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It is sad how slowly Ivey reacts when the man in front of him cuts. It's almost like he's his gaze is looking up or past the defender so he doesn't see his feet start to move. Didn't there used to be an old saw about if you want to know where someone is going don't watch the head - watch the hips/feet...?

I thought he seemed sort of resigned after the loss to M, didn't seem like his normal self.

So Engoron gave Trump's legal team an ultimatum that if Trump were to speak he would have to stay on topic and when they would not provide that assurance by the specified deadline today, he denied Trump's request to speak. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/10/trump-closing-argument-new-york-fraud-trial/

Because Gores hired a man to build an NBA basketball team who has no idea what an NBA basketball should look like.

I can guess at two factors that impact this - Well the first is not a guess, and that is increase in the % of college players. They almost always lose a year or two of career because they get to the majors a couple of years later than all-star level players that come directly from prep and obviously shorter career = lower counting stat totals. The one that is more a guess is that I wonder whether higher training intensities and fewer players allowing themselves any real physical off-season downtime in their training cycle, results in higher injury rates over careers and thus more difficulty getting to high career counting totals. That must be balanced by better medical repair tech but which effect is larger overall?

Right. It's not a jury trial and it's not being televised so any value Trump is looking for in this is can only be in the announcement and not in the actual doing. ABC says Engoron will let him talk if he wants to though.

another point on JH is that his reverse buy-out to leave UM drops on 1/11 from $2.25M to $1.5M. With the Natty he has earned about $2M in bonuses so if he does bolt now (i.e. after tomorrow) he can walk away and still have more $ coming back in bonus than the amount it will cost him to walk. Or at least in the ballpark after taxes. https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2024/01/jim-harbaugh-contract-more-bonus-money-buyout-set-to-drop-more.html

City Council too busy with important stuff like banning leaf blowers. I don't even know where you could do a parade in A^2 anymore, they've made all the roads in the central city virtually impassable. And if it means closing a bike lane - forget it. 🤣

Piston's now trailing by 17. Monty takes time-out to delay the inevitable.

Not exxxxaaaaaactly.

35-5 run by Kings.

yeah - his shtick was already old when he was still only on local ann arbor radio.

Diamond has nothing to offer anyone. I would agree with what appears to be the MLB position that any future deal should be directly with the league and not a third party like Diamond.

It's fitting and a little bittersweet for M to end up as the 1st and last great team of anything resembling the old B10 - which the B1G East does still carry some feel of. That's going away now - and whatever and whoever emerges as a powerhouse in the thing which starts coming into being next year, and whether it's M or not, it's going to be a different thing.

Has anyone tried using UV cure epoxy to stabilize cracks on the back glass of an iPhone?

Ono with a jersey and cap on.

Someone at Capital One needs a calendar.

The "Free JJ" movement finally gets it's way.

from the beginning of the 2nd quarter Michigan has been playing not to lose instead of playing to win and that generally fails.

the play to Johnson was there - just run the damn thing again and let him catch it this time.

I'm not knocking Harbaugh's coaching career. He did have trouble getting his feet back on the ground coming back to the college game, not the least because he had not been able to recruit a top level QB to lead his teams - some of which probably had enough talent to get to and maybe win the playoff if their offense had had an NFL draft quality QB. But he has now brought the program back to a level as high as it has ever been. But now he has to decide whether the joy is in the chase or in the keeping, and since his success at most of his stops has been closely tied to his QB it would be hard to believe an opportunity like the possibility of coaching Williams at Chicago wasn't something that would at least pique Harbaugh's interest. He's clearly a person whose motivations have an internal logic which is not evident to the external observer, so who knows what is really most important to him. At different times it has appeared to be his school, a superbowl win, more money. Maybe all three at once depending on the day of the week.

Most people who are uninterested in politics just want peace and calm. By the end of Trump's term we were having impeachment hearings, riots in the City that is supposed to be nice and people smashing up the Capitol. It would seem reasonable to expect that the real silent majority are people who will think about the last 4 yrs and realize things are a lot calmer than the previous 4 and with the economy chugging along nicely that will be enough for them to vote incumbent.

Ono has been very big on 'futuring' since he got to Michigan. He has all kind of short and long term teams working on positioning issues across the 'U'. Given his history particularly at Cincinnati, it's probably a safe bet he has tasked someone with crystal ball gazing around athletics. I don't know if they will be caught unaware as much as in situations where they can't control events for the outcomes they want. But just because we don't hear about it, I don't think we should assume there hasn't been a lot of informal planning among the old line Big Ten schools - the stronger AAU institutions in particular - maybe Wisconsin, UM esp. about ways to get what they want when all is said and done.

I don't know why your focus is on whether I like him or not. It has nothing to do with the subject of the post, which was about whether he stays or goes, or whether he sees the opportunity to coach a potential all-star QB to a SB as attractive as opposed to trying to find another winner in the morass that is now college football recruiting. It's not like he hasn't been playing footsie with taking another NFL gig ever since he came to Ann Arbor. Those are just plain facts on the ground.