Once, I had a friend in the early 2000s who was so addicted to our fantasy football league that he faked the death of another team owner so that he could trade for that person's best players. As commissioner, he was able to do this with no one noticing.
When caught by someone
Tonight on Bourbon Street, a Baylor student who grew up in a teetotaler home attending a Sugar Land, TX community church will do a Jägerbomb with an Ole Miss student and fifth-generation First Pres member from Madison, MS. And isn’t that what the Sugar Bowl is really all about?
Mississippi State's mascot Bully and Southern Miss' mascot Seymour. Sitting in the end zone, sharing a cold one.
We used to be a country. A proper country.
I love the fact that is how many across the globe were introduced to Mountain Brook, Alabama.
“All those men are wearing sport coats with jeans.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, Sven.
I cannot believe that on the same roster Ole Miss had DK Metkalf, AJ Brown, Patrick Willis, Eli Manning, Robert Nkemdiche, and Archie Manning, but only won 2 games.
2021: Mississippi State wins the College World Series.
2022: Mississippi State doesn’t make the tournament. Ole Miss wins the CWS.
2023: Ole Miss doesn’t make the tournament. Southern Miss wins the CWS.
This is a starting to pop off and I have a board meeting to prep for so I’ll answer the most common question: Yes, it worked. The commissioner dominated the league for years, mostly finishing first, but always finishing in the Top 3.
**There was no prize money in this league.**
Doctors said after Damar Hamlin awakened last night, he asked in writing who won the game. Doctors told him: “Yes, you won. You’ve won the game of life.”
The 1997 Alabama football team had Freddie Kitchens at QB, Shaun Alexander at RB, Bruce Arians as Offensive Coordinator, and Dabo Swinney as TE Coach.
They went 4-7.
Less than 3 days ago it was announced that Southern Miss, not Tennessee, will host the NCAA Super Regional.
The Vols tweets rolled in.
I have never understood anyone more than I now understand this man and his take on Tennessee.
Reminder that UAB athletics exists because Arnold Schwarzenegger filmed a movie in Birmingham, and somebody gave him a shirt; Arnold took it back to LA, wore it to work out at UCLA; Gene Bartow saw it, moved to Birmingham, and started the athletic program.
Tennessee fans in the comments talking trash? Evansville forced Game 3!
Tennessee’s annual revenue from athletics (much of which is subsidized by the success of Alabama & Georgia) is $154M.
Evansville’s revenue is $13M.
Vols spend more in a month than the Aces spend in a year.
It’s a good time to remind everyone that the average Southern Miss attendance in 2023 (5,276) is greater than the Tennessee single-game home attendance record in 100+ years of Vols baseball (5,086).
Part 5 of our non-NCAA champions list! We’ve got rodeo, biomedical engineering, a bunch of flag football, and more!
Congrats to the champs and everyone who competed.
I can't imagine there's a more thoughtful discussion and breakdown of the Trump/Mar-a-Lago Search than this between
@PreetBharara
and
@JoyceWhiteVance
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LSU will require all Tiger Stadium guests 12 years of age and older to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to entry.
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This was in 2000/2001. There was no social media we were connected through. We were scattered across 7 states. Most had never met in person. Only the commissioner knew the “dead” team owners.
We only interacted in the fantasy site.
@ashleymayer
Every time I use Google Drive I get the same feeling as when you’re in a friend’s house, alone in the kitchen and you’re trying to find the garbage can.
One key element I left out: The Commissioner would replace the “dead” owners with a new owner… but the new owner was just the Commissioner under a fake name.
How did the bad trades play out?
These weren’t ‘A+ player for C- player’ trades.
These were ‘Two A players for three
Quick reminder this holiday season to ✨generously✨ tip service workers.
Most are missing time with friends & family, all are overworked, each will deal with The World’s Worst Customer™ once per day.
Be the customer who makes the day better for every service worker you meet.
I had to drop out of the league because people were taking it too seriously [gestures at this thread] and I was getting flack for not being active enough.
About ten years later I get a call from a good friend who was a member of the league, the only person I knew personally.
@landonhowell
I really, really need to know how The Big Reveal went down. Was there a whisper network of banned former members warning everyone how crazy he was and always dismissed? Was there some massive commissioner flameout posting private chats? I NEED DEETS!
Rickwood Field. Birmingham, AL.
5 Rickwood Facts You Need to Know:
• Funded by Rick Woodward in 1910.
• Birmingham vs. Montgomery (first game)
• Rick Woodward threw the ceremonial first pitch which counted in the game. (ball).
• 182 Hall-of-Famers have played there.
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Thinking about the time a few years back when Mississippi State traveled to Hattiesburg and Southern Miss set up garbage cans at every entrance and made fans toss their cowbells.