My little girls will be taught that Katie Britt is a ****ing dipshit.

Child support obligations prior to birth? How the hell is paternity established? lol

Maybe one of you intellectual conservative geniuses can explain this?

Keeping track of women's pregnancies, seriously? Should we not also keep track of all the masturbating men do so we make sure those sperms aren't wasted?

We have to protect life, after all. Whether it's a blastocyst or a sperm cell apparently makes all the difference!

I went out and looked a couple of times, just clouds. Our house has bad light pollution to the north, so I didn't expect to see any. But if it were clear I would have driven up to Sample Road to watch. I should have, I see a lot of pictures this morning from Bloomington of the lights coming through the clouds. They are probably not as vivid as the lights from clear skies, but they are impressive.

Anyone get a good look?

Great substack here:

Probably a good reason that 2012-2013 team started to lose a step at the end of the season. Anyways, a good former recruit thoughts on Indiana.

This is a big series for both teams and especially for IU from a postseason standpoint with many believing that IU would be off the bubble and in the Field of 64 with a series win at this standpoint. The Huskers are considered a lock for the NCAAs right now.

LHP Ty Bothwell will be on the mound for IU with an ERA of 5.46 in 61.0 IP and a WHIP of 1.33 with an OBA of .254. The batting order is a familiar one with Taylor, Pyne, and Mitchell leading off with Cerny, Brenczewski, and Tibbitts in the middle of the order, and Mathison, Stadler, and Oliver at the bottom of the order with Stadler behind the plate and Brenczewski the DH.

RHP Brett Sears will be on the mound for Nebraska with an ERA of 2.17 in 78.1 IP and a WHIP of 0.84 with an OBA of .180.

It's 78 and sunny with the wind out of the NNW at 8 mph with gusts to 14 mph.

1st inning:

T1st:

Taylor was locked in for the game and hit a leadoff solo homer to left center to give IU an immediate lead.

B1st:

Bothwell got the leadoff hitter on a shallow pop up to Cerny. Bothwell then got the next batter on a K.
A lineout to Mitchell ended the inning as Bothwell got off to a good start by putting them down in order.

End of 1st: IU 1 UN 0

I'd Like To Know. Of the 22 Players presently listed as "Starters", or, "1st Team", on both the Offense, and Defense, how many of those were on that same list, for last year's team? Beginning of year, or, end of year. I'm guessing, not more than two, or three, possibly 4, for each side. And that would be disregarding injuries. Assuming everyones healthy. Would anyone know that number, or even percentage? Will probably be talked about, when the season starts, and the starting lineups are announced, but, I'd love to know how it all pans out, right now. Anybody know those numbers?

Just to pass some offseason time, I'm curious on people's thoughts.

I know we all think next year's team offers more potential than this year's team. With that said, although Ballo is likely the best C in the B1G next year (IMO), I don't believe he's at the level of Ware. I mean Ware averaged more pts, and blocks while getting the same rebs...and that was while he had a PF named Reneau. Not to mention he could shoot 3's when left open. The real upgrade on the roster is our guard play, combined with Mbakgo having his sophomore leap.

So, do we think the guard play alone overcomes the idea that we will have 2 bigs down low fighting over paint space vs. both of our bigs being a threat to go out wide? Or maybe we plan to push Reneau out to shoot more often? Again, it's all nonsense talk for the sake of conversation on a boring spring Friday but was curious where the collective was at with this today?

FRIDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Casey Bartley
🚨 Zach Osterman
🚨 Mitchell Paige
🔥 Devonte Green added to Assembly Ball roster #iubb
🔥 Pacers return home for game three vs. Knicks #nbaplayoffs
🔥 NCAA now allowing unlimited official visits
🔥 Will walk-on players become a thing of the past?

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...artley-zach-osterman-mitchell-paige--59963076

Next up is a look at Rutgers.

RU is being mentioned in some "too early" top 20 lists and will be one of the more interesting teams to follow this year.

The rotation looks like:**

--6'4" Tyson Acuff (TR)
--6'7" Zach Martini (TR)
--6'5" Jordan Derkack (TR)
--6'4" Jeremiah Williams
--6'5" Dylan Harper (FR)
--6'8" Ace Bailey (FR)
--6'2" Jamichael Davis
--6'10" Lathan Sommerville (FR)
--6'10" Emmanuel Ogbole

The other roster players are both freshman, 6'7" Bryce Dortch and 6'8" Dylan Grant.

3/5 of the line-up seems set. Bailey was the #2 recruit nationally this year, Harper #3. The 3rd sure starter is an unknown to a lot of people. PG Jeremiah Williams only played the last 1/3 of the season due to injury, but put up impressive #s.

A 4th starter would appear to be either 6'4" TR Tyson Acuff, who had impressive #s at EMU, or 6'5" Jordan Derkack, who was MOP in his league and is known as as an athletic defender and capable ball handler. Derkack was rated the higher of the two, but I think both will be better than their ratings would indicate.

The big issue and problem with Rutgers this rear is the 5th starter, the Center position. Ogbole is a raw former JC recruit without much of an offensive game who shoots 41% from the FT line. Sommerville is a talented freshman recruit, rated at #130 or so,, who probably will be starting by the time the BT rolls around. RU has been unable to attract a talented portal recruit (lack of $).

