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UCLA's full schedule released - Big Ten games listed below. No more steady pace of Thursday/Saturday games. These are all over the weekly map - January: Saturday, then Tuesday, then Friday, then Monday, then Friday, then Tuesday...

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Diddy's federal charges include: Racketeering conspiracy, kidnapping, arson, bribery, forced labor, facilitation of prostitution, sex trafficking, and distribution of narcotics. Wow, that is quite the federal indictment to be facing. A lot of those charges, if leading to conviction, fall under manda...

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After big win on the road Vs Auburn, Cal is off to a 3-0 start with an unexpectedly awful Florida State team on deck this Saturday.

Meanwhile, Cal's trolling game is really picking up:

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Outside of putting it together to give North Texas a beatdown, Texas Tech has looked less than mediocre, waffling in a 52-51 over Abilene Christian before getting routed by Washington State 37-16. TT is the type of opponent a preseason ranked team should be able to beat easily enough, and in fact, t...

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Pitt Panthers

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I'd always had Texas Roadhouse unfairly associated with Longhorn Steakhouse, and thus didn't think much of T.R. based on my one lifeless experience with an L.S. in Columbus Georgia during the weekend of my younger brother's Army bootcamp graduation. Then this past July I took my Dad and a few of his...

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From a grim Ben Bolch- "UCLA was thoroughly outclassed from start to finish of a 42-13 loss to Indiana on Saturday evening at the Rose Bowl, intensifying concerns about the Bruins’ ability to succeed in coach DeShaun Foster’s debut season...they only looked worse in their Big Ten Conference opener."...

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I was mostly OK losing this game because it’s a lot to ask for a win on the road against a higher ranked team. But I didn’t want to look like crap. Not like this. Getting pushed around like a lawnmower. Down 31-7. Good for us @ KState is likely the most difficult one or two games on the schedule. Lo...

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Given Arizona State's 3-9 season last year to commence Dillingham's tenure, the Sun Devil's 2-0 start thus far is otherwise an inspiring start to the season. They definitely appear a notch or two better. Win 1 was a total storming of Wyoming 48-7 and Win 2 over Mississippi State is ASU's first progr...

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Staying in the Big Ten - Michigan State

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Texas Tech is off to a rough start, defeating Abilene Christian 52-51 before getting routed by Washington State 37-16 last Saturday. For both Arizona schools, who play TT in October, I'm thinking TT now looks like an easier win than what the preseason experts predicted, generally ranking TT 40-50th ...

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YES - Safety!

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Last week I was throwing fits all first half about the defense giving up a ton of yards to New Mexico. This week it's the offense I'm screaming at. NAU is moving up two LBs next to their DEs for a total of six players on the LOS, and is wreaking havoc in the backfield. After seven seasons coaching S...

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Was going to make the joke that after colliding into a stack of Gatorade coolers, Cam Rising is still in the locker room to start the second half, no doubt filling out paperwork needed for an 8th year of eligibility.

But it turns out Rising is already eligible to play in 2025.

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College Football writer Matt Zemek had this to say about Deshaun Foster's debut Vs Hawaii last weekend: "This is going to get ugly...Barely squeaking by Hawaii...UCLA just barely crawling past Hawaii on a late field goal. That does not bode well for DeShaun Foster... This offense looks awful . The B...

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Maryland

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In my college football preview mag New Mexico is ranked #124 out of 134 teams. I read their preview page and there's hardly anything about their team worth posting. Bronco Mendenhall is their new coach? The former BYU and Virginia coach? Mendenhall is like an actor with a middling filmography. Like ...

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Another longer post, mostly compiled with quotes transcribed from the YouTube video embedded at the end. For those of you that might've heard of the Dead Internet Theory , it hypothesizes that the internet died about a decade ago, once the number of interactions between Bots exceeded the number of h...

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Netflix today, right in time for the new season:

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Mike Norvell:

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Rece Davis very fired up to kick off Gameday 2024 from Dublin!

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Alabama fends off USC from poaching their AD, Courtney Morgan. Not their AD. Morgan is their football GM . Greg Byrne is still their AD. Wow, I completely misread that...because since when does college football have General Managers ?! I’m familiar with the NFL’s GM model, who's tasked with hiring ...

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Neuralink implants are allowing a patient to play Counter Strike with their mind:

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Alabama fends off USC from poaching their AD, Courtney Morgan.

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Merkin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:56 pm Look how much Malachi Nelson is going to make without taking a college snap.

And apparently other schools offered him quite a deal more.

