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2023.05.31 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
Build Supermajorities of Democrats in the US House and US Senate
Here’s “22 Blue in 2022: ‘A Quick List’”:- Florida 2. Ohio 3. Kansas 4. North Carolina 5. Kentucky 6. Arizona7. South Carolina 8. Georgia 9. Texas 10. Michigan 11. Nevada 12. Pennsylvania13. Missouri 14. Wisconsin 15. Iowa 16. Arkansas 17. Oklahoma 18. Indiana19. Colorado 20. Alabama 21. South Dakota 22. North Dakota
”We the people” must deny the Republican party political power at every level of government for decades to come “in order to create a more perfect union.” With 48 States having some statewide contest(s), November 8th, 2022 is our best chance the Democrats will get to do that for the rest of this decade, at least.
”The List” encourages the election of a Democratic Supermajority in the US Senate in 2022. This is the best chance we will have to create a Democratic Supermajority in both Chambers of Congress for the remainder of this decade. This midterm could be a devastating loss for the democrats if good patriots ignore this election. If Americans of good conscience band together instead, we could could begin the exile of the Republican party from power, not for years, but for decades to come.
“The List” is a set of suggestions about where to focus collective activism today.
The election of Democratic Supermajorities to both chambers of the US Congress is the best outcome we can strive towards in the 2022 Midterm Election for many reasons. Among them: breaking the decade of gridlock in Congress, supporting President Biden’s agenda, and his re-election in 2024. My personal favorite is that this could commence the decades-long political banishment of the GOP from power, which the Republican Party so richly deserves.
The Republican party has proved itself treasonous on many levels. They are traitors to Humanity by supporting Trump. Traitors to the Nation for supporting Putin. Traitors to the government and betrayers of the constitution through their apologies for the 1/6/21 insurrection. To safeguard our country and the world, we must block the Republicans from power at the ballot box, at all levels of government, for at least a generation.
Political game playing may be inevitable among humans. Change the numbers, and then change the rules, if not the game. Cynical refusal to play at this time in history cedes power to NAZIs manipulated by Active Measures. That is a surrender to crypto fascism, not radical thinking, mere cynicism, or hipsterism.
In 2022, Patriots must unify to crush the Republican Party at the ballot box. We can defeat them in every State, at every level. We need the biggest turnout at the voting booth of any Midterm ever. We need to raise more money for candidates and organizations than we did during the entire 2020 campaign season if we are to accomplish this. We need to do this in the next six months.
This is what a “Blue Tsunami” REALLY looks like.
Electing a Democratic Supermajority in Congress is our hope for the future and retribution for America’s enemies. “22 Blue in 2022” is a roadmap to the beginning of that journey. “22 Blue in 2022” is our war plan. ”22 Blue in 2022” is our electoral battle cry. “22 Blue in 2022” is a way forward out of gridlock, a way to non-violently thwart those who would poison the body politic with their hate.
If we don’t try this hard in 2022, Trump will go unpunished and metastasize by 2024.
Resist In Power, my sisters, my brothers, and my others.
Resist Together, and elect a Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
See The “FULL 22 Bue in 2022 List”, With Dozens more links to the organizations and candidates that you can support to help Create a Democratic Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
National Democratic Organizations
Democratic National Committee (DNC): https://democrats.org/Donate Directly to the DNC: DNC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC): https://www.dscc.org/Donate Directly to the DSCC: DSCC DIRECT DONATIONS
2022 Senate Republican Target Races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2022senatetargets
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): www.dccc.orgDonate Directly to the DCCC: DCCC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Governors Association (DGA): https://democraticgovernors.org/Donate Directly to the DGA: DGA DIRECT DONATIONS
ALL Links are to party organizations, candidates, voter groups, voting information, and navigation within this site. There may be additions or subtractions over the course of the campaign. No portion of any donations to any of the candidates or organizations listed above goes to “22 Blue in 2022.” We take none of it! All donations through “22 Blue in 2022: The List” will be tax deductible unless otherwise noted at the destination site.
WITH THESE EXCEPTIONS: The “Donate” button at the top right of each page (“Donate” is Substack’s designation, not in my control) AND these links below, which each Support “22 Blue in 2022”:
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2023.05.31 03:48 Blueahoula Season 41 Final Rankings
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2023.05.31 03:05 Blueahoula The PKL defeats the NES 4-3 to win Season 41 Commissioners Cup!
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2023.05.30 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
Build Supermajorities of Democrats in the US House and US Senate
Here’s “22 Blue in 2022: ‘A Quick List’”:- Florida 2. Ohio 3. Kansas 4. North Carolina 5. Kentucky 6. Arizona7. South Carolina 8. Georgia 9. Texas 10. Michigan 11. Nevada 12. Pennsylvania13. Missouri 14. Wisconsin 15. Iowa 16. Arkansas 17. Oklahoma 18. Indiana19. Colorado 20. Alabama 21. South Dakota 22. North Dakota
”We the people” must deny the Republican party political power at every level of government for decades to come “in order to create a more perfect union.” With 48 States having some statewide contest(s), November 8th, 2022 is our best chance the Democrats will get to do that for the rest of this decade, at least.
”The List” encourages the election of a Democratic Supermajority in the US Senate in 2022. This is the best chance we will have to create a Democratic Supermajority in both Chambers of Congress for the remainder of this decade. This midterm could be a devastating loss for the democrats if good patriots ignore this election. If Americans of good conscience band together instead, we could could begin the exile of the Republican party from power, not for years, but for decades to come.
“The List” is a set of suggestions about where to focus collective activism today.
The election of Democratic Supermajorities to both chambers of the US Congress is the best outcome we can strive towards in the 2022 Midterm Election for many reasons. Among them: breaking the decade of gridlock in Congress, supporting President Biden’s agenda, and his re-election in 2024. My personal favorite is that this could commence the decades-long political banishment of the GOP from power, which the Republican Party so richly deserves.
The Republican party has proved itself treasonous on many levels. They are traitors to Humanity by supporting Trump. Traitors to the Nation for supporting Putin. Traitors to the government and betrayers of the constitution through their apologies for the 1/6/21 insurrection. To safeguard our country and the world, we must block the Republicans from power at the ballot box, at all levels of government, for at least a generation.
Political game playing may be inevitable among humans. Change the numbers, and then change the rules, if not the game. Cynical refusal to play at this time in history cedes power to NAZIs manipulated by Active Measures. That is a surrender to crypto fascism, not radical thinking, mere cynicism, or hipsterism.
In 2022, Patriots must unify to crush the Republican Party at the ballot box. We can defeat them in every State, at every level. We need the biggest turnout at the voting booth of any Midterm ever. We need to raise more money for candidates and organizations than we did during the entire 2020 campaign season if we are to accomplish this. We need to do this in the next six months.
This is what a “Blue Tsunami” REALLY looks like.
Electing a Democratic Supermajority in Congress is our hope for the future and retribution for America’s enemies. “22 Blue in 2022” is a roadmap to the beginning of that journey. “22 Blue in 2022” is our war plan. ”22 Blue in 2022” is our electoral battle cry. “22 Blue in 2022” is a way forward out of gridlock, a way to non-violently thwart those who would poison the body politic with their hate.
If we don’t try this hard in 2022, Trump will go unpunished and metastasize by 2024.
Resist In Power, my sisters, my brothers, and my others.
Resist Together, and elect a Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
See The “FULL 22 Bue in 2022 List”, With Dozens more links to the organizations and candidates that you can support to help Create a Democratic Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
National Democratic Organizations
Democratic National Committee (DNC): https://democrats.org/Donate Directly to the DNC: DNC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC): https://www.dscc.org/Donate Directly to the DSCC: DSCC DIRECT DONATIONS
2022 Senate Republican Target Races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2022senatetargets
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): www.dccc.orgDonate Directly to the DCCC: DCCC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Governors Association (DGA): https://democraticgovernors.org/Donate Directly to the DGA: DGA DIRECT DONATIONS
ALL Links are to party organizations, candidates, voter groups, voting information, and navigation within this site. There may be additions or subtractions over the course of the campaign. No portion of any donations to any of the candidates or organizations listed above goes to “22 Blue in 2022.” We take none of it! All donations through “22 Blue in 2022: The List” will be tax deductible unless otherwise noted at the destination site.
WITH THESE EXCEPTIONS: The “Donate” button at the top right of each page (“Donate” is Substack’s designation, not in my control) AND these links below, which each Support “22 Blue in 2022”:
Buy a $2.22 Weekly subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Precinct Captain Buy a $22.22 Monthly subscription and Become part of the “22 Blue in 2022” Squad Buy a $222.22 Annual Subscription and join our “22 Blue in 2022” Steering Committee Buy a $2222.22 Annual Subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Founder
Subscriptions/Donations to “22 Blue in 2022” ARE NOT Tax Deductible!
2023.05.30 13:33 London-Roma-1980 NON-CONFERENCE MATCHDAY 11 PREVIEW
In Week 4, it becomes more important than ever for the mid-majors to strike while the iron is hot. We saw it in Matchday 10 as Detroit Mercy upended Oklahoma. Now, another early success story of the mid-majors takes a shot at a big name. This one is a true battle of David and Goliath, though.
*****
#17 DePaul Blue Demons vs. Rhode Island Rams.
It's a team that thrives in the middle taking on a team that lives for full-court. A pair of giants underneath who so far have led their team. The bigs of the Big East taking on the roadrunners of the Atlantic 10.
But Rams coach Frank Keaney is under no delusion that it'll be an even fight.
"We've had our chances to make a mark this season," Keaney said. "I hope this one pays off. We do really well against the outside teams, but the big boys are the ones we've struggled with."
Indeed, while both teams are 7-3, that's highly deceiving. DePaul has beaten West Virginia, Auburn, and Colorado, getting three victories over the Power Six schools. Rhode Island, meanwhile, is 0-2 -- and the games against Minnesota and NC State weren't that close.
Still, Blue Demons coach Ray Meyer isn't taking the Rams lightly. "If they can get in a groove, they can compete with anyone. We've seen them beat teams by 70 points this season [Rhode Island beat Fairleigh Dickinson 125-54], and they beat a team with a dominant big like us [knocking off Jacksonville in overtime]. We're going to have to be on our best to win. But I think there's a gameplan, and I hope we execute it."
ROSTERS
LINE: DePaul by 28
*****
TOP 25 GAMES
#1 UCLA (10-0) at #8 Michigan (9-1)
#5 Kansas (9-1) at #3 Kentucky (9-1)
#12 Connecticut (8-2) at #25 Illinois (8-2)
#4 Duke (8-2) at #6 Michigan State (8-2)
#10 Indiana (8-2) at West Virginia (8-2)
#2 North Carolina (8-2) at #22 Florida (8-2)
#9 Notre Dame (8-2) at #11 Ohio State (8-2)
#7 Syracuse (8-2) at #15 Southern Cal (8-2)
#17 DePaul (7-3) at Rhode Island (7-3)
#19 Georgetown (7-3) at #18 LSU (7-3)
#23 Iowa (7-3) at Clemson (7-3)
Iowa State (7-3) at #14 Arizona (7-3)
#16 Maryland (7-3) at South Carolina (7-3)
#20 Minnesota (7-3) at Detroit Mercy (7-3)
#13 Texas (7-3) at Oregon State (7-3)
Wichita State (7-3) at #21 Alabama (7-3)
Old Dominion (6-4) at #24 UNLV (6-4)
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*****
#17 DePaul Blue Demons vs. Rhode Island Rams.
