#Dominic Easley

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2023 Arizona Diamondbacks Famous Relations

#40 Bryce Jarvis: Son of former diamondbacks P Kevin Jarvis. #38 Paul Sewald: Brother of former Buies Creek Astros CF Johnny Sewald. #4 Ketel Marte: Nephew of former York Revolution SS Wilson Valdez and cousin-in-law of Toronto Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero; Jr.. #6 Jace Peterson: Brother-in-law of Chicago Cubs SS James Swanson & Chicago Red Stars F Mallory Swanson. #12 Lourdes Gourriel; Jr.: Son of former Gallos De Sancti Spíritus manager Lourdes Gourriel and brother of Miami Marlins 1B Yuli Gourriel. #31 Jake McCarthy: Brother of former Orix Bafarōzu LF Joe McCarthy; Jr.. #5 Alek Thomas: Son of former Chicago White Sox strength & conditioning coach Allen Thomas. #8 Dominic Fletcher: Brother of Los Angeles Angels SS David Fletcher. Manager Torey Lovullo: Son of Hee Haw co-creator/producer Sam Lovullo and father of former Pensacola Blue Wahoos SS Nick Lovullo. Assistant hitting coach Jacinto Easley: Father of Hickory Crawdads 2B Jayce Easley.

[fix-ya-pc]

Did you know that the original computers were humans? Did you know that most computers were women? Did you know the Wi-Fi, mobile phone and Bluetooth technology we rely on today was due to an invention by a woman?

In the mid 20th century the computer industry was dominated by women. Programming, computer design, computer maintenance, innovation, even “war machines”—computers used to decrypt enemy communications—were all traditional female careers. 

Fix-Ya-Pc recognises that this has changed and we now face  a worsening gender crisis in technology. Currently only three per cent of women choose technology as their first career, which is substantially lower than men. We want to support and encourage more women to go into technology.  There is a predicted 90 per cent increase in demand for tech skills in the next 15 years. We want to see women being as much a part of this as men.

On IWD, we wish to celebrate the contribution of women in technology and spotlight the amazing achievements they have made.

 Four Inspiring Women in Tech:

Ada Lovelace: The World’s first computer programmer

Admiral Grace Hopper: Computer Scientist and pioneer of computer programming 

Annie Easley: Computer scientist, mathematician and NASA rocket scientist 

Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood actress and the inventor of Wi-Fi

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

🧚🏼‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚‍♀️ A Deference in Psychology 🙎🏻‍♀️🙎🏼‍♀️🙎‍♀️

This Post, is Going to talk About Both, the Human Female Psychology and How it and or thing’s Differ from a Hybrid aka and Or a fairy Female and when i Say, i Do Not Mean Magic But Insectoid, for that is What thay are ! 

Aka the Children of the Gray’s, these Women are real but Ultra Rare and CANnot Be found in till 2 - 3 Year’s after all of Humanity is Wiped Out ! and i Mean 100% Killed off ! 

Faery Women Never Cry ! - Human Women Can’t Stop the Water Work’s to Save there ! fucking Life ! 

Faery Women are HYPER ! HYPER ! SUPER HYPER ! AGRESSIVE ! - Human Women Have a Hard Time Fighting and Bark Apart, Rather Easley ! 

Faery Women are Alwasy to Dormant One’s - Human Women ! Aim to Seduce The Powerful male ... This is Alien to us.

A Human Woman, Can Not Hold a Candle to a faery female with Look’s Very Human ! 

Thay will Chase Down there Male THAY ! Want ! 

Thay are Beyond Violent ! . . . Thay are Just Utter Wrath ! 

Thay Will Savagely Chase Down a Male running Away from her for Sex ! 

and Brutally Kill An other female ! that tris to Dare go near the Male SHE ! Want’s ! 

there is No Mercy ! a Human Women CAN’T ! Do that 

in the Very Core of there Nature ! thay Can’t thay don’t have the fight in them there all Little Girl’s and Coward’s at that ! 

