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Makes me miss Glendon Rusch and Jimmy Gobble.

Nicole Cousins? I thought I heard Edwards was dating someone out there, speculation that the break up of the relationship was related to him leaving. Coulda been local medias biggest power couple since Ken Siemeck and Deb Collins. Or Ken Hambleton and Ryley Jane. Or Colby Mach and an EIB fleshlight.

Interesting angle. Makes a ton of sense. I would have loved to have seen it too. I can't imagine the shit she's already put up with. Pop's stamp of approval carries a lot of weight. I wonder how long until she gets a job? Huge barrier to break. As far as I'm personally concerned, NBA does a better job of speaking to political issues than most major sports. But still, all sports are twisted masculine fantasies in one way or the other. Hard enough for female broadcasters to break through, let alone a HC. I don't doubt her qualifications.

Just belatedly jumping in to say ME TOO. Bucks fan. I'm old enough to remember having to get thru Bird Celtics and Dr J Sixers in the east. Sometimes they'd get by one, but never both. Good teams back then tho. What do you think of Bud as HC? I like it. He did good things with some no names in ATL.

No doubt. He's the kind of coach who can beat you with his team, and if he coached the opposing team, he'd beat you with them too. He hasn't got a title yet, but what he's done in Boston, with average to good rosters, at his age, with only NCAA exp, is remarkable. The NBA has changed A LOT in the past decade. Old school fans who haven't kept abreast of the revolution likely have no idea what they are seeing. The disconnect between new/old ways of analyzing and understanding the game among some of the people broadcasting basketball is painfully obvious. Same thing happened in MLB. I recall Joe Morgan being about as out of touch as Shaq and Barkley. Although, today, most of the major network MLB coverage has gotten much better. Same thing will happen in NBA, but it definitely takes time.

I hope you are right. It's been a looooong time since we've had talent like those two. Sounds like you've got some connects or insight? What's the scoop? If you've got any additional insights, I'd love to hear them.

What's your take? Are both of these guys coming back? And to kill three birds with one mis-crossed post, any insight on Teddy or Wingett ending up in Lincoln?

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Who used to coach the Globetrotters? They always had an incredible record, and boy, were they creative. Whoever coached that team knew what they were doing. They were ready for anything, and they used to have the best out-of-bounds plays. Efficient as hell on both ends of the court. Great adjustments. Took care of the ball. In a sense. What is Meadowlark Lemon doing these days? Sign him up.

I'm always confused and amused when fans look at the NCAA and players in D1 sports, and somehow see the NCAA as the victim. Or the primary concern. It's like rooting for the Yankees. How about less emphasis on the bottom line for the NCAA, and allowing the players to get a share of the profit generated off their labor? Who cares how the NCAA competes with NBA and NFL and Rough Trade Records? I don't buy that line of reasoning to begin with. A scholarship, in 2018, is in no way, shape, or form appropriate compensation for a D1 NCAA basketball player. CBS is paying 8.8 BILLION for the rights to the NCAA Tourney. I think a rational place to start would be 8.8 Billion on one side of the scale, and whatever number you want to dream up for the value of a scholarship, room and board, and whatnot on the other. Considering player compensation has to be viewed in those terms. So, the slow-mo emergency of the apparent pay to play scandal doesn't bother me that much. Other than it being against the rules, I have a begrudging admiration for the players who are able to monetize their skills within the NCAA system. Pretending it's some big moral outrage takes several blind eyes to the reality of the way the NCAA "amatuer" sports system is run, how much money it generates for damn near everyone but the players, and outdated social notions about the sporting life at the ol' alma mater .

AMEN. Royko and Ivins were both excellent. Serious dearth of quality on all ends of the spectrum. David Brooks. George Will. Friedman. Maureen Dowd. Gail Collins. Thomas Sowell. Cal Thomas. Could easily roll out a dozen more clowns who, in all seriousness, provide a serious disservice to our democracy. How in the hell do any of these people have a job writing columns anymore? Maybe at some point in their careers they had some relevance, but now, hard to take any of them seriously.

I don't gamble for reals, but I enjoy following sports from a gambling perspective, a lot of the people I hear on VSIN have much more sophisticated takes that what you typically hear on sports radio. I've been following Malinsky since the beginning of the football season, and now through hoops. He's an interesting cat, big on analytics and "grading" games to sort out the noise in some stats, attempting to get at the truth. For example, minimizing the weight of garbage time TDs in football. He also reads a lot into the perceived mental state of teams, based off of what he gleans from reading local sources, etc. Not your typical meathead sports shouter. He's certainly not infallible, from my limited observation his analysis based off of canny use of statistics has been superior to his reading the tea leaves from a coaches press conference in the local paper, when it comes to handicapping. It been kind of shocking to see him running with the Huskers all year. And fun to see/hear them highlighted in his write ups. I guess I appreciate any sports coverage that comes from the margins so to speak, and strikes me as a notch above some of the typically BS that is everywhere. A bit of a diamond in the rough thing. And yeah, they cover again. Kind of a fortunate cover, but those count just as much as the bad beats.

Again, Husker stuff from a professional handicapper's (Dave Malinsky--frequent guest on Sirius Radio's VSIN Network) perspective at SBR.com If the unseemly sports betting leaves a sour taste for you Cotton Mathers types out there, stay for some of the analysis. It is curious to me that some folks, who ostensibly would be in a position to evaluate things with an analytical eye, keep backing up the wagon to play AGAINST Nebraska. I assume the oppo money would be based on much more than just the relatively weak perception of Nebraska's basketball program over the years. In the Sights, Tuesday NCAA… I have gone to the well with Nebraska about as much as any team in a single-season in recent memory, and the Cornhuskers have both been lead topics and an almost constant part of the discussion threads on every one of their recent game days. I was mystified for weeks at why there was money against Tim Miles and his team in just about every Big 10 game, some of the moves substantial, and have just kept riding them out. The current trading is allowing for -1.5 to be put into pocket against Maryland, and that means yet one more time behind #524 Nebraska (7:00 Eastern). The Cornhuskers have simply been better than the Terrapins, and now that we are deep into the conference schedule, using the Big 10 only base count tells a tale: Net PPP 100 Maryland -2.4 Nebraska +5.4 Yet tonight’s line is below where the home court advantage would project, despite the fact that Nebraska is also positioned to play well – this is only the third game in 15 days, and sandwiched between Rutgers and Illinois there is nothing preventing a team building in confidence from having their full focus on Maryland. The Terrapins have managed to gut out a 6-8 in league play despite being short-handed, but I believe that takes a toll down the stretch – Anthony Cowan has played 547 of a possible 565 minutes in Big 10 games, and for Kevin Huerter it has been 499 and Darryl Morsell 472. They have lost their last six Big 10 road trips, and in what is becoming an electric atmosphere in Lincoln they could play well tonight and still lose by a couple of baskets.

NU Memos: Did Danny Nee's wife really have a dalliance with latin lothario Jose Ramos? Is it true that Barry Collier would often take short naps during halftime?