It's a team that thrives in the middle taking on a team that lives for full-court. A pair of giants underneath who so far have led their team. The bigs of the Big East taking on the roadrunners of the Atlantic 10.
But Rams coach Frank Keaney is under no delusion that it'll be an even fight.
"We've had our chances to make a mark this season," Keaney said. "I hope this one pays off. We do really well against the outside teams, but the big boys are the ones we've struggled with."
Indeed, while both teams are 7-3, that's highly deceiving. DePaul has beaten West Virginia, Auburn, and Colorado, getting three victories over the Power Six schools. Rhode Island, meanwhile, is 0-2 -- and the games against Minnesota and NC State weren't that close.
Still, Blue Demons coach Ray Meyer isn't taking the Rams lightly. "If they can get in a groove, they can compete with anyone. We've seen them beat teams by 70 points this season [Rhode Island beat Fairleigh Dickinson 125-54], and they beat a team with a dominant big like us [knocking off Jacksonville in overtime]. We're going to have to be on our best to win. But I think there's a gameplan, and I hope we execute it."
ROSTERS
| #17 DePaul Blue Demons (7-3) | # | Rhode Island Rams (7-3) |
|---|---|---|
| Mark AGUIRRE | 0 | Ernie CALVERLEY |
| Emmett BRYANT | 1 | Steven CHUBIN |
| Wilson CHANDLER | 2 | Claude ENGLISH |
| Tyrone CORBIN | 3 | Johnny EZERSKY |
| Dave CORZINE | 4 | Tom GARRICK |
| Terry CUMMINGS | 5 | Kenny GREEN |
| Kevin EDWARDS | 6 | George MEARNS |
| Steven HUNTER | 7 | Cuttino MOBLEY |
| Ed MIKAN | 8 | Xavier MUNFORD |
| George MIKAN | 9 | Lamar ODOM |
| Quentin RICHARDSON | 10 | Earl SHANNON |
| Bill ROBINZINE | 11 | Bob SHEA |
| Bobby SIMMONS | 12 | Stan STUTZ |
| Ron SOBIE | 13 | Jared TERRELL |
| Rod STRICKLAND | 14 | Sly WILLIAMS |
*****
TOP 25 GAMES
#1 UCLA (10-0) at #8 Michigan (9-1)
#5 Kansas (9-1) at #3 Kentucky (9-1)
#12 Connecticut (8-2) at #25 Illinois (8-2)
#4 Duke (8-2) at #6 Michigan State (8-2)
#10 Indiana (8-2) at West Virginia (8-2)
#2 North Carolina (8-2) at #22 Florida (8-2)
#9 Notre Dame (8-2) at #11 Ohio State (8-2)
#7 Syracuse (8-2) at #15 Southern Cal (8-2)
#17 DePaul (7-3) at Rhode Island (7-3)
#19 Georgetown (7-3) at #18 LSU (7-3)
#23 Iowa (7-3) at Clemson (7-3)
Iowa State (7-3) at #14 Arizona (7-3)
#16 Maryland (7-3) at South Carolina (7-3)
#20 Minnesota (7-3) at Detroit Mercy (7-3)
#13 Texas (7-3) at Oregon State (7-3)
Wichita State (7-3) at #21 Alabama (7-3)
Old Dominion (6-4) at #24 UNLV (6-4)
2023.05.29 22:10 Blueahoula Season 41 Commissioners Cup! Defending Champion NES squares off against the PKL!
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2023.05.29 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
Build Supermajorities of Democrats in the US House and US Senate
Here’s “22 Blue in 2022: ‘A Quick List’”:- Florida 2. Ohio 3. Kansas 4. North Carolina 5. Kentucky 6. Arizona7. South Carolina 8. Georgia 9. Texas 10. Michigan 11. Nevada 12. Pennsylvania13. Missouri 14. Wisconsin 15. Iowa 16. Arkansas 17. Oklahoma 18. Indiana19. Colorado 20. Alabama 21. South Dakota 22. North Dakota
”We the people” must deny the Republican party political power at every level of government for decades to come “in order to create a more perfect union.” With 48 States having some statewide contest(s), November 8th, 2022 is our best chance the Democrats will get to do that for the rest of this decade, at least.
”The List” encourages the election of a Democratic Supermajority in the US Senate in 2022. This is the best chance we will have to create a Democratic Supermajority in both Chambers of Congress for the remainder of this decade. This midterm could be a devastating loss for the democrats if good patriots ignore this election. If Americans of good conscience band together instead, we could could begin the exile of the Republican party from power, not for years, but for decades to come.
“The List” is a set of suggestions about where to focus collective activism today.
The election of Democratic Supermajorities to both chambers of the US Congress is the best outcome we can strive towards in the 2022 Midterm Election for many reasons. Among them: breaking the decade of gridlock in Congress, supporting President Biden’s agenda, and his re-election in 2024. My personal favorite is that this could commence the decades-long political banishment of the GOP from power, which the Republican Party so richly deserves.
The Republican party has proved itself treasonous on many levels. They are traitors to Humanity by supporting Trump. Traitors to the Nation for supporting Putin. Traitors to the government and betrayers of the constitution through their apologies for the 1/6/21 insurrection. To safeguard our country and the world, we must block the Republicans from power at the ballot box, at all levels of government, for at least a generation.
Political game playing may be inevitable among humans. Change the numbers, and then change the rules, if not the game. Cynical refusal to play at this time in history cedes power to NAZIs manipulated by Active Measures. That is a surrender to crypto fascism, not radical thinking, mere cynicism, or hipsterism.
In 2022, Patriots must unify to crush the Republican Party at the ballot box. We can defeat them in every State, at every level. We need the biggest turnout at the voting booth of any Midterm ever. We need to raise more money for candidates and organizations than we did during the entire 2020 campaign season if we are to accomplish this. We need to do this in the next six months.
This is what a “Blue Tsunami” REALLY looks like.
Electing a Democratic Supermajority in Congress is our hope for the future and retribution for America’s enemies. “22 Blue in 2022” is a roadmap to the beginning of that journey. “22 Blue in 2022” is our war plan. ”22 Blue in 2022” is our electoral battle cry. “22 Blue in 2022” is a way forward out of gridlock, a way to non-violently thwart those who would poison the body politic with their hate.
If we don’t try this hard in 2022, Trump will go unpunished and metastasize by 2024.
Resist In Power, my sisters, my brothers, and my others.
Resist Together, and elect a Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
See The “FULL 22 Bue in 2022 List”, With Dozens more links to the organizations and candidates that you can support to help Create a Democratic Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
National Democratic Organizations
Democratic National Committee (DNC): https://democrats.org/Donate Directly to the DNC: DNC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC): https://www.dscc.org/Donate Directly to the DSCC: DSCC DIRECT DONATIONS
2022 Senate Republican Target Races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2022senatetargets
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): www.dccc.orgDonate Directly to the DCCC: DCCC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Governors Association (DGA): https://democraticgovernors.org/Donate Directly to the DGA: DGA DIRECT DONATIONS
ALL Links are to party organizations, candidates, voter groups, voting information, and navigation within this site. There may be additions or subtractions over the course of the campaign. No portion of any donations to any of the candidates or organizations listed above goes to “22 Blue in 2022.” We take none of it! All donations through “22 Blue in 2022: The List” will be tax deductible unless otherwise noted at the destination site.
WITH THESE EXCEPTIONS: The “Donate” button at the top right of each page (“Donate” is Substack’s designation, not in my control) AND these links below, which each Support “22 Blue in 2022”:
Buy a $2.22 Weekly subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Precinct Captain Buy a $22.22 Monthly subscription and Become part of the “22 Blue in 2022” Squad Buy a $222.22 Annual Subscription and join our “22 Blue in 2022” Steering Committee Buy a $2222.22 Annual Subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Founder
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2023.05.29 17:55 BullAlligator STILLWATER Regional Thread
Standings
| Seed | Team | Overall | Regional |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State Cowboys | 41-18 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Dallas Baptist Patriots | 45-14 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Washington Huskies | 34-18 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Oral Roberts Golden Eagles | N/A | 0-0 |
Bracket
| Fɪʀꜱᴛ Rᴏᴜɴᴅ | Sᴇᴄᴏɴᴅ Rᴏᴜɴᴅ | Fɪɴᴀʟꜱ |
|---|---|---|
| Fʀɪ 6:00ᴘᴍ | ||
| 1 Oklahoma St | Sᴀᴛ | |
| 4 Oral Roberts | TBD | Sᴜɴ |
| Fʀɪ 12:00ᴘᴍ | TBD | TBD |
| 3 Washington | TBD | |
| 2 Dallas Baptist | Sᴜɴ ᴇ | |
| Sᴀᴛ ᴇ | TBD | Mᴏɴ |
| TBD | TBD | ɪꜰ |
| TBD | ɴᴇᴄᴇꜱꜱᴀʀʏ |
Winner to play champion of Nashville Regional
Site: O'Brate Stadium
All times local. Times may be subject to change.
