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Spewing anti-Israeli propaganda to its own people. Calling for peace. Calling for a cease fire. Who do these people think they are? Don’t they know the correct mantra is “Just Win, Baby!”

Does this Ponca Dan feller ever get tired of licking the dried urine off the testicles of these terrorists? Probably some dried up joy fluid as well.

I bet this yellow belly’s breath is worse than the aroma coming from a skunk’s anal glands.

We all know Israel, the most moral country in the history of humanity, would never do such a thing. Hamas, arguably the most evil people that have ever lived, must be at fault. These people need to get their story straight. Israel is the victim here. Israel is always the victim. Any other notion is pure Hamas propaganda!

Why, oh why won’t Hamas just surrender? Don’t they see what they’re putting the poor Israelis through? Israel doesn’t want to torture doctors, it’s Hamas’ fault that they have to. Isn’t it incredible how those Israeli torture chambers just sprang up out of nowhere? But as long as they’re there they might as well be used. It’s a good thing the Israeli people are so moral. They’re well known as the most moral people in the world. If you don’t know that just ask Bibi Netanyahu, a paragon of moral virtue himself, he’ll assure you it’s true. I wonder how bad they could be if they ever release their inner demons. But I’m sure we’ll never have to find out. They’re God’s Chosen People after all! By definition that means they cannot do anything immoral. We all need to follow their example. Then the world would be like heaven on earth!

Israel somehow manages to make pagers Hezbollah was using to communicate with it's fighters explode, killing/injuring hundreds and overwhelming their hospitals. Got to hand it the Israelis that's some sneaky genius right there.

So it’s up to the rest of the world to put a stop to the Israeli/American genocide of Palestinians. Is today the day the UN officially puts a leash on them? Fingers crossed!

All pbp courtesy of SlipperyPete12 on the PSU board. He does an amazing job. Almost feels like you are watching the match when you read his pbp.

61kg - R32 - #5 Marcus Blaze VS #12 Kyle Burwick

P1:
Burwick with a snap & half shot, nothing. Circling & tying up, looking for an opening. Stoppage, passivity warning Burwick, 2:10 left, restart
Blaze holding position in the center. More tying up & circling. Burwick shoots, Blaze counters & gets a TD, 2-0, no turns, restart, 1:20 left
Tying up & circling & hand fighting. Blaze fakes, Burwick backs out to evade, then back to the circling & tying up. 30-sec left. Blaze holding position in the center, but not doing much more. Burwick moving around a bit, but neither wrestler doing much & the period ends
2-0 Blaze

P2:
Back to action. Burwick looking for an under hook, but no luck. Burwick shoots, gets to a leg & finishes the TD, 2-2, adv Burwick, restart, 2:14 left. Blaze shoots in, Burwick tries to Dake bomb him, but Blaze evades it & gets the TD, 4-2, adds a turn, 6-2, restart. Circling & tying up, Burwick half shot, nothing & back to the tie up. Burwick looking for an opening, but Blaze with solid positioning, 1-min left. Blaze passivity warning, restart. Burwick looking for a shot, but can't find an opening. 30-sec left. More circling & Burwick taking some shots, & that's how it ends.

Marcus Blaze DEC Kyle Burwick 6-2

Berry Tramel: Big 12 needs both OSU, Utah to become the league's big dogs​

• Sep 17, 2024 Updated 12 hrs ago

Berry Tramel​

Sports Columnist

We all love to talk parity and wide-open races and how Big 12 football is America’s league. The most fun conference in college football.
And maybe it is. But it’s in the Big 12’s interest to be something else.

It’s in the Big 12’s best interest to develop a big dog. Maybe even two.

An Alabama or Georgia in the Southeastern Conference. An Ohio State in the Big Ten. A Clemson in the Atlantic Coast. An Oklahoma in the previous iteration of the Big 12. A school that comes to define and in some ways dominate the league.

