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chinese58
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | NELA. after 30 years in Dallas. |
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| Occupation: | advertising sales |
| Number of Posts: | 33790 |
| Registered on: | 6/14/2004 |
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quote:I thought it was something millennials started doing. The Movie and TV Board started doing it with movies maybe a decade ago. I sometimes have to Google them to know what movie they are talking about.
I swear that soldiers, engineers, and tech guys jerk off to long acronyms
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re: Has the flamboyant volleyball player been discussed?
Posted by chinese58 on 4/16/26 at 9:14 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
I recently joked on here about Stanford having two men's volleyball Natty's. Do they have boys high school volleyball in some states?
I've been to the crossroads down off Hwy61 in Mississippi.
Spanish Colonial Louisiana on 64Parishes.com
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Spain governed the colony of Louisiana for nearly four decades, from 1763 through March 1803, returning it to France for a few months before France sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Spanish colonial period began with uncertainty and a major rebellion, but by its end Louisiana had reached a new level of prosperity. By employing effective administrators who were culturally sensitive to the colony’s French-speaking Creole population, the Spanish accomplished what the French had never done—transform Louisiana into a stable, growing outpost.
During the Spanish colonial period, there was a dramatic expansion of slavery in the young colony. The plantation economy drove the slave trade and grew in the mid-1790s as cotton and sugar replaced tobacco and indigo as the region’s major cash crops. The arrival of thousands of enslaved Africans, combined with Spain’s liberal manumission policies, also contributed to an increase in the colony’s population of free people of color, or gens de couleur libres. Trade connections multiplied—both up the Mississippi River toward the expanding American West and downriver toward the Gulf of Mexico—as New Orleans grew into a vital port. By the time Louisiana was sold to the United States, it had been transformed from a sparsely settled zone into a dynamic center for trade....
re: Watch Braxxtyn CRUSH this homerun at the 12U Select Baseball level
Posted by chinese58 on 4/16/26 at 7:36 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:Go back to Enron Field. The Smartest Guys in the Room!
Let’s go back to Minute Maid
re: NY Times questioning statue of Texas Rangers at Rangers ballpark
Posted by chinese58 on 4/16/26 at 5:16 pm to CunningLinguist
He's wearing a cowboy hat just like the picture! :nana:
ETA: Leftwingers are still mad at the Rangers for not doing a gay day.
They should have scraped this engraving away.
Former Bama DE Luther Davis faces charges of wire fraud & identity theft of NFL players
Posted by chinese58 on 4/16/26 at 4:39 pm
We're talking about former West Monroe & Alabama DE Luther Davis, who made cash payments to college players while he was a runner for an agent.
ESPN
ETA:
Here's the 2013 article about the same guy making payments to players for an agent.
ESPN
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Report: Penix, Njoku, McKinney used by ex-Bama DE for fraud
Michael Rothstein
Apr 16, 2026, 01:27 PM ET
A former Alabama football player faces charges of wire fraud and identity theft after he allegedly used wigs and fake driver's licenses to impersonate NFL players for the purpose of securing nearly $20 million in loans, according to federal court records.
Prosecutors allege that Luther Davis pretended to be three different NFL players from May 2023 until October 2024 to secure loans from multiple lending agencies.
The players whose identities were allegedly used are Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr., former Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku and Green Bay Packers safety Xavier McKinney, according to a report.
The court documents state that none of the players had authorized the loans and that fake email accounts were created without their knowledge.
Plea hearings are scheduled for April 27 for Davis and CJ Evins, Davis' partner in the alleged scheme. Evins is listed in a separate filing and faces wire fraud and identity theft charges in the same case, and his attorney, Ben Alper, told ESPN in an email Thursday his client is scheduled to plead guilty....
ESPN
ETA:
Here's the 2013 article about the same guy making payments to players for an agent.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Five Southeastern Conference football players, including former Alabama All-American tackle D.J. Fluker, allegedly received impermissible benefits prior to completing their collegiate careers.
According to a Yahoo! Sports report, former Alabama defensive end Luther Davis acted as an intermediary between the players and multiple NFL agents and financial advisers. The report says Davis funneled money and benefits totaling $45,500 to Fluker, Tennessee starting defensive end Maurice Couch, former Volunteers quarterback Tyler Bray, and former Mississippi State players Fletcher Cox and Chad Bumphis. ...
ESPN
I like No Country for Old Men more by a lot. I've only watched There Will Be Blood once all the way through. Can't stand Paul Dano's character, and hate movies that use weak, sniveling characters like him to make another character look strong.
quote:The 1st Round of games is streaming on Victory+ for FREE
Dallas/Minnesota s
The Rangers are the only thing on there that you have to pay for. The Stars, The Anaheim Ducks, a hokey minor league, Volleyball, socccer and one high school football game a week during the season are free.
re: 'CinemaCon' Discussion Thread: Movie News, Trailers, etc
Posted by chinese58 on 4/14/26 at 2:57 pm to UnluckyTiger
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Is Tom Rothman…SouthEasternKaiju?
re: Rec baseball is slowly creeping toward extinction in my area
Posted by chinese58 on 4/12/26 at 2:34 pm to GeauxtigersMs36
quote:I managed & played on a Dallas co-ed C league softball team that was sponsored by a bar.The bar was down the street from my office. Most of the team were from my office. We ate lunch at the bar some days and stopped in on the way home from work on occasion. The field we played on was only 10 or 12 blocks away. After games they gave us three pitchers of beer and a shot of tequila. We finished 2nd in our league.