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2023.05.29 13:03 BullAlligator [General Discussion] REGIONALS WEEK: Part I (2023)
/collegebaseball General Discussion Thread - REGIONALS WEEK: Part I (2023)
— Rules
— Guidelines
— Get Team Flair
— Inline Flair List
— Line Score Template
Regionals Week Games
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29th | 30th | 31st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
2023 Postseason Top 25
Mean+Median 3-Poll Composite| Rank | Team | Conference | D1B | BWA | USAT | Prev. | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wake Forest Demon Deacons | ACC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 2 | Florida Gators | SEC | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — |
| 3 | Vanderbilt Commodores | SEC | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ↑3 |
| 4 | Arkansas Razorbacks | SEC | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | ↑1 |
| 5 | Clemson Tigers | ACC | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | ↑3 |
| 6 | LSU Tigers | SEC | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | ↓2 |
| 7 | Stanford Cardinal | Pac-12 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | ↓4 |
| 8 | Miami Hurricanes | ACC | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | ↑2 |
| 9 | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers | Sun Belt | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | ↓2 |
| 10 | Virginia Cavaliers | ACC | 11 | 11 | 9 | 11 | ↑1 |
| 11 | Campbell Fighting Camels | Big South | 12 | 10 | 11 | 15 | ↑4 |
| 12 | ECU Pirates | American | 15 | 12 | 12 | 12 | — |
| 13 | Connecticut Huskies | Big East | 10 | 13 | 14 | 9 | ↓4 |
| 14 | Oklahoma State Cowboys | Big 12 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 17 | ↑3 |
| 15 | Dallas Baptist Patriots | C-USA | 18 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ↑1 |
| 16 | Southern Miss Golden Eagles | Sun Belt | 13 | 17 | 19 | 21 | ↑5 |
| 17 | Oregon State Beavers | Pac-12 | 14 | 21 | 17 | 13 | ↓4 |
| 18 | Tennessee Volunteers | SEC | 21 | 18 | 16 | 14 | ↓4 |
| 19 | South Carolina Gamecocks | SEC | NR | 16 | 18 | 19 | — |
| 20 | Maryland Terrapins | Big Ten | 19 | 19 | 25 | 25 | ↑5 |
| 21 | Alabama Crimson Tide | SEC | 22 | 20 | 23 | NR | ↑6 |
| 22 | Indiana State Sycamores | MVC | 23 | 23 | 20 | NR | ↑ |
| 23 | Kentucky Wildcats | SEC | NR | 22 | 21 | 23 | — |
| 24 | West Virginia Mountaineers | Big 12 | NR | 25 | 22 | 18 | ↓6 |
| 25 | Auburn Tigers | SEC | 20 | 27 | NR | NR | ↑1 |
| NR | Duke Blue Devils | ACC | NR | 24 | NR | 24 | ↓2 |
| NR | TCU Horned Frogs | Big 12 | 17 | 28 | NR | NR | ↑ |
| NR | Oregon Ducks | Pac-12 | 24 | 26 | NR | NR | ↑ |
| NR | Boston College Eagles | ACC | NR | 29 | 24 | 20 | ↓9 |
| NR | Texas A&M Aggies | SEC | 25 | 30 | NR | NR | ↑ |
D1B – D1Baseball
CBW – National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association
USAT – USA Today
2023 Division 1 League Champions
| Conference | Regular Season | Tournament |
|---|---|---|
| ACC | Wake Forest | Clemson |
| America East | Maine | Maine |
| American | ECU | Tulane |
| A-10 | St. Joseph's | George Mason |
| ASUN | Lipscomb | Lipscomb |
| Big 12 | Oklahoma State, Texas, & West Virginia | TCU |
| Big East | Connecticut | Xavier |
| Big South | Campbell | Campbell |
| Big Ten | Maryland | Maryland |
| Big West | UC San Diego* | ɴᴏɴᴇ |
| CAA | UNCW | UNCW |
| C-USA | Dallas Baptist | Charlotte |
| Horizon | Wright State | Wright State |
| Ivy League | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| MAAC | Fairfield | Rider |
| MAC | Kent State | Ball State |
| Missouri Valley | Indiana State | Indiana State |
| Mountain West | San Diego State & San José State | San José State |
| NEC | Central Connecticut | Central Connecticut |
| Ohio Valley | Morehead State | Eastern Illinois |
| Pac-12 | Stanford | Oregon |
| Patriot | Army | Army |
| SEC | Arkansas & Florida | Vanderbilt |
| SoCon | Samford | Samford |
| Southland | Nicholls | Nicholls |
| Summit | Oral Roberts | Oral Roberts |
| Sun Belt | Coastal Carolina | Southern Miss |
| SWAC | Alabama State | Florida A&M |
| WAC | Grand Canyon | Sam Houston |
| West Coast | Loyola Marymount | Santa Clara |
2023.05.29 02:24 BullAlligator 2023 NCAA Division I Conference Champions & Automatic NCAA Tournament Bids
All conferences except one determine their automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament through their conference tournaments. The winner of the conference tournament automatically receives a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The Big West grants its automatic bid to its regular season champion.
*ineligible to receive automatic qualifier; Cal State Fullerton was rewarded the bid
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The Big West grants its automatic bid to its regular season champion.
| Conference | Regular Season | Tournament |
|---|---|---|
| ACC | Wake Forest | Clemson |
| America East | Maine | Maine |
| American | ECU | Tulane |
| A-10 | St. Joseph's | George Mason |
| ASUN | Lipscomb | Lipscomb |
| Big 12 | Oklahoma State, Texas, & West Virginia | TCU |
| Big East | Connecticut | Xavier |
| Big South | Campbell | Campbell |
| Big Ten | Maryland | Maryland |
| Big West | UC San Diego* | ɴᴏɴᴇ |
| CAA | UNCW | UNCW |
| C-USA | Dallas Baptist | Charlotte |
| Horizon | Wright State | Wright State |
| Ivy League | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| MAAC | Fairfield | Rider |
| MAC | Kent State | Ball State |
| Missouri Valley | Indiana State | Indiana State |
| Mountain West | San Diego State & San José State | San José State |
| NEC | Central Connecticut | Central Connecticut |
| Ohio Valley | Morehead State | Eastern Illinois |
| Pac-12 | Stanford | Oregon |
| Patriot | Army | Army |
| SEC | Arkansas & Florida | Vanderbilt |
| SoCon | Samford | Samford |
| Southland | Nicholls | Nicholls |
| Summit | Oral Roberts | Oral Roberts |
| Sun Belt | Coastal Carolina | Southern Miss |
| SWAC | Alabama State | Florida A&M |
| WAC | Grand Canyon | Sam Houston |
| West Coast | Loyola Marymount | Santa Clara |
2023.05.28 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
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2023.05.28 18:14 ft420 D1 Baseball Tournament TV / Streaming for Sunday 5/28 (International Hamburger Day)
ALL TIMES EASTERN
CONFERENCE WINNERS (so far)
America East Tournament -- #1 Maine
Atlantic 10 Tournament -- #6 George Mason
Big East Tournament -- #2 Xavier
Big South Tournament -- #1 Campbell
Big West Conference -- Reg Season Champion > UC San Diego; auto-bid > CS Fullerton
Horizon Tournament -- #1 Wright State
Ivy League Tournament -- Pennsylvania
MAAC Tournament -- #2 Rider
Mid-American Tournament -- #3 Ball State
Missouri Valley Tournament -- #1 Indiana State
Ohio Valley Tournament -- #5 Eastern Illinois
PAC-12 Tournament -- #6 Oregon
Patriot League Championship -- #1 Army West Point
Southern Tournament -- #1 Samford
Southland Tournament -- #1 Nicholls
Summit Tournament -- #1 Oral Roberts
WAC Tournament -- #2 Sam Houston
WCC Tournament -- #3 Santa Clara
CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS - FINAL DAY
AAC Tournament
12:00 PM Championship Game: #7 Tulane vs. #1 East Carolina, ESPNews & espn+
ACC Tournament
2:03 PM Championship Game: #4 Miami vs #3 Clemson, ESPNU
ASUN Tournament
1:00 PM Championship Game: #7 Jax State vs. #1 Lipscomb, espn+
Big10 Tournament
3:00 PM Championship Game:: #3 Iowa vs. #1 Maryland, BTN
Big 12 Tournament
6:00 PM Championship Game: #2 Oklahoma State vs #4 TCU ESPNU & espn+
Colonial Athletic Tournament
1:00 PM Game 9: #2 Elon vs. #3 Northeastern (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
5:00 PM Championship Game: #1 UNCW vs. Winner GM9 FloBaseball ($)
Conference USA Tournament
2:00 PM Championship Game: (3) Charlotte vs. (1) Dallas Baptist, CBSSN
Mountain West Tournament
4:00 PM Game 7: Championship Game #3 Air Force vs. #1 San José State MW Network
Northeast Tournament
12:00 PM Game 11: Championship Game: #2 Wagner vs #1 CCSU espn3 & NEC Front Row
SEC Tournament
3:00 PM ET Championship Game: #10 Texas A&M vs. #4 Vanderbilt ESPN2
Sunbelt Tournament
2:00 PM ET Championship Game: #4 Louisiana vs. #2 Southern Miss, espn+
SWAC Tournament
1:00 PM ET Championship Game: (E3) Florida A&M vs. (E2) Bethune-Cookman, espn3
MONDAY 5/29
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12:00 PM ET DI SELECTION SHOW ESPN2
Not sure if PPL will post today, so I am posting this in place of the usual format.
This is the one I use on my site and wanted to get it to you fans asap. Cheers.
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Live Crowdsourced Scoreboard ~by u/CTIDmississippi
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America East Tournament -- #1 Maine
Atlantic 10 Tournament -- #6 George Mason
Big East Tournament -- #2 Xavier
Big South Tournament -- #1 Campbell
Big West Conference -- Reg Season Champion > UC San Diego; auto-bid > CS Fullerton
Horizon Tournament -- #1 Wright State
Ivy League Tournament -- Pennsylvania
MAAC Tournament -- #2 Rider
Mid-American Tournament -- #3 Ball State
Missouri Valley Tournament -- #1 Indiana State
Ohio Valley Tournament -- #5 Eastern Illinois
PAC-12 Tournament -- #6 Oregon
Patriot League Championship -- #1 Army West Point
Southern Tournament -- #1 Samford
Southland Tournament -- #1 Nicholls
Summit Tournament -- #1 Oral Roberts
WAC Tournament -- #2 Sam Houston
WCC Tournament -- #3 Santa Clara
AAC Tournament
12:00 PM Championship Game: #7 Tulane vs. #1 East Carolina, ESPNews & espn+
ACC Tournament
2:03 PM Championship Game: #4 Miami vs #3 Clemson, ESPNU
ASUN Tournament
1:00 PM Championship Game: #7 Jax State vs. #1 Lipscomb, espn+
Big10 Tournament
3:00 PM Championship Game:: #3 Iowa vs. #1 Maryland, BTN
Big 12 Tournament
6:00 PM Championship Game: #2 Oklahoma State vs #4 TCU ESPNU & espn+
Colonial Athletic Tournament
1:00 PM Game 9: #2 Elon vs. #3 Northeastern (Elimination Game) FloBaseball ($)
5:00 PM Championship Game: #1 UNCW vs. Winner GM9 FloBaseball ($)
Conference USA Tournament
2:00 PM Championship Game: (3) Charlotte vs. (1) Dallas Baptist, CBSSN
Mountain West Tournament
4:00 PM Game 7: Championship Game #3 Air Force vs. #1 San José State MW Network
Northeast Tournament
12:00 PM Game 11: Championship Game: #2 Wagner vs #1 CCSU espn3 & NEC Front Row
SEC Tournament
3:00 PM ET Championship Game: #10 Texas A&M vs. #4 Vanderbilt ESPN2
Sunbelt Tournament
2:00 PM ET Championship Game: #4 Louisiana vs. #2 Southern Miss, espn+
SWAC Tournament
1:00 PM ET Championship Game: (E3) Florida A&M vs. (E2) Bethune-Cookman, espn3
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12:00 PM ET DI SELECTION SHOW ESPN2
This is the one I use on my site and wanted to get it to you fans asap. Cheers.
Live Crowdsourced Scoreboard ~by u/CTIDmississippi
2023.05.28 17:34 Gargus-SCP Related Works - Wesley Dodds as The Sandman (Jan-Jul 1941): Troubled Sleep
After a 1940 defined by gathering strengths and refinement across the feature, the early months of 1941 bring a few troubling portents behind-the-scenes for Fox's affectionately termed Grainy Gladiator. Nothing ruinous in itself, but signs of an upcoming radical shift away from what the character represented to start.