The only power conference that really hasn’t had a sustained dominator this century was the Pac-12, and the Pac-12 went the way of the wind.

Which brings us to Boone Pickens Stadium on Saturday, when OSU hosts Utah in a September Big 12 showdown of programs primed to be the new-look conference’s best.

With the Sooners and Longhorns off to the SEC, the Big 12 has a leadership void. A vacancy at the top of the pyramid.

No one knows who will emerge as the champion of the inaugural 16-team Big 12, and no one knows if said unknown champ can make a habit of holding aloft the trophy in Arlington’s Jerry World.

But if you round up the usual suspects, OSU and Utah would be at the front of the line.

Utah was picked to win the Big 12 this season, with Kansas State and OSU a close second and third. Arizona and Kansas received some attention, too, but early-season results would indicate that Iowa State and Central Florida deserve more consideration.

Oh, well. Who knows? Most anyone could win it.

“Seems like a league with a lot of parity,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham told me Tuesday.

And Whittingham, a Utah icon on the order of Mike Gundy’s status in Stillwater, said he believes the league would do well with a rotating band of champions and contenders, all courtesy of the 12-team College Football Playoff that debuts this season and triples the slots for playoff teams.

“I would say now with the new playoff structure, it’s good,” Whittingham said of parity. “I think in the past, it was a negative. I know we felt that in the Pac-12, at least, where there were only four spots, and if you didn’t have that premier team that was either unblemished or maybe one loss, you didn’t have much of a chance of getting in.

“But now with the new structure, and the P4 champions getting the invite, I think it’s good to have competition and have a competitive situation within your league.”

Yes, the Big 12 champion is virtually certain of getting a playoff berth every year, but that’s true whether there’s parity or not. What the Big 12 desires is multiple spots in the 12-team playoff, and the league’s chances would increase if there’s an established big dog or two, working itself in via reputation. That’s certainly going to be the case with other conferences.

“This is a vital time,” said Baylor coach Dave Aranda. “I know everyone else in our league thinks the same way, for Baylor, or whatever team you support, to take charge of the league, to take that step, because it’s wide open right now.

“I think the opportunity that’s in front of us is not going to be there for long, so I think there needs to be a team that takes command and kind of leads the charge, so to speak. We need Baylor to be that team.”
Well, good luck with that. But the programs most poised to take charge will share a field in Stillwater on Saturday.

In the last 12 years, OSU is tied for 10th in wins among the 68 power-conference schools, with 107. Utah is tied for 16th, with 96. They rank 1-2 among current Big 12 members.

Here are the schools ahead of OSU: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, OU, Notre Dame, Oregon, Louisiana State and Michigan. OSU is tied with Wisconsin. That’s heady company for the Cowboys.


Go back 15 years, and OSU is tied for ninth, with Notre Dame, at 138 victories. The Cowboys’ consistency is quite remarkable. OSU has more wins in the last 15 years than does Michigan (133), Florida State (133), Penn State (130), Southern Cal (122), Florida (119), Texas A&M (118) or Texas (116).

It’s an American success story, and one that needs better telling. Becoming the top dog in a power conference would spread the word.
“In my opinion, as we move forward, there’s going to be a lot of parity,” Gundy said. “More parity in college football than there has been over the last few years. If revenue sharing takes effect, I would guess that most schools in this league will distribute money somewhat equally to football.

“The direction we’re going, that’s going to determine the type of players that you have in your organization, whether we like it or not. Recruiting is still recruiting, but it won’t be as much recruiting as it is now. It will be the ability to distribute money to the right players that you need based on the talent that you think you’ve seen at that particular time.”

Gundy’s always talking about money, and he’s probably right for doing so. The bottom line — not the offensive line or the defensive line — drives college football.
But parity could hurt the Big 12 long term. Frankly, the Big 12 looks like a conference with a batch of 10-2/9-3 teams at the top. The Big 12 needs a championship game that pits a 12-0/11-1 team vs. an 11-1/10-2 team.

