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Will a Big 12 Legacy team ever win a conference championship?

Will Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas or Texas A&M ever win the SEC?

With the intense competition year after year, it's tough to say. This season may have been the best chance and Texas came up a little short. Who knows when any of them might get another shot with all the terrific teams battling it out.

Will Baylor, Colorado, Iowa St, Kansas, Kansas St, Oklahoma St or Texas Tech ever win the Big 12?

This is probably the most likely possibility just from a numbers standpoint. Almost all of the newcomers (TCU, West Virginia, BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, Arizona, Arizona St and Utah) probably have had more success long-term and/or recently compared to most of the remaining original members. K-State, Baylor, Okie St and Colorado have all won the Big 12 even when there were marquee programs in the conference. So, although I think Utah, BYU and ASU will be the standard-bearers in the Big 12 for the most part, I think there's a good chance that one of the original members could sneak out of championship here or there.

Will Nebraska ever win the Big Ten?

Just kidding.

*** Iowa MBB at Michigan Game Thread ***

WHO: Michigan Wolverines (7-1, 1-0 Big Ten)

WHEN: 1:00 PM CT (Saturday, December 7, 2024)

WHERE: Crisler Center (Ann Arbor, MI)

TV: FS1 (Sloane Martin, LaPhonso Ellis)

RADIO: Hawkeye Radio Network (Gary Dolphin, Bobby Hansen)

MOBILE: foxsports.com/mobile

ONLINE: foxsports.com/live

FOLLOW: @HawkeyeBeacon | @IowaHoops | @CBBonFOX | @IowaonBTN

LINE: Michigan -8.5 (total of 158.5)

KENPOM: Michigan -9 (Michigan 77% chance of winning)

This looks like a very tough game for Iowa... Michigan just has SO MUCH size.

FULL PREVIEW:

Harvey Weinstein indicted on new charges after New York conviction overturned

Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges, Manhattan prosecutors said at a Thursday hearing, according to the Associated Press.
The indictment for the disgraced Hollywood producer remains under seal until Wednesday. The new charges come ahead of a retrial for Weinstein, after a previous rape conviction collapsed this year.


Prosecutors said last week that they started presenting evidence to a grand jury that included up to three additional allegations against Weinstein, AP reported.
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Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April by the New York Court of Appeals, reversing a case that helped launch the #MeToo movement, and outraging sexual violence survivors.

Weinstein was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison in the New York trial. He was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on a former production assistant, Mimi Haleyi, at his apartment in 2006; and of rape in the third degree for an attack on aspiring actress Jessica Mann at a hotel in 2013.





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But in a 4-3 split decision, a majority of the appellate judges concluded that the trial court erroneously allowed other women to testify about Weinstein’s alleged pattern of abuse, even though he was not being prosecuted for crimes against those witnesses.

“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” associate judge Jenny Rivera wrote in the ruling.

Weinstein, 72, has remained in prison since the reversal, because he also faces a 16-year sentence in a separate case in California, where he was convicted in 2022 of rape, forced oral copulation and sexual misconduct.
British prosecutors discontinued indecent assault charges from 2022 against Weinstein last week, after determining there was “no longer a realistic prospect of conviction,” according to a news release from Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division.
The movie mogul is still at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan recovering from heart surgery he underwent earlier this week, Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer said.

Trump Wins 312 Electoral Votes with Final Race Call, Outpacing His 2016 Haul, Biden’s 2020 Victory

The state of Arizona was officially called for Donald Trump Saturday evening, marking the final state to be declared by the AP.

With Arizona, Trump now officially captured all seven swing states this cycle: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Aside from North Carolina, each flipped from Joe Biden in 2020 to Donald Trump this time around.

Biden overcame Trump in Arizona by less than half of a point in 2020 (less than 11,000 votes), becoming only the second Democrat in over 70 years to win the state.

At around 9:30 PM ET last night, when the AP called the race, Trump was leading Harris by nearly six points, amounting to about 185,000 votes. The president-elect was also leading the vice president in Maricopa County – where Joe Biden defeated Trump by two points in 2020 – by five points.

The Grand Canyon State’s 11 electoral votes bring Trump’s total to 312, eclipsing both his 2016 victory and President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Arizona still finds itself locked in a tight Senate battle between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Ruben Gallego. The latter appears to be running ahead.

“While Trump won Arizona on Saturday, the race for U.S. Senate remains too early to call,” the AP reported. “Gallego’s margin over Lake improved slightly on Saturday, but he didn’t win the vote updates released by county election officials by enough of a margin to close off Lake’s path to victory.”

“But it’s a narrowing one with several hundred thousand ballots still left to count and more updates expected Sunday.”

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

"Now even the FBI and CISA, the US cyber defense agency, are warning Americans to use responsibly encrypted messaging and phone calls where they can. The backdrop is the Chinese hacking of US networks that is reportedly “ongoing and likely larger in scale than previously understood.” Fully encrypted comms is the best defense against this compromise, and Americans are being urged to use that wherever possible."

Does this mean using text message based two factor authentication is a bad idea now?

  • Poll
Which Bowl Would You Choose?

Which Bowl Would You Choose?

  • Duke's Mayo

    Votes: 24 26.7%
  • ReliaQuest

    Votes: 39 43.3%
  • Music City

    Votes: 27 30.0%

I've heard/seen a mixture of Iowa playing in the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, NC (Jan 3), ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, FL (Dec 31), or the Music City Bowl in Nashville, TN (Dec 30).

If it's Mayo,
Clemson

If it's ReliaQuest, one of
South Carolina
Ole Miss
Alabama

If Music City,
LSU
Missouri
South Carolina
Ole Miss

What is your single favorite book?

Was in the other book thread, and @cubsMDdmb 's comment about The Dead Zone made me curious. What other books might I need to pick up and add to the stack of need to read. Also, why is it your favorite?

My single favorite of all time is Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It has been made into several moderately successfull mini-series, but never as good as the book IMO.

What I like about it..... From a character perspective, it is multi generational story that COULD be real, and has some ties to the real world as it is historical fiction. The characters are well defined and I love the struggle success, failure and then build back to a success. It is very relatable and the "bad guys" win. A lot. The Kingsbridge collection is great, but this book stands above for me. I own 2 different copies and have probably read it 5+ times throughout the years.
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