For one, the April issue of Adventure Comics (#61) brings with it a new cover feature, Ted Knight AKA Starman, courtesy writer-artist Jack Burnley. Already the second lengthiest entry in the book at nine pages, Starman quickly managed what neither Sandman nor Hourman could during their respective years as star attractions and upgraded to a full thirteen pages by his third appearance in #63. For context, Sandman only went from six pages to ten with its upgrade, while Hourman has remained rockstaedy at eight pages, and neither took down another non-superhero supporting feature to justify the page increase like Starman did Barry O'Neil and Mark Lansing. Moreover, from Starman's second appearance on, he is only drawn by Burnley; writing duties now belong to the Sandman's own Gardner Fox.
Which loops in with two other issues at play over Wesley's tossing, turning figure. Starting with issue #61, available online sources no longer fully agree who wrote what for the Sandman feature. You must understand, outside superstar figures with major pull like the creators of Superman or Batman, very few creative teams are properly credited in these Golden Age comics - my credits the last few posts have all been crossreferenced across numerous wikis and databases who owe their credits to investigative work by fans like Jerry Bails back in the 1960s. Such work was sadly not exhaustive, and while a few places (like DC Continuity Project and Wikipedia) state or else imply Fox stayed on as writer for the next few issues, from June to November there is no consensus as to who penned the stories.
I shouldn't be surprised if Fox's involvement terminated with the March issue, for April also saw All-Star Comics shift its format slightly, with Fox writing all nine interior stories for the 64 page mag in addition to his duties on the longer Starman feature. Man would have to work double time to keep pace, even if Sandman didn't drop to eight pages with #62 in May. Either way, Fox is certainly gone following #64 in July, as that issue features the final story drawn by regular artist and co-creator Creig Flessel, who departs to work on Shining Knight later in the year. As I say, things are changing fast for Sandman, and not all changes seem necessarily for the better. Best, however, to take the stories on their own level before drawing any final conclusions!
Coverage note: This entry goes to July rather than June for the sake of my sanity. If I stopped midway through the year, I'd only need cover seven features here, but the back half of '41 would require coverage of eleven. A nine-nine split feels much more feasible.
An alright yarn to kick of the calendar year. As per usual when Fox tries for a somewhat complicated mystery, he's no adequate means of tying off loose ends other than large blocks of text, but it's lively and keeps the situation evolving with decent justifications for mid-story action and dragging Bill along for further fisticuffs. Hooking the entire mystery on, "Oh, the bad guy misspoke," is a tad lame, if understandable in the context of Fox's passion for slipping general knowledge flexes into his stories. Flessel and Grothkopf get some good mileage out've the skull imagery that crops up whenever the flower kills, and I rather like the brief bout of fisticuffs towards the end. The minor social awkwardness when Bill gets in the car with Wes and Dian is pretty good too, and I'm sorry to report I can't add this story to the "Wesley getting shot" count, as the bad guy only plugs his hat. Kinda funny having a Golden Age Sandman story involving orchids given Neil's own pre-Sandman work with Black Orchid, innit?
Same basic mystery structure and resolution type here as last month, complete with overly-wordy explanation, although I find the hook of pitting Dian and Wesley against one another gives it a minor leg up, as does the relatively straightforward nature of the criminal operation compared to planting microfilm in deadly flowers. There's a more even balance between the rush in bust 'em up style of crime-fighting the feature has developed and the stealthy skullduggery I think suits the character best, with nice action art to match each. Dian has some silly faces whenever she wakes from her hypnosis, and the four panel sequence of Wes halting her murder attempt works pretty well. This is, unfortunately, the final pencil-inking collaboration between Flessel and Grothkopf, and much as I've kvetched over the second man's solo work, I'm sorry to see the back of him in this capacity. When the two were in proper tune, they were the best artistic team Sandman enjoyed yet.
(Stop dodging bullets, I want to see you gunshot.)
What's this? Dian breaking into a notorious criminal slumlord's safe in the bad part of town? A safe, as Wes discovers after he scares the lady off, filled to the brim with poison gas! Evidently not, as Dian is sound asleep when Wes arrives at Belmont manor to investigate, and a subsequent visit to Mister Mac reveals the only person who'd know the safe was booby-trapped is a local kidnapping organizer. Some blind, flailing fists turns up the girl, Dian's perfect duplicate, snatched from out of state to replace Dian and gain leverage over the cops. Too bad the kidnapper's made of strong stuff, knocking out Sandman and taking both woman for a ride to get back at Mac. Fortunately, Dian leaves Wes a trail of jewelry out the window, enabling him to follow and take down all the crooks with one throw of his gas pistol, revealing in the process 'twas Mac himself who tipped Dian's duplicate to his safe, in hopes of spoiling his rival's big plot.
Art-wise, this is probably Grothkopf's best work for Sandman to date. His tendency to exaggerate is translated into some properly goonish faces for the villains and really, really strong action poses, with some properly atmospheric shots sprinkled in for good measure. He cannot draw the gasmask for piss, but there's such an improvement I almost thought this was a Flessel joint before checking the wiki credits. Makes me wish we could see what he'd do if he kept on as a solo artist - free from the impulse to treat the feature as a cartoon, he produces damn fine work. As a story, this makes good time to mention my misgivings with Wesley's tendency to burst through windows and start swinging long before he thinks to use his sleeping gas. While it's great fun to describe and hype up as the mark of a madman who's even cooler as the badass normal than Batman, it also encourages a faster degradation in the character's identity. I'm sure you'll notice it's been yonks since lurking in the shadows and thinning the ranks by knocking them out in advance has factored into the stories. That Wes handles the bad guy by literally clonking him over the head with the gas gun rather than pulling the trigger speaks to the influence other, punchier superhero features have exerted over the strip.
Action is the name of the game here, and even without Grothkopf's inking enhancements, I think Flessel does a fine job on his own. I'm wary of the wirepoon in the future, as by year's end it will completely replace the gas gun as Sandman's sidearm of choice in further drift from the original Christman concept, but taken as a neutral in its debut, giving Sandman greater aerial mobility does lead to some cool shots and enhance the sense Wes goes stark bananas in the mask by pulling some stunts that would almost certainly pull his arms from their sockets in real life. There are, however, some particularly stiff action shots, and in one panel Flessel cocks up the design on the mask worse than Grothkopf last ish. Based on the opening vignette, Borloff decimated millions of innocent lives in addition to all the planes he melted out of the sky, making him easily the deadliest foe Wes has faced to date, and in turn making the "We did it, gang, everything is bright and peachy again!" ending sorta offputting. They'll have to organize mass funerals tomorrow, Wes. Show a little respect.
(Also Doctor Fate alerts Wesley to the identity and location of the ringleader before his mission starts rather than letting him figure it out on his own like everyone else. Prick.)
For his six-page leg of the assignment, the Sandman is off to El Paso, Texas to assist a local newspaper under threat from the Grey Shirts for printing pro-democracy and anti-Hitler editorials. Of course, this being Wesley Dodds on the job, he gets this information by roughing his way into the newspaper offices, then acts on it by beating on the guard at the Grey Shirts' camp and pounding down a band of brainwashed young men to prove he's a better American than them. After sending the wannabe Nazis for a whirl by running their bomb shipment off the road, Wesley doubles back to completely break the recruits' spirits, daring them to prove their hard enough by shooting an unarmed man in Hitler's name, chiefly himself. When none can cut the mustard, he marches them back into town with collars strapped to his car, and inspires the lot to join the Army to a few shirtless bars of "God Bless America."
Cripes but jingoism produces some heady results, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can rightly condone the ridiculous levels of patriotism on display here, even against such classically anti-American enemies as Nazis, yet at the same time, look at this and tell me it isn't the hardest shit you'll see all week. Again, though I've my misgivings about Wes as a brawler no matter how entertaining the results prove, there's something endearing about him being so raring for a fight his first move is to altercate the receptionist at the place he's assigned to defend. On the whole, Grothkopf's final Sandman contribution also shows refinement from his earlier works, the broader, thicker elements of his linework now tempers on a somewhat more grounded approach. Certainly the Sandman himself keeps a consistent look better than he does in any other issue published thus far this year. I DO notice he reused Flessel's design for the District Attorney wholesale on the newspaper publisher. Since he's going and heading out on a job well done, let's not hold it against him, eh?
See, while I'm skeptical about the growing presence of science-fiction elements in the series, they make fine fodder when they play to Sandman's strengths. Lurking high above a crowd of people seeking the answer to some deadly mystery is exactly Wes' bag, and plus or minus some strange mask drawings, Flessel captures that thrill of closely examining a big deadly machine in secret before it fires. I'd submit the page where Sandman saves the judge from the beam as an easy contender for best of the year thus far, and the shot where Wes pushes Dian away from the killer's bullet is another fine piece of work. My memories of this one before sitting down to reread and write were a lot chillier, probably because I wish the series remained in crime pulp rather than raygun pulp, but a good outcome is a good outcome. Seriously, though, why is the mask going so bobble-eyed of late?
Hmm, ah, see, on the one hand, it IS nice that the voodoo guy is innocent of everything except a lapse in judgement and the real twist is an unassuming little man exploiting the mystery and fears around the craft to cast suspicion off his person. On the other hand, eek, yike, zoinks! None good. Bad, even. Outside unfortunate depictions of non-white persons from the 1940s, the story's pretty weak for a murder mystery, as numerous elements are evidently known to the characters well in advance, yet only made clear to the reader right before they become relevant, like the exact identity of the murdered man. It's only eight pages, so there's little opportunity to piece information together on your own time, and as such it is heavily reliant on narrative cheats to generate cheap surprise. About the best thing here is the big page-dominating panel of Wesley swinging through the city on his wirepoon, unconscious woman tucked under arm. Kinda hard to convincingly raise my dander about what it means for the character and his feature when it's successfully operating on the long-standing principle of "masked mystery men swinging on a wire through skyscrapers looks really cool." S'like a solid fifth of the formula behind why Spider-Man is so enduringly popular.
(Also not a big fan of how Wes dismisses Dian from participating in the case without any adequate reason why. She calls him out over it, even, and nothing in the story justifies his decision to fly solo on this one.)
Alright, it's definitely not Gardner Fox writing anymore, because I cannot imagine Fox treating Dian so poorly. I gave her some dignity in summary, but this story is plain dumping all over her as a fussy, incompetent tryhard who fails at investigating on her own on account her womanly ways. Just look at the sheer antagonism between her and Wes; you two are partners, she's saved Sandman's skin like a dozen times, worn his costume and wielded his gas gun to do it once, even! Don't try to BS me into thinking Wes would run this paternalist "let me handle it, Dian, I wear the pants in this relationship" crap on her. You're only alive because she's worn your fucking pants. Otherwise, 'nother instance where the story and art alike don't give me much of note. I reckon Flessel was about done with the series with Fox gone and sorta phoned in his last few assignments. They're nowhere near the standard of his early solo artistic duties on the title. There IS another good wirepoon swinging shot, if one counterbalanced by a crummier instance with yet another weirdly-proportioned mask.
