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Thanks – I will definitely try all those things and report back.

Yeah, I’m going to the touristy places. But like my mom used to say, “if the tourist traps weren’t cool, the tourists wouldn’t go there and they wouldn’t be tourist traps.”

Ainge and Zanik have done the equivalent of blowing off their foot with a shotgun because there was an annual 14% chance it would grow back by 2030.

The BIG12 is a snowglobe of unpredictability after last year. My two silver linings are: if you’re going to pick positions to return besides QB, the entire offensive line and the defensive captain are a pretty good place to start, and the offense will have some consistency throughout the spring to fall in practice. Imagine this:

Cam is good…[Read more]

I have a sabbatical for a month, so my wife and I are going up to Spokane/Palouse/Coeur d’Alene/Hiawatha Trail for a short week while kids are in camp, going to a family adoption heritage camp, then later going to Cancun for an inlaw family reunion (not looking forward to the temps in late June). Daughter is going to a 3-wk course in Utah then on…[Read more]

You’re going the super duper duper touristy places, but they are still really cool. Village salads are incredible. “Horiatiki salata” is what you ask for. Another good one is “yemista” ye-me-sta – which is stuffed peppers or tomatoes. Then there’s “dolmathes” which are stuffed grape leaves. Beeftaki is a meat patty that’s usually 1/2 ground beef…[Read more]

Why do people think the WVU game will be at night Week 5? There is BYU @ CU (late, late game?), Baylor @ Ok St. and a few other games that might be the late game.

Week 7 ASU @ Utah might be night. There is KU @ TT, TCU @ KSU, but that seems like a good one to put at night.

Now, Utah @ BYU Week 8 certainly is a possible night game, but hoping…[Read more]

I kind of feel like Dampier might have a bit of Cam Rising’s ability to just make stuff happen when it matters. He is a fair-to-middling QB on paper (goo but no great, due to his so-so passing #s so far), but he seems like the kind of guy who can pull something out a hat on third down and change a game (hopefully not by throwing a pick-6 🙂 ).…[Read more]

Jesus said love God and your neighbor. He spent most time with outcasts and sinners, not the ruling class or rich. And he definitely didn’t put himself first.

Oh, and even though the current administration feels they have some mandate to say what being an ‘American’ is because they won, it should be remembered that 36% of the population (the…[Read more]

While 2 teams with rather low odds of being drawn (Mavs about 1.5% and Spurs about 6%) got first couple picks, it really wasn’t that unlikely for Jazz to not pull out at all. (Something like 47%).

Tanking is foolishly optimistic and rather bad mathematics.

Not going to waste any time at all watching what was once an entertaining product back in…[Read more]

Not sure why the downvotes – was trying to be factual, but as a non-Catholic, perhaps I shouldn’t really comment other than he seems like a good guy to me who has tried to serve in his faith and appears humbled by the mantle. Or perhaps the downvotes are that he isn’t who some hoped it would be or favors policies or positions they don’t agree…[Read more]

Worthy transition… I’m actually excited to see what AJ can do. The Jazz are a dumpster fire after this.

Next season will answer a question. Was the two Pac championships by Utah an aberration and the progress Utah made in a decade less than what we saw? Or was the two seasons without the expected QB1 and injuries or shortcomings of backup QBs an aberration and the progress Utah made in a decade real? Something like trying to understand the specific…[Read more]

I think we hammer UCLA. Our team is more motivated after going through last season, and wants to prove a point.

I think WVU and BYU are toss-ups. I probably like our chances against BYU more, since we’ll be fired up, have better depth, and I just don’t think BYU will get the bounces that they did last year.

ASU, I think we drop that game. That…[Read more]

Here is what I am sick of: the Jazz drafted and built a good playoff team with Williams and Boozer. Blew it up. They then drafted and built a decent team with Hayward. Blew it up or let it get blown up. They then drafted and built a really good team with Mitchell, Gobert, and Conley. Blew it up. The fired a really good GM in Dennis Lindsey…[Read more]

I think the real failure occurred during the previous 2 seasons, when they only started “tanking” halfway through the season. They flushed those seasons for basically no purpose. At least this last season they successfully tanked.

This whole situation might be a blessing in disguise for the new hockey team, and the U basketball program, as…[Read more]

Good article from the Desnews on the breakdown.

Sarah Todd

Miami, if you get an opportunity, you should consider a halibut fishing excursion up there. It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done (and I’m not a fisherman). My wife had an absolute blast too. If you like halibut, you can have it shipped home (for a nominal fee).

I agree Kellso. I’m tired of all the analytics, the tanking, sitting guys out. Setting up so we can win later. All that so we have a 14% chance of getting 1 player that isn’t proven or could get hurt and never live up to expectations. Stockton Malone era had no 1st picks and made it to the finals playing as a team and good coaching.

Only 1 tea…[Read more]

It isn’t, at least not current format. Watch the backroom analysis and the combination process. It’s a four-number combo, and if the line sequence falls on a team, they get the pick. It’s really bad luck and the probability is astronomically low, but it happened in front of the auditors, team representatives, and media. For the Jazz in the short…[Read more]

I’m going to Alaska for 10 days. First time I’ve been there in 35 years. We’re going to split our time between Anchorage and Fairbanks and do some touristy stuff like going to Denali National Park and a whale watching cruise. Later in the summer, I’ll also be going up to northwestern Montana for a couple of weeks to do some camping. This is…[Read more]