The history of the playoff committee would suggest that it would be quite satisfied to issue no at-large berth to the Big 12. The league needs to make the committee uncomfortable with that position. The league needs an OSU or a Utah or Kansas State or multiple such squads to repeatedly be near the top of the league, with a glittering record, so that it gets at least consideration for a second playoff spot.
For the last 12-15 years, OSU took advantage of Texas’ slump and became the Big 12’s second-most successful program. The Cowboys actually established a national brand.

Utah in the last decade became a Pac-12 force, with back-to-back titles and Rose Bowl appearances in 2021 and 2022. Whittingham’s program, too, built up its brand.

The best thing for Big 12 football in 2024 would be for the OSU-Utah winner to keep winning, and the OSU-Utah loser to do the same.

I realize sports are taboo over here, but this is more of a culture/current events issue. Battle bots is my new spectator sport.

This is why:


Notice the term 'springfield dogs' is a rising search term today.

So are 'eating dogs', 'eating cats and dogs', 'springfield eating dogs and cats', and 'springfield eating cats and dogs'.


This is how Trump gets information out to the masses when he knows the media is censoring stories.

It's brilliant. You nervous nellies need to relax. Papa Trump knows what he's doing.

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I thought @my_2cents told us Kamala was displaying amazing leadership and inspiring America?

I was purusing the media for ute news, and found this. We at OSU know a little bit about losing players and coaches (thinking remember the ten mostly but we've had others, ie Budke)
This from USAToday on Aug 30, 2024

"The Utah Utes football program suffered two unimaginable losses over the past two years. On Christmas of 2022, Ty Jordan died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen at the age of 19. Just nine months after the accidental shooting, Utah defensive back Aaron Lowe was murdered outside a rowdy house party in Salt Lake City. He was 21.

Before the start of the fourth quarter during No. 12 Utah's 49-0 victory over Southern Utah on Thursday night, the memory of both fallen Utes was honored at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The "22 seconds of loudness" filled the air with everyone raising up two fingers in the air. It was an emotional moment to say the least. The Utes fans were encouraged to use their voices to honor Jordan and Lowe, who are gone too soon."

Hillary hasn't thought this one through. If we started jailing Americans for "Wrongspeak" most every Democrat and leftist journalist would be in jail.

I would like to see a rule put in place that if the officials stop play to address an injury, the athlete that is injured must be held out until a procession change. This would cut down on “injuries” that are only for stopping the clock and help the defense. This would also allow the player to be attended to properly. Hey just my 2cents

Get while the gettin’s good!!!!! Rates go back up on November 6. SMFH.

But none of you have given an answer. If Israel has God on its side, as so many of you are convinced it does, what does it need with America? Why isn’t God strong enough to protect his Chosen People all on His own?

After watching a replay of the Tulsa game, I feel much better than I first thought. My first impressions were not very good.

1. Granted, we still can’t give Ollie the openings he needs to gain yards. But, I now see more clearly that Tulsa was putting 7-8 players in the box to clog all running lanes. As a result, the passing game was electric. I don’t think Tulsa thought Bowman would be as accurate as he was on long plays.

2. As good as Bowman was, there is still room for improvement in the RPOs. On several occasions, he should have kept the ball and passed. Instead, he handed it off to Ollie when there were 8 men in the box.

3. As a group, our wide receivers are very fast and athletic. I don’t think many dbacks can cover them by themselves. Once they begin to double cover Stribling, Owens, and Shettron, that will give Ollie more room to run. We had few, if any, pass drops, and Ford is quickly becoming a receiving threat at tight end. I’m not sure how you cover him, Brennan, and our wideouts at the same time while keeping Ollie from running rampant. But, that’s not our problem.

