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  1. Attendance is based on tix sold, not used. The need to get seats for desirable games drives sales of tix for less desirable games. I mentioned this before- driving back from the Texas - KSU game, I went by BU’s home game against UH. It was going into OT. From the freeway, I could see the upper deck was sparsely populated. TV tries to not highlight poor attendances; it makes viewers wonder why they should care about the game if the home fans don’t. Still, there are plenty of times where we get views of a third to half empty B12 stadiums.
  2. Honestly, I’d rather get into it with a Baylor fan. Credit to Al_4_ISU for sticking up for the Cyclones, and the conference they’re in, but I really don’t feel the umbrage for them. Now, the Branch-Gainesians? We can have a ruction.
  3. Footage of an attack on Russian military vehicles shows how Kyiv's forces are largely thwarting attempts to grab more territory https://www.wsj.com/world/this-ambush-shows-how-ukraine-is-holding-the-line-b5d094a6?st=yqvdnon5u2niq8i&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  4. The better Big 12 games will involve Utah, CU and the Arizona schools.
  5. Jean-Pierre was kind of spraying as he talked. I get it.
  6. The actress playing Gabrielle? Her father is Marcelo Mastroianni and her mother is Catherine Denueve.
  7. The Trotsky quote- “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you”.
  8. The B12’s best chance at making it is if its members embrace the concept of the “good west Texas marriage”- a recognition that they have no better options. When TT fans think of how much fun it was to storm the field after beating Texas, ISU fans think of the nation watching them beat Texas at night in Ames, OSU fans remember throwing goal posts in the pond after beating OU, they need to realize those times were fun, but they’re gone. The worst thing they can do would be to think their programs deserve to exist at that level of relevance. They don’t. They need to start figuring out how to price games so 35,000 will buy tickets to watch Southern Missouri visit Lubbock. They need to get the campus community excited about that Thursday night showdown in Stillwater with TCU.
  9. Loving it. Of course, I loved “The Maltese Falcon”. “This will get you in good with your boss”. The cemetery scene- Sam is losing his fastball to fall for that ruse at first. I think it will turn out that Teresa is Sam’s daughter.
  10. Ukraine has had a corruption problem for decades. I see an article, like this, as a sign it is working to fix it. However, it is likely to be thrown in the face of supporters of Ukrainian freedom.
  11. Soldier-poet Maksym Kryvtsov gave voice to an anguished but resilient Ukraine before he was killed in battle earlier this month https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-mourns-poet-soldier-who-found-darkness-beauty-on-front-lines-044892a2?st=nhls3p16qnm36jk&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
  12. Roger and Earl played against each other in the 1978 preseason and regular season.
  13. Here you go. KD is currently 10th all time in NBA scoring. He is 25th all time in FGA.
  14. The OSU comparison to Wisconsin? Stassen.com allows you to compare programs’ wins over periods of time. I chose the Gundy years, 2005-2021 (the database stops there). OSU has the 14th best win percentage over that period, unsurprisingly better than Texas’. Wisconsin has the 10th. As you note, Wisconsin has 3 conference titles to OSU’s 1. It has 5 division titles to OSU’s 1. The Badgers were in six major bowl games over that period to the Cowboys’ 3. No, Wisconsin is not in any way a blue blood. And there is nobody outside the IR8 footprint that would see them as “like” OSU. Or tOSU. This just shows how myopic college football fans can be. I will be curious to see what ratings look like next year. You mentioned IR8 ratings as being decent. It will be interesting to see what they are when the games are on down cable channels and when Texas fans interested in their conference competitors are tuning in to MSU-Auburn instead of OSU-WVU.
  15. I was referring to the report that Russia took some senior officers off the flight.
  16. And what is the point of this thread? For me, there is a lot of schadenfreude. The IR8 profited from being in a conference with Texas, and decided to be parasites rather than symbiotes. Instead of setting up a conference office that was pro-Texas, they did the exact opposite. They assumed the legislature would keep Texas in the B12 and the B12 could keep Texas from being too big. I am enjoying watching this play out. Sorry for partying.
  17. …and I think you’re getting a $5M per year/per school premium on the contract (based on comp of last contract Fox/ESPN split to this contract), to help OU and Texas leave a year early. That will disappear on the next contract.
  18. It will be interesting to see a redo of this chart next year, when B12 teams have no high ratings games against Texas and OU to use in the rankings, and more of the games are on cable and streaming channels.
  19. I’m old. That’s why my curiosity is not so much about how this works wrt sex, but rather, how does this work when one of the throuple gets seriously sick. Or bankrupt. Or a child is seriously sick.
  20. I can see the implicit threat- “you shoot down our planes and your POWs will be killed”. Clearly, they see concern about citizens’ lives as a weakness. Such a monstrous culture
  21. Yeah, it will take time to unravel. We know, as background: -Russian aviation isn’t as safe as western. -Planes gets shot down by AD by accident (see 2014 777, Iran Air 655, that Korean airliner shot down by Russia). I suppose Ukraine could shoot one down by accident, too. -Russia Anita allowing the kind of investigation that could provide proof as to what happened. -Russia already blew up, last year, a building housing Ukrainian POWs, point being they don’t give a shit about them and and feel free to kill them as needed (and, of course, blaming it on Ukraine). -repeating above comment’s note, my first thought was “why would they be flying those dudes?”
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