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Nope…. Don’t think they can any more…

Yep…

Is the first one pronounced: on-dree-ah an-dree-ah

Great comeback last night… On to the Super Regional…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/valerie-mahaffey-dies-at-71/ Valerie Mahaffey, an actress known for her scene-stealing turns in "Desperate Housewives," and "Northern Exposure," died Friday in Los Angeles after battling cancer, her publicist said in a statement to CBS News. Mahaffey, who won an Emmy for playing Eve the hypochondriac on "Northern Exposure," was 71 years old. "I have lost the love of my life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will be missed," her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said in a statement. Survivors also include their daughter, Alice Richards. Mahaffey began her acting career in New York City. Her stage, film and television work included the soap opera "The Doctors" more than 45 years ago and encompassed roles in the TV series "Young Sheldon" and "Desperate Housewives." She appeared in the movie "Sully" with Tom Hanks, directed by Clint Eastwood, and played Madame Reynard in "French Exit" with Michelle Pfeiffer. She won an outstanding supporting actress in a drama series Emmy award for her portrayal of hypochondriac Eve on "Northern Exposure." Mahaffey also appeared on television in "The Powers That Be," "Big Sky," "Seinfeld," "Wings" and "ER." Her film credits include "Jungle 2 Jungle," "Senior Trip" and "Seabiscuit." Mahaffey was born and raised in Indonesia until age 11. She then lived in Nigeria, England and Texas.

https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/story/_/id/45407623/lsu-shreveport-become-1st-college-baseball-team-go-unbeaten LSU Shreveport became the first college baseball team on record to go unbeaten, finishing 59-0 when it won the NAIA championship in Lewiston, Idaho. The Pilots' perfect season ended with a 13-7 victory over Southeastern (Florida) on Friday night and gave the 10,000-student school in northwest Louisiana its first national title in any sport. For 25 years LSU Shreveport has been one of the top programs in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which governs sports at 241 mostly small colleges across the country. The Pilots have appeared in the NAIA national tournament every year since 2005 and the NAIA World Series in 2021, 2022 and 2025. They're 270-49 in six seasons under coach Brad Neffendorf, including 142-13 in Red River Athletic Conference play. LSU Shreveport played only four games decided by one run this season, ranked second in the NAIA with 11.3 runs per game and third with a .361 batting average. The Pilots' 2.38 ERA was more than a run better than the next-closest team, and they led the nation with a .982 fielding percentage. Josh Gibson, at .436, was one of three players on the team to bat better than .400, and pitcher Isaac Rohde struck out an NAIA-leading 146 and had a 2.09 ERA while going 16-0. The Pilots broke the NAIA-record winning percentage of .935, set when Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) went 43-3 in 1996. The NCAA top single-season winning percentages are .914 by Arizona State (64-6 in 1972) in Division I, .939 by Savannah State of Georgia (46-3 in 2000) in Division II and .978 by Trinity of Connecticut (45-1 in 2008) in Division III.

Yep! An amazing achievement…

@Tebok I think they “love you long time”…

Looks like Kentucky… LET’S GO… …MOINTAINEERS!!!

Nice win yesterday…. Hoping they wrap the regional up today…

Poor sod…

LOL. 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K, ND Yep the Royals really got to him today…

Sam Huff Sam Houston Samuel Adams

Hoping for a miracle today at Clemson... Let's Go... ...Mountaineers!!!

https://deadline.com/2025/05/loretta-swit-dead-1236414484/ Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the hit comedy series M*A*S*H, died today at her home in New York City. She was 87. Her death was announced by her representative Harlan Boll, who said a New York City police report indicates Swit died just after midnight today of suspected natural causes. Swit was a mainstay on the classic and beloved comedy series for its entire 11-year run, nominated for Emmy Awards every year from 1974-83, winning in 1980 and 1982. Born Loretta Jane Szwed on November 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey, studied drama in New York City with Gene Frankel, the noted theater director and acting teacher. Swit appeared in Off Broadway productions throughout the 1960s, and in 1967 toured with the national company of the comedy Any Wednesday. Swit made her TV debut in 1969 on Hawaii Five-O, with subsequent credits including Mannix, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Bold Ones, among many others. But it was her signature role of Margaret Houlihan in the series that also starred Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers and Larry Linville, that brought her national and lasting fame. Based on Robert Altman’s 1970 feature film (with Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips), M*A*S*H was not an immediate hit, failing to make the top 25 among primetime programs that season. But its fortunes soon changed, and M*A*S*H would go on to be a top 10 program for each of its final 10 seasons. “Loretta Swit’s portrayal of Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan was groundbreaking – bringing heart, humor, and strength to one of television comedy’s most enduring roles,” said National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson. “Her talent extended well beyond that iconic character, with acclaimed work on both stage and screen that showcased her intelligence, versatility, and passion. That legacy endures through the cultural impact of M*A*S*H, which is proudly represented in the National Comedy Center.” – Swit appeared in more than 250 episodes of M*A*S*H including the 2.5-hour series finale. Airing in February 1983, it remains the most-watched episode of series television in history, with more than 105 million viewers and a still-stunning 60.2 rating/77 share. Her film credits include Stand Up and Be Counted with Jacqueline Bisset, Freebie and the Bean with James Caan and Alan Arkin, Race With the Devil with Peter Fonda, Beer opposite Rip Torn, S.O.B. with Julie Andrews and William Holden, Whoops Apocalypse with Peter Cook and Herbert Lom, Forrest Warrior with Chuck Norris, and BoardHeads with Bronson Pinchot. She also appeared in such TV films as Games Mother Never Taught You with Sam Waterston, Hell Hath No Fury with Barbara Eden, The Execution with Rip Torn, Dreams of Gold with Cliff Robertson, and A Killer Among Friends with Patty Duke. She also appeared on most the era’s TV specials and variety shows, most notably The Muppet Show with Kermit and Miss Piggy. On Broadway, she appeared in Same Time, Next Year in 1975 and The Mystery of Edwin Drood in the 85. She also had a prolific career in regional theater. In addition to her Emmys, Swit earned four Golden Globe nominations. A fierce advocate for animals, Swit founded the SwitHeart Animal Alliance to prevent cruelty and end animal suffering, to promote and cooperate with numerous nonprofit organizations and programs that protect, rescue, train, and care for animals and preserve their habitat, while raising public awareness about such issues. Information on survivors was not immediately available. A marriage to actor Dennis Holahan ended in divorce in 1995.

