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The Bar => Sports => Topic started by: franksolich on October 29, 2011, 11:51:40 AM
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I'm late to the game, but whatever.
Today's big games:
Northwestern 17, Indiana 7, first quarter
Purdue 7, Michigan 9, second quarter
Michigan State 0, Nebraska 10, second quarter
Iowa-Minnesota at 2:30 p.m. central time, 1:30 p.m. mountain time
Illinois-some obscure state college in Pennsylvania at 2:30 p.m.
Wisconsin-Ohio State at 7:00 p.m.
Missouri 14, Texas A & M 7, second quarter
Baylor-Oklahoma State at 2:30 p.m.
Oklahoma-Kansas State at 2:30 p.m
Kansas-Texas at 6:00 p.m.
Iowa State-Texas Tech at 6:00 p.m.
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Northwestern 24, Indiana 7, second quarter
Purdue 7, Michigan 12, second quarter.
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Northwestern 24, Indiana 14, second quarter.
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Missouri 14, Texas A & M 13, second quarter.
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Missouri 14, Texas A & M 14, second quarter.
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Northwestern 31, Indiana 14, second quarter
Purdue 7, Michigan 19, second quarter
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This MU-TAMU looks like it'll be whoever scores last...wins.
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Missouri 14, Texas A & M 21, second quarter
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Northwestern 31, Indiana 21, second quarter
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Okay, time to hit the sack for a while. Back later.
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I'm back way later. Pneumonia has a practice of really punching one out.
And too bad, because at least out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, it's a wonderful glorious beautiful awe-striking autumn day. It looks like Connecticut.
Northwestern 59, Indiana 38, final
Purdue 14, Michigan 36, final
Michigan State 3, Nebraska 24, final
Iowa 0, Minnesota 0, second quarter
Illinois 0, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 0, second quarter
Missouri 38, Texas A & M 31, final
Baylor 0, Oklahoma State 31, first quarter
Oklahoma 14, Kansas State 3, first quarter
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Well, that's a surprise, although a pleasant one, Nebraska beating Michigan State.
After the debacle up in Minnesota last week, I'd expected Michigan State to run all over us.
Up next week for us, Northwestern plays us here. Northwestern's 1-3 against Nebraska.
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OKlahoma 14, Kansas State 10, second quarter
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In other games going on around the country:
Rice 34, Houston 72, final, Thursday night
Arkansas 31, Vanderbilt 28, final
Virginia Tech 14, Duke 10, final
Washington State 10, Oregon 15, first quarter
Georgia 3, Florida 7, second quarter
West Virginia 14, Rutgers 17, first quarter
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Florida's leading Georgia 7-3 at the moment.
I could never understand this nonsense about playing on a "neutral" field.
Allegedly, Oklahoma plays Texas on a "neutral" field, and Georgia plays Florida on a "neutral" field.
Neutral field, my ass.
Oklahoma plays Texas in Texas, and Georgia plays Florida in Florida.
There's nothing "neutral" about playing an opponent on his own real-estate.
It seems the only game played on a "neutral" field is between Army (West Point, New York) and Navy (Annapolis, Maryland).....played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Oklahoma 14, Kansas State 17, second quarter
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Iowa 7, Minnesota 0, second quarter
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Oklahoma 20, Kansas State 17, second quarter
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Iowa 7, Minnesota 7, second quarter
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Baylor 0, Oklahoma State 28, second quarter
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Oklahoma 23, Kansas State 17, halftime
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Baylor 0, Oklahoma State 42, third quarter
Oklahoma 30, Kansas State 17, third quarter
Iowa 14, Minnesota 7, third quarter
Illinois 7, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 0, third quarter
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Iowa 14, Minnesota 10, third quarter
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You know, Kansas State is a peculiar case, it having been the perpetual cellar-dweller (along with Colorado) of the Big 8, all the way from the beginning until the 1980s.
It never bothered Kansas State to lose all the time.....to nearly everybody.....because they adamantly insisted, "well, we're an academic institution, not a football college."
Fans of Kansas State and Missouri had, or have, that attitude in common; intellectual snobbery, although Missouri does "condescend" to play good football once in a while too.
