Izzo upset.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46680426/michigan-state-coach-tom-izzo-sounds-ncaa-louisville-signs-former-g-league-player

Quote from: MU82 on October 21, 2025, 09:17:56 PMMy senior year, I flew home for spring break because my parents bought a new car and were giving me their '73 Plymouth Valiant for me to drive back to MU.

I knew I couldn't make that solo drive without tunes, so I had a cassette player installed.

I was driving through Indiana, belting out Love Her Madly with Morrison, when I saw the flashing lights behind me. I slowed down immediately and pulled directly behind a car in the right lane.

The cop asked, "Do you know how fast you were going?" I said I didn't, but I knew it was too fast. He said I was going 95 in an 55 zone, and that was a felony, and he could take me to jail. But he was gonna do be a favor and just give me a ticket for following too closely. And he warned me that he was sending out my information so I'd better not get caught speeding the rest of the trip.

I kept it under 55 the rest of my way through Indiana.

A Plymouth Valiant could do 95?? Impressive.

Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 22, 2025, 10:46:51 AMhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html

That's .. interesting.  Laying off 600 workers in the AI department?  Hard to figure their motive there. 

Maybe throwing in the towel because their AI is weak sauce?

Meta's seeming inability to develop anything innovative in tech is kinda impressive at this point.

Quote from: JWags85 on October 22, 2025, 02:01:15 PMLot of really interesting facets to this robbery (no pun intended).  But the biggest tragedy, if it was indeed originals that were stolen and won't be recovered, is it nearly ALWAYS leads to the end of the items and/or precious stones.

Hundreds of years ago, even decades, things would get stolen and then randomly appear in a collection when someone died, a house of a collector was sold, or even when items would reappear for sale.  Some of the worlds largest or most famous diamonds were "lost" and then found that way.  But there is no rich or notable collector that either wants to buy something this hot that they can't display or even if its broken up, the technology is such that the stones will be easily able to be traced back to the stolen item.

So what ends up happening is the stones are recut.  So a magnificent huge historical emerald or ruby or diamond that size of a golf ball gets cut into numerous smaller stones and sold that way.  Diamonds can still be tricky when it comes to origin and provenance, especially in stones of that size, as big stones are pretty well known once they come out of the ground, much less polished.  But the colored gemstones trade is literally the Wild West.  A massive rough or polished diamond comes out and a big deal is made of the mine where it was found and who bought and cut the rough.  Yet every year massive colored gemstones appear and MAYBE they know what country it came from, cause it passes through so many hands going to market.

Hopefully they are found, but every day that passes, the chances of recovery plummets.  The irony is those stones, especially the emeralds, are going to end up as smaller stones in the hands of random every day consumers who don't know that their 1-2 carat emerald recut from a stolen necklace commissioned by Napoleon is any different than another emerald in the store mined normally in Colombia.

Or in Swiss vaults

League pass is a good option. I've had it for a few years. You'll definitely get all non nationally televised games. Easy to navigate and use

If you have T-Mobile cell service, I have gotten MLB extra innings for free the last 5-6 years?

Didn't know if this was posted on this thread, but MU alum Ben May was behind the plate umpiring Game 3 of the ALCS. He used to ump our intramural softball games 22ish years ago.

When I was Kam's age, I wouldn't make the drive between Gary and Indy without breaking into triple digits.  Didn't even feel in any danger until the buck thirty-five range.   

Quote from: Jockey on October 22, 2025, 01:51:10 PMPaul Presley on steroids.

Also, Sengun will be breakout player of the year. Already very good, but will be top 10 guy in the league this year.

I'm fully on board with Sengun being one of the most underrated players in the league, he's fantastic.  But I don't know how a guy that averaged 20/10/4.5 the last 2 years and was an All Star will be a breakout player, unless he averages 30 and 15, which I don't think he will.

And I could buy a top 10 player ceiling, he's only 23 after all, but he's a few years away.  He's got that methodical below the rim game like Jokic, but he's not a good enough shooter.  Part of what makes Jokic lethal is he's close to a 40% outside shooter, which lets him space the floor and pass when people are forced close out on him.  Sengun shoots under 30% from deep.  He can develop it, look at Brook Lopez, but he's not there.

So if you go to a VPN service like NordVPN and subscribe (there's a fee, unfortunately) the service ought to let you select the geographic location through which your VPN will connect.

This is basis for the workaround for geographically locked IP on streaming services. e.g. Show X is not on Netflix in the US but is in the UK, use vpn to login via a UK-based vpn access point.

So, if the VPN service you're using provides as an option a Milwaukee-based location, login via that one, and presto chango to outside connections it will be as though you never left your apartment above Hegs.