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Population Trends Always a passive interest of mine - let's start with Japan The UN forecasts quite a steep drop from over 120M to less than 80M by century's end: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/jap%201.5.jpg?itok=9Q0YNIwA I not sure Japan's p...

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Who wants to live forever? Just a prediction but nevertheless the science behind it has momentum – From Firstpost.com: “According to a prolific former Google engineer, humans will be able to achieve immortality in the next 8 years, all thanks to AI, Brain-Computer Interfaces and nanoimplants that at...

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Kings 16 year playoff drought is over as of last night. Crushing the Blazers by 40. Next up is the NY Jets with a 12 year playoff drought.

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A buddy was telling me about their trip to Egypt, commenting how much of its population lives in Third World conditions, with a number living right on the walkways. Was thinking to myself - America has people living on the sidewalks too , especially in the Pacific Coast cities, though overall, yes, ...

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dmjcat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:12 pm I saw one poster complain last week that CTL could not close on Kwame Evans.......do these posters understand the amount of $$$$$$$ that Phil Knight threw at the kid??? (and Mookie Cook also).

No, how much $$$ are we talking?

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What is Bobby really thinking? Besides that it’s tanning season?

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It’s like AI ChatBots are learning how to write Florida Man headlines:

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hahaha...extended through the 2025-26 season...hahaha...had only one year left on current deal...hah—reasonable?

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...ASU is paralyzed into college basketball's toiling lower-middle class where a coach that achieves 3 to 4 tournaments a decade isn't worth firing but also never good enough for Georgia Tech to call their agent. Turns out I'm giving ASU basketball too much credit - tournaments by decade: 60s: FOUR...

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EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:06 pm Duke losing puts a crack of a smile in my otherwise sour puss.

The God’s wouldn’t want to also give us a Kansas choke job would they?

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Hurley is literally the perfect coach for them and us. He gets them to the tournament consistently, but they're never good enough to make a serious run. He's also so damn easy for us to hate and make fun of. And as we saw this year they occasionally upset us. Win win for all. Frieder/Sendek/Hurley ...

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Just need some athletes. Even Lloyd said last season the Cats weren't athletic enough, and that was with Mathurin, Koloko and Terry. Also some blue collar Mark Madsen types who don't play soft. Some athletes aka bruisers. Pretty much every Big 10/12 school has these types on hand for the dirty work...

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Tommy needs has a lot to answer for. How can a team that plays so well over the regular season struggle in every tournament game? In the aftermath of all this, I'll say what's already probably been said. Does anybody get the sense Tommy has parlayed the program into Gonzaga 2.0, before they started...

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Irish27 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:59 pm asu can beat TCU.

Yes, however, TCU is a very physical team. Will out muscle ASU for the boards. ASU will have to keep shooting well. Good for them, I guess. Years since ASU had any kind of tournament success.

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"Chris Holtmann has started to take a lot more criticism from fans this season. It’s all justified too. He brought in a top-ten recruiting class this season and has done nothing with it. Not only is this team not getting better, they are actively getting worse." Sounds like Ohio State’s AD is micro...

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If only I could be as thrilled about ________ as ASU is about the First Four:

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Oh ASU is still the first 4! YES! All is right with the world. Well, I know what I'll be making time for Wednesday night: First Four matchup between Nevada and Arizona State - winner faces TCU. The big snubs appear to be Rutgers and especially Clemson, who I don't believe was ever mentioned as "on ...

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Memphis up 15 on Houston at halftime. No Sasser. All the cynicism I've spouted about college programs going gaga for hiring blast-from-the-past NBA faces - Patrick Ewing, Juwan Howard, Jerry Stackhouse - and wouldn't you know, Anfernee Hardaway has Memphis consistently improving year by year. Last ...

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Personally I think the scum is an NCAA team... Before the tournament started I would say ASU (20-11) was at about a 10-15% chance of getting in. Beating Oregon State (21-11) put them at 20-25%. Beating USC last night, IMO, raises their odds to 50-60%. That gives them two recent Quad 1 wins along wi...

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arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:43 pm I'm picking us to win this one, too.

I'm picking Washington State. Winning last night to make it seven straight. Plays Oregon this afternoon. Kinda glad the Cougars are on the other side of the bracket.

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EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:37 am Beavs vs. Scummies 11:30pm EST

So is it win-and-in for ASU?

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Beat writer from Fansided asks what fair expectations might be for ASU’s 2023 season: “...Arizona State football isn’t going to be an easy rebuild. The Sun Devils have lost multiple starters on the offensive line in the transfer portal, despite making 26 additions including former Notre Dame starter...

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Guessing the increased ratings are driven by interest in watching the new rules play out - from ESPN Press Room : "ESPN had its most-watched MLB spring training in seven years, according to Nielsen. The four-game afternoon slate averaged 378,000 viewers, up 29 percent from 2021 . ESPN did not air sp...

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UCLA extends Chip Kelley from 2025 through 2027. I'm so used to criticizing ADs who over sign their coaches at the first sniff of success that I barely bothered to stop and realize that what Jarmond is throwing to Kelly is a pretty moderate morsel. But check out the justification from UCLA’s officia...