Woot! The 'Eers win it in the bottom of the ninth on a walk-off sac fly...

Well they made it back to the cup finals against Florida again... Hopefully they won't go down 3-0 again... GO EDMONTON!!!

Time to crank up the fearmongering again… https://wtop.com/world/2025/05/5-year-forecast-sees-more-killer-heat-fires-and-temperature-records/ WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast. There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office. “Higher global mean temperatures may sound abstract, but it translates in real life to a higher chance of extreme weather: stronger hurricanes, stronger precipitation, droughts,” said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn’t part of the calculations but said they made sense. “So higher global mean temperatures translates to more lives lost.” With every tenth of a degree the world warms from human-caused climate change “we will experience higher frequency and more extreme events (particularly heat waves but also droughts, floods, fires and human-reinforced hurricanes/typhoons),” emailed Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. He was not part of the research. And for the first time there’s a chance — albeit slight — that before the end of the decade, the world’s annual temperature will shoot past the Paris climate accord goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and hit a more alarming 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of heating since the mid-1800s, the two agencies said. There’s an 86% chance that one of the next five years will pass 1.5 degrees and a 70% chance that the five years as a whole will average more than that global milestone, they figured. The projections come from more than 200 forecasts using computer simulations run by 10 global centers of scientists. Ten years ago, the same teams figured there was a similar remote chance — about 1% — that one of the upcoming years would exceed that critical 1.5 degree threshold and then it happened last year. This year, a 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial year enters the equation in a similar manner, something UK Met Office longer term predictions chief Adam Scaife and science scientist Leon Hermanson called “shocking.” “It’s not something anyone wants to see, but that’s what the science is telling us,” Hermanson said. Two degrees of warming is the secondary threshold, the one considered less likely to break, set by the 2015 Paris agreement. Technically, even though 2024 was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times, the Paris climate agreement’s threshold is for a 20-year time period, so it has not been exceeded. Factoring in the past 10 years and forecasting the next 10 years, the world is now probably about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter since the mid 1800s, World Meteorological Organization climate services director Chris Hewitt estimated. “With the next five years forecast to be more than 1.5C warmer than preindustrial levels on average, this will put more people than ever at risk of severe heat waves, bringing more deathsand severe health impacts unless people can be better protected from the effects of heat. Also we can expect more severe wildfires as the hotter atmosphere dries out the landscape,” said Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the UK Met Office and a professor at the University of Exeter. Ice in the Arctic — which will continue to warm 3.5 times faster than the rest of the world — will melt and seas will rise faster, Hewitt said. What tends to happen is that global temperatures rise like riding on an escalator, with temporary and natural El Nino weather cycles acting like jumps up or down on that escalator, scientists said. But lately, after each jump from an El Nino, which adds warming to the globe, the planet doesn’t go back down much, if at all. “Record temperatures immediately become the new normal,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson.

Been getting a lot of Poison on Hair Nation and it popped into my head that a lot of people think DeVille is a bad guitarist… I don’t play guitar, so he sounds good to me…. Why does he have such a bad reputation for this?

Thanks…. I have always wondered if Bret wrote the music so CC can play simply or that is what CC wrote to play instead of expanding… I mean whatever they did obviously worked, so there is that…

There is much rejoicing from seafoam, MO, jybcho, and others, but they will deny it... https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/trump-pardon-chrisley-knows-best (CNN) -- President Donald Trump has signed full pardons for imprisoned reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2022 for a conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million, according to a White House official. In addition to the bank fraud convictions, they were also found guilty of several tax crimes, including attempting to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. In a post on X, Trump’s adviser Margo Martin posted a video of Trump phoning Savannah Chrisley, the couple’s daughter, informing her of the plans for pardons. “It’s a terrible thing. But it’s a great thing because your parents are going to be free and clean, and hopefully we can do it by tomorrow,” Trump said. “I don’t know them, but give them our regards,” he continued. Alice Johnson, who Trump pardoned during his first term and is now acting as his “pardon czar,” joined the president in the Oval Office for the phone call. Savannah Chrisley spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July. Chrisley also helped campaign for Trump as part of “Team Trump’s Women Tour.” She recently appeared on Lara Trump’s Fox News program to discuss her parents’ plight. Todd Chrisley is serving 12 years at a Federal Prison Camp in Florida, and Julie Chrisley is serving her seven-year sentence at a Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The Chrisleys, known for their reality program “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty in June 2022. Both of them have maintained their innocence and were appealing their criminal convictions.

Yeah I got a kick out of this as well…

Paige with her best game so far in her short W career… 21 points (8-10 shooting), 5 boards, and 7 assists in the Wings first win of the season…

Todd probably wished he had one...

I guess you do care about daily wins...