Raw Power is just Not a Human female thing ! but a Faery Women is More Aggressive then a raging T-Rex ! Or any Raging dragon ! 

she is a Monster ! and that is What Make them sacred ! 

. . .

The faery female is Not all thinker Bell Size May of them are 7 to 9 feet tall and Will Rampage and Berserk tord’s a Male She Want’s .... She Will Start off Slow And Very Cocky, to Show off her Ego and Power ! but if She is Rejected She will try n try Again to Prove There, Greatness ! 

Also, There Not weak ! The flesh of a Faery Female are 10x that of a Man ! 

And thay exist on the Earth and when there Pissed over that of a 100 Men ! 

Thay are Bug Women and thay are Like Raging Demon’s of War ! 

There Also, OverWhelmingly Smart, No faery female is a Bimbo. 

Human Women are .... 

As Well as Hyper Sensitive ! 

. . . 

Also Keep In Mind it Don’t  Matter How Many Male she Got the Pussy of a Faery Female, Never Brake’s, it May flex By it Down’ Wear Out 

! ALSO ! 

Be Aware The Pussy of a faery female is a ALOT ! Stronger Then a Human Female ! and Could Crush your Head Like a Hydraulic Press in 1 sec !  

Also, ALOT ! Hotter .... Thay Can Get Over 100 Degree F 

And So Yah thay can Burn you with there, fucking Pussy ! 

Thay Can Give Your Cock 1 to 2 Degree Burn’s ! 

A Human Woman’s Pussy, Just stick’s and is toxic as fuck to us ! 

OOOOOH ! YAH ! THAT’S ANOTHER THING ! 

Faery Women Pussy’s are full of Germ’s that are Good for a faery Male but deadly as fuck to any one else ! the fluid in there is Like the Blood of the Grim Reaper .... 

😈 ! Every Thing it Touch’s beside the dead, it Kill’s ! 😈 

A faery Woman, is a Powerful Female There ! Power Women ! 

Also, thay Eat the Male’s after Sex there is a 75% Chase ! 

A Human Woman Wouldn’t Even DAREEEEE To Think of Such a Thing ! 

thay Wanna fuck then thay want Your Money and thay want to Move onto the Next Cock ..... 

A  Faery Female Want’s to Dominate You, fuck you, Eat you, Love you ! Rape you ! OWN ! YOU !!!! 

She is Obese’d With Male’s ..... She is Crazy is a Good Way for Men, MEN, MEEEEN ! 

Faery Women are Also Ultra Filthy as FUCK ! 

Ultra dirty .... and that’s Not a Bad thing .... it’s Just a fair Warning ! 

A Human Women Want’s to Clean Endlessly ! 

A Human Women Want’s You to Be super Carful with Everything, a Human Women Will Never Expect thay fucked up a Human Women Will Scream and yell at the Male over everything ALL of the fucking time ! 

The faery Women Love’s the Men Too Much to Hurt them Like that, Thay DO ! Accept if thay failed or fucked up and Will admit it. 

Even to a Man, BUT ! Never to Another Woman, for that is Her Enemy ! 

~ Fairy Women are very Much Like D'vorah from Mortal Kombat 11 ~ 

Only .... NOT Ugly as Fuck ! .... And WAYYYY More Aggressive, ! Savage ! And Show No Mercy ! 

A Human Woman Can’t Do Any of this .... thay Get Enraged and Hate Men alot ! but at the end of Day there Weak 

very weak of Body and Mind . . . 

Thay Can’t Give Chase to Anything ..... 

There Not Hyper Aggressive ! 

If One is Kicked Hard in the Chest, You Got Massive damage to them .... if a Faery Women you Brake Your Leg on them ...... And thay Didn’t even Attack yet ! 

These Women are real There Just Less then 0% of the Population 

there 0.000000999999999 % 

Aka Rare ! ... As .... FUCK !!! And So Am i ! 