For his six-page part in the game, Sandman must contend against the kidnapper's union, who naturally enough have abducted Dian to get his attention. Not only have these lowlives taken Dian hostage (though she doesn't particularly mind), they've taken out phony accident insurance claims against themselves should the hero injure any of them en route to his untimely death! Nobody quite expects Wes to avoid the sniper-guarded roads to their remote hilltop hideout, though, and a quick wirepoon swing over the canyon (complete with Mister X - hats off - sighting) puts him right in the criminal den. From there, it's a simple biff wham boom to take down the punks and disarm their supporting fire. Alas, Sandman is once again only in the loop on the true nature of the threat against the JSA because someone notifies him from their own investigation, this time Flash via telegram. Let him do his own detective work, you pricks!
Right. You see these panels? You see Dian being calm and collected in the midst of a kidnapping operation? You see Wes trusting her with a submachine gun to keep watch on the fools who mean them harm? Yeah, THAT'S Fox writing Dian. Whoever's writing the Adventure feature at this time ought've taken notes. Artistically, Young makes a fine replacement for Grothkopf and Flessel in Adventure - he can match the first for goons, the second for action, manages a nice turnaround effect before Wes swings on his wirepoon, and even gives us a by-now all-too-rare heavy shadow shot on Wes and Dian. I'm a big fan of the lead kidnapper who calls the JSA the "Justiss Sassiety," and find this instance of Mister X (hats off) the second best in the book, behind only his appearance in the Hourman story, which I think speaks for itself. Probably the only time I'll express preference for something Hourman related over Sandman.
The loss of all three major contributors to the Sandman feature across early 1941 and the crunch down to eight pages has certainly made the Adventure Comics side of the Sandman line a rockier experience. It's still possible to derive enjoyment from the wonky mysteries and higher-concept criminals, but one must accept atmosphere and and particularity have been near-entirely sacrificed for generalized bombast and louder appeal. Don't misunderstand, I've become a fan of Wesley Dodds, Fist-Swinging Bullet Sponge, and my past praises for him aren't diminished by the realization of what this has done to his integrity as a character circa today's stopping point. The trouble is, while I enjoy this half-mad, impossibly reckless read on the character, it simply no longer bears any resemblance to the early days' lurking and creeping through the seedier parts of town. There's a great series of justifications running through the Sandman concept - he's no powers, so he uses the gas gun, so he needs the gas mask, which hides his identity so perfectly it frees him to wear the ordinary business suit, which highlights his vulnerability. Fling him around like a ragdoll who knows no fear of injury or death, although I'll clap for the bravado of it all, I must object if it means any notion he should be sneaky or cautious degrades.
Especially if it means the gas gun vanishes from the character. It hasn't met its final end just yet, but for this seven month block it's proven a very perfunctory aspect of the strip, hung by his side and occasionally brandished without acting as an integral part of the action or storytelling. The wirepoon has subsumed its function as the sidearm, and while I must stress there are plenty aces shots of Wes swinging that fully justify its prominence, taking precedence over the thing that makes him the Sandman, Crimefighter What Fights Crime By Putting The Criminals To Sleep plain rubs me the wrong way. Be awful nice i we could have both without the new toy putting the old out to pasture, y'know? It's not led to anything I'd full-throatedly object over just yet, but... ach, you'll see next time. Speaking of...
Next time! 1941 comes to a close as Wesley picks up another feature to his name, and also a stupid, ugly new costume!
(Previous write-ups: 1939, 1940 pt 1, 1940 pt 2)
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For one, the April issue of Adventure Comics (#61) brings with it a new cover feature, Ted Knight AKA Starman, courtesy writer-artist Jack Burnley. Already the second lengthiest entry in the book at nine pages, Starman quickly managed what neither Sandman nor Hourman could during their respective years as star attractions and upgraded to a full thirteen pages by his third appearance in #63. For context, Sandman only went from six pages to ten with its upgrade, while Hourman has remained rockstaedy at eight pages, and neither took down another non-superhero supporting feature to justify the page increase like Starman did Barry O'Neil and Mark Lansing. Moreover, from Starman's second appearance on, he is only drawn by Burnley; writing duties now belong to the Sandman's own Gardner Fox.
Which loops in with two other issues at play over Wesley's tossing, turning figure. Starting with issue #61, available online sources no longer fully agree who wrote what for the Sandman feature. You must understand, outside superstar figures with major pull like the creators of Superman or Batman, very few creative teams are properly credited in these Golden Age comics - my credits the last few posts have all been crossreferenced across numerous wikis and databases who owe their credits to investigative work by fans like Jerry Bails back in the 1960s. Such work was sadly not exhaustive, and while a few places (like DC Continuity Project and Wikipedia) state or else imply Fox stayed on as writer for the next few issues, from June to November there is no consensus as to who penned the stories.
I shouldn't be surprised if Fox's involvement terminated with the March issue, for April also saw All-Star Comics shift its format slightly, with Fox writing all nine interior stories for the 64 page mag in addition to his duties on the longer Starman feature. Man would have to work double time to keep pace, even if Sandman didn't drop to eight pages with #62 in May. Either way, Fox is certainly gone following #64 in July, as that issue features the final story drawn by regular artist and co-creator Creig Flessel, who departs to work on Shining Knight later in the year. As I say, things are changing fast for Sandman, and not all changes seem necessarily for the better. Best, however, to take the stories on their own level before drawing any final conclusions!
- ADVENTURE COMICS #58 (January)
Orchids of Doom - Gardner Fox, Creig Flessel, Chad GrothkopfOnce again, a socialite friend to Wes and Dian is at the center of a minor mystery with big implications - namely, how can Pedro Nogades, father to Carla, rightly claim he breeds otherwise purely wild orchids in captivity? Investigating as the Sandman, Wes and Dian find a dead man in the Nogades greenhouse with his head stripped to the bone, and in following another fellow who sniffed an orchid before promising a shipment of such to some ruffians on the bad side of town, see his own face dissolve to bare skull. A visit to the police chemist reveals the orchids on the dead men's persons were laced to release a deadly flesh-eating gas on exposure to natural air, which is enough probably cause for Wesley to enlist Carla's boyfriend Bill in staging a raid on the Nogades manor. Some close shaves and fisticuffs end with the group discovering a diorama of the local coast, laid out to assist enemy agents in an invasion. Pedro is put away and the orchids revealed as concealing microfilm copies of the coastal plans, but how do we square the mystery that started it all? Simple: Nogades was no botanist, and called the flower by the wrong name when concocting his cover story!
An alright yarn to kick of the calendar year. As per usual when Fox tries for a somewhat complicated mystery, he's no adequate means of tying off loose ends other than large blocks of text, but it's lively and keeps the situation evolving with decent justifications for mid-story action and dragging Bill along for further fisticuffs. Hooking the entire mystery on, "Oh, the bad guy misspoke," is a tad lame, if understandable in the context of Fox's passion for slipping general knowledge flexes into his stories. Flessel and Grothkopf get some good mileage out've the skull imagery that crops up whenever the flower kills, and I rather like the brief bout of fisticuffs towards the end. The minor social awkwardness when Bill gets in the car with Wes and Dian is pretty good too, and I'm sorry to report I can't add this story to the "Wesley getting shot" count, as the bad guy only plugs his hat. Kinda funny having a Golden Age Sandman story involving orchids given Neil's own pre-Sandman work with Black Orchid, innit?
- ADVENTURE COMICS #59 (February)
The Story of the Flaming Ruby - Fox, Flessel, GrothkopfThere exists a ruby of blazing red, which has driven men to rage and madness wherever it appears, and today it sits in the hand of a young man in the local jeweler's shop, who flashes it cross Dian's vision. Later in the evening, she wakes in a trance consumed with the urge to kill her father, stopped only by Sandman as he rushes in from investigating a similarly queer case. A bank teller friend from his private life has found himself driven to steal from the vault and deliver it to some crooks on a lonely road every night, all after one of those men flashed him the ruby. Wes and Dian are unable to stop this night's transaction (on account of the ruby briefly turning Dian against Sandman), but seeing the gem in action gives Wes an idea on how to counteract its effects, and go into battle during the next drop armed with blue cobalt glasses. A brawl puts down all the blackmailers except one, but Wes opts instead to go after the head of the operation, knocking him out and lurking in the dark to catch the last as he reports in, revealing the bank teller! Turns out the ruby DOES have hypnotic properties and was used to assist their robberies, but the teller - hoping by playing at the victim to lure Sandman into his cohorts' midst and rub him out - spoke as if he remembered the whole experience, where Dian forgot herself on every exposure. Oops!
Same basic mystery structure and resolution type here as last month, complete with overly-wordy explanation, although I find the hook of pitting Dian and Wesley against one another gives it a minor leg up, as does the relatively straightforward nature of the criminal operation compared to planting microfilm in deadly flowers. There's a more even balance between the rush in bust 'em up style of crime-fighting the feature has developed and the stealthy skullduggery I think suits the character best, with nice action art to match each. Dian has some silly faces whenever she wakes from her hypnosis, and the four panel sequence of Wes halting her murder attempt works pretty well. This is, unfortunately, the final pencil-inking collaboration between Flessel and Grothkopf, and much as I've kvetched over the second man's solo work, I'm sorry to see the back of him in this capacity. When the two were in proper tune, they were the best artistic team Sandman enjoyed yet.
(Stop dodging bullets, I want to see you gunshot.)
- ADVENTURE COMICS #60 (March)
Mystery at Malay Mac's - Fox, GrothkopfHey, a rare post-Hourman, pre-redesign cover appearance! That's always nice. "Hello, officer? Yeah, coupla chucklefucks right here, the alley off Fourth, can't miss 'em."
What's this? Dian breaking into a notorious criminal slumlord's safe in the bad part of town? A safe, as Wes discovers after he scares the lady off, filled to the brim with poison gas! Evidently not, as Dian is sound asleep when Wes arrives at Belmont manor to investigate, and a subsequent visit to Mister Mac reveals the only person who'd know the safe was booby-trapped is a local kidnapping organizer. Some blind, flailing fists turns up the girl, Dian's perfect duplicate, snatched from out of state to replace Dian and gain leverage over the cops. Too bad the kidnapper's made of strong stuff, knocking out Sandman and taking both woman for a ride to get back at Mac. Fortunately, Dian leaves Wes a trail of jewelry out the window, enabling him to follow and take down all the crooks with one throw of his gas pistol, revealing in the process 'twas Mac himself who tipped Dian's duplicate to his safe, in hopes of spoiling his rival's big plot.