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Quiet summer for ASU getting ready for the season. I'm used to hearing more hype from Arizona State's week(s) at Camp Tontazona but maybe the local media coverage isn't quite as excited going into the season? What reports I find praise QB Sam Leavitt as a step up for leading the offense. Over the we...

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So far north even the moose speak French! Usually I have a much better sense of place wherever I go, but in the case of going to Northern Maine at the last minute, I didn't put much thought into visiting. So yes, I was surprised to hear French spoken so fluently in the farming towns along the Saint...

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2010 10-9 home win watching as a student in the ZonaZoo. Down 9-3, and with 2:37 left in the 4th, Nick Foles completes a 51 yd pass to Juron Criner to the Cal 12. Then on 3&1 at the 3, Criner catches the game winner with 1:11 left. A stifling, frustrating game that ended on a thrill. Only video rec...

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Trip to Maine last week, flying in and out of Presque Isle in the north of the state. Smallest airport I've ever used, with its only active commercial flight to Newark on United soon to switch over to a JetBlue connection to Boston. The terminal looks like it was repurposed from a middle school: htt...

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Google is destroying its Search Engine based ad-revenue business model to pursue OpenAI in a costly and ongoing AI arms race. Google remains spooked since OpenAI’s ChatGPT debuted as a commercial successful AI product in late 2022, generating outputs viable enough to accomplish the unthinkable. Almo...

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Summer

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For years UCLA has tried to be more than the "gutty little Bruins" in football in LA, but now I guess they're stuck with embracing it. Allow us to miss these days: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/zo1OMlQpes_XORm5DsVnnQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTU5MQ--/https://s.yimg.com/os/en_us/News/Ya...

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Barcelona!

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OT question: does AI then index its answers for subsequent similar searches, or does it always run the consumption heavy methodology? We would think that as part of Generative AI’s machine learning capabilities, that yes, AI would build its answers into an index. However (surprisingly?), this is no...

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More on Georgia:

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"There’s only one catch: the computing cost required to train a model grows exponentially with its raw capability." An example of AI's costly computing impacts, specifically when it comes to the environment – from the Daily Mail : The dried-up lake in Mexico fueling fears AI technology is an enviro...

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Though a number of other states wasted no time stepping up their dismantling of homeless encampments since last month’s the Supreme Courts ruling upheld municipality bans on homeless camping as not cruel and unusual punishment, I guess Newsom issuing his own statewide bans is news because it’s Calif...

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Starting to think it isn't Gundy that makes Oklahoma State seem weird. It's Oklahoma State that's making Gundy weird:

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Last week EA Sports’ College Football 25 hit the shelves, after more than a decade of holding off their annual releases. Not sure if you guys might’ve noticed, but in the months and weeks leading to the first day of sales, I haven’t seen the release of a sports game more anticipated and celebrated a...

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Coach DeShaun Foster's media day introduction of UCLA to the Big Ten got a lot of traction on sports radio last night:

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Several coaching from the Canadian Women's Olympic soccer team are suspended and sent home by the IOC for flying a drone over the New Zealand team's practices. What surprises me is that I'm first hearing of this type of infraction occurring over a women's Olympic soccer practice and not a higher sta...

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Last week ESPN published a long-form feature on the story behind Northwestern’s temporary stadium. "In September 2022, Northwestern announced its long-awaited plan to rebuild Ryan Field, a charming but rapidly aging structure that lacked modern amenities. Although the school didn't get final approva...

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Is it a surprise Brad Pitt turns out to be enemy #1 amongst his own family, to the point his adult children won’t speak to him ? Pitt’s carefully curated public image sure went a long way in granting him the benefit of the doubt against years of rumors that are now confirmed. ...to the point his gr...

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Good coach, all the best. I don't think anybody will disagree that Tedford’s legacy will be his highly productive 11 seasons as the Cal Bears coach from 2002-2012. With backfields that included the likes of Aaron Rodgers, JJ Arrington, Marshawn Lynch, Justin Forsett, Kyle Boller, Jahvid Best, and S...

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Utah State head coach Blake Anderson fired over what sounds like failing to properly handle reporting and investigating of "sexual misconduct, including domestic violence" as mandated by his position as a state employee. From Anderson's attorney: “We were disappointed to learn this evening that Utah...

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Getting old enough to where the Casinos I grew up staying in are shuttering to make room for the next big thing. First the Tropicana earlier this year, closing after 67 years; now the Mirage this week, closing after 34 years. Opening in November 1989, the Mirage was the first "megaresort" to open on...

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One point of contention with Artificial Intelligence that is not yet covered on this thread is the disruptive amount of computational power needed to facilitate AI operations. Such as by Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. To quote a recent feature titled The Scramble for AI Computing Power publi...

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