Where Called Hybrid’s .... But we are Bug’s ! 

We are Fae 

And this is Our Planet 

We are Here Becuz of the Gray’s Agenda that forced us here ! 

. . .

And We Will See, if the End is truly Nigh for Humanity for us .... aka if 2023 the Gray’s Have not Started Some kind of Great war, or Won it ! 

Leave the Earth and Leave your Body’s ! 

👻 

Pentagon Announces New Group to Counter UFO Threat | Military.com 

! ALSO ! 

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/reasons-why-marines-destroy-aliens/  

AND ! THEN THE GREAT ! HARVAST OF ALL ! AND I MEAN ! ALLLLLL OF THE SOUL’S FO HUMANITY ! 

And ... Then ... You’ll be Upgraded ! 

Welcome to the New World ! 

. . . 

This is Going to Be Your Normal ... Hurricane ! 

And the World .... Get Used to Hot, Hot ! Hot ! Weather ! 

500 Degree’s F  is Mid Hot Day Aka it’s Sort’a Warm ! 

. . .  

! This Will Be Earth ! 

. . .

! Still think the Gray’s ! Aren’t Real .... 

. . . 

. . . The End is Nigh . . .  

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BLACK LIVES MATTER. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE.

white silence is VIOLENCE..

they are more than just a hashtag.

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[isolaradiale]

Lost in Space 19

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Space Hunter Drake Redcrest (CHIBI-ROBO (CAPTAIN RAINBOW))

Lil Hunter (NUCLEAR THRONE)

ACE ATTORNEY

Dahlia Hawthorne (TOWNHOUSE 220)

ANGELS OF DEATH

Rachel Gardner (HOUSE 103)

ARKNIGHTS

Ch'en (TOWNHOUSE 220)

ARSLAN SENKI

Daryun (TOWNHOUSE 233)

AZUR LANE

Enterprise (CONDO 469)

BLASPHEMOUS

The Penitent One (HOUSE 115)

BUNGOU STRAY DOGS

Sakunosuke Oda (HOUSE 112)

CASTLEVANIA

Richter Belmont (APARTMENT 333)

Sypha Belnades (APARTMENT 331)

Trevor Belmont (TOWNHOUSE 213)

CHIBI-ROBO (CAPTAIN RAINBOW)

Space Hunter Drake Redcrest (HOUSE 175) *BROKEN URL

CODE LYOKO

Aelita (APARTMENT 363)

CRASH BANDICOOT

Coco Bandicoot (APARTMENT 367)

DANGANRONPA

Izuru Kamukura (CONDO 469)

Kiibo (CONDO 428)

Maki Harukawa (APARTMENT 365)

Miu Iruma (CONDO 421)

DC COMICS

Raven (TOWNHOUSE 231)

The Joker (TOWNHOUSE 202)

Jonathan Crane (The Scarecrow) (HOUSE 125)

DEATH NOTE

Minoru Tanaka (TOWNHOUSE 215)

DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN

Connor (TOWNHOUSE 220)

DEVIL MAY CRY

V (HOUSE 140)

DISNEY

Arianna (APARTMENT 320)

Cassandra (APARTMENT 333)

THE DRAGON PRINCE

Aaravos (TOWNHOUSE 270)

ENSEMBLE STARS

Anzu (HOUSE 118)

Izumi Sena (CONDO 419)

FINAL FANTASY

Alphinaud Leveilleur (HOUSE 105)

Rain (CONDO 418)

Warrior of Light (Dancer - Khea'ra Rhaal) (TOWNHOUSE 272)

Warrior of Light (Dragoon - A'zin Easley) (APARTMENT 338)

FIRE EMBLEM

Annette Fantine Dominic (HOUSE 123)

Dorothea Arnault (APARTMENT 306)

Hapi (HOUSE 148)

Hubert von Vestra (HOUSE 128)

Jeritza von Hrym (TOWNHOUSE 211)

