Just heard some announcers on the ISU game discussing a TTU player trying to join an elite club of college players that have ever shot 50+% from the field 40% from 3 and 90% from the line.

Dix is currently at 56, 45, and 95.

Co-Players of the Week
Payton Sandfort Iowa
G – Sr. – 6-8 – Waukee, Iowa – Waukee

• Averaged 26.5 points, six rebounds, and 3.5 steals in leading the Hawkeyes to a pair of wins
• Shot 55.6 percent from the floor (15-of-27), 52.6 (10-of-19) from 3-point range and 92.9 (13-of-14) from the free throw stripe
• Tied a career high with 30 points in a 97-87 overtime win over Nebraska, scoring all 30 after the halftime break
• Added a game-high 23 points and six boards in Iowa’s 85-60 win over Indiana
• Claims second Player of the Week honor
• Last Iowa Player of the Week: Payton Sandfort (March 4, 2024)

Vladislav Goldin, Michigan
C – Grad. – 7-1 – Voronezh, Russia – Putnam Science Academy

• Averaged 27.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 2.5 assists while shooting 76.0 percent (19-of-25) from the field, 78.9 percent (15-of-19) on free throws, and added two more three-pointers (2-of-4) as No. 20 Michigan went 2-0
• Shot 13-of-18 from the field and 9-of-11 from the free throw line and scored a career-high 36 points in a 94-75 win at then-No. 22 UCLA
• Goldin's 36 points were the most by a Wolverine since Daniel Horton had 39 against Illinois on Feb. 21, 2006
• Scored game-high honors with 19 points to lead the Wolverines to a 91-75 win over Washington
• Earns his second Player of the Week award
• Last Michigan Payer of the Week: Vladislav Goldin (Dec. 9, 2024)

Freshman of the Week
Wesley Yates III, USC
G – 6-4 – Beaumont, Texas – Beaumont United

• Averaged 16.5 points on 63.2 percent shooting from the field (12-of-19), five rebounds and 2.5 assists, as the Trojans split a pair of contests
• Tallied a team-high 18 points in an 82-69 loss at Indiana before pairing 15 points and six boards in an 82-72 win at then-No. 13 Illinois
• Earns his first Freshman of the Week award

I just noticed that the Battlestar Galactica remake is on sale for $40 (blu-ray).

It definitely makes my top 5.

What shows top your list?

I'm having a meat loaf, sour cream noodles and plain green beans for all day while watch the NFL and the Iowa Women today/tonight. It occurred to me that because I like these simple foods I grew up with that I must be a poor.

A federal judge in Florida has cleared the way for the release as early as Tuesday of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigation into alleged election interference by President-elect Donald Trump.

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In an order Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon said the Justice Department could proceed with plans to make public Smith’s findings detailing Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

But she barred the government from releasing — even to select members of Congress — a separate volume detailing Smith’s investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of government efforts to retrieve them.

Two of Trump’s former co-defendants in the classified documents case — longtime employees Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira — have said they could be unfairly prejudiced if that part of Smith’s report is made public. Cannon scheduled a hearing Friday to hear their concerns and said she would decide the fate of the classified documents volume after that.

Any part of her order could be immediately appealed by Trump, his co-defendants or the Justice Department.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has said he intends to make public the first volume of Smith’s report, on the election-interference case, but would share the classified documents findings only with leaders of certain congressional committees to protect Nauta and De Oliveira while litigation in their case continues.

Time is running out for Garland to execute that plan before Trump takes office and his administration assumes control of the Justice Department next Monday.
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Under Justice Department regulations, special counsels must submit a final report to the attorney general at the conclusion of their investigations, detailing their findings and decision-making process. The attorney general is required to give that report to Congress and to decide whether it should be made public. Smith, who resigned his post Friday, submitted the two-volume summary of his findings in both investigations to Garland last week.

Neither case went to trial, and Smith’s report is expected to provide the fullest possible accounting of the evidence gathered by investigators and the strategy prosecutors would have used in court.

Smith asked a judge to dismiss the election-interference charges after Trump’s election victory in November, saying he stood by the facts of the case but recognized that Justice Department policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president.

Cannon tossed the classified documents case in July, ruling that Smith had been unlawfully appointed. After the November election, the Justice Department dismissed Trump from its appeal of that decision, which is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Nauta and De Oliveira are still parties in the case.
Last week, lawyers for all three men urged federal courts to prevent the Justice Department from releasing the special counsel’s findings on either investigation. Trump’s lawyers maintain that doing so would interfere with the president-elect’s orderly transition. Attorneys for Nauta and De Oliveira say releasing the report would prejudice the public against them if the 11th Circuit revives the classified-documents indictment and they are put on trial.

My 30th class reunion is this spring and a high school friend is organizing a trip to Chicago. I’m not in touch with the majority of the people going and quite honestly have no desire to go. However my buddy that is organizing it has had some health problems and we are still close so I feel compelled to go. Truth be told I would rather sit in the woods around a fire and eat mushrooms and smoke bud.