Fans of Colorado had that same attitude, but it wasn't based upon their intellectual superiority--which of course they had none--but just simply that while Nebraska won football games, Colorado has mountains.
Whoop-de-doo. Mountains.
Anyway. So Kansas State is now a football college, a football factory, but they haven't paid their dues long enough yet, to be considered "great." They'll have to keep winning games for another 40, 50 years, before they get classed with Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Ditto for the three major teams from Florida, and the two major teams from Oregon.
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Baylor 3, Oklahoma State 42, third quarter
Oklahoma 37, Kansas State 17, third quarter
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Iowa 21, Minnesota 10, fourth quarter
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Oklahoma 44, Kansas State 17, third quarter
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Iowa 21, Minnesota 16, fourth quarter
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Baylor 3, Oklahoma State 49, third quarter
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Illinois 7, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 3, fourth quarter
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Oklahoma 51, Kansas State 17, fourth quarter
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Iowa 21, Minnesota 22, fourth quarter
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Oklahoma 58, Kansas State 17, fourth quarter
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Illinois 7, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 9, fourth quarter
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Illinois 7, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 10, fourth quarter, with a minute to go.
Damn.
Damn.
Damn.
<<has 18 cousins graduates of an obscure state college in Pennsylvania; am the only one of the cousins a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
Damn.
I was hoping to crow tonight.
But apparently not.
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Iowa 21, Minnesota 22, final
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Baylor 17, Oklahoma State 59, fourth quarter
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Illinois 10, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 10, five seconds to go in game.
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Oklahoma 58, Kansas State 17, final
I dunno about anybody else, but it seems Oklahoma kind of stalled during the last quarter.
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Whoa.
Wait.
WHAT?
The guy in the cubicle watching the game on television and punching in the numbers must've been sipping on cocktails for a while.
Illinois 7, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania 10, final.
They need to do something about "quality control" when it comes to punching in numbers; like, no drinking or doping while on the job, and punching in the wrong numbers.
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Georgia 24, Florida 20, fourth quarter.
Colorado 0, Arizona State 14, and not even halfway through the first quarter.
Too bad for Colorado. Boo-hoo.
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Kansas-Texas now underway.
Go Kansas, although it looks bleak.
Go Kansas, nonetheless.
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Baylor 24, Oklahoma State 59, final.
I forgot that one; apparently Baylor had a late touchdown.
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Colorado 0, Arizona State 20, first quarter
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The guy in the cubicle in charge of punching in the numbers on the Georgia-Florida game must be out for the afternoon. It's been 5:36 to go in the game since forever, and it's still Georgia 24, Florida 20.
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Kansas 0, Texas 7, first quarter
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Iowa State-Texas Tech now underway.
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You know, they ought to set up cameras watching the work stations of the guys in the cubicles watching the games on television and punching in the numbers as they happen.
As the afternoon turns into evening, they get slower and slower about doing their jobs.
Hey, all they have to do is watch a game on television and punch in some numbers.
How hard is that?
One suspects they take the chance to have some naughty-naughty with a secretary or receptionist in their cubicle, and there might be some good porn-movie material in it.
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Iowa State 7, Texas Tech 0, first quarter
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Georgia 24, Florida 20, final.
Too bad for the home team.
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Colorado's going to be 1-8 after today; too bad the same fate isn't reserved for an obscure state college in Pennsylvania.
Anyway, Wisconsin-Ohio State's the last important game of the day, and it starts in about half an hour.
One wonders if the guy in the cubicle's going to punch in any numbers during that game.
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Kansas 0, Texas 26, halftime
Iowa State 24, Texas Tech 7, second quarter
Wisconsin 7, Ohio State 0, first quarter
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Wisconsin 7, Ohio State 3, second quarter
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Kansas 0, Texas 33, third quarter
Iowa State 31, Texas Tech 7, third quarter
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Oklahoma 58, Kansas State 17, final
I dunno about anybody else, but it seems Oklahoma kind of stalled during the last quarter.
They put in 2nd and 3rd stringers at around 12 min. left in the game.