4. I thought the defense was sound most of the game. The dbacks were very good, and had many dbus. The points Tulsa scored was against our reserves. Given the fact that we lost Oliver to injury, they seem to be holding together enough to keep us in games. We’ll have to have our offense score more points to make up for Oliver’s loss, but I believe we have the skill players to do that. Our online needs to block the run better, but the pass blocking has been very good. Because of that, Bowman has time to survey his options, and deliver the ball to the best option. He’s doing a very good job.

Why Oklahoma State LB Kendal Daniels has been 'fun to watch' for coach Mike Gundy​

Scott Wright
The Oklahoman

STILLWATER — As he reviews his team’s first three games of the season, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy sees the week-by-week growth of Kendal Daniels.

The 6-foot-4, 235-pound redshirt junior is in his first season at linebacker after three as a safety, so Daniels is experiencing challenges he’s never faced before.

“It’s fun to watch him, because he’s one of those guys you can see get better each week, just from experience,” Gundy said. “There’s a lot of repetition and learning that takes place in that position. He’s never seen it before this.”

In spring and preseason, the idea of Daniels shifting to linebacker generated excitement.


Now, with the loss of edge rusher Collin Oliver, Daniels’ presence in the front seven has become even more important.

In Saturday’s 45-10 win over Tulsa, Daniels played a more significant portion of his snaps on the interior of the formation, rather than toward the edge, and that’s an area where his physicality can benefit a defense that is missing one of its most dynamic playmakers.

And with a physical, run-heavy opponent awaiting this week when the No. 15 Cowboys host No. 10 Utah at 3 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium, Daniels will again find himself in the middle of the action.



“I love linebacker,” Daniels said. “I love Coach Joe Bob (Clements). I love that they invested in me and they helped me along the way that I’ve been going, and they worked hard on me.

“I mess up sometimes. Everybody’s human, but it’s a learning experience. I’m learning. I’m getting better. I go, I work hard. Guys like Jeff Roberson and Nick Martin, they make it even easier just because those guys help me. They come off to the sideline, if I see something or if they see it, we’re just talking to each other, going back and forth.”

Daniels is playing fewer snaps this year than last — 149 of 230 through three games — but he’s still tied for third on the team in tackles with 12, including 1.5 for loss, to go with four pass breakups and a quarterback hurry. He got his first sack last week as well.

The week before against Arkansas, he came up with two big stops, including a fourth-and-1 play in the second overtime that clinched the Cowboy victory.

Without Oliver, who was a true hybrid player because of his abilities to be a traditional linebacker or a pure rush end, the Cowboys’ defensive front is taking on a different look.

Oliver’s skillset isn’t something that can be easily replicated, so the Cowboys have to adjust the scheme in filling his void.

“It’s gonna take everybody playing well to overcome the deficiency you have with his ability to pressure the quarterback,” Gundy said. “You don’t really overcome and make up for a guy like that, but this is the best method to try and get as close as we can.”

Utah will use frequent two-tight end sets, so Daniels’ ability to play in run support or pass coverage will increase his value.

“We play him out over the tight end some, but we move him inside quite a bit,” Gundy said.

According to Pro Football Focus analytics, Daniels has been in coverage on 83 of his 149 snaps this season, or just under 56% of his total plays, though that percentage could begin to decrease going forward.

“If we had all of our guys, he would play out over the tight end more,” Gundy said. “But we’re not at that point right now.”

Martin remains the stalwart figure in the middle of the defense, and at outside linebacker, Roberson has seen an increase in playing time, responding with 10 tackles and a sack through three games.

Although the three-man linebacker group consists of two new players, their confidence continues to rise.

“We just all want to succeed as a linebacker room,” Daniels said. “We want everybody to fear us. We just want people to be like, ‘That linebacker room, it don’t matter who it is, it don’t matter what down it is, they’re coming and they’re all together. They’re not selfish.’

“Make a play, jump up and down, get off the field.”

For a continual identity as always being a victim. Its entire identity as a nation is based on it.

I like their coach. Seems like a cool guy. Kind of acts like he belongs in the Van Dyke family.

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Anyone else have something nice to say about Utah before Saturday?