I don’t know where we are staying yet but it will be at the end of April. I haven’t been to Chicago in years (not a big city person) but any suggestions outside of the standard? Live music, outdoor activities, etc or should I just make an excuse and go sit in the woods by myself? TIA.

or something like that.
Brands on the radio
Starting at 125
Need this for seedings
Specifically at 125 and 141

Player of the Week
JuJu Watkins, USC
Sophomore – Guard – Los Angeles, Calif. – Sierra Canyon
• Paced USC in two wins by averaging 28.0 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.0 steals, 2.5 assists and 2.0 blocks
• Tallied 21 points, nine rebounds, two assists, a block and steal in the Trojans’ road victory at No. 8 Maryland
• Posted a double-double (35 points, 11 rebounds) with five steals, three blocks and three assists against Penn State
• Shot a career-high 86.7 percent from the floor on a 13-of-15 effort versus the Lady Lions
• Has 18 30-point outings in her career, which ranks third all-time at USC behind Cheryl Miller (25) and Cherie Nelson (20)
• Earns the fourth Big Ten Player of the Week award of her career
• Last USC Player of the Week: JuJu Watkins (Jan. 6, 2025)

Freshman of the Week
Jaloni Cambridge, Ohio State
Guard – Nashville, Tenn. – Montverde Academy
• Had 29 points, four assists and tied her career mark with six rebounds at No. 25 Michigan
• Finished with 13 points, four boards and a steal in just over 20 minutes versus Oregon
• Collects her first Big Ten Freshman of the Week laurel
• Last Ohio State Freshman of the Week: Cotie McMahon (Feb. 20, 2023)

In Iowa's (9-3) 95-88 win over Utah, Drew's stats:

29 minutes

2-3 (67%) from 3
1-2 (50%) from 2
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3-5 (60%) Overall Shooting

7-8 (88%) FTs

15 Points
2 Assists
2 Defensive Rebounds
1 Steal

Anyone watched this yet?

I'm fairly and purposely disconnected from a lot of media and hadn't heard about this release. I watched the first episode last night and it was a lot more intense than I had expected.

I'm hopeful there is a little more character development and was wondering if it's accurate at all regarding the real life characters.

Either way I can't imagine the LDS church is a big fan.

Now that our national analysts have seen Iose in person and it's been against high-level competition, expect a bump in the ratings.

He has apparently been dominant so far at the Navy All-American Bowl.

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Is it the talent dropoff or just adjusting to a new style? But the offense is plodding and passive. I appreciate the attention to D, but yikes JJ seems a bit befuddled right now.

Pros/Cons of Digital vs disc?

no bueno

President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday of the officials in charge of fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, calling them “incompetent” and asking why the blazes were not yet extinguished.

“The fires are still raging in L.A.,” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. “The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out.”

Mr. Trump’s comments indicated that the fires, and officials’ response to them, will likely occupy a prominent place on his domestic political agenda when he takes office on Jan. 20. He has renewed a longstanding feud with California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who in turn has accused Mr. Trump of politicizing the fires.

Mr. Newsom told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he had invited Mr. Trump to visit “in the spirit of an open hand, not a closed fist,” but had yet to receive a response. The governor said he was taking seriously threats by the president-elect to withhold disaster assistance. If he were to do so, Mr. Newsom said, Mr. Trump would be in effect “threatening our first responders.”

California politicians have faced criticism since the fires broke out on Tuesday, including questions over how local and state authorities had prepared for them and how they have grown so quickly into huge blazes.

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles had to contend with questions about whether there was adequate warning about the likelihood of devastating fires, and why there was a shortage of water and firefighters during the initial response. At a news conference on Thursday, she avoided a question about her absence from the city when the fires began — she was in Ghana on a previously scheduled official visit — and said that any evaluation of mistakes or failures by “any body, department, individual” would come later.

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, has also fended off criticism from Mr. Trump, who blamed him for the failure to contain the fires and claimed he had blocked an infusion of water to Southern California over concerns about how it would affect a threatened fish species.

Mr. Newsom’s press office responded by saying in a statement that the “water restoration declaration” that Mr. Trump had accused him of not signing did not exist. “The governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” the statement said.

Mr. Newsom and Kathryn Barger, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, have invited Mr. Trump to tour fire damage in the city. He has not responded publicly to those invitations.

At least 16 people had died as a result of the fires as of Sunday morning, and at least 12,000 structures had been destroyed, officials said. Mr. Trump alluded to that devastation in his post on Sunday.

“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost,” he wrote. “There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

His post did not mention any officials by name.

Thanks to HROT or HORT, whichever, I was unfortunately introduced to who Andrew Tate is. Well, Andy isn't having a good 24 hours.

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Pack by a million!!!! Eagles gonna crash and burn! Cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA!!!!! GO PACK GO!!!! Suck it @FAUlty Gator !!!!

Awful chicken

Wild what has happened to his career after starting at Iowa.