Mike80 said:

Saying he's done nothing is a stretch. As you said, their farm system is probably the best in the NHL. Considering where it was when Ken Holland left, that definitely isn't nothing.

Their biggest issue remains goaltending. All the talent on the farm and none of the goaltending has translated at all.

Larkin moving on might be the best thing for the Wings. He's not good enough fundamentally to base their entire roster around and that's what happened (like a Datsyuk or a Zetterberg), and he's not a superstar level dude like Yzerman or Fedorov were.

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7 years and no playoffs. Like I said what he’s done with the farm club isn’t translating up. I get goalie has been an issue, but the way they faded out of the playoffs this year was unreal.

Jaxbuck said:

I'm rooting for the sinkhole

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late season category 5 hurricane that only occurs once they're in the stadium and the anti-flooding drainage system fails...

BB73 said:

A @Jaxbuck has nailed Jessica Alba. Of course, that second number has the possibility of someday becoming a positive integer.

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why has he been at two schools already?

DubCoffman62 said:

Where I went to high school along the Colorado river in western AZ it was pretty secluded and at night you could hear all of the frogs, toads, crickets and on moonless nights you could see all of the stars. I kind of miss that.

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As a kid in Vermont, I had the stars and lots of fireflies.

How were his stats after the cheating broke compared to before? I think I know the answer but would like to see it.

Kentucky has placed the winning bid $$$$$$$ for Milan Momcilovic.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...tate-star-milan-momcilovic-transfers-kentucky

Do we need a title change? To “transfer to Tennessee…maybe?”

Taking my 13yr old daughter to Clev/NYY business man's special next Wed June 10. Driving up from Columbus that morning and looking for best places to park. Any suggestions from BP Cleve fans???

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You could smoke too

Compare this guy to Underwood. One guy has been the best player in the sport since he stepped on the field and is still the hardest worker in practice, blocks his ass off, roots his ass off for WR2 and is the most solid teammate in the locker room. The other guy is a $12M mouth.

tdfbia certainly stumbled into one truism. There really is a fundamental culture difference between the two programs.

Jesus. This guy might be the biggest douchebag ever at tsun, which puts him high in the running for biggest douchebag worldwide.

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After Jackie Robinson's retirement from baseball following the 1956 season, Rachel Robinson further pursued her nursing career, obtaining a master's degree in psychiatric nursing from New York University in 1959. She worked as a researcher and clinician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Department of Social and Community Psychiatry, a position she held for five years. She then became an assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing and later the Director of Nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

In 1972, she incorporated the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, a real estate development company specializing in low- to moderate-income housing, and served as president for ten years. In 1973, she founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a not-for-profit organization providing educational and leadership opportunities for minority students. The Foundation has provided support for over 1,000 minority students and has maintained a 97% graduation rate among its scholars.

In 1996, she coauthored Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait with Lee Daniels, published by Abrams Publishing Company.

Awards and honors​

Rachel Robinson accepting the Congressional Gold Medal for her husband from President George W. Bush, 2005.
In 2007, Robinson received the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award by Commissioner Bud Selig.

In 2009, Robinson was awarded the UCLA Medal from Chancellor Gene Block for her lifetime achievements. The UCLA Medal is the university's highest honor and was created to "honor those individuals who have made extraordinary and distinguished contributions to their professions, to higher education, to our society, and to the people of UCLA." In addition to earning twelve honorary doctorates, Robinson was awarded the Candace Award for Distinguished Service from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, the Equitable Life Black Achiever's Award and the Associated Black Charities Black History Makers Award.

Robinson answering questions at the 42 film workshop in the State Dining Room of the White House in April 2013.

Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2014. In 2017, she received the Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Jackie Robinson Foundation​

The Jackie Robinson Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to minority youths for higher education, as well as preserving the legacy of Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson. It was founded in 1973 by Rachel Robinson and is located in New York City.

Zurp said:

I know this is a little late from when this was posted - almost a month ago. But if you don't want teams to tank, how about you reverse the draft order? The top pick goes to the champions. Then the to the team that lost the finals. And so on...
Yeah, the best get better, but now the lesser teams need to do better with free agency and managing salary caps.
If we keep rewarding schlubbery, then we're going to get more schlubbery.

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if you cut off the ability for schlubbery teams to get better, you're going to get more schlubbery.

When you are starting a four hour webinar and the intro presenters, who are the people who organized it, are allotted 20 minutes for their kickoff presentation but go nearly double that. UGHHHHH!!!!!

Update - It has not gotten better. I'm feeling like half the presenters have never done a webinar presentation before. And they are not old either.

Latest developments around Marvin Harrison Jr. might be just what the former Ohio State star needs for his NFL career​

Arizona Cardinals and former Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. is back to full health with a new offensive role expected under new head coach Mike LaFleur to hopefully finally maximize his NFL potential.

