- Rory & The Masters
- Nico plays himself
- @CycloneSB is on a heater
- Tony Stewart & more here from @cfchangs9

He was so so so so bad.

SIAP

Anyone else experiencing the live channel preference list not the same across all your devices? My LG TV, and computer are not the same. I get channels for kids shows and hispanic shows that I don't even have on my save preference list all of the sudden showing up on my TV. My computer has "moved" a few channels around. I set my channel preference up on my Iphone when I first got YTTV. Just really perplexed by it.

This never gets old!
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With dwarfism, who tried to kill them.

https://5newsonline.com/2019/10/13/...-woman-with-dwarfism-wwho-tried-to-kill-them/

My wife and I are looking to get away for a long weekend in the middle of October and are trying to come up with ideas. I’m looking for any recommendations on places for a 3-4 day weekend trip (within the US) that you’ve been on and enjoyed.

I am so pumped! I can’t wait to see them live again soon.
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We bought an in-ground basketball hoop from ****'s (delivery for tomorrow) but they didn't have a contractor install addon available. Does anybody know a couple guys that would install (dig hole, cement it in, mount backboard, etc) in Waukee?

As we hit the final day of major college athletics until fall, I thought it would be a good time to ask this.

We have threads on each of these topics, and every decently long thread has one or more sub streams or conversations about issues, opinions, etc that circle back to semi-unrelated "gripes". I'm interested in seeing what people would choose if they could say 3 things they dislike, hate, is turning them off, etc the most with college athletics. I'm guessing NIL will be on the vast majority of lists so if you want to add a 4th, that's ok.

What are your 3 biggest "gripes" or "old man takes" on college athletics today.

A Few Examples:

• Selling alcohol
• Commercials
• Length of games
• Black uniforms
• Game times
• NIL (will be nearly universal)
• Change from student-first to semi-pro
• Open transfers
• Realignment (changes to who we play)
• Number of games or length of season
• Playoff construct
• March Madness construct
• Number of scholarships
• Recruiting process
• Ranking systems (AP, CFP, Coaches, etc)
• Crowd trends
• Streaming options, setup, etc
• Divisions vs Pods vs ?
• Etc

To help, this is mine...

I'm baking NIL into it so that is just a table stake hate for me.

1 - Football O/D Line Pre-Snap - I hate the amount of false start inducing movements and pre-snap hijinks now allowed on the defensive side when the offensive side can't even fart. I don't know the solution, I just hate seeing Offensive false starts because they blink when a LB starts running and lunging at them pre-snap.

2 - Realignment - Who we play and how often we play them used to be one of the most foundational aspects of fandom. Emotions were tied to each of your conference foes because of history. Rivalries should always be natural, not contrived (like Iowa vs Nebraska on Black Friday).

3 - Sport/Season Alignment - This is selfish and I know not practical for many reasons, but I'd love it if college football was August to January (add 2 regular season games maybe). Once that ended, basketball would then start and finish in late May. Those are the only sports I really care about and it seems like you miss part of the joy of BB starting when FB is still going with a lot on the line, and I hate the stretch from MBB to FB starting again.

This is actually fun as hell. Gave ChatGPT a prompt to create a toy figure of me based on a referenced image I included in the ask and told it what supporting items I wanted included and these are what it spit out.

Pretty cool honor as it “ brought together 19 of the nation's top women's basketball student-athletes for four days of interactive, informative and future-enhancing sessions and workshops designed to aid their transition from college basketball to professional careers."

Thanks so much to @wxman1 for this topic! Your example is so perfect, I'm SO sorry to take it, but here's how wxman1 wrote it:

So we enjoy the show Friends and last night an episode we had on was the one where they realize that condoms are not 99% effective. For whatever reason this time I started thinking. Stuff along the lines of "wait designing, testing etc. condoms are actual jobs." Who are these people? What do you put on your resume? What do you tell people that you do?" and the like.

Then I got to thinking what are other jobs that you can't believe are actual jobs and how do those that have them explain them away sort of thing?

One of those actors you don’t know his name but you see him and you saw oh that guy! He’s in so many things.

Passes away at 54.

Dazed and Confused
A Time to Kill
Friends
Boiler Room
Way of the Gun
Insomnia
Boston Public
School of Rock
Dark Knight

WTF is this headline? Somebody named Dana Becker from Ft. Dodge wrote the article. Not sure if that's his doing, but if so is he clueless/hawkeye?

I was at exercise class today and in a hockey discussion the term hat trick was brought up.

I know what it means but got to thinking how it got the name so I went and looked it up.


The term "hat-trick" in sports, meaning three goals or similar achievements, originated in cricket, where a bowler who took three wickets with three consecutive deliveries was traditionally given a hat to celebrate the feat.

I'm seeing conflicting reports between Connor Ferg's article and SI...I trust Connor; however, would like a firm answer.

Hello everybody, my name is David, graduated in 2012

In another thread the length of Trump's ties was brought up. Made me think the last time I wore a tie. Would have been a few yrs ago when I was a wedding reception host for my nephew.
Sometime in the early 2000s I think they really fell out of favor.

This is more important than ever as the National Institute of Health (NIH) was abruptly shut down in the past few weeks. The NIH was responsible for many billions of dollars of research funding, studies, trials, etc for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative diseases, setting progress back 20 years. Without the NIH, no other major funding goes towards these efforts, the NIH was that source.

Dr. Calli Sanders is set to take a phased retirement. Details here:
Check out this article from Des Moines Register:

Iowa State athletics administrator Calli Sanders initiates phased retirement plan

Connor Ferguson and Rob Gray provide a quick update on the offensive side of the ball, courtesy of A+ Lawn and Landscape.