@JayHawkFanToo AH, you're getting to be an old softie!!
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@JayHawkFanToo That's part of why the NBA was so great in the 80's-90's. There were a lot of big old brawls, pretty amazing stuff really to see compared to the square dances that constitute a fight during a game these days. These were full out brawls, tackles, haymakers, cold cockings, etc. The fans loved it, the stars were the ones doing it too which is part of the reason why we watched. It was the good old days of the NBA for sure and one reason why I rarely watch now.
@KUSTEVE I think he was dirtier than Laimbeer. I liked Laimbeer's dirty play because it wasn't so 'childish' for lack of a better word. I mean he just reaches out and trips guys. Laimbeer would irritate opponents with nuisances more than just being a jerk by tripping guys.
If you watch this video it's really pretty entertaining because he's going against big bad dudes with cheap shots.
@KUSTEVE What gauls me too is the soft treatment from the announcers, no surprise really, but goodness, they just won't give harsh criticism even though it happened over and over again.
@approxinfinity Super cool pic!
Recruits coming Friday are daydreaming in Miss Swansons 12th grade sociology class about shafts of sunlight streaming through the best placed windows in any arena ever built or even imagined by mankind.
Editors are putting the finishing touches on whatever video plays during warmups. Wouldn't mind seeing one of those in person some day.
The keepers of the most sacred 4700 square feet in America are shining, waxing, polishing, caressing the hardwoods
The cheerleaders are coordinating their eye shadows, well not the male ones, but you understand.
The band is polishing their brass.
@dylans Unfortunately I look just about every day where I used to teach.
@dylans I've not had it hit too close except quite a few former students. I know not everyone's death can become a story, but it's just interesting to me that they will prioritize which cases do get attention. It's really a shame.
Just got home from work and opened up my MacBook and see the awful tragic story of a murdered golfer from ISU. She was the Big12 champ. She was young, she was white, she was pretty, she was a college athlete. This is an awful tragedy that deserves full attention.
But if it does deserve full attention, why doesn't it when the victim is none of the above? Is the senseless killing of so many others, even on a daily basis, less newsworthy?
What is interesting to me is I find this story on Yahoo's front page. It's been my front page since I started surfing these WWW waters 15 years ago. Yahoo is very good at highlighting injustices or perceived injustices, and other stories that favor liberal causes. I get annoyed by some of their headlines to be honest but applaud them when they expose racists/bigots/ whatever phobes there might be. But then they become racist by publicizing this story over many others that are equally tragic, but don't check all the boxes for what makes them newsworthy.
Mollie Tibbetts is a name many know. Wasn't a college athlete but checked the other boxes that the ISU golfer checked. I saw a shared post on FB that had pictures of 4 other persons who were missing at the same time, but didn't check those boxes, particularly the race box, therefore their story doesn't make headlines.
Sometimes all it takes is being a college athlete that makes someones death headline worthy. It bugs me too when I read that a player on the U of Whoever died in a car accident. Why is it important that we know about that? If the person is a well known player, I understand, but these headlines I see most often are not.
Another realm that I observe this is demonstrated in the headline "Beloved Chimpanzee dies at zoo" Anyone else bugged by headlines like that? I am. "3 Whales Beached and Near Death" might read another headline. I believe that people are placed as stewards of our creation. We care for the animals and environment, so I'm not an anti-animal person or whatever, but people matter more. More than any whale, chimp or puppy.
It's a sad commentary I believe on our society. Go to the middle of the local news section of a major city newspaper and you'll see a small story of someone who doesn't matter being murdered. They don't matter because they're poor, they're either hispanic or African American, they're gangbangers, they were drug dealers even. I understand we might say sometimes those victims shouldn't have been doing what they were doing. I've said the same thing, but their lives still matter. In many ways their deaths are even sadder as they lived lives without happiness, or peace, or security, or parents, or siblings, or without basic necessities sometimes.
Am I saying we shouldn't mourn what happened today? Absolutely not. But we need to pay more attention to the deaths that don't check all of the boxes.
Rick Berry autographed some KU thing, a bandana I think when I was there. Of course, I lost it.
