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I see two sides to the argument here - one being that we have our own thing on-campus. You are absolutely right - but the environment for Marquette and the Bucks in Milwaukee is second-to-none. Tailgating in the parking lot when it’s 10 below or bar hopping before games in their little “ballpark village” around the new arena is awesome. If it would help the city, as it has Milwaukee, the Bucks and Marquette, we could take a page out of their playbook. Maybe even host (like Villanova used to do) a few games with bigger name programs at the larger arena and have lesser games back at Chaifetz.

I think this game would have to be in KC; it gives MU two distinct advantages - one, being that it makes SLU travel the width of the state and they would have the larger fan base. Second, it wouldn’t be locally exposing them to STL-based recruits to potentially two losses in the same city (one to Illinois, the other to us). If I’m the warden, I’d schedule this game as the Norm Stewart Classic or something and rotate SLU, SEMO, SMS, UMKC, etc.

I doff my virtual cap at you, sir.

Little known fact: the German language existed before September 1939.

MU people have an inferiority complex, but no one who graduates with a degree in psychology from Missouri could accurately and properly diagnose it. So it just lingers on like Rose Kennedy towards the end.

Rename the Mississippi the day he shows up on campus. #RiverThames

Kramer vs Kramer II

Love it! Another one that sums up our allegiance to the Bills from Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” I believe that is in reference to a magical Final Four run… soon, my boys. Soon.

Just win, baby. Al Davis summed up what should be the competitive animal statement of the millennium in just three simple words. Queue up “The Autumn Wind is a Raider…”

Just an FYI, this should be our HQ for the event. That price per-night isn’t a typo…

He must be the sickest man in America still! That’s one of the all-time super bowl calls. Staubach put it right in his bread basket. Verne Lundquist on the airwaves…

You’re missing the OG of this, former Indianapolis Colt stud Marcus Pollard.

Of interest for our own bench: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/thomas-dziagwa-joining-travis-fords-staff-as-graduate-assistant/

Good post - I see your side of the argument, for sure. But who would have carried the torch for boxing if it wasn’t Don King? In the advent of the TV era of sports, the personalities in the ring were the reason to watch. Ali, Frazier, Foreman. Once that Generation faded, it was almost more about the guys outside the ring - King, Cus d’Amato, etc. The press certainly loved it.

Devils advocate here, but Don King also led boxing into a post-Ali/Foreman/Frazier boxing Renaissance. However, as his empire grew vis-a-vis HBO, Showtime, etc - attendance dwindled. I get where people want to crucify King for the boxing malaise of the post-Tyson/Holyfield/Sugar Ray era, but there wouldn’t have been that era without a promoter like Don King. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

That was a different Elton Brand of basketball, Roy.

I almost came out of my shoes reading this. Almost.

Completely agree - remember how Ray Perkins and Bill Curry were run out on a rail in Tuscaloosa because they weren’t Bear? Bill Gutherie probably the one exception (but he had Dean’s recruits). Even having great W-L Records in Westwood post-Wooden for Bartow and Cunningham wasn’t enough to keep a seat on the bench.

Oh man. This one takes me back, but not as much as Robert Earl Keen’s “Front Porch Song” from when he played at the Sons of Hermann Hall does. That’s music. He wrote that song with Lyle Lovett.

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Stu’s taken a pivot into the indie scene with The National’s “Fake Empire.” Stay young, Stu. Forever young.

Why after Friday? You got a Dogecoin scoop? Good name for it “Dogecoin Classic.”

Sounds like something Doc Brown would have said to Marty!