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  1. theshadow

    ***2026-27 College Football (non-ISU) Thread***

    Real slobber-knocker of a schedule. Florida State (7-4-1) as an independent, right before they got really good. South Carolina (3-6-2) as an independent. Illinois (4-7) Oregon (5-6) 6 Big Eight games against teams that finished the regular season 6-5 or worse Oklahoma
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    Women's Roster Needs/Portal

    WtName (Yr) 103Makennah Craft (SO) 110Avy Perez (SO) 117Christianah Ogunsanya (JR) 124Molly Allen (SO); Gabriella Gomez (SO) 131Brooklyn Perez (FR); Persaeus Gomez (SO); Jumoke Adekoye (JR) 138Esther Kolawole (JR) 145Daniella Nugent (SO); Greta Brus (FR) 160Alezandra Robles (FR)...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    1. Points 2. Goal differential 3. Goals scored 4. Team conduct score 5. Most recent FIFA ranking 6. Previous FIFA ranking
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    The US can only play someone from Groups B/E/F/I/J. But, it will depend on which combination of groups the eight 3rd-place teams come from. There's a matrix of almost 500 combinations.
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Oklahoma 13, North Carolina 2. SEC has won seven in a row, with six different teams. Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, LSU, Tennessee, LSU (2), Oklahoma.
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    3 UNC pitchers: 5 walks and 1 hit in that inning. Whoof.
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Down 3-1 in the 4th inning, Carolina has already burned through Rose (SP) and McDuffie, and are bringing Glauber in.
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    ***Jack Trice Stadium/Hilton Coliseum alcohol sales thread***

    If you paid attention to his comments recently, especially this summer, it was pretty clear that the decision wasn't completely up to him, but he was the one that had to own it publicly.
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    Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

    Army-Navy doesn't deserve an exclusive day. They can have the mid-afternoon exclusive window with CFP games before and after.
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Champion won Games 1 and 3: 2003 - Rice (Stanford) 2009 - LSU (Texas) 2014 - Vanderbilt (Virginia) 2023 - LSU (Florida) Champion won Games 2 and 3: 2006 - Oregon State (North Carolina) 2008 - Fresno State (Georgia) 2015 - Virginia (Vanderbilt) 2016 - Coastal Carolina (Arizona) 2018 - Oregon...
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Carolina wins 6-2 to force a Game 3 tomorrow night. 5:30 - Studio show (ESPN) - Monaco, McDonald, Rooney, Delongchamps 6:00 - Regular broadcast (ESPN) - Ravech, Peterson, Burke, Budden 6:00 - Alt-cast (ESPNU) - Monaco, McDonald, Rooney, Delongchamps 9th time in the last 12 CWS that we get the...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    The downfall of having a world competition. Can't be primetime everywhere, so a Europe-heavy primetime it is. Noon - Los Angeles 1:00pm - Mexico City 2:00pm - Chicago 3:00pm - New York 4:00pm - Buenos Aires 8:00pm - London 9:00pm - Paris/Berlin/Zurich (FIFA HQ) 4:00am(+) - Tokyo
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    CWS Finals have been a best-of-3 since 2003. Sweeps: 10 times Full series: 12 times Gm 1 winner loses Gm 2, wins Gm 3: 4 times Gm 1 winner loses Gm 2 AND Gm 3: 8 times
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Oklahoma in the postseason: Regional at Georgia Tech Citadel - W, 8-3 (2) Georgia Tech - L, 3-9 Citadel - W, 15-5 (2) Georgia Tech - W, 15-8 (2) Georgia Tech - W, 8-7 (10) Super Regional at Kansas (15) Kansas - W, 8-1 (15) Kansas - W, 13-2 College World Series (7) Alabama - W, 9-0 (3) Georgia...
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    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Land Thieves remain on a heater. 9-3 final. Game 2 tomorrow scheduled for 1:30 on ABC.
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    Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

    Your counter has major issues. 16 basketball games across 4 networks on a Thursday is totally cool, but 8 football games on a Saturday across 3 networks is suddenly a bridge too far? Fox and ESPN each do triple-headers every week during the regular season. There's no extra lift there. All of...
  17. theshadow

    ***2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament***

    Glad there's an altcast (ESPNU) so I don't have to listen to the insufferable Kyle Peterson.
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    Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

    The calendar can absolutely work, but the power brokers have to accept that it involves both give and take -- not just take, take, take. Combine the current NCAA start date proposal and the list of AFCA proposals, you end up with this: Aug. 27, 2027 - Week 1 Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving Nov. 26 -...
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    *** 2026 US Open Shinnecock Hills GC Thread***

    Commentators seriously suggesting that a good strategy may include laying up on a par 3. Carnage awaits.
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    ***Cyclones in the NFL: 2026 Season***

    Up to 26 on rosters with this week's Butler signing. PLAYERTEAM## Barrett, DylanGB74 Bonifas, JimMIA62 Butler, HakeemDEN30 Good-Jones, JulianWSH61 Hall, BreeceNYJ20 Higgins, JaydenHOU81 Hummel, JakeHOU33 Hutchinson, XavierHOU19 Johnson, AnthonyCHI26 Kolar, CharlieLAC88...