Things are shaping up to change for the better for Harrison and the Cardinals’ offense now that he’s getting back to full health with a new offensive minded head coach in Mike LaFleur, who knows exactly how to utilize his top pass catcher.

Mike LaFleur looking to replicate a similar approach at WR with Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson​

LaFleur arrives to Arizona after spending the last two years in the NFC West as the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams under head coach Sean McVay. This will be a second chance for LaFleur to run an offense of his own and first opportunity to lead an entire team that’s eager to make some kind of forward progress.

While McVay was the mastermind behind the Rams’ offense, LaFleur played an integral role in the unit’s success, which featured two top wide receivers last season in Puka Nacua and Davante Adams. LaFleur plans to run a similar approach in Arizona with Harrison and Michael Wilson.

“With Marv, typically with the X-receiver – let’s just say Davante Adams last year in LA or Julio Jones in Atlanta Falcons – those typical X-guys, they’re not necessarily next to the core very often in terms of playing in between the tight ends and in between the tackles,” LaFleur said. “You look at more a Z-receiver, a Mike Wilson, who’s a little more compact of a guy, those guys are a little more comfortable playing [inside]. You think of Puka Nacua.”

Coming out of the draft, Harrison was compared closely to big-bodied X-receivers such as Julio and AJ Green. He doesn’t have the same release and footwork that makes Adams so dangerous, but the size is comparable between the two. And it’s not just using Harrison on the outside as a traditional X-receiver, LaFleur has other plans for Harrison as well.

“His profile would be that of a typical X-receiver. Just kind of that lengthier body that can play on the outside,” LaFleur explained. “But, what’s unique about this system is you can move them inside and outside on a whim. Just in terms of our formations, our motions, all that kind of stuff. You can utilize your skill sets in different ways. So, (Harrison) is our X-receiver, but you can move him around so that sometimes he is, sometimes he’s not.”
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“Ohio State is going toe-to-toe with Tennessee for the nation’s No. 2 running back,” Spiegelman wrote. “From speaking with sources informed on this recruitment, the Buckeyes took another step in the right direction over the weekend.”

Ohio State and Tennessee are the two schools at the top in Gabriel Georges’ recruitment. The 6-foot, 215-pound running back will take visits to Ole Miss and Georgia after the trip to Knoxville this weekend. Ole Miss is a distant third in the recruitment and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Georgia visit didn’t happen. The Bulldogs have the No. 1 RB in the country committed with Kemon Spell, and they’re not getting both.

Just sayin': Look who is predicting that Brock Williams will flip to Ohio State.

Ohio State football commitment Brady Edmunds says the Buckeyes will be stealing away a five-star recruit from the Texas Longhorns​

Ohio State QB commit Brady Edmunds reveals the player who’ll end up signing with the Buckeyes ​

The Buckeyes don’t yet have a tight end committed for the class of 2027, which will change at some point. When four-star Libertyville (Ill) TE Brock Williams committed to Texas, it was a miss for tight ends coach Keenan Bailey for the Buckeyes. Ohio State recruited Williams hard until close to his commitment to Texas on May 15 when it was clear he was trending toward the Longhorns.

Ohio State’s 2027 QB commit believes the Buckeyes will end up getting the elite tight end recruit.

“Brock Williams is going to flip from Texas to Ohio State on Signing Day,” Edmunds said via 247 Sports.

Edmunds has long been a recruiter for the Buckeyes since he committed in December of 2024. Even as his commitment to Ohio State feels a bit rocky, he’s clearly still trying to lure elite talent with him to Columbus, which may say something about where things really stand with him.

According to 247 Sports Composite, Williams is the No. 4 tight end and No. 79 overall player in the class of 2027. Ohio State, Texas, and Alabama were all amongst the top schools for Williams — but he ended up selecting the Longhorns.

Ohio State will keep trying to flip Williams until the pen hits the paper, and Edmunds believes they eventually will. There’s no doubt the Ohio State QB commit wants to be throwing to Williams in the future, we’ll see if what he said becomes reality down the road.

BuckBackHome said:

You guys haven't even mentioned the most important future recruit to visit the OSU campus recently. Baby Gronk. I am disappointed in the whole recruiting team (sarcasm font).

https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2026/06/baby-gronk-visits-ohio-state-for-one-day-football-camp.html

No knock on the kid if he is good enough to get the offers. It just strikes me as funny the Cleveland paper gave him a whole article.

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Yeah, I purposely ignored it... There's a bunch of posts he tweeted. Legend Bey gave him a tour, posing with Brandon Inniss and he's at a multiple day camp from what I've seen. I want no parts of that kid

TBH, I've really reduced my interest / following recruiting since NIL. Given that we're at page 2 in this thread and it's June, was is offer an OFFER or an offer?

Give me big time DeForest Buckner vibes. That would be a good thing, but obviously in S&G.

My team sucks but not a total cellar dweller.

If I don't finish in last place, I'll hang a banner.