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Bartles

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  1. Voted Yes, but my standard is simply: four teams that played 9+ games reach the CFP and play for the title Some bowls will fall by the wayside, possibly at the last minute. Some teams will just stop playing if none of their remaining games affect the bowls/playoffs. Some of these "postponed" games will never be played. But so far it looks like every other sporting venture in 2020: problems in the beginning, people freak out, games go on
  2. Eight college tourneys to be played at Disney to start season - another Rothstein bomb The numbers work out so they could use the same three venues as the NBA, splitting the events across two weekends (pre-Thanksgiving and then the normal Thanksgiving weekend schedule). Kansas (Champions + Wooden Legacy), Gonzaga (Jimmy V + Orlando Inv) and Michigan State (Champions + Orlando Inv) would be there the whole time. It's also leaked out that Battle 4 Atlantis (inc Duke) will be played at the "Pentagon" medical/sporting complex in South Dakota, and the Maui Invitational (inc Texas and UNC) will be in Asheville, N.C. Bunch of others at Mohegan Sun. Bubbles everywhere (these will NOT be very secure bubbles btw)
  3. I agreed with Collinsworth that Ramsey got the call because he sold it, which in live action made it look like a push off (but ridiculous on replay). I think they changed the rule so PI is no longer reviewable in any situation. Also surprised Cowboys fans weren't thrilled that McCarthy went for the 4th down, where Garrett would certainly have kicked. It was just not a great play call, or possibly Lamb ran the route too short. ETA: Oh, and the "cost us the game" crowd is doing same thing they did with Dez-caught-it...in all likelihood, Dallas would have kicked a short field goal to possibly force OT. No reason to assume the Rams wouldn't have won it anyway
  4. Lancaster, Pa. shooting so blatantly justified they released body cam footage right away. I wouldn't blame conspiracy theorists for suggesting Blue Lives people got together and said, "Y'all we need a textbook example where the cop isn't too blame. A guy charging out of his house with a huge knife? Yeah, that should work."
  5. Bartles

    Moody Center

    You can really zoom in on that rendering. I like that we're beating KU, 78-73, with 0.0 on the clock but we're still hoisting a rub-it-in three-pointer out of a normal offensive set for some reason.
  6. I'm sure a bunch of folks here have flown, but I haven't seen much discussion, so here's a brief, boring report from my first flights since late February. Short trip, American from Philly to Charlotte and back, both flights fairly full. I paid for 1st class since it was work and the fare was what coach used to be for the same trip. The top line thought is, this is risky but if people follow the rules, it should work. I didn't see any blatant mask violations. Both airports are well equipped with plexiglass barriers, and the low level of flights creates lots of open gates to distance while you wait for boarding. What can't be controlled: people will bunch together in the TSA line, and again when it's time to board (the latter is kind of moot, because you'll be sharing a plane with them anyway). Kids will be kids, loud talkers will talk loud, salesman types will try to start conversations, humans have to use the bathroom sometimes. So a good deal of COVID avoidance is simply luck. I haven't read about plane outbreaks, but then again I don't think any effort is made to contact trace fliers. I'm probably driving anything under 8-9 hours for a while. Curious what other travelers here are thinking...
  7. Another domino...stands back up?
  8. Agree, and that would also be a major revelation if an outbreak passed from team to team during a game. We all know it could happen but there haven't been any proven examples. One study showed players spend less than 3 minutes total within breathing range of the opponents.
  9. Needed to add (NO POLITICS!!!) at the end, woulda won
  10. Wake Forest is selling cardboard fan cutouts for the season (up to $120), and they're putting the ones purchased so far on the field as the fan zone for GameDay. Wake is also hosting a drive-in viewing party across from the stadium which GameDay will incorporate into the show.
  11. Plains states have been the hotspot for a few weeks now. Not sure if it got posted, but even Bill Hancock of CFP and his wife had COVID in late August, mild symptoms, both fully recovered now. They live in Overland Park.
  12. Probably throwing a bone to the masses, you get a NCAA tourney bid (and maybe even win a game or two against your fellow have-nots) in exchange for us canceling all the November-December "buy" games that you use to fund your existence. The logistics are impossible in a pandemic, and good luck getting CBS/Turner to air anything before it's cut down to 64-96 teams. Some type of expansion makes sense, since there may be some good teams that only play 18 games or so. But not 300+ teams
  13. Temple-Navy postponement is weird. Temple claims they couldn't get "game ready" because of local COVID restrictions, not positive cases. There were a couple hundred cases on campus when Temple came back to school, but no reported athletes. Seems like it had something to do with what Navy looked like trying to open the season vs BYU without having done full contact practices.
  14. That infamous high school in Georgia that went on-line after viral photos in the hallway won its first football game 24-7 the other day. School is partially re-opening this week as hybrid model
  15. Herbstreit to the Athletic below. Guess many of you think this is just an elaborate lie and that the producer and Maria Taylor (who were also quoted in the story) agreed to verify for him. Either way, I agree with the above comment, it sucks that Herbie crying is the big headline.
  16. "How do you listen to these stories and not feel pain, not want to help? You can't relate to that if you're white but you can listen and try to help because this is not okay." -- is the part where he started breaking up. Guess a lot of people have such visceral reactions to the guy they can't accept that at least in this case he said something meaningful. Even if it was pre-planned, I disagree that it "sucked ass". I will say it is possible Kirk did more harm than good today because his crying has attracted like 1,000 times the attention than the really cool segment with the players. Especially drawing out the mouth breathers like on the LSU thread. Maybe the whole panel should have just said we're gonna shut up and let the players have the last word here.
  17. I thought Kirk was genuine, even if maybe he knew he was going to choke up beforehand and just let it happen. The real question is, does it fucking matter if he faked it? Can we maybe listen to their words this one time? That whole segment was really good, as was the "should we play" discussion at the top. Wish we could save the hate for every other episode of this show this season.
  18. They don't have to tell us. SMU is a non-conference game so the threshold doesn't apply. As some people posted earlier, this may have a lot to do with TCU realizing what was gonna happen on the field vs a solid Pony squad that will have already played a game.
  19. Congrats Stars! Fun team to watch for those of us not overly invested in them
  20. Bartles

    2019-20 NHL

    Maybe they didn't want one team to have an extra day rest before conference finals, given both west series went the same length. And I assume the 5-hour gap between games is to allow for overtime(s). I'm no expert, but I think the quality of play looks the same as past years. It sucks not to have fans, but it might help that the teams' practice and lodging has been consistent for weeks.
  21. Great job on that! Your dad should have invented TikTok It's wild looking at all those old, crappy SWC arenas and then realizing, wait a minute we still basically play in one of those
  22. Oh well... waived by the Eagles
  23. Wolken knowingly smacks the beehive on a regular basis, especially the stereotypical SEC fan base. But I would argue that's more his personality rather than some football-related agenda. None of these guys are robots. Tony Barnhart is another great journalist who is kind of an anti-Wolken...he tends to assuage the SEC folks. I trust both those guys when they report something, even just "from a P5 source."
  24. Just like people promoting Clay Travis bullshit is a "tell" about them as a poster, so is shitting on Thamel, Mandel, Wolken and other national writers. The latter group are actual journalists so they sometimes have to update their reporting with new info, and sometimes their sources turn out to be off base. But none of them have an agenda. They may be complete assholes irl (I think we hate Thamel from some long-ago OU reporting), but you won't find them taking black/white ignorant stands on important issues like COVID.
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