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Ahh, the Mavs fans... It's the refs... It's the GM... It's the schedule... It's the universe...

Herbstreit referring to part of the Ohio State fanbase as the "lunatic fringe" says it all. My brother-in-law is from Ohio and I've spent time there. Lots of knowledgeable fans and great people, When some of those guys get lubed up, they're insufferable.

Likely this morning will be the culmination of a bad year for the guys at TexAgs. Have to watch that for a few minutes. On our side, hopefully Schloss can figure out which buttons to push to reverse this late season slump. He wasn't happy after yesterday's loss.

Consensus seems to be they have no real shot unless they win the SEC tournament.

I'm pretty sure the FBI wasn't involved with SMU and Michigan. The FBI has been involved in numerous NCAA basketball investigations, but they never actually conducted a raid at the school. Love watching criminal media trying to explain why they can't recruit high school players. Everyone knows it's because Nagy runs the program. Why would a high level recruit want to commit to a school where the head coach isn't in control? The criminals can claim it's an NFL model all they want, but recruiting isn't the NFL draft.

Paul Howe might be the best warrior Howe. He lives in Nacogdoches.

He's from San Diego I don't know if you should check it. He was born in San Diego in 1959. He really is one of the best battlefield warriors in the history of the US. He did some superhuman stuff in the Battle of Mogadishu. Makes Batman look like a pansy.

Jeff, Are you related to Paul Howe? Best I can he's one of the greatest warriors in the history of US. He led Delta and everyone else in the Battle of Mogadishu. First man to the Blackhawk that was down. By every report he "eliminated" more than anyone if the fiercest fighting in the history of US warfare.

TV was definitely around in 1973. Kissinger literally out balled them in the highest stakes in the history of the word. I've read and listened to the transcript of Kissinger describing this to Mao Zedong a few weeks later in November 1973. Mao told Kissinger that he (Mao) was a monster for ordering millions to be "rectified," but Kissinger was more man than him because he risked the future of the world. Kissinger responded by saying that as a Jew born in Germany in 1923, he didn't do anything other than protect the standard of the American Constitution. Kissinger said that Mao could count on that in the infinite future.

Ain't Kissinger in October 1973. I really don't think anything compares to Kissinger in the Soviet Union in October 1973. Yom Kippur War. Nixon battling Watergate. Guy faces down the Soviets and orders Defcon 2. He wins. I don't know anything in the history of world that compares.

Might be the ultimate Kobe song here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob8TNqQw2hY

Part of the reason I don't consider Jeremiah Smith to be crap. Kobe was never held below ten in a big game.

When Kobe first met Phil Jackson in 1999 when he was twenty, he told him to bring him bring Michael Jordan. Who does that?

I'll reiterate. Kobe begged to work out for the Lakers in May and June 1996. He was 17. He asked to play against anyone in the draft or anyone past or present in the NBA. You don't get that these days. They won't work out against a high school guy. They got no balls.

How many college football programs have actually experienced an FBI raid other than the criminal interlopers? I don't know of any.

I'm thinking the criminal thunder are hugging the soap tighter than Barry Switzer and Charles Thomson after the FBI raid in early 1989.

More. I listened to some goober claim you can't count certain sports figures as great because their identity as cultural phenomena clouded their "greatness." He didn't use the proper plural of phenomenon, but that's a big part of the point. Popular sports are a cultural entity created by the wealth generated by the industrial revolution. Let's face it. You can't legitimately compare ball chasing to the invention of firearms, electricity, motor vehicles, nuclear power, computers, digital communication, the internet and artificial intelligence. Without those things, there wouldn't be a sufficient number of people with the resources to worry about sports.

I would like to add that Curry could never defend play doh. Without the Euro rule changes, he would have never been worth a crap on offense either.

Thinking about NBA rule changes and idiots blathering has made me think about the best basketball players in the world since in mattered in the 1970s. The list. Kareem 1971-1980 Bird 1981-1984 Magic 1985-1990 Jordan 1991-1993 (retired) Hakeem 1994-1995 Jordan 1996-1998 Shaq 1999-2000 Kobe 2001-2010 LeBrick 2011-2014 Durant 2015-2019 Doesn't matter after that because rule changes that had been passed about ten years earlier ruined the game and turned it into a Euro pansy league. Two longest runs were Kareem and Kobe. As we went on through this era, MVP voting became dumb and dumber, just like the Heisman.

Looks like it's time for some old school Bull Durham yelling and chair throwing.

Don't get hung up on ropes. My great great grandfather was hanged in Georgia in 1866.

"It's no joke. It's a rope, Tuco."

That night I watched Clint in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after the late news for about the 200th time with my dad on channel 7. Greatest film ever made.

Add Cuban to this.

Only took about ten minutes. My Border Collie Gael did the entire job. About five minutes we located. She circled and held. Got up to her and a sow was charging and running back to piglets. Walked up with my head lamp shining. Gael held and the sow charged and backed. Took her through the back hip ranging up through the lung. About 150 lbs. Hanging in the trees and cooling just outside the yard now. Process her this evening. Made me have a crystal clear memory/flashback. Not more than fifty yards away in 1986 when I was fourteen, I shot a gator. My grandfather had four catfish ponds from which he sold channel catfish. Ponds are still there. A couple of gators had come in and were eating his brood fish in what he called his "mother" pond. He set up a couple of seine nets to catch the gators. We'd go check the nets morning, noon and evening. We were checking in a flat bottom, paddling out and saw the gator get caught in one of the seines. I had my dad's S&W model 25 with which I'd been practicing. Model 25 was the same as the Dirty Harry Model 29 but in .45 Colt instead. We got up about ten feet away and the gator was hung up. I held up the S&W and asked my granddad where to shoot. He said, "Shot him in the ass! I don't care." That's what I did. Hauled the gator out and sold it to my grandfather's friend up the road. He gave me the money and a 1933 buffalo head nickel. Don't have the cash, but I still have the nickel.