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by Scipio Tex on Mar 9, 2009 2:55 PM CDT

KU wins yet another Big 12 basketball title and hiphopopotamus proclaims that Phog was a'rockin' when the Horns came a'knockin' and that he (and KU's players) consider Texas KU's true Big 12 basketball rival:

Major kudos to Texas for coming out loose, fired up and ready to win. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. As a school our rival is clearly Missouri. Of this there is no question. And K-State is obviously something of a rival as well. No one likes to lose to baby brother. But there really is no comparison right now to our basketball rivalry with Texas. I’m unsure if all the fans feel or even realize it yet, but the players would confirm it without a shadow of a doubt..

I agree. Too bad the rivalry is one-sided. KU basketball is a great measuring stick and I consider Self the best coach in college basketball.

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Football recruiting. CB Adrian White is set to announce this Friday. It's expected to be to Texas. This would end our DB recruiting. I read and hear mixed reports on White, but his offer list is persuasive.

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Reggie Wilson - the standout DE from Haltom - will announce in late March. He's picking between TCU, OU, Texas.

Texas has a very good shot.

OU has an important in: a pro-Sooner Haltom staff. Don't discount TCU - Wilson's family is from the Ivory Coast and football tradition and program pedigree is largely lost on them. There could be some appeal for a tight family to have their kid twenty minutes down the road in Fort Worth.

Ghost of Big Roy from BON opines:

If he decides he wants weather similar to his native country, Austin seems like the easy choice, though academics are professedly more important for Wilson.

Mmmm...yes. Wilson longs for a tropical/equatorial transitional climate found only in Austin, but not Fort Worth. Thankfully, academics override this deep pining. I count ourselves lucky that we're not competing with an elite Trinidadian engineering college.

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EDSBS's Spencer Hall goes the extra mile in an interview with ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes, a bit of a Bay Area legend and obssessive endurance freak. Dean can actually fill an unforgiving minute with ninety seconds of distance run. Also, stretching is for pussies.

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Former Sooner chemical experiment ~~Tony Mandarich~~ Brian Bosworth was arrested for drunk driving in Hollywood. Would you like to see 35 action photos of this arrest? And receive confirmation that our police departments the nation over possess absolutely no physical fitness standards? Brian Bosworth busted by motor-cherub lawman

h/t: The Wiz of Odds

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Mmmm…yes. Wilson longs for a tropical/equatorial transitional climate found only in Austin, but not Fort Worth. Thankfully, academics override this deep pining. I count ourselves lucky that we’re not competing with an elite Trinidadian engineering college.

Haha, silly BON.

by bigdukesix on Mar 9, 2009 3:45 PM CDT reply actions

They aren’t silly. They were just being silly. There’s a difference.

by Scipio Tex on Mar 9, 2009 3:48 PM CDT reply actions

I’d agree. If they were sillier, perhaps they’d be less boring.

by bigdukesix on Mar 9, 2009 4:03 PM CDT reply actions

I wish Texas and Kansas played twice a year, because it seems (in recent history at least) that they bring out the best in each other. Texas and Kansas have played some great basketball games in the last 8 years or so.

by The General on Mar 9, 2009 4:10 PM CDT reply actions

If the rivalry between Kansas and Texas is so one-sided, why hasn’t Kansas won in Austin recently? That seems like a pretty silly comment.

So Austin’s weather is exactly the same as in Norman?

by Loadholt's Lost Money on Mar 9, 2009 5:08 PM CDT reply actions

From the Karnazes interview:

SH: What is your average pace?

DK: It depends on the length of the race. In my last 200 mile race, I ran the last mile in sub-six minutes.

If reading that doesn’t make you feel like a worthless slob, I don’t know what would.

I’ll keep that quote in mind as I jog my underachieving ass through a meager seven miles tonight while thinking about what the next 193 would feel like.