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Kansas 0, Texas 43, final
Iowa State 41, Texas Tech 7, final
Wisconsin 29, Ohio State 33, final
Well, it looks as if the race for the top of the Big 10 is all in disarray now.
I dunno who's going to end up on top, but Michigan State, if they'd won today, they probably would've locked up the champion of the western division, given that all their remaining games are expected to be easy, but Michigan State didn't win today; Nebraska did.
Unlike Michigan State, all of Nebraska's remaining games are expected to be tough ones.....but it is a little bit closer--although still far far from actually happening--to a Nebraska-Ohio State championship game.
Maybe about 3-in-100, but that's better odds than 1-in-100.
We'll see.
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They put in 2nd and 3rd stringers at around 12 min. left in the game.
I wondered if that's what happened.
It sort of reminds me of a Nebraska-Minnesota game during the mid-1980s, which Nebraska won, 84-13.
There was a lot of criticism about Nebraska "running up the score," but in actual fact, halfway through the first quarter, then-coach Tom Osborne was already sending in second-stringers, and by the fourth quarter, he was playing the water-boys and the kids who hold the jugs of Gatorade.
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Georgia 24, Florida 20, final.
Too bad for the home team.
The largest Georgia booster club in the country is in Jacksonville.
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The largest Georgia booster club in the country is in Jacksonville.
It doesn't mean much, sir--it's still an "away" game for Georgia, and a "home" game for Florida.
It's inside the state of Florida, where the natives are likely to support the team from their own state.
The businesses of Florida, not Georgia, profit greatly from money fans of Georgia spend there; the restaurants, the bars, the gasoline stations, the hotels and motels, the tourist traps.
The state of Florida, not Georgia, collects oodles of sales-tax revenue from fans of Georgia, not to mention all the cigarettes fans from Georgia buy in Florida, paying the Florida tobacco tax; ditto for gasoline, liquor, and dining-out/lodging excise taxes too, that go to Tallahassee rather than Atlanta.
It looks to me like both businesses and the state government of Georgia get the short end of the stick.
In fact, they don't even get the end of a stick.
Ditto for the Oklahoma-Texas football game, where Texas profits even if they lose on the football field, and Oklahoma loses even when they win on the football field.
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Frank, with respect, you don't know too much about Florida geography. The panhandle, and the rest of North Florida, might as well be South Georgia. If there are fans of a Florida team in Jacksonville, a lot of'em are Seminoles, but the city, itself, is full of transplants.
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Frank, with respect, you don't know too much about Florida geography. The panhandle, and the rest of North Florida, might as well be South Georgia. If there are fans of a Florida team in Jacksonville, a lot of'em are Seminoles, but the city, itself, is full of transplants.
Well now, sir, I'm aware that Florida has several different regional cultures, and that those in the extreme northern part, and those in the panhandle, are different from the tax refugee transplants further south who are doing their best to ruin Florida.
Probably those up there have a close affinity with Georgia.
But I'm emphasizing more of the economic impact, which favors Florida wholly and Georgia not a cent, what with the game every year being held in Florida.
It's the same halfway across the country, where Texas harvests Oklahoma money, but don't have to spend any money themselves in Oklahoma. The economic impact.
If I were a taxpayer in Georgia, I'd be unhappy about the situation, and demand that it be a home-and-away schedule, so that half the time Florida has to enrich Georgia, rather than Georgia having to enrich Florida every single year. It's only fair.
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Bob Barry, Sr. passed away yesterday. You probably aren't familiar with him though are you, Frank?
He was a good man and a legend in Oklahoma sports broadcasting.
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I've read the name before, associated with great Cornhusker announcers of the past, but never paid attention.
"Bob Berry"'s pretty easy of a name to remember, even if one doesn't connect it.
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I've read the name before, associated with great Cornhusker announcers of the past, but never paid attention.
"Bob Berry"'s pretty easy of a name to remember, even if one doesn't connect it.
He was OU's radio announcer for 30 seasons total and OSU's radio announcer for 19 years. He was also a sportscaster for the NBC affiliate here in OKC.
I grew up listening to him. He started losing some of his polish the last 3-4 seasons before his retirement, but, he was a great play-by-play man before that.