Played for a pizza place in Mandeville… we sucked but got free pizza
The next year I got the company I worked for to sponsor the team. The same group of people won our league and made the citywide playoffs. We won one playoff game but lost our 2nd game. We had to move up to a B league. We never won at that level, but the other teams had former college softball players on them. We had lost three of our better female players who moved to other companies. Our 24 year old 1st baseman, a pitcher and an outfielder who was as good as any of the guys on the team. I never found another female willing to play 1st base. They didn't want people throwing the ball to them so hard.
Saw a late 80's or early 90's black 911 on trailer yesterday headed West on I-20. It looked it's age. Hopefully it was headed to Dallas for a little restoration. It had a rear wing. That made me wonder it it may have been an old turbo engine. Such a beautiful automobile.
re: Hondo fest - Nola
Posted by chinese58 on 4/11/26 at 12:31 pm to finfeathersport
I remember the anticipation of seeing Lynyrd Skynrd in Baton Rouge my freshman year at LSU.
ETA:
I had the same haircut as Billy Powell back then.
ETA:
I had the same haircut as Billy Powell back then.
re: Hondo fest - Nola
Posted by chinese58 on 4/11/26 at 12:28 pm to finfeathersport
re: She got her EBT and race card declined at 7-11.
Posted by chinese58 on 4/11/26 at 12:04 pm to BoomerandSooner
"Black people built this sh*t. White people gave us the money to build this sh*t, but we built it." :nana:
re: Rec baseball is slowly creeping toward extinction in my area
Posted by chinese58 on 4/11/26 at 11:23 am to SlowFlowPro
The biggest difference I see is that there are no longer vacant lots where kids to play sandlot ball. When I lived in Kosciusko, MS we had a fenced in field that the owner bush hogged in the summer just so we could play. He had a grown son and the neighborhood kids played there when he was home. Nobody would do that today because if a kid got hurt, parents would sue the owner of the field today. There was another field at the other end of our street that younger kids played on. Our field had a piece of a shingle as home plate and bricks or rocks for bases. The small kids field didn't even have bases.
Even though we had the field in our neighborhood, we would sometimes ride our bikes across town and play on the city Little League fields during the day. All of our games were at night. Teams didn't reserve them and there were no locks on the gates to keep us out. Just like with the field the individual neighbor owned, the city probably locks the fields when they aren't in use because the parents of a kid that might get hurt would sue the city for not supervising the kids. They'd probably be fully booked for someone's practices anyway. All you needed was a bat, a couple of balls, and as long as half the kids had gloves to share with the other team, you could play all day. Just remember to go home for supper. The world's just a lot less fun today.
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Sandlot ball is where I developed my love for the game. I really didn't have fun playing Little League because my dad was my coach. He yelled at my brothers and I just like he did at home. The one summer I played Pony League ball was for another kids dad. Maybe because I had two older brothers to compete against, & turning 15 in January of my freshman year, I was the best player on the team. I had lots of fun playing on that team. Our coach let me switch hit and batted me at clean up.
I never went out for my high school team. Maybe because I thought football was my game. The only other time I played on a team was American Legion ball after my sophomore year of college. After I got to know one of his assistant coaches, I had a try out for Coach Lou St. Amant, when I was going to NLU/ULM. I didn't make the team, but he needed a short stop and I was an outfielder who had played 1st base & had caught some.
Even though we had the field in our neighborhood, we would sometimes ride our bikes across town and play on the city Little League fields during the day. All of our games were at night. Teams didn't reserve them and there were no locks on the gates to keep us out. Just like with the field the individual neighbor owned, the city probably locks the fields when they aren't in use because the parents of a kid that might get hurt would sue the city for not supervising the kids. They'd probably be fully booked for someone's practices anyway. All you needed was a bat, a couple of balls, and as long as half the kids had gloves to share with the other team, you could play all day. Just remember to go home for supper. The world's just a lot less fun today.
ETA:
Sandlot ball is where I developed my love for the game. I really didn't have fun playing Little League because my dad was my coach. He yelled at my brothers and I just like he did at home. The one summer I played Pony League ball was for another kids dad. Maybe because I had two older brothers to compete against, & turning 15 in January of my freshman year, I was the best player on the team. I had lots of fun playing on that team. Our coach let me switch hit and batted me at clean up.
I never went out for my high school team. Maybe because I thought football was my game. The only other time I played on a team was American Legion ball after my sophomore year of college. After I got to know one of his assistant coaches, I had a try out for Coach Lou St. Amant, when I was going to NLU/ULM. I didn't make the team, but he needed a short stop and I was an outfielder who had played 1st base & had caught some.
I played for the "Sheriff's Department" Little League team in Vidalia, LA.
In Pony League (summer after 9th grade) in Kosciusko, MS I played for "Ivey's Plumbing". There was no travel ball in the small towns I lived in during that time (the 60's and 70's).
In Pony League (summer after 9th grade) in Kosciusko, MS I played for "Ivey's Plumbing". There was no travel ball in the small towns I lived in during that time (the 60's and 70's).
re: Southwood vs Huntington softball
Posted by chinese58 on 4/10/26 at 11:51 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
There's an interview with someone from the winning team here...
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