Lucina (Lucina's House [Archimedes])

Marianne von Edmund (TOWNHOUSE 237)

Mercedes von Martriz (TOWNHOUSE 209)

Seteth (TOWNHOUSE 234)

FRUITS BASKET

Rin Sohma (CONDO 414)

GHOST TRICK

Kamila (HOUSE 139)

GRANBLUE FANTASY

Seox (TOWNHOUSE 203)

GUILTY GEAR

Elphelt Valentine (TOWNHOUSE 211)

HOMESTUCK

Charun Krojib (HOUSE 141)

Clover (CONDO 413)

John Egbert (TOWNHOUSE 205)

Mallek Adalov (TOWNHOUSE 214)

HYPNOSIS MIC

Hifumi Izanami (TOWNHOUSE 236)

Ichiro Yamada (CONDO 417)

I DON'T WANT THIS KIND OF HERO

Dune (CONDO 471)

KIMETSU NO YAIBA

Kanao Tsuyuri (APARTMENT 319)

THE LEGO MOVIE

Benny (APARTMENT 366)

Lloyd Garmadon (HOUSE 121)

MARVEL

Klyntar Symbiote (APARTMENT 369)

MY HERO ACADEMIA (BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA)

All Might (TOWNHOUSE 232)

Katsuki Bakugou (TOWNHOUSE 227)

Ochaco Uraraka (HOUSE 103)

Shoto Todoroki (CONDO 429)

NUCLEAR THRONE

Lil Hunter (HOUSE 114) *BROKEN URL

OBEY ME!

Lucifer (TOWNHOUSE 223)

ORIGINAL CHARACTER

Alydia Skye (CONDO 413)

Amdusias (TOWNHOUSE 267)

Elysia Flores (HOUSE 126)

Noa Farrow (TOWNHOUSE 270)

Stolas (CONDO 426)

Tsukiyome (TOWNHOUSE 235)

OVERWATCH

Dr. Angela Ziegler (Mercy) (TOWNHOUSE 208)

OWARI NO SERAPH

Mikaela Hyakuya (HOUSE 119)

PERSONA

Makoto Niijima (CONDO 420)

POKEMON

Gengar (HOUSE 132)

PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA

Kaname Madoka (TOWNHOUSE 226)

RIVER CITY GIRLS

Kyoko (TOWNHOUSE 232)

SAINT SEIYA

Aries Mu (TOWNHOUSE 268)

SAIYUKI

Sha Gojyo (TOWNHOUSE 203)

SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER

Entrapta (APARTMENT 310)

SHOVEL KNIGHT

Mr. Hat (TOWNHOUSE 201)

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Sonic the Hedgehog (live action) (TOWNHOUSE 229)

SPAWN

Al Simmons (Spawn) (TOWNHOUSE 221)

STEVEN UNIVERSE

Pearl (APARTMENT 309)

Peridot (Marceline's House [Cotes])

SUPER MARIO

Mario (TOWNHOUSE 229)

SWORD ART ONLINE

Alice (HOUSE 137)

TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN

Akane Aoi (HOUSE 129)

Aoi Akane (TOWNHOUSE 229)

Tsuchigomori (TOWNHOUSE 224)

Yako (Misaki Stairs) (HOUSE 107)

TOUHOU

Eiki Shiki (TOWNHOUSE 244)

TRANSFORMERS

Optimus Prime (OUTSIDE)

THE WALKING DEAD

Clementine (HOUSE 121)

YOUR TURN TO DIE

Joe Tazuna (CONDO 404)

Sara Chidouin (APARTMENT 364)

YURI ON ICE

Otabek Altin (CONDO 434)

ZERO ESCAPE

Akane Kurashiki (APARTMENT 323)

[massmurdera]

2019 & 2010s Best/Worst

Because I like lists and cataloguing the dumb shit I cared about. As my brother once said after seeing and reviewing NOW YOU SEE ME on a lazy Sunday, ‘Some would say it was a waste of time, others might say it was a colossal waste of time.’     

