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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 1d

watching football

Blurry screenshot of a video showing an untethered inflatable skeleton balloon being blown all around the place. This particular freeze frame shows the skeleton whooshing by us, bent over at the waist and grimacing skeleton head turned facing us

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 1d

At beginning of season, I thought maybe 8-4 or 9-3, cuz we got lucky in a few games last year and lost multiple NFLers. Even with injuries, I think 8-4 might be possible. Get OSU, KU, and?

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 1d

10a.) Good Sama nbrs, didn't see all plays but two examples
10b.) Missed big hole in 1H, lost typical 2 yds sideways
10c.) W/ abt 8 mins left in 4Q, showed excellent patience w/ pulling Black setting up block
11.) Rocco = not sharp enough again, ex: missed Sama deep along sideline for likely TD

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 1d

5a.) Also fun = 4th string OL kicker, who's 5th string?
5b.) Wanted to see him try a kick, but would've gone for 2
5c.) Campus tryouts for more K?
6.) Needed more QB sneaks; try Moberly if Rocco health
7.) Fun seeing best DL & OL hurt, how bad?
8.) Like CU's unis
9.) LB and DL recruiting = step back

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 1d

Game 7 Colorado #bluecy notes:

1.) CU pass that won game = LB McLaughlin (not fast) covering CU WR2 w/ Neal too close to LOS?
2a.) Amazing Brahmer penalty/INT experience
2b.) But noted last wk Rocco throws Brahmer fades short
3.) Pls don't say Peppers popped achilles
4.) IMO S Van Dinter not ready

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 8d

Game 6 Cincy #bluecy notes:

1.) Cincy QB/WR duo among Big 12 best; tough w/ 4 DBs out
2a.) Sama better vs 2024; still missing extra yds too often
2b.) Missed it- how bad was Hansen hurt?
2c.) Badly need 3rd RB
3a.) Please can we have just 1 pass rusher pls
3b.) Cooper/Jontez (RIP) helped erase that

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 14d

Game 5 Arizona #bluecy notes -

1.) A big welcome to Sowell
2.) Glad Smith had some low-pressure kicks
3a.) Sama = not much room but vision = inconsistent
3b.) Still wonder about his CB potential
3c.) Where is 3rd RB pushing for time
4.) Fifita = some laser passes
5.) Khijohnn injury?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3d

Bears coach Matt Eberflus' graphic emphasizing HITS

Hustle
Intensity
The Ball
Smart

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the 1932 Texas Tech #cfb team with a version of their logo incorporated made out of the same friction strip cloth. Other teams did this too

Also in the same 1933 La Ventana yearbook (which apparently has a dinosaur theme) is a Double T similar to the current one, just different proportions.

Screenshot of 1933 Texas Tech yearbook showing a black and white graphic of four white TT football players in a dark uniform with a double T pattern on the chest.

It's a collage of individual photos of the players cut out and placed on a light background facing us. Starting on the left, the first player is standing up, arms behind his back. Second player is crouched with right fist in the ground, left hand perched on his left knee. Third player is in a similar crouch, but with left hand in ground. Fourth and final player on right of image is standing up, hands on his hips. The two standing players give us a clear view of the chest pattern, which has a stacked double T in the middle made out of friction cloth. Unlike the current version, the two T shapes are the same vertical thickness and there is no bottom bar. This makes it look like a four armed single T. On both sides of the double T are two additional vertical strips of friction cloth each. All of these shapes combine to cover the entire chest in friction cloth.

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 6d

Otto knows ball too

Screenshot of newspaper image showing a black and white line cartoon drawing of Otto, the U of Montana mascot, dunking a basketball. He looks fierce and fluffy too.

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 6d

not sure how I missed the news that good ol Bobby is in charge of Arky again, so I need to share this relevant entry from a Victorian era dictionary. The sudden blood-letting seems apt @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Screenshot of a Victorian era dictionary entry:

Arkansas tooth-pick (Amer.). A bowie-knife. Arkansas is notorious for sudden blood-letting. "And he jabbed an eighteen Arkansas tooth-pick into - whoever it happened to be." - Mark Twain. "He had a seductive way of drawing his 18-inch Arkansas tooth-pick, and examining it critically with a sinister smile, while humbly requesting the temporary loan of five dollars. - Texas Siftings.

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 6d

As many have already noted, wearing this bear logo is the correct way to engage in a vigorous bout of sport.

96.999998% of vintage mascot logos are better than modern.

TK from the Paper @pipedreams.blog · 6d

Montana is breaking out the copper, silver and gold unis for Homecoming this week.

Montana's retro helmet with a grizzly on it.

