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It's going to be hard for anyone to top the oddly-named Famous Toastery Bowl (a temporary relocation of the Bahamas Bowl to Charlotte while stadium renovations are completed) for sheer entertainment. Old Dominion jumped out to a 21-0 lead over Western Kentucky in the first quarter, eventually leading by 28 in the third. WKU tied the game on a 15-yard touchdown pass on fourth and goal with 19 seconds remaining to force OT. ODU got the ball first. Their QB was sacked on the first play, but they eventually made it to the WKU one with first and goal. The WKU defense held. ODU was going for it on fourth and goal, but a false start penalty forced them to attempt a field goal, which was blocked. WKU completed the comeback with a 29 yard field goal to win it.

Liked him as the commanding officer in Tuskegee Airmen.

Always happy to help with last minute gift ideas. For the music lovers on your gift list. Lookin' a little masculine there, Gayle. I can't post the mental images that this brings up. Which one is Willie? I'm guessing that the guy at lower right is the namesake, and the rest are just auxiliary hicks. Has to be great with top notch artwork like this. The ladies will be flinging their panties on the stage. This kind of personal magnetism doesn't come around often.

Make it happen, Chuck.

No.

Is he related to Cash Considerations?

This town doesn't do anything half way. I don't have much experience in other NHL arenas, but games here are a show.

I probably wouldn't be able to get up at this point.

Even assuming that there was a total match and the money was equal, if you're Ohtani, do you sign with a team pretty much guaranteed to make the post-season, or sign with one pretty much guaranteed not to? I was watching the Sabres-Golden Knights game a while ago. They were showing the Sabres' current playoff drought, the longest in the NHL. Then they showed playoff droughts in other major sports leagues for comparison. #1 in MLB? The Angels, tied with the Tigers. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Detroit Tigers are the yardstick against which this team is compared. Just in case you wonder why free agents won't sign here.

I still had to change the channel when ESPN and MLBN started to show Ohtani in a Dodger uniform at his introductory press conference. I could have tolerated pretty much any other team.

For me it was Guerrero followed by Hunter. I was glad to get Pujols, but I was very concerned about the length of the deal. Getting C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton seemed like we were gutting the Rangers, and their fans were not pleased. That turned out well.

I hate them. As tired as I am of the all red scheme (another peeve of mine is lettering the same color as the jersey), those are awful.

I had targeted the Minnesota game before the season. My best friend, who passed away in November 2022, was a huge Vikings fan. I'm sure that we would have gone to that game. After looking at prices I decided that it just wasn't feasible this close to the holidays. I didn't miss much. No points in the entire game until 1:57 left.

It's hard to get tickets, and tickets are expensive. I considered going to the Minnesota game last Sunday, but passed because the cheapest ticket was about $180. I see a lot of people around town wearing Raiders gear, and the Raiders license plates seem to be reasonably popular.

Coca-Cola cans from 1936. Look like cans of brake fluid.

Just waiting for the Tropicana to be demolished so that we can start building the stadium.

He would still have been 16th in bench coach salaries. Sounds like the greed isn't Hurdle's.

Just schedule a series for those two every year, and then conduct the playoffs with everyone else.

My hatred of the Dodgers is already well entrenched. It goes back to the beginning of divisional play in 1969. In their infinite wisdom MLB decided to put a team in Georgia, a state with an Atlantic coast, in the same division with Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.

For the record, I don't recall commenting on any previous contracts, other than to say that they were overpayment or a bad investment. If $700 million isn't crazy to you, you live in a far different world than I do.

No. Almost nobody has that kind of pitching depth. At the time, it was also an unknown how he would adjust to being in MLB as opposed to Japan. I doubt that anyone was totally confident that he could do both at a high level in MLB, and they weren't willing to upend their organizations to find out.