I’ll admit, it’s a bit over-the-top. Particularly including the Pats, but yeah, in the Tom Brady era that started when I was 14 as a Freshman in high school to 33 years old now and wrapping up soon-ish (?), there’s not a chance in hell I’ll care as intimately about this shit. I grew up with it at just the right time.

2019 MOVIES  TOP TIER 1) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2) Uncut Gems 2nd TIER 3) Knives Out 4) Parasite 5) Little Women 6) Midsommer 3rd TIER 7) John Wick III 8) Ready or Not 9) Marriage Story 10) Joker 11) Irishman 12) Shazam! 13) Us UNDERRATED Ready or Not TOO LONG John Wick III; Irishman SOLID El Camino GOOD BAD 6 Underground OK 21 Bridges; Avengers: Endgame; Dolemite is my Name; Dragged Across Concrete; Fighting With My Family; Hustlers; Knock Down the House; Longshot; the Report; Two Popes MEH Always Be My Maybe; Death of Dick Long; High Flying Bird; Spiderman: Far From Home; Standoff at Sparrow Creek DISAPPOINTING Hobbs & Shaw; Toy Story 4; Triple Frontier SUCK Laundromat; Under the Silver Lake OVERRATED Ad Astra; Booksmart; the Farewell FUNNIEST SCENE Dicaprio flipping out in movie trailer BEST CLIMAX/ENDING Once Upon a Time; Uncut Gems HAVEN’T SEEN 1917; Apollo 11; Beach Bum; Dark Waters; Ford vs Ferrari; Honey Boy; Jojo Rabbit; the Lighthouse; Star Wars 2019 TV  TOP TIER 1) Succession 2) Fleabag 3) Watchmen 2nd TIER 4) When They See Us 5) Barry 6) Unbelievable 7) Chernobyl 8) Sex Education DAMN GOOD Big Mouth; the Boys; Brockmire; Derry Girls; Euphoria; Loudest Voice; Mindhunter; Pen15; Righteous Gemstones; Veep WATCHABLE Atypical; Bosch; Dark; Goliath; Karate Kid; Kominsky Method; Mandalorian; Mr Robot; Mrs Fletcher; Russian Doll; Warrior HIGH/LOW I Think You Should Leave SHIT END FOR ALL-TIME GREAT Game of Thrones HALF-WATCH Living With Yourself; Raising Dion; the Society NOT UP TO STANDARD Stranger Things; GLOW; Killing Eve; True Detective BAD Luther; Shameless; Silicon Valley; SNL SUCK 13 Reasons Why; Big Little Lies; the Witcher FUNNIEST Desus & Mero DOCS 1) Fyre: both  2) Ted Bundy Tapes 3) American Factory 4) Leaving Neverland STAND-UP SPECIALS 1) Burr 2) Chappelle 3) Jeselnik 4) Birbiglia 5) Gulman BEHIND ON SHOWS I DIG Brooklyn 99; Catastrophe; Corporate; Expanse; Good Place; It’s Always Sunny; Letterkenny 2010s TV  DRAMA 1) Breaking Bad 2) Game of Thrones 3) Justified 4) Mad Men 5) Hannibal 6) Banshee ANTHOLOGY/LIMITED SERIES 1) Fargo SII 2) True Detective SI 3) When They See Us 4) People Vs OJ Simpson 5) Chernobyl 6) Show Me a Hero 7) the Night Of 8) Honorable Woman COMEDY 1) Atlanta 2) Fleabag 3) Veep 4) Big Mouth 5) Parks & Rec 6) Rick & Morty 7) Nathan for You 8) Review 9) American Vandal HIT/MISS Black Mirror OVERRATED Boardwalk Empire; House of Cards; Peaky Blinders; Westworld UNDERRATED Banshee; Brockmire; Hannibal FUN HATE-WATCH Newsroom DOWