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    Keon drops 60 in Damar's celebrity basktball gam

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    On 6/21/2025 at 4:56 PM, Augie said:

     

    It breaks my heart. I used to follow Xavier basketball almost like the Bills. I’d make an annual trip to Cincinnati, travel to games anywhere close and try to get to their city in the NCAA tournament. Those were some awesome times! 

     

    Now I have no idea who’s on the roster, what theirs skills are, where they came from or how many years of eligibility they have left. Eligibility actually means very little, since it’s a series of one year contracts. Every year is like a new pickup game at the YMCA. 

     

    Please don’t get me wrong, I think the players should be paid and they should have mobility. I just don’t happen to like the resulting product nearly as much.  They desperately need some guardrails on this mess. 

     

    BTW - I spent a week at UNC hoops camp in Chapel Hill every summer for at least 4 years when the kids were young. Awesome times! 

    Whenever I hear Xavier I think of an IBM company league softball team I was on as an intern back in the 80's - there was a guy on the team who had recently graduated and had been a walk-on for the basketball team at Xavier.   Became a friend of mine and I started following Xavier because of him.  Over the years lost contact with both.

     

    My daughter also went to a few of the hoops camps at chapel hill while in HS (eventually attended college there and played on the club team)

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    2025 OTAs are underway

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    Regarding the McD rookie/vet playing discussion - one thing he emphasized in one of last week's PCs is not putting someone out there if their "teammates don't trust him".  A reminder that there are things factored in that we as fans don't necessarily know anything about.

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    Network pricing to watch all NFL games in 2025

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    2 hours ago, Einstein said:

     

    I will never understand people advocating illegal streams. 

     

    For some reason, it being media makes it pallatable for people to say things like like this. But most of us would never say “oh that restaurant meal was expensive - but there are ways to skip out the door before paying without the waitress knowing”. 

     

    Why not just straight up say “i’m a thief”?

    My biggest issue with illegal streams is all the spyware and other crap I imagine is being downloaded to my computer.

     

    I will gladly pay the cost of standalone ST to just know I have reliable access each week.  I already have subscriptions to all the other streaming services so there is no net additional cost for me for those

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    Who was invited to Josh and Hailee's wedding?

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    23 hours ago, Simon said:

     

    When you also take into consideration that pre-wedding brides are temporarily insane, high-strung sociopathic perfectionists that are liable to murder anybody who fails to make their day perfect, then you'll realize that taking a 20 minute walkthrough can possibly save multiple lives.

    At my rehearsal, the 'Monsignor' was an old school priest who had been the head of my wife's parrish forever and was treated like the Pope by all the parishoners - nobody ever dared question anything he did (I always thought he was an a-hole but kept the opinion mostly to myself).  At the rehearsal there was a point in the Mass where my wife wanted us to turn to the congregation and he forbade it - saying God was present on the alter or something and my wife defiantly said "God is everywhere!" making a grandiose sweeping gesture.   There was immediate tension - and he responded with something patronizing which riled my wife up even more.  I was prepared for my 'temporarily insane, high-strung sociopathic' wife to throw down.  The next day, of course my wife made sure that we turned to the congegation at that point during the actual Mass 😛 

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    Cole Bishop Toughness

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    1 hour ago, boyst said:

    isn't it amazing that some average joes think they can compete against athletes like this?  sure, they stand a chance but the level of exceptionalism in these elite athletes is something most people have not witnessed.

     

    when you've been around enough athletes you recognize the special ones. when you see them in person you can recognize the stars. two examples of this in my life i have seen personally: Cael Sanderson as a senior in HS wrestling at Iowa (not ISU) during the summer offseason for training against a former NCAA champ while Dan Gable worked with them & Charles Woodson in high school ( i was at 8th grade)

    I had this experience after HS playing pickup basketball at Lancaster Boy's Club one college break and Don 'Majik Man' Majkowski was playing with us.  I played against him in HS and in pickup games back then (and he was a great HS multi-sport athlete) but by this time he was playing at W Va and holy crap had his athleticism reached grown-ass-man levels.  When the  dude came down and tomahawked a slam dunk like white chocolate thunder we all kind of just stood there like "OK".  He took it easy on us the rest of the way :p.  You know all these guys are great athletes but sometimes seeing it first hand and up close can take your breath away

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    ESPN's Around the Horn ended today after 22 years on the air.......

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    26 minutes ago, chongli said:

    Woody Paige having a cutesy white board message in his shot became tired years ago. And the point system seemed inconsistent and depended on if Reali agreed or not.

     

    That being said, it was an enjoyable show, especially at first, and like a comfort food; but it jumped the shark yeas ago.

     

    TRIVIA: What was Reali's nick name when he first started?

    I assume you're referring to Stat Boy

     

    I remember watching PTI when he was just stat boy.  Its kind of an amazing story how they called him to fill in at ATH the day after the SB since every other 'big name' at the network was off covering the SB - and he did so well he just kept the gig.

     

    Reali is known for as being extremely positive and generous on and off the air and think he is a genuinely good dude.  I give him credit for purposely turning the show from just a yelling match when Kellerman started to something a bit more structured and even thoughtful at times.

     

    Not sure why some people get so bent about the scoring thing - there really wasn't any specific system - just him going by feel -  was just a device to add more entertainment (what if friends were debating sports at a bar and someone was sitting there scoring them on who was making the best points).

     

    Last few days I've watched all his interviews as he made the rounds.  Even if I didn't watch it religiously lately it was to me still a fun distraction when I did (esp day after some major sports story).  It's sad to see something that was part of your life for decades go away (for no apparent good reason - was still one of the highest rated shows on the network).  I wish Reali well - he seems to have moved past acceptance phase and already is making moves to move forward with other projects/platforms.

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    Bills on Hard Knocks

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    2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

    The last few Hard Knocks have been singularly dull compared to the early years so I don't think the distraction is the same as it was in the years when this was novel. Teams are much more used to this kind of behind the scenes filming than they were.

     

    I'm excited for it personally.

    I agree - it is also I think much more superficial now where they don't really try to create as many "dramatic" story lines or dig as deep into the ones they do make (which I'm sure is partly done to try to make it less objectionable to prospective teams)

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    Quinton Morris to Jax

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    1 hour ago, chongli said:

     

    Ok...I'm actually stupid. What does "Belinda" mean? I've seen it posted here a number of times over the years. Belinda Carlisle?? That's all I got.

    Technically the proper use of 'Belinda' is at the end of the thread title - as a substitute for NM for 'No Message' - with no text in the body of the message.

     

    As others have indicated - it was used to basically troll a user named Belinda in the old days who was very outspoken on her hatred for users creating threads with NM in the title and no message text - so of course the creation of such messages increased dramatically at the time - with the replacement of NM with Belinda to amplify the wise-assery 😛

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    Bills 4th Round Pick : Deone Walker - DT - Kentucky

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    8 hours ago, Rigotz said:

    What did they say that indicates they think he’s a 1-Tech?

     

    To my knowledge, they said the opposite. They specifically mentioned Carter as the potential 1T backup to Jones.

    In Beane's PC he said he'd play both - their approach to Dline is similar to OL where they are looking for versatility.  As has been discussed in some threads - in the Bills scheme a 1 tech is not necessarily just a 400lb block of goo that can't be moved, they are looking for pass rush/penetration from all positions along the line

     

     

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    Rd #6 - With the 206 pick of the nfl the bills pick lundt offensive tackle

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    I posted in draft day thread: ESPN very positive almost effusive on Lundt  - Mel - Run blocker, Love this kid, can get out and pull, get out on the perimeter, get the job done on the 2nd level, Love finisher mentality, As pass blocker the footwork and technique is good, Chase Lundt has talent, good athletic ability, Best is yet to come, showed what he can do this year as both a run and pass blocker, Josh Allen's gonna like Chase Lundt coming into the fold, Lot of skills and lot of potential moving forward Riddick: That's the prototype developmental OT, he has the athletic ability now just build around that frame, the movement skills, the understanding of how the position is to be played, the footwork, the angles, they may have really really hit on something there in the 6th rd 

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