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 6d

ok fine I'll share this again

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Still thinking about the first pitch at the Dodgers game yesterday where Shohei Ohtani’s dog Decoy delivered the baseball to him. 😍

(There was a bobblehead giveaway of a bobblehead featuring Ohtani AND Decoy. 😍)

Decoy (a cute dog), in an Ohtani jersey, on the pitching mound, looking very alert. With a baseball on the mound.

Decoy in motion, this picture captures them with all four paws off the ground and baseball in mouth as they’re racing to home plate. Ears are blowing back too.

And here comes Decoy! View from behind Ohtani (who is crouched like a catcher waiting to receive the ball) so you can see Decoy approaching with baseball in mouth.

Paw-five! Or, um, it’s a bit like a high five. Ohtani still crouched, baseball on the ground, Decoy on hind legs with both front paws up hitting Ohtani’s upraised hand.

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 6d

On this day 102 years ago, Jack Trice suffered critical injuries when the Minn. defensive backfield ran over him during a play. He died two days later in the ISU hospital with his wife by his side. Then an unforgettable letter was discovered.

My old feature story for Smithsonian #cfb #blackhistory

This Black Football Player Was Fatally Injured During a Game. A Century Later, a College Stadium Bears His Name

Rival athletes trampled Jack Trice during his "first real college game." He died two days later at age 21

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking of billionaires sucking us dry, couldn't help but notice that the Tay team decided to roll with an AI video rather than, idk, use some of her vast fortune to hire some people. Always love seeing successful creatives punch down. Absolute clowns. Look at this crap (ALT has info) #taxtherich

Screenshot of Taylor Swift AI promo video.

Miniature carousel silver horse bathed in a glowing warm light. Earlier in the video it's shown rotating and appears to be about a foot high. Behind it on the left side towards the rear of the carousel, another silver horse is just visible and blurry, but it's clear the horse head is now coming off the butt facing the wrong direction.

Screenshot of Taylor Swift AI promo video.

A young white man's hand rests on top of a thick orange square paper napkin with a black capital H printed in the middle. Next to it is a flute glass filled with champagne on a medium wood bar counter. The man is the bartender and he is in the act of giving us the napkin and sliding it towards us. His visible forearm is wearing a formal white button down shirt. However his extended pointer finger has a deformed third knuckle that is off center.

Screenshot of Taylor Swift AI promo video.

Close up view of a white feathery top on a light color wood hanger with a large square neck tag that shows the letter T in a stitched orange cursive font. Below it is a small hanging tag, partially obstructed by the bottom bar of the hanger, where it would normally have more info about the clothing, instead it has AI gibberish writing. Also on the top right next to the metal hook is a second metal hook in the process of disappearing completely. The video makes it clear that there was an empty hanger there but as the video zooms in, it disappears.

Screenshot of Taylor Swift AI promo video.

Aerial view looking down on a moody dark bar with medium color wood and many table lamps, lit in a warm light, on the bar. The room is completely empty with no sign of humans except for one single dark phone that appears really long. The bar is an enclosed rectangle with rounded edges and there are about 12 visible green leather bar stools spread around the bar. Inside the bar area is a lit tower of four white glowing shelves with many alcohol bottles. But when we saw the bar at the beginning of the brief video, it had only three table lamps and now the aerial view is showing ten lamps. Absolute slop.

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 7d

Live here and yeah. Film and all creative work sucked dry by AI hucksters & mergers. Affecting adjacent industries badly. Housing costs were bit easier to swallow w/ lots of local steady 20+ ep. network shows & mid-budget films. Culturally I fear LA will = Detroit 2.0

Stunning stat below, worse now

Screenshot from linked Wall Street Journal story:

At the end of 2024, some 100,000 people were employed in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles County, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Two years earlier, there were 142,000.

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 8d

8.) Good news = @ CU/OSU games "easiest" games left
9a.) Win home games/tie breakers = 6-3 in conf. might sneak into champ game
9b.) Facing more good QBs; Coffey/Taylor leap?
9c.) TCU = BU rival, ISU @ BYU
ASU = @ Utah, TT, @ ISU, AZ rival
BYU = Utah, @ TT @ ISU
10.) TT/Utah = best remaining sched?