Art-wise, this is probably Grothkopf's best work for Sandman to date. His tendency to exaggerate is translated into some properly goonish faces for the villains and really, really strong action poses, with some properly atmospheric shots sprinkled in for good measure. He cannot draw the gasmask for piss, but there's such an improvement I almost thought this was a Flessel joint before checking the wiki credits. Makes me wish we could see what he'd do if he kept on as a solo artist - free from the impulse to treat the feature as a cartoon, he produces damn fine work. As a story, this makes good time to mention my misgivings with Wesley's tendency to burst through windows and start swinging long before he thinks to use his sleeping gas. While it's great fun to describe and hype up as the mark of a madman who's even cooler as the badass normal than Batman, it also encourages a faster degradation in the character's identity. I'm sure you'll notice it's been yonks since lurking in the shadows and thinning the ranks by knocking them out in advance has factored into the stories. That Wes handles the bad guy by literally clonking him over the head with the gas gun rather than pulling the trigger speaks to the influence other, punchier superhero features have exerted over the strip.
- ADVENTURE COMICS #61 (April)
The Menace of the Metal Gun - Fox?, FlesselFrom aboard a mysterious aircraft, a madman fires upon the city with a metal-melting ray that dissolves the skyscrapers into slag! Alerted to Doctor Borloff's activities, Wesley meets with swift defeat when the rogue scientist melts his gas gun and escapes in his cylindercraft to terrorize afresh. There IS a bright side, as seeing the ray firsthand gives Wesley some idea how to counteract its effects, and he sends Dian and her father warning for the local airforce to coat their planes in sand as a silicate buffer against the ray. Alas, only one officer heeds his message, leaving Sandman alone to get aboard the machine via his new wirepoon gun and defeat Borloff from within. For his brawling process, a good midflight fight is nothing if the hero gets tossed out an open door, but fortunately he can grapple onto the lone surviving plane, recover his bearings, zip back up, and put a stop to Borloff's dreams of world conquest once and for all!
Action is the name of the game here, and even without Grothkopf's inking enhancements, I think Flessel does a fine job on his own. I'm wary of the wirepoon in the future, as by year's end it will completely replace the gas gun as Sandman's sidearm of choice in further drift from the original Christman concept, but taken as a neutral in its debut, giving Sandman greater aerial mobility does lead to some cool shots and enhance the sense Wes goes stark bananas in the mask by pulling some stunts that would almost certainly pull his arms from their sockets in real life. There are, however, some particularly stiff action shots, and in one panel Flessel cocks up the design on the mask worse than Grothkopf last ish. Based on the opening vignette, Borloff decimated millions of innocent lives in addition to all the planes he melted out of the sky, making him easily the deadliest foe Wes has faced to date, and in turn making the "We did it, gang, everything is bright and peachy again!" ending sorta offputting. They'll have to organize mass funerals tomorrow, Wes. Show a little respect.
- ALL-STAR COMICS #4 (April)
For America and Democracy: The Grey Shirts - Fox, GrothkopfIn the top-level story, the JSA learn of their mission for the FBI: a group of Nazi insurgents known as the Grey Shirts are plotting subversive and destructive activities all across America, and are now posed to badly destabilize the nation in a series of disruptive attacks. Each is assigned a mission at critical points cross the nation, though given the widely-ranging disparity in their powers, their usefulness to the cause varies equally wildly. The Atom humiliates some goons spreading Nazi ideology at a single college, Hawkman barely prevents the destruction of an aviation plant in California, and Hourman's defense of an Oklahoma oil field ends with him toppling one of the oil towers to stop his quarry. Meanwhile, Green Lantern detonates a zeppelin secretly jamming radio transmissions nationwide, the Spectre casually annihilates some otherworldly vampiric globes sympathetic to Hitler's cause, and Doctor Fate uses his magic to out every single spy on the eastern seaboard. Uneven efforts or not, the group converge on the Grey Shirts' ringleader, and with a little help from Johnny Thunder, turn him over to good ol' J. Edgar Hoover's custody. Alas, Wesley does not get the blood he's thirsting after.
(Also Doctor Fate alerts Wesley to the identity and location of the ringleader before his mission starts rather than letting him figure it out on his own like everyone else. Prick.)
For his six-page leg of the assignment, the Sandman is off to El Paso, Texas to assist a local newspaper under threat from the Grey Shirts for printing pro-democracy and anti-Hitler editorials. Of course, this being Wesley Dodds on the job, he gets this information by roughing his way into the newspaper offices, then acts on it by beating on the guard at the Grey Shirts' camp and pounding down a band of brainwashed young men to prove he's a better American than them. After sending the wannabe Nazis for a whirl by running their bomb shipment off the road, Wesley doubles back to completely break the recruits' spirits, daring them to prove their hard enough by shooting an unarmed man in Hitler's name, chiefly himself. When none can cut the mustard, he marches them back into town with collars strapped to his car, and inspires the lot to join the Army to a few shirtless bars of "God Bless America."
Cripes but jingoism produces some heady results, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can rightly condone the ridiculous levels of patriotism on display here, even against such classically anti-American enemies as Nazis, yet at the same time, look at this and tell me it isn't the hardest shit you'll see all week. Again, though I've my misgivings about Wes as a brawler no matter how entertaining the results prove, there's something endearing about him being so raring for a fight his first move is to altercate the receptionist at the place he's assigned to defend. On the whole, Grothkopf's final Sandman contribution also shows refinement from his earlier works, the broader, thicker elements of his linework now tempers on a somewhat more grounded approach. Certainly the Sandman himself keeps a consistent look better than he does in any other issue published thus far this year. I DO notice he reused Flessel's design for the District Attorney wholesale on the newspaper publisher. Since he's going and heading out on a job well done, let's not hold it against him, eh?
- ADVENTURE COMICS #62 (May)
The Purple Death Ray - Fox?, FlesselAt the nightly planetarium show, a member of the audience screams and falls down dead, stricken by a litany of strange symptoms with no obvious cause. Wesley, believing the man was killed by a death ray, examines the auditorium's projector, only to find no obvious alterations or fault. Undeterred, he purchases himself a seat next to the murdered man's for the next show, which is now occupied by another fellow who received a last-second courtesy invitation. Acting quickly, the Sandman reexamines the projector from the shadows and finds a replacement bulb screwed into the socket pointed directly at the man's chair. With assistance from his wirepoon, Sandman swings down and wrenches the man from his seat just as the show starts, the bulb bathing his seat in deadly radiation. On learning the man is a former judge and the deceased a former DA, it's not long before Wes ferrets out the killer; it's the cashier, a former scientist sent to jail for misappropriating university funds years ago, out for revenge and now stopped cold.
See, while I'm skeptical about the growing presence of science-fiction elements in the series, they make fine fodder when they play to Sandman's strengths. Lurking high above a crowd of people seeking the answer to some deadly mystery is exactly Wes' bag, and plus or minus some strange mask drawings, Flessel captures that thrill of closely examining a big deadly machine in secret before it fires. I'd submit the page where Sandman saves the judge from the beam as an easy contender for best of the year thus far, and the shot where Wes pushes Dian away from the killer's bullet is another fine piece of work. My memories of this one before sitting down to reread and write were a lot chillier, probably because I wish the series remained in crime pulp rather than raygun pulp, but a good outcome is a good outcome. Seriously, though, why is the mask going so bobble-eyed of late?
- ADVENTURE COMICS #63 (June)
The Voodoo Sorcerer - ???, FlesselAs Dian and Wesley tiff over his interest in an exotic dancer they know through a mutual friend, the woman's tail-lashing dance is interrupted when she sees a great glowing triangle materialize before her eyes. With the shock straining her bad heart, the Sandman brings her to boyfriend's house, where he reveals the triangle is a voodoo witch doctor's means of accusing someone of murder - just as news comes over the wire that the man the woman lashed with her costume tail has died! Smelling a rat, Wes rushes to the scene of the crime to find the taile barbed with poison quills, only for the titular sorcerer to bumrush him out the window. It's a big misunderstanding, thankfully: he's as shocked by the murder as Sandman, and only summoned the triangle on suggestion from an acquaintance, forgetting the dancer would know its significance through her partner. By happiest coincidence, this provides Wesley the solution to the mystery right quick, for only his friend's chauffeur would have motive, opportunity, and knowledge to frame his employers and their associates for the murder of a stock broker who owed them money.
Hmm, ah, see, on the one hand, it IS nice that the voodoo guy is innocent of everything except a lapse in judgement and the real twist is an unassuming little man exploiting the mystery and fears around the craft to cast suspicion off his person. On the other hand, eek, yike, zoinks! None good. Bad, even. Outside unfortunate depictions of non-white persons from the 1940s, the story's pretty weak for a murder mystery, as numerous elements are evidently known to the characters well in advance, yet only made clear to the reader right before they become relevant, like the exact identity of the murdered man. It's only eight pages, so there's little opportunity to piece information together on your own time, and as such it is heavily reliant on narrative cheats to generate cheap surprise. About the best thing here is the big page-dominating panel of Wesley swinging through the city on his wirepoon, unconscious woman tucked under arm. Kinda hard to convincingly raise my dander about what it means for the character and his feature when it's successfully operating on the long-standing principle of "masked mystery men swinging on a wire through skyscrapers looks really cool." S'like a solid fifth of the formula behind why Spider-Man is so enduringly popular.
(Also not a big fan of how Wes dismisses Dian from participating in the case without any adequate reason why. She calls him out over it, even, and nothing in the story justifies his decision to fly solo on this one.)
- ADVENTURE COMICS #64 (July)
The Unseen Man - ???, FlesselDian's purchase of paints from a local hobby shop includes quite the unusual accidental item: a paint that turns anything and everything invisible on contact. Determined to solve this mystery on her own, Dian investigates the shop with the dealer's cooperation, only for the dread Unseen Man to get the drop on her. Fortunately, Sandman is there to save her because he won't let Dian do anything on her own; unfortunately, Dian doesn't know Wes can see her attacker through his blue cobalt lenses and pulls him away, thinking him mad and letting the Unseen Man go free. As reward for her screw up, she's targeted in her home the next night, only for Wes to barge in again, having anticipated the only possible secret identity for the crook would make him likely to strike back at Dian. It is, unsurprisingly, the hobby shop owner, who Wes turns over to the police before heading out to patent his invisibility paint with the United States Army.
Alright, it's definitely not Gardner Fox writing anymore, because I cannot imagine Fox treating Dian so poorly. I gave her some dignity in summary, but this story is plain dumping all over her as a fussy, incompetent tryhard who fails at investigating on her own on account her womanly ways. Just look at the sheer antagonism between her and Wes; you two are partners, she's saved Sandman's skin like a dozen times, worn his costume and wielded his gas gun to do it once, even! Don't try to BS me into thinking Wes would run this paternalist "let me handle it, Dian, I wear the pants in this relationship" crap on her. You're only alive because she's worn your fucking pants. Otherwise, 'nother instance where the story and art alike don't give me much of note. I reckon Flessel was about done with the series with Fox gone and sorta phoned in his last few assignments. They're nowhere near the standard of his early solo artistic duties on the title. There IS another good wirepoon swinging shot, if one counterbalanced by a crummier instance with yet another weirdly-proportioned mask.
The Mysterious Mr. X: The Kidnapper's Union - Fox, Cliff YoungThe Justice Society are bored. Bored, bored, bored. Why are they bored? There is no crime. Not a single ruffian or scoundrel or roughneck lawbreaker anywhere in the city! Where did crime go? Crime has taken an enforced vacation, courtesy the plans of big crime boss Mister X (hats off), as prelude to his scheme for taking out the JSA and putting all his criminal enterprises back on easy street. It's quite the collection of rackets out against the superheroes - an arsonist ring for Flash, a jewel snatching gang for Hawkman, leader of the phony fortune teller underworld against Doctor Fate, even hard-pressing gym membership shakedowns for the Atom! Naturally our heroes triumph, though every one also encounters a strange little man idly strolling through their battlegrounds. He's so omnipresent despite his mousiness, he's even there when they convene at the police station to organize Mister X's (hats off) arrest. Except this unassuming slip of a man? He IS Mister X (hats off), and with the Justice Society having taken all the fun out've crime, he's turning himself in to live comfortably on the state's dollar in jail. WHOOPSY-DOODLE!
For his six-page part in the game, Sandman must contend against the kidnapper's union, who naturally enough have abducted Dian to get his attention. Not only have these lowlives taken Dian hostage (though she doesn't particularly mind), they've taken out phony accident insurance claims against themselves should the hero injure any of them en route to his untimely death! Nobody quite expects Wes to avoid the sniper-guarded roads to their remote hilltop hideout, though, and a quick wirepoon swing over the canyon (complete with Mister X - hats off - sighting) puts him right in the criminal den. From there, it's a simple biff wham boom to take down the punks and disarm their supporting fire. Alas, Sandman is once again only in the loop on the true nature of the threat against the JSA because someone notifies him from their own investigation, this time Flash via telegram. Let him do his own detective work, you pricks!
Right. You see these panels? You see Dian being calm and collected in the midst of a kidnapping operation? You see Wes trusting her with a submachine gun to keep watch on the fools who mean them harm? Yeah, THAT'S Fox writing Dian. Whoever's writing the Adventure feature at this time ought've taken notes. Artistically, Young makes a fine replacement for Grothkopf and Flessel in Adventure - he can match the first for goons, the second for action, manages a nice turnaround effect before Wes swings on his wirepoon, and even gives us a by-now all-too-rare heavy shadow shot on Wes and Dian. I'm a big fan of the lead kidnapper who calls the JSA the "Justiss Sassiety," and find this instance of Mister X (hats off) the second best in the book, behind only his appearance in the Hourman story, which I think speaks for itself. Probably the only time I'll express preference for something Hourman related over Sandman.
Especially if it means the gas gun vanishes from the character. It hasn't met its final end just yet, but for this seven month block it's proven a very perfunctory aspect of the strip, hung by his side and occasionally brandished without acting as an integral part of the action or storytelling. The wirepoon has subsumed its function as the sidearm, and while I must stress there are plenty aces shots of Wes swinging that fully justify its prominence, taking precedence over the thing that makes him the Sandman, Crimefighter What Fights Crime By Putting The Criminals To Sleep plain rubs me the wrong way. Be awful nice i we could have both without the new toy putting the old out to pasture, y'know? It's not led to anything I'd full-throatedly object over just yet, but... ach, you'll see next time. Speaking of...
Next time! 1941 comes to a close as Wesley picks up another feature to his name, and also a stupid, ugly new costume!
(Previous write-ups: 1939, 1940 pt 1, 1940 pt 2)
2023.05.28 17:25 Blueahoula Season 41 Bowl Playoffs! Mint Julep, Petunia, Oh Mommy!, Rocky BalBowlA & Colossal Cereal Bowl! 40 teams and 5 winners! Good luck!
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2023.05.28 13:03 BullAlligator [General Discussion] CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT WEEK: Championship Sunday (2023)
/collegebaseball General Discussion Thread - WEEK 15: Part III (2023)
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Week 15 Games
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2023 Week 15 Top 25
Mean+Median 3-Poll Composite| Rank | Team | Conference | D1B | BWA | USAT | Prev. | Δ |
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| 1 | Wake Forest Demon Deacons | ACC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 2 | Florida Gators | SEC | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ↑1 |
| 3 | Stanford Cardinal | Pac-12 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ↑2 |
| 4 | LSU Tigers | SEC | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | — |
| 5 | Arkansas Razorbacks | SEC | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ↓3 |
| 6 | Vanderbilt Commodores | SEC | 8 | 6 | 6 | 10 | ↑4 |
| 7 | Coastal Carolina Chanticleers | Sun Belt | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | — |
| 8 | Clemson Tigers | ACC | 6 | 9 | 8 | 9 | ↑1 |
| 9 | Connecticut Huskies | Big East | 9 | 7 | 10 | 8 | ↓1 |
| 10 | Miami Hurricanes | ACC | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ↑2 |
| 11 | Virginia Cavaliers | ACC | 12 | 12 | 9 | 18 | ↑7 |
| 12 | ECU Pirates | American | 15 | 11 | 12 | 14 | ↑2 |
| 13 | Oregon State Beavers | Pac-12 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ↑2 |
| 14 | Tennessee Volunteers | SEC | 13 | 15 | 13 | 19 | ↑5 |
| 15 | Campbell Fighting Camels | Big South | 14 | 14 | 15 | 13 | ↓2 |
| 16 | Dallas Baptist Patriots | C-USA | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | ↑1 |
| 17 | Oklahoma State Cowboys | Big 12 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 22 | ↑5 |
| 18 | West Virginia Mountaineers | Big 12 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 6 | ↓12 |
| 19 | South Carolina Gamecocks | SEC | NR | 19 | 19 | 11 | ↓8 |
| 20 | Boston College Eagles | ACC | 22 | 20 | 20 | 21 | ↑1 |
| 21 | Southern Miss Golden Eagles | Sun Belt | 16 | 21 | 23 | 24 | ↑3 |
| 22 | Texas Longhorns | Big 12 | 20 | 25 | 22 | NR | ↑ |
| 23 | Kentucky Wildcats | SEC | 25 | 23 | 21 | 20 | ↓3 |
| 24 | Duke Blue Devils | ACC | NR | 22 | 24 | 16 | ↓8 |
| 25 | Maryland Terrapins | Big Ten | 23 | 24 | NR | 23 | ↓2 |
| NR | Auburn Tigers | SEC | 19 | 27 | 25 | NR | ↑ |
| NR | Alabama Crimson Tide | SEC | 24 | 26 | NR | NR | ↑ |
D1B – D1Baseball
CBW – National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association
USAT – USA Today
2023 Division 1 League Champions
| Conference | Regular Season | Tournament |
|---|---|---|
| ACC | Wake Forest | Clemson |
| America East | Maine | Maine |
| American | ECU | Tulane |
| A-10 | St. Joseph's | George Mason |
| ASUN | Lipscomb | Lipscomb |
| Big 12 | Oklahoma State, Texas, & West Virginia | TBD |
| Big East | Connecticut | Xavier |
| Big South | Campbell | Campbell |
| Big Ten | Maryland | Maryland |
| Big West | UC San Diego* | ɴᴏɴᴇ |
| CAA | UNCW | UNCW |
| C-USA | Dallas Baptist | Charlotte |
| Horizon | Wright State | Wright State |
| Ivy League | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| MAAC | Fairfield | Rider |
| MAC | Kent State | Ball State |
| Missouri Valley | Indiana State | Indiana State |
| Mountain West | San Diego State & San José State | San José State |
| NEC | Central Connecticut | Central Connecticut |
| Ohio Valley | Morehead State | Eastern Illinois |
| Pac-12 | Stanford | Oregon |
| Patriot | Army | Army |
| SEC | Arkansas & Florida | Vanderbilt |
| SoCon | Samford | Samford |
| Southland | Nicholls | Nicholls |
| Summit | Oral Roberts | Oral Roberts |
| Sun Belt | Coastal Carolina | Southern Miss |
| SWAC | Alabama State | Florida A&M |
| WAC | Grand Canyon | Sam Houston |
| West Coast | Loyola Marymount | Santa Clara |
2023.05.28 04:46 InvaderWeezle The leading receiver of each division every year since the merger
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Breakdown by number of different players on each team:
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Breakdown by number of different players on each team:
- Cardinals: 11 (John Gilliam, Mel Gray, Pat Tilley, Roy Green, J.T. Smith, Rob Moore, Frank Sanders, David Boston, Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin, DeAndre Hopkins)
- Oilers/Titans: 10 (Charlie Joiner, Ken Burrough, Tim Smith, Drew Hill, Haywood Jeffires, Curtis Duncan, Derrick Mason, Drew Bennett, Nate Washington, A.J. Brown)
- Vikings: 10 (John Gilliam, Sammy White, Ahmad Rashad, Anthony Carter, Cris Carter, Jake Reed, Randy Moss, Sidney Rice, Adam Thielen, Justin Jefferson)
- Steelers: 10 (Ron Shanklin, John Stallworth, Eric Green, Yancey Thigpen, Hines Ward, Santonio Holmes, Mike Wallace, Antonio Brown, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Diontae Johnson)
- Washington: 9 (Frank Grant, Charlie Brown, Gary Clark, Ricky Sanders, Henry Ellard, Laveranues Coles, Santana Moss, Pierre Garcon, Terry McLaurin)
- Cowboys: 9 (Bob Hayes, Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, Michael Irvin, Terrell Owens, Miles Austin, Dez Bryant, Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb)
- 49ers: 8 (Gene Washington, Dwight Clark, Roger Craig, Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Michael Crabtree, Anquan Boldin, George Kittle)
- Packers: 8 (James Lofton, Sterling Sharpe, Antonio Freeman, Javon Walker, Donald Driver, Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Davante Adams)
- Chiefs: 8 (Otis Taylor, Walter White, Carlos Carson, Stephone Paige, Tony Gonzalez, Dwayne Bowe, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce)
- Bengals: 8 (Chip Myers, Isaac Curtis, Cris Collinsworth, Eddie Brown, Carl Pickens, Chad Johnson, A.J. Green, Ja'Marr Chase)
- Dolphins: 8 (Paul Warfield, Nat Moore, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, Chris Chambers, Jarvis Landry, DeVante Parker, Tyreek Hill)
- Patriots: 7 (Stanley Morgan, Vincent Brisby, Terry Glenn, Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski)
- Jets: 7 (Rich Caster, Jerome Barkum, Wesley Walker, Al Toon, Keyshawn Johnson, Santana Moss, Brandon Marshall)
- Chargers: 7 (Gary Garrison, John Jefferson, Wes Chandler, Anthony Miller, Tony Martin, Vincent Jackson, Keenan Allen)
- Rams: 7 (Harold Jackson, Gene Washington, Ron Jessie, Henry Ellard, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Cooper Kupp)
- Bills: 7 (Marlin Briscoe, Frank Lewis, Andre Reed, Eric Moulds, Lee Evans, Steve Johnson, Stefon Diggs)
- Falcons: 7 (Alfred Jenkins, Stacey Bailey, Bert Emanuel, Tony Martin, Roddy White, Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley)
- Raiders: 7 (Mike Siani, Cliff Branch, Todd Christensen, Tim Brown, Jerry Rice, Amari Cooper, Davante Adams)
- Eagles: 7 (Harold Jackson, Harold Carmichael, Mike Quick, Irving Fryar, Terrell Owens, Zach Ertz, A.J. Brown)
- Broncos: 6 (Steve Watson, Rod Smith, Javon Walker, Brandon Marshall, Brandon Lloyd, Demaryius Thomas)
- Lions: 6 (Ron Jessie, Jeff Chadwick, Herman Moore, Roy Williams, Calvin Johnson, Kenny Golladay)
- Colts: 6 (Roger Carr, Reggie Langhorne, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton, Michael Pittman Jr.)
