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  1. 1 hour ago, txhorns said:

    If aggy was smart they would want the game in Austin.  If they lose in Austin then it was just another loss on the road in conference but if they were to win then they can hail it as a glorious victory that shows they have truly overtaken big bad Texas as the premier team in state.

    In college Station they absolutely have to win.  A loss means that the status quo has never changed.  It means that everything they have beaten their chest about and screamed at the top of their lungs over since 2012 was meaningless.  A loss for Texas in CS would be bad but in reality is just a tough loss on the road in conference.

    A road loss for aggy would be bad but a home loss would be absolutely devastating.  They stand to lose a hell of a lot more from a home loss than one in Austin.

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  2. 26 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

    I’m still working on the tree.

    The Tree is a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) and appears at football games, basketball games, and other events where the band performs.[7] The "Tree" is representative of El Palo Alto, the tree that appears on both the official seal of the University and the municipal seal of Palo Alto, Stanford's nearby city.

    From 1930 until 1972, Stanford's sports teams had been known as the Indians, and, during the period from 1951 to 1972, Prince Lightfoot (portrayed by Timm Williams, a member of the Yurok tribe) was the official mascot. But in 1972, Native American students and staff members successfully lobbied University President Richard Lyman to abolish the "Indian" name along with what they had come to perceive as an offensive and demeaning mascot. Stanford's teams reverted unofficially to the name "Cardinal", the color that had represented the school before 1930.[8]

    From 1972 until 1981, Stanford’s official nickname was the Cardinal, but, during this time, there was debate among students and administrators concerning what the mascot and team name should be. A 1972 student referendum on the issue was in favor of restoring the Indian, while a second 1975 referendum was against. The 1975 vote included new suggestions, many alluding to the industry of the school's founder, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford: the Robber Barons, the Sequoias, the Trees, the Cardinals, the Railroaders, the Spikes, and the Huns. The Robber Barons won, but the university's administration refused to implement the vote. In 1978, 225 varsity athletes started a petition for the mascot to be the griffin, but this campaign also failed. Finally, in 1981, President Donald Kennedy declared that all Stanford athletic teams would be represented exclusively by the color cardinal.[9][10]

    However, in 1975, the band had performed a series of halftime shows that facetiously suggested several other new mascot candidates it considered particularly appropriate for Stanford, including the Steaming Manhole, the French Fry, and the Tree. The Tree ended up receiving so much positive attention that the band decided to make it a permanent fixture, and the Tree came to be embraced by the Stanford community at large.

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  3. 6 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    That bastard Taysom Hill is in the NFL because of his performance against us!  Utah's starting running back and QB are from us.

     

     

    Actually I was referring to the toothless yokels that remained.  No need to name names.

    • You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."
  4. 8 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

    The Big 12 used to have another team that had dropped baseball before they ever joined the Big 12 conference, too -- Colorado, who dropped baseball way back in 1980 when they were still in the Big 8.

    Always heard that Title 9 killed off baseball and wrestling.

  5. UT-area bar Cain & Abel's closing at end of month; owner says bar will relocate soon

    fe202e16-ce7b-47df-ae5a-987495b43ab2-AEMMatthew Odam
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    Exterior of Cain & Abel's 10/2/03 Alex Jones/For American-Statesman
     

    The bulldozers are coming for iconic University of Texas watering hole Cain & Abel’s sooner than owner Ellis Winstanley expected. But Winstanley already has the next chapter plotted out for his bar. 

    The bar at 2313 Rio Grande St., that Winstanley has owned since 2002, will close at the end of month. Winstanley says he already has a new location locked. While he won’t share the location yet, Winstanley says he expects the new Cain & Abel’s to be open before the original closes at the end of April.

    “It is moving, 100%,” Winstanley told the American-Statesman. 

    Winstanley has known since last summer, when the land on which his bar sits was sold, that he would eventually have to shutter. He just didn’t think it would come so soon, telling the American-Statesman last year that he estimated he had a couple of years left. 

     

    More restaurant news:Veracruz All Natural owners opening restaurant in Mueller next week

    “I made my own assumptions based on the speed at which site plans move, which is usually a year to two years,” Winstanley said. “I guess when the tax man is going to get a whole bunch of extra taxes, they get a 300-foot tower built pretty quick.”

     

    Permits filed with the City of Austin indicate that demolition on the site that will be cleared for a 30-story student housing building will begin at the end of the month. 

    Winstanley claims that Travis County taxing authorities and city officials desirous of more property tax income have been forcing the issue of redevelopment, which he says has led to the demise of his restaurants and others such as Hill’s Cafe. 

     

    The two lots on which Cain & Abel’s and its required parking lot sit occupy about 1/3 of an acre and were appraised around $2 million last year, according to county records, with estimated taxes of about $40,000. By comparison, the nearby 18-story apartment building Inspire on 22nd sits on .3 acres and is appraised at $71 million, which led to an estimated $1.4 million in tax dollars.

    Cain & Abel’s opened in January 1991, taking the place of a bar called Abel Moses that existed on the site from 1980 to 1989. Winstanley said he believes the property was home to two separate bars, Bevo’s and the West Side Tap Room in the 1970s.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  6. 15 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    Metallica covering Am I Evil? but with James on drums, Lars on vocals, Jason on guitar, and Kirk on bass.  Starts around the 2:00 mark.

     

    James proving that Lars is replaceable.

  7. 14 hours ago, dcbc said:

    Just revisited this for some reason.  I'm not saying we were peaking as a society at this moment.  But things were pretty, pretty, pretty good by comparison.  This video mated so perfectly with the song.  Just great.  I can't say it's my favorite track (nor my kids' favorite track), but I feel like I need to make sure they've seen it.  And the performance at the VMAs was sick sick sick!

     

     

     

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