Martini is an Ivy League shooting specialist who will get some time. Dortch and Grant are both 130ish raw physically imposing types who could fight for minutes, especially later in the year. Davis looks like a competent PG backup.

So..........lots of uncertainty here. There is a huge upside. But given the youth of the two star players and the uncertainty at the Center position I would see some early struggles, and have them finishing behind the group of IU, Purdue, MSU, OSU, Illinois, and UCLA. I have them on the same plain as MIchigan heading into the season.

**RU has since added 6'6" transfer shooting guard PJ Hayes from San Diego University

FRIDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Casey Bartley
🚨 Zach Osterman
🚨 Mitchell Paige
🔥 Devonte Green added to Assembly Ball roster #iubb
🔥 Pacers return home for game three vs. Knicks #nbaplayoffs
🔥 NCAA now allowing unlimited official visits
🔥 Will walk-on players become a thing of the past?

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...artley-zach-osterman-mitchell-paige--59963076

have relations with the Stormy Daniels. I personally find her kind of gross.

THURSDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Shannon Griffith
🚨 Bob Kravitz
🚨 Tyler Smith
🚨 Chris Denari
🚨 Rick Bozich
🔥 #iubb recruiting discussion
🔥 Cignetti fills roster holes for #iufb
🔥 Will the Pacers bounce back in game three?
🔥 Thoughts on Gregg Doyel's suspension

Audio - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is...yler-smith-chris-denari-rick-bozich--59944670

By this time last year we probably had 10-15 or more hummers. We’re lucky to have half a dozen right now. Anyone else down in numbers?

Dude signed at 5 yr/$31M contract last June. Fired 11 months later. Primarily because Durant is old and “frankly” he’s not a very good coach. Does he get the whole $31M? That’d be one helluva bag for 11 months of suck.

So it appears German efficiency strikes again. The NPR story below is about German bureaucracy. Germany is still a very heavy user of fax machines, almost nothing is online. They mention a postal box that has a sign "deposit online forms here".

One issue is the legal system, the need for signature. But it is also suggested that they are very risk-averse, any mention of how to modernize results in, "but this could happen" and so nothing gets modernized.

They quote a stat that about 68% of companies do not want to do business in Germany because of red tape.

Of course, for the companies still selling fax machines, business is booming.

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@BradStevens I thought your son might enjoy this video.

From noted investor Stanley Druckenmiller.


To be fair, he doesn't think will be much or any better. But I don't believe he could be this bad. Bring back Mnuchin!

This is a big weekend in the B1G with the top six teams playing each other in a series. IU's games on Saturday and Sunday will be on the BTN at 7:00 p.m. ET and 1 p.m. ET, respectively.

As of right now, the Huskers are the only team in the B1G that analysts say are a lock for at least an at-large bid for the Field of 64.

Game 1 (Fri, 7:05 ET)

LHP Ty Bothwell will be on the mound for IU with an ERA of 5.46 in 61.0 IP and a WHIP of 1.33 with an OBA of .254.

RHP Brett Sears will be on the mound for Nebraska with an ERA of 2.17 in 78.1 IP and a WHIP of 0.84 with an OBA of .180.

Game 2 (Sat, 7:05 ET)

RHP Connor Foley will be on the mound for IU with an ERA of 4.53 in 47.2 IP and a WHIP of 1.22 with an OBA of .162.

RHP Mason McConnaughey will be on the mound for Nebraska with an ERA of 3.19 in 48.0 IP and a WHIP of 1.27 with an OBA of .253.

Game 3 (Sun, 1:05 ET)

The pitchers are TBD for both teams.


Stats (both teams have played 47 games so far):

Batting - IU is 5th in the B1G with a team average of .300, while the Huskers are 7th with an average of .294. IU has hit 64 homers, 111 doubles (1st in the B1G), and 7 triples, while the Huskers have hit 49 homers, 91 doubles, and 7 triples.

Pitching: IU is 11th in the B1G with a team ERA of 6.45, while the Huskers are 1st with a team ERA of 4.51. IU has given up 76 homers to 52 homers by Husker pitching. IU has walked 209 batters to the Huskers' 135, while IU has Kd 453 batters to 400 by Husker pitching.

Fielding: IU has a fielding percent of .964 and they have committed 56 errors in their 47 games, while the Huskers percent is .975 and they have committed 43 errors in their 47 games.


Weather looks good for the series with maybe a chance for some rain on Sunday in the p.m, so hopefully they can get the Sunday game in before the weather moves in.

Fri - It's expected to be 73 at game time (7:05 p.m. ET) and partly sunny with no precip. It will be a windy day with the wind is expected out of the NW at 15 and gusts to 23 mph.

Sat - It's expected to be 80 at game time (7:05 p.m. ET) and mostly sunny with no precip. Wind is expected to be out of the SW at 7 mph and gusts to 12 mph.

Sun - It's expected to be 75 around game time (1:05 p.m. ET) and intervals of sun and clouds early on. Scattered thunderstorms developing during the afternoon. Winds out of the SW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Looked like it was about the same availability around the stadium as last year at my time. Moved up three rows to be closer to the aisle. Happy with my seats and looking forward to the first game.

Now about inflation. Inherited 9%! No joke, man. Good grief.

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