I'm always a show me type with our newcomers. And in the case of quite a few I've been right. So Lawson Bro's show me. Mccormack, show me. Dotson and Grimes, show me what you've got.
Last time KU won and Wisconsin lost on the same day was 2009. 5-0 KU beat ISU, alas, it was their last win of the year, an awful 0-7 finish. Wiscy went to the horseshoe and got beat soundly on Oct. 10 of that year. So this is an odd sort of day for sure.
@JayHawkFanToo Last time Kansas won and Wisconsin lost on the same day? I just might look that up!
@Kcmatt7 I know, I'm just kind of pissed at the Big10 for letting so many teams in the conference and then putting the Badgers in the crappy side of the conference. We normally have a relatively boring slate of big10 games.
Doesn't help Badgers SOS having Nebraska losing to Troy.
We need them to be a strong team.
What's the score?
JayHawkFanToo said:
wissox said:
@Texas-Hawk-10 My Fox Sports Go shows 5 games, but not ours. It does show a replay at 8pm tonight. I'm a bit confused!
It is on Fox Sports Midwest.
Thanks, but unfortunately, not here where I live.
Just found the game, but it comes with a note that it's not available where I'm at. Crap. I see we're winning.
@Texas-Hawk-10 My Fox Sports Go shows 5 games, but not ours. It does show a replay at 8pm tonight. I'm a bit confused!
@jayballer73 You wonder why people always get in fights with you. I ignored a totally snide comment of yours directed at me several weeks ago.
No, I live in big 10 country and they're showing penn st./Haskell indian college or something like that.
Any clue how to watch this trainwreck of a game?
Now.
Refs checking their rulebooks and deciding which rules to ignore this year.
West Virginia gassing up the DC 3 for some long conference road trip games.
Texans pondering how they became bad in both major college sports.
Hilton wondering what happened to their magic.
Missouri still wondering why they left the league and their hated rival.
Sox gifted the Royals a win Monday night.
@nuleafjhawk I've got some other suggestions of whom to ban but I know there's many who'd rather see me banned!
@Crimsonorblue22 Funerals is a tough one. Maybe if there's a TV showing the game off to the side!
@Fightsongwriter Bucketeers telling friends they can't attend the wedding, the cookout, cancelling vacations, preparing sick days, rescheduling surgeries, dr. appointments so that the viewing/attending of games goes unimpeded!
Alexander, or his own parents, cooked his own goose.
Bucketeers checking their bank accounts hoping for a little extra to get out to a game this year in the PhogHouse.
Bucketeers making sure their KU garments are cleaned, pressed, folded.
Bucketeers brushing up on their PPG predictions.
Tyshawn Taylors rapid improvement into the 2nd half of the NC game year of 2012 was remarkable too.
Down to 23 now @KUSTEVE, but who's counting?
@KUSTEVE Ha, maybe we'd have won if we'd played "nickels" university!
I drove through Thibidaux, LA where that fine institution is located once or twice. It is a school carved out of the swamp on a long meandering swampy deep bayou called Bayou Teche, a beautiful stream actually. Beautiful to look at it. If you swim in it you might get eaten!
Agree on the stop arguing part.
To start a new argument, can it be a field storming when there's less than 1000 people there to storm the field?
@jaybate-1.0 Come on sir! We can't have expectations for the football team? Like competence? Like win 6 freaking games and play in the Cornflakes bowl? We're an example of America's failed education system because we want success? Getting a little carried away with your analysis methinks!
@Jayballer54 Texas has no expectations for basketball so they put their eggs in their football basket. They lose to Maryland meaning whatever hope they had for this season is basically gone. That's far worse than what we're going through in my opionion. We've got a top ranked basketball team warming up. Life is good in Lawrence but it could be be better.
At places like Texas where they have expectations far exceeding ours, they've got to be feeling even worse.
I haven't watched a game in years. I'm not proud of that fact.
Hey, what happened to my 31 days thing? Moderators must be starting the countdown! Fine with me!
@BShark I don't think he's old enough but you could take me instead!
Sox-Royals in ALCS 2019!