Interesting dude. Psychotic, but interesting …

by Vasherized on Mar 9, 2009 5:18 PM CDT reply actions

If the rivalry between Kansas and Texas is so one-sided, why hasn’t Kansas won in Austin recently? That seems like a pretty silly comment.

KU leads the series 15-6 and they’ve owned us on neutral courts.

So Austin’s weather is exactly the same as in Norman?

Sigh.

by Scipio Tex on Mar 9, 2009 5:20 PM CDT reply actions

Vasherized, go grab his book if you see it at a 1/2 price bookstore. The guy is definitely wired for pain.

by Scipio Tex on Mar 9, 2009 5:22 PM CDT reply actions

Because we are 1-2 on a neutral court win since 2002-2003.

by The General on Mar 9, 2009 5:23 PM CDT reply actions

Like I needed another excuse to go to Half Price Books … I’ll check it out.

Glad to hear the enlightenment from buying a new pair of running shoes translated into using them at least a second time.

Another race that caught that set off my Crazy Fuckhead Meter is the Great Divide mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico. One dude got eaten by a bear, one drowned in the Snake River. And one guy just disappeared.

BC should sponsor one of these maniacs. Great fit.

by Vasherized on Mar 9, 2009 5:32 PM CDT reply actions

It looks like to me The Bos has turned into Switzer.

PICS

And that cop is laughing his ass off.

by Sailor Ripley on Mar 9, 2009 6:05 PM CDT reply actions

I was wrong. We are 1-3 vs KU on a neutral court since 02-03

by The General on Mar 9, 2009 6:32 PM CDT reply actions

You’re going to buy an ultramarathoner’s book at half price?

You should be going to Twice Price Books. Hey-yo.

by CrazyJoeDavola on Mar 9, 2009 7:37 PM CDT reply actions

Ms Terri Garr, ladies and gentlemen! Hey-yo!

by Scipio Tex on Mar 9, 2009 7:39 PM CDT reply actions

The dust jacket is wiped in sweat. A true collector’s item.

by Vasherized on Mar 9, 2009 9:30 PM CDT reply actions

That can’t be the Boz in pics Sailor posted; it says “former NFL star arrested…”

by R Fourie on Mar 10, 2009 7:53 AM CDT reply actions

I wouldn’t say the rivalry is one-sided. Perhaps in the long run, yeah, but Since Self took over in 03-04, KU leads 5-4.

by Work on Mar 10, 2009 10:26 AM CDT reply actions

I think it’s 6-4 KU, but obviously your point is still well taken. Since Bill has been with us, neither has won on the other’s court. However, since your tourney win over us in ‘04, we’ve taken three straight neutral court titles.

by hiphopopotamus on Mar 10, 2009 11:38 AM CDT reply actions

Using my aggy logic, Texas has clearly surpassed Kansas as the dominant basketball school in the Big 12.

by Doc on Mar 10, 2009 11:46 AM CDT reply actions

So now where are all those people who said I’m such a no-talent assclown has-been that I couldn’t even get arrested? Look who’s laughing now! Hahahahahahaha…

What, officer? Laugh into the intoxylizer? Okey dokey then.

by The Boz on Mar 10, 2009 1:23 PM CDT reply actions

I thought that the couple of extra sets of seated rows I did last night was impressive. I’m a fucking slug.

by BatesHorn on Mar 10, 2009 1:47 PM CDT reply actions

Brian Bosworth is to football what Vanilla Ice is to music.

Come to think of it they kind of look alike.

by Yassir Sanchez on Mar 10, 2009 1:51 PM CDT reply actions

Boz has a NC ring and two Butkiss trophies. Vanilla Ice does not.

they’re much, much different.

by ponderos on Mar 10, 2009 2:48 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah, but Vanilla gets a lot more top 40 spin and si blowing the Boz out in the “E! True Hollywood Story/Behind the Music” composite category, so I would call them even.

Or, equivalent.

by The General on Mar 10, 2009 3:28 PM CDT reply actions