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 8d

5a.) Rocco = gamer, less INTs this yr; IMO avg accuracy this year w/ passes behind WRs - ended some drives today
5b.) Solid deep ball; might be wrong but Brahmer fades often underthrown?
5c.) Took an awful hit, is he truly ok?
6.) Townsend needs to fair catch more
7.) Kyle probably = 6+ points today

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 8d

Game 6 Cincy #bluecy notes:

1.) Cincy QB/WR duo among Big 12 best; tough w/ 4 DBs out
2a.) Sama better vs 2024; still missing extra yds too often
2b.) Missed it- how bad was Hansen hurt?
2c.) Badly need 3rd RB
3a.) Please can we have just 1 pass rusher pls
3b.) Cooper/Jontez (RIP) helped erase that

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 14d

Game 5 Arizona #bluecy notes -

1.) A big welcome to Sowell
2.) Glad Smith had some low-pressure kicks
3a.) Sama = not much room but vision = inconsistent
3b.) Still wonder about his CB potential
3c.) Where is 3rd RB pushing for time
4.) Fifita = some laser passes
5.) Khijohnn injury?

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 29d

Game 4 Ark St. #bluecy notes - many questions:

1a.) Still not sure how good we are
1b.) Are we new Big 10 west merchants
1c.) Ex: good coach/players, fattening up on avg. teams
2.) Same 2Q/3Q seq. as last wk (ASU = 32 plays, ISU 5)
3.) Is Konrardy hurt?
4.) Are any of our LBs playing at high level?

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 12d

appreciate them all making it clear who they are

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 13d

see you get it.

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 13d

Why preserving history is so impt. The museum didn't know this was the actual staircase Harriet Jacobs was flung down by her enslaver, which she wrote about in her harrowing book "Life of a Slave Girl" which some thought fictional @us.theconversation.com

(book here: archive.org/details/inci...)

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.

theconversation.com

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 13d

This is such a charming short game. Play for free in your browser

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14d

You could play Messenger right now, nothing is stopping you:

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 13d

ok @hollyanderson.bsky.social random question. When driving south thru Georgia on I75, does Florida culturally start in Georgia or does GA bleed into FL? Having this very impt debate right now

(Also feels like TN ends somewhere in northern GA due to the Smoky Mts)

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 14d

6a.) Is this best staff of Campbell era?
6b.) Clanton = discipline, Mouse = creative
6c.) Deon/Poteat too; DBs used to have issues catching ints
7.) Ezeogu doing good work next to Orange
8.) DL = seemed more explosive (welcome Gilbert/Verdon)
9.) Heacock = more aggressive earlier
10.) Cincy favored?

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 14d

Game 5 Arizona #bluecy notes -

1.) A big welcome to Sowell
2.) Glad Smith had some low-pressure kicks
3a.) Sama = not much room but vision = inconsistent
3b.) Still wonder about his CB potential
3c.) Where is 3rd RB pushing for time
4.) Fifita = some laser passes
5.) Khijohnn injury?

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 29d

Game 4 Ark St. #bluecy notes - many questions:

1a.) Still not sure how good we are
1b.) Are we new Big 10 west merchants
1c.) Ex: good coach/players, fattening up on avg. teams
2.) Same 2Q/3Q seq. as last wk (ASU = 32 plays, ISU 5)
3.) Is Konrardy hurt?
4.) Are any of our LBs playing at high level?

Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · Sep 7

Game 3 ¡El Ássico! #bluecy notes:

1.) Never a doubt
2a.) Didn't fold after tuff 2Q/3Q seq. (IA = 32 plays, ISU 4)
2b.) ISU 14 play 4Q punt series = critical for defense rest
3.) 5 penalties but horrific timing, cost points
4.) Only second halftime lead since 2012
5.) Good kick coverage vs Wetjen

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Joshua Kagavi @kagavi.bsky.social · 14d

Random unrelated image from my #history research today: 1712 copy of a 1597 map showing the Tower of London

Aerial perspective of the Tower of London and adjacent buildings rendered in fine black ink on a light brown paper. The tower and castle walls dominate the center of the map. The overall shape of the castle walls is a rough square, although there are six discrete sides. The largest structure, the middle tower, sits in the middle and is mostly surrounded by open areas before reaching the internal castle walls that surround it. Above the middle tower on the map, presumably along the interior north (maybe) wall, is a row of long buildings with pitched roofs. There are random drawings here and there inside the walls, that I believe show things like cannonballs, a garden, smaller gates, etc. The writing is very thin and delicate.

At the bottom of the castle is the Thame River, labeled as "Wharfe" and to the top of the map is mostly open land. Along the right side of the map outside of the castle/tower are long rows of houses, mostly in a vertical line, with some side streets. They all have pitched roofs and crudely drawn windows due to their small size. Some of them follow the river.

There are boxes of text on the perimeter of the map, but the text is hard to read. One of them is clearly a map key with a whole list of labeled buildings, such as what appears to say "A. The Middle Tower"

Source: https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-2001/edg%20NG%202002-06/page/n25/mode/2up