Not quite sure about the red card there, but I really don't care that much.

Can't waste scoring opps by being offside.

Exciting match today. Ivory Coast was quite the challenge for the Scandinavians. Looked like it might be going to extra time but an 88th minute goal by Norway sealed the deal.

I tell my players if you don't make mistakes on defense you'll win the game. Japan guy made a horrible pass in stoppage time and 10 seconds later Brazil had their winner. I wonder if Japans coach tells them that?

@RockChalkinTexas-0 I'm not sure of the origin of the mascot but the town we lived in in Wisconsin had a mascot of the Red Robin.

@crimsonblu22 I like those shows too but David Attenboroughs are just amazing.

Loons at Stormy Lake put on a show this week. Brought some diversions from the trauma of dad passing. Several days ago an eagle dive bombed a loon with young ones. Because of the young ones they won't dive and leave them unprotected and the eagle caught a loon. It was too heavy to lift so it was seen swimming across the lake, almost a mile, dragging it in the water. Amazing!

Thanks so much for the kind words. To be honest there's little pain right now as he's been in this vicious disease for too many years. I grieved many times over the last number of years, and really let it out Thursday when he did have a lucid moment and said my name.

My dad passed away this morning. He was 94, dementia is an awful beast transforming kind and caring people into, in Dad's case, a difficult and demanding human all while requiring the kind of care you'd give a toddler.

Dad was not a baseball fan, not a sports fan. I'm kind of jealous as I think of all of the ups and downs of being a fan. But somehow I became a fan. And so in the summer of 72 dad took my 8 year old self to a Yankees game in the house that Ruth built. And in 73 he took me to several Mets games in an exciting year to be a Mets fan. And in 75, this man who was probably bored stiff took me to a Mets game and watched Joe Torre ground into 4 double plays. Illinois Bell wanted my dad back from ATT where he was an engineer and so we moved to Downers Grove. And this non sports fan took me to a Sox game and we saw an entertaining game in which a fan threw a lit M-80 out of the seats behind Bobby Bonds who was already wearing a batting helmet in the outfield because of the fans.

When I matriculated at KU I had the fortune of being in town for the Larry Brown years. April 4, 1988 I get a call from my dad saying Go KU. He told me he'd had a KU pin and was going to wear it to work that day. I'm sure if you'd ask him about that game a few months later he would have not known that it even happened.

Enter adulthood and now I took him to a game, first time for him in New Comiskey and the only memorable thing was watching a fire in the projects across the expressway. I think that was the last game he went to all the way back in 91.

He was a father who didn't really like baseball who cared enough to help develop my passion for the game. Just thought you'd like to know a little about my dad.

@Jayhawk_69 Heck lets win the conference and play deep into March and April like we used to in the old days too!

Horrible. We have 16 teams in the league and only 18 league games. There's a few of those teams I could do without but lets play 24 league games. Lets show the world we're a league that gives their fans important games almost every night of the season. I want to see us play Zona twice, Houston twice. I couldn't care less if we played Cincy or UCF or Utah. I really couldn't care less if we play snooze games against UMKC or OKMC or TAMCC or the Merchant Marine Academy.

And here's what's going to happen. People are going to say those games are important for the team to develop their team unity or strengthen their rotations or they have to save up their health for the postseason. We don't have the same system for our pro sports teams. But college it's ok to play Wyoming School for Baking and you even get credit for a D1 win if it's one of the 380 or so D1 teams.

Not a Jayhawk, but a key player on the tough OU teams of the mid to late 80's. He's much beloved up here in Chicago for his broadcasting Bulls game and his likeable personality.

I like many of you hated that OU team and their coach. They were very cocky but reflected their coach. When we beat them in the championship Billy Tubbs was interviewed and said OU was better than us. But Tubbs wasn't better than Brown, forgetting to use his bench in that game. The narrative going in was OU would run us out of KC yet they were gassed and our 10 man rotation in that game kept us afloat. Stacey King was a part of probably the most memorable play when Danny went on a fastbreak and slowed down til Stacey caught up to him and fouled Danny who made the shot.

When Stacey got drafted by the Bulls I saw him on the news saying he was glad he was coming to Chicago because he should be able to get a lot of endorsements.

But people mature and he turned himself into a likeable personality here who had a catchphrase "give me the hot sauce" when someone made a 3.

KU baseball not ready for primetime

Bill Self sitting next to George Brett.

That was a COSTLY error.

I really didn't like that send in the first inning that got our guy thrown out at third. Really killed momentum early and bats been quiet ever since.

@stoptheflop I liked that view I saw of the hillside seating in Morgantown. They had a storm today that injured people inside a tent on that hillside.

LOL, game 3 someone has 2 standing room only tickets for 11,000!!

@nuleafjhawk I saw 2 sets of 2 tickets for Sunday on Stubhub. One was for 650, the other like 3000. If you got that sort of dough sitting around donate it to our NIL fund!