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After suffering through watching a half-dozen Sun Devils games, now with the regular season over is a good time to reflect. Why does Hurley let the offense, time and time again, chuck mindless threes off fast breaks??? That’s something Hurley can easily coach his guys against rushing into these low ...

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Wish me luck in enemy territory - will be at tonight's UCLA-Arizona State game. Courtesy of a high school buddy who went to UCLA. Saturday's game hosting Arizona didn't work out, so this is the consolation while I'm in LA anyway.

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Another rainy (and chilly) weekend here in Southern California. We're used to December/January winter rains but this has extended into something different, which Arizona is receiving too. When I was mentioning how lush the vegetation had become along my downtown walks, a coworker of mine who has liv...

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Should Deion Sanders prove to be more hype than delivery, he's at least already making Colorado's athletic department a lot of $$$

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Seems like it's taken a full 24/7 media cycle for this story to start taking off, and I'm glad it is. I'm glad to see it rightfully taking over this thread. With the condemning text messages released it's amazing a head coach, ad, and university pres are perfectly fine trotting Miller out. https://t...

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This is digging way back into childhood memories, but does anybody remember if at one time there were radio stations that would air uncut TV broadcasts??? I vaguely remember my Mom, circa 1992(?), flipping on a radio station that would air ABC shows in parallel with the live ABC TV broadcasts.

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For the long term Tucsonans here, how many of you have caught site of the "Umbrella Lady" on the north side of town, often wearing her trademark combination of elaborate umbrellas and frilly Victorian era dresses? I remember spotting her as far back as 2008 when driving my Dad home from work on the ...

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Senior Day at McKale - Thank You Cate Reese!

Arizona lucky to have you!

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What a feed by Larsson to Henderson!

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At the game! Starting lineups getting announced!

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What am I supposed to make of hiring Gannon? Is it the easy way out to go hire coordinators from the latest Super Bowl teams, in this case the Eagles? How many Patriots coordinators ever worked out? If Arizona was set on looking to the Eagles, their OC, Shane Steichen, whom the Colts just hired, IMO...

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Not necessarily bad celebrity behavior but it was announced a few weeks ago that Dr Phil’s daytime show will end this Spring after 21 seasons. Figured since already touching on The Ellen Show’s unceremonious finish after 19 seasons it’s worth noting two of daytime TV’s most prominent pillars will be...

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https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1624488742860750848 Calipari has been in the doghouse with Kentucky basketball fans for a while. Maybe it was back in 2018 I started hearing more than a few rumblings of their disappointment, which was Calipari's 9th season and the first in which Kentucky fin...

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From AZFamily.com : "Records will likely be broken today at Sky Harbor Airport as tens of thousands of people leave the state following Super Bowl 57 and the WM Phoenix Open. “It looks like we are going to have a record-breaking day,” Heather Shelbrack with Sky Harbor Airport said. On an average day...

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👀 "New Mexico State University is suspending operations for the men's basketball program until further notice," the school's statement said Friday. "NMSU personnel were recently informed of new allegations, separate from the events that took place in Albuquerque late last year, involving potential v...

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Just waking up to the news - wow Suns new owner swinging for the fences on the first pitch!

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Any franchise who trades for Kyrie Irving deserves the disaster they’re getting...Mavericks. Only plays when he wants. Self-destructive PR nightmare. Unaccountable teammate. Kyrie’s on court athletic fireworks AREN'T worth the baggage (should he even care to consistently play).

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Our friend Armie Hammer was in the news over the weekend for doing his first interview since his “cannibalism scandal” broke two years ago, when “claims of sexual abuse and cannibalistic fetishism were made against Hammer, including rape, physical and emotional abuse, and sexual violence masqueradin...

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One of my Phoenix area college buddies, whose brother in-law is among my best friends, was diagnosed with cancer right before Christmas. Squamous Cell Carcinoma - cancer of the skin's top layer. Unfortunately it's Stage 4, far enough along for his right femoral head (ball in hip joint) to be severel...

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Here's another development in AI driven content. AI generated imaging is realistically sexualized enough to start replacing OnlyFans accounts featuring real women.

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Even before Chris Holtmann was ejected last night and Ohio State suffered a listless home loss to Wisconsin to drop to 11-11, it sounds like the Buckeyes are ready to move on to the next coach. From a Fansided article: "Chris Holtmann has started to take a lot more criticism from fans this season. I...

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Signing day commit from WR Devin Hyatt of Bradenton Florida: https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Devin ... Interests/

Strong list of offers, looks like we beat out Auburn and Kentucky as his final choice.

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Arizona State lands Jaden Rashada, a top ranked QB for the 2023 cycle. Quite a get to open Dillingham's tenure. Rashada reopened his recruiting a month ago when a $13M NIL deal set up through the Florida Gators Collective fell through. Before that he was committed to Miami for the $8M deal they'd se...

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I also agree with UNLV over SMU... I also agree with UNLV over most anyone else. For the reasons already stated (Clark County NV > 2M pop.) and the Pac 12 already plays it's championship games/tournaments in Vegas. But on top of all that 1) UNLV has access to stadiums (Allegiant) and arenas (TMobil...

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