- Browns: 6 (Reggie Rucker, Dave Logan, Webster Slaughter, Josh Gordon, Jarvis Landry, Amari Cooper)
- Saints: 5 (Henry Childs, Wes Chandler, Joe Horn, Marques Colston, Michael Thomas)
- Buccaneers: 4 (Keyshawn Johnson, Keenan McCardell, Vincent Jackson, Mike Evans)
- Seahawks: 4 (Steve Largent, Brian Blades, Doug Baldwin, D.K. Metcalf)
- Bears: 3 (Dick Gordon, George Farmer, James Scott)
- Giants: 3 (Amani Toomer, Victor Cruz, Odell Beckham Jr.)
- Panthers: 3 (Muhsin Muhammad, Steve Smith Sr., D.J. Moore)
- Texans: 2 (Andre Johnson, DeAndre Hopkins)
- Jaguars: 2 (Jimmy Smith, Christian Kirk)
- Ravens: 0
2023.05.27 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
Build Supermajorities of Democrats in the US House and US Senate
Here’s “22 Blue in 2022: ‘A Quick List’”:- Florida 2. Ohio 3. Kansas 4. North Carolina 5. Kentucky 6. Arizona7. South Carolina 8. Georgia 9. Texas 10. Michigan 11. Nevada 12. Pennsylvania13. Missouri 14. Wisconsin 15. Iowa 16. Arkansas 17. Oklahoma 18. Indiana19. Colorado 20. Alabama 21. South Dakota 22. North Dakota
”We the people” must deny the Republican party political power at every level of government for decades to come “in order to create a more perfect union.” With 48 States having some statewide contest(s), November 8th, 2022 is our best chance the Democrats will get to do that for the rest of this decade, at least.
”The List” encourages the election of a Democratic Supermajority in the US Senate in 2022. This is the best chance we will have to create a Democratic Supermajority in both Chambers of Congress for the remainder of this decade. This midterm could be a devastating loss for the democrats if good patriots ignore this election. If Americans of good conscience band together instead, we could could begin the exile of the Republican party from power, not for years, but for decades to come.
“The List” is a set of suggestions about where to focus collective activism today.
The election of Democratic Supermajorities to both chambers of the US Congress is the best outcome we can strive towards in the 2022 Midterm Election for many reasons. Among them: breaking the decade of gridlock in Congress, supporting President Biden’s agenda, and his re-election in 2024. My personal favorite is that this could commence the decades-long political banishment of the GOP from power, which the Republican Party so richly deserves.
The Republican party has proved itself treasonous on many levels. They are traitors to Humanity by supporting Trump. Traitors to the Nation for supporting Putin. Traitors to the government and betrayers of the constitution through their apologies for the 1/6/21 insurrection. To safeguard our country and the world, we must block the Republicans from power at the ballot box, at all levels of government, for at least a generation.
Political game playing may be inevitable among humans. Change the numbers, and then change the rules, if not the game. Cynical refusal to play at this time in history cedes power to NAZIs manipulated by Active Measures. That is a surrender to crypto fascism, not radical thinking, mere cynicism, or hipsterism.
In 2022, Patriots must unify to crush the Republican Party at the ballot box. We can defeat them in every State, at every level. We need the biggest turnout at the voting booth of any Midterm ever. We need to raise more money for candidates and organizations than we did during the entire 2020 campaign season if we are to accomplish this. We need to do this in the next six months.
This is what a “Blue Tsunami” REALLY looks like.
Electing a Democratic Supermajority in Congress is our hope for the future and retribution for America’s enemies. “22 Blue in 2022” is a roadmap to the beginning of that journey. “22 Blue in 2022” is our war plan. ”22 Blue in 2022” is our electoral battle cry. “22 Blue in 2022” is a way forward out of gridlock, a way to non-violently thwart those who would poison the body politic with their hate.
If we don’t try this hard in 2022, Trump will go unpunished and metastasize by 2024.
Resist In Power, my sisters, my brothers, and my others.
Resist Together, and elect a Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
See The “FULL 22 Bue in 2022 List”, With Dozens more links to the organizations and candidates that you can support to help Create a Democratic Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
National Democratic Organizations
Democratic National Committee (DNC): https://democrats.org/Donate Directly to the DNC: DNC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC): https://www.dscc.org/Donate Directly to the DSCC: DSCC DIRECT DONATIONS
2022 Senate Republican Target Races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2022senatetargets
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): www.dccc.orgDonate Directly to the DCCC: DCCC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Governors Association (DGA): https://democraticgovernors.org/Donate Directly to the DGA: DGA DIRECT DONATIONS
ALL Links are to party organizations, candidates, voter groups, voting information, and navigation within this site. There may be additions or subtractions over the course of the campaign. No portion of any donations to any of the candidates or organizations listed above goes to “22 Blue in 2022.” We take none of it! All donations through “22 Blue in 2022: The List” will be tax deductible unless otherwise noted at the destination site.
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Buy a $2.22 Weekly subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Precinct Captain Buy a $22.22 Monthly subscription and Become part of the “22 Blue in 2022” Squad Buy a $222.22 Annual Subscription and join our “22 Blue in 2022” Steering Committee Buy a $2222.22 Annual Subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Founder
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2023.05.27 16:07 Blueahoula Season 41 Points Per Game Rankings
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2023.05.26 23:45 Calm-racial-epithet Except for the Pickens this has to be the worst Obsidian of all time.
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2023.05.26 19:00 Future_Vehicle_8307 22 Blue in 2022: 'THE QUICK LIST'
22 Blue in 2022: 'THE LIST'
Build Supermajorities of Democrats in the US House and US Senate
Here’s “22 Blue in 2022: ‘A Quick List’”:- Florida 2. Ohio 3. Kansas 4. North Carolina 5. Kentucky 6. Arizona7. South Carolina 8. Georgia 9. Texas 10. Michigan 11. Nevada 12. Pennsylvania13. Missouri 14. Wisconsin 15. Iowa 16. Arkansas 17. Oklahoma 18. Indiana19. Colorado 20. Alabama 21. South Dakota 22. North Dakota
”We the people” must deny the Republican party political power at every level of government for decades to come “in order to create a more perfect union.” With 48 States having some statewide contest(s), November 8th, 2022 is our best chance the Democrats will get to do that for the rest of this decade, at least.
”The List” encourages the election of a Democratic Supermajority in the US Senate in 2022. This is the best chance we will have to create a Democratic Supermajority in both Chambers of Congress for the remainder of this decade. This midterm could be a devastating loss for the democrats if good patriots ignore this election. If Americans of good conscience band together instead, we could could begin the exile of the Republican party from power, not for years, but for decades to come.
“The List” is a set of suggestions about where to focus collective activism today.
The election of Democratic Supermajorities to both chambers of the US Congress is the best outcome we can strive towards in the 2022 Midterm Election for many reasons. Among them: breaking the decade of gridlock in Congress, supporting President Biden’s agenda, and his re-election in 2024. My personal favorite is that this could commence the decades-long political banishment of the GOP from power, which the Republican Party so richly deserves.
The Republican party has proved itself treasonous on many levels. They are traitors to Humanity by supporting Trump. Traitors to the Nation for supporting Putin. Traitors to the government and betrayers of the constitution through their apologies for the 1/6/21 insurrection. To safeguard our country and the world, we must block the Republicans from power at the ballot box, at all levels of government, for at least a generation.
Political game playing may be inevitable among humans. Change the numbers, and then change the rules, if not the game. Cynical refusal to play at this time in history cedes power to NAZIs manipulated by Active Measures. That is a surrender to crypto fascism, not radical thinking, mere cynicism, or hipsterism.
In 2022, Patriots must unify to crush the Republican Party at the ballot box. We can defeat them in every State, at every level. We need the biggest turnout at the voting booth of any Midterm ever. We need to raise more money for candidates and organizations than we did during the entire 2020 campaign season if we are to accomplish this. We need to do this in the next six months.
This is what a “Blue Tsunami” REALLY looks like.
Electing a Democratic Supermajority in Congress is our hope for the future and retribution for America’s enemies. “22 Blue in 2022” is a roadmap to the beginning of that journey. “22 Blue in 2022” is our war plan. ”22 Blue in 2022” is our electoral battle cry. “22 Blue in 2022” is a way forward out of gridlock, a way to non-violently thwart those who would poison the body politic with their hate.
If we don’t try this hard in 2022, Trump will go unpunished and metastasize by 2024.
Resist In Power, my sisters, my brothers, and my others.
Resist Together, and elect a Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
See The “FULL 22 Bue in 2022 List”, With Dozens more links to the organizations and candidates that you can support to help Create a Democratic Congressional Supermajority in 2022!
National Democratic Organizations
Democratic National Committee (DNC): https://democrats.org/Donate Directly to the DNC: DNC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC): https://www.dscc.org/Donate Directly to the DSCC: DSCC DIRECT DONATIONS
2022 Senate Republican Target Races: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2022senatetargets
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC): www.dccc.orgDonate Directly to the DCCC: DCCC DIRECT DONATIONS
Democratic Governors Association (DGA): https://democraticgovernors.org/Donate Directly to the DGA: DGA DIRECT DONATIONS
ALL Links are to party organizations, candidates, voter groups, voting information, and navigation within this site. There may be additions or subtractions over the course of the campaign. No portion of any donations to any of the candidates or organizations listed above goes to “22 Blue in 2022.” We take none of it! All donations through “22 Blue in 2022: The List” will be tax deductible unless otherwise noted at the destination site.
WITH THESE EXCEPTIONS: The “Donate” button at the top right of each page (“Donate” is Substack’s designation, not in my control) AND these links below, which each Support “22 Blue in 2022”:
Buy a $2.22 Weekly subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Precinct Captain Buy a $22.22 Monthly subscription and Become part of the “22 Blue in 2022” Squad Buy a $222.22 Annual Subscription and join our “22 Blue in 2022” Steering Committee Buy a $2222.22 Annual Subscription and Become a “22 Blue in 2022” Founder
Subscriptions/Donations to “22 Blue in 2022” ARE NOT Tax Deductible!
2023.05.26 15:20 Blueahoula Season 41 Rivalry Week Results!
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