stadium is just on the same site.
  20. bullet

    F cancer.

    Toughest picture to look at was one of my Father, my oldest sister, my youngest sister and her daughter at the daughter's graduation. It came up on the screen right before I was supposed to talk at the funeral. As I mentioned, my oldest sister had died of cancer a year or so before. The niece had also died that year of a drug OD. So 3 of the 4 were gone. I nearly lost it right there. But we did have the picture of them at a happy time. And you had your father still himself until almost the very end. In that way it was a blessing. My grandfather had a stroke and lived for about 18 months after, but couldn't communicate. We had no idea how much of him was left. Was he fully aware but horribly frustrated that he couldn't communicate? Or was he just a vegetable grunting when he was uncomfortable? That was a bad way to go.
  21. bullet

    F cancer.

    Sorry for your loss.
  22. bullet

    F cancer.

    When I went to go see my Dad at hospice, the first thing I did after checking in to the hotel, was get something to eat and then rather than driving, took a long walk to the Hospice. I needed that. My sisters were suggesting I do this and that to settle the business affairs, but the trip was for me and my Dad, not for business.
  23. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2023/01/23/big-12-schedule-oklahoma-texas-sec.aspx?hl=Big+12&sc=0 Schedule not out because we are still haggling over the exit. ESPN wants it now. Fox wants it never. Very slim chance is happens in 2023. Most likely 2024.
  24. We had one year when I was there we tied a school who didn't lose until the state championship game. We also tied another school who went 0-9-1. Very Jekyll and Hyde. We did have a couple of all SWC players come off that team. A few years later we had the Aggie/Oiler D lineman. Think he played about a dozen years in the NFL, frequent all pro. We were good at soccer and swimming then and probably the best public HS academically in the state. We had the start of a good cross-country team (unfortunately the top 4 teams in the DFW region were in our district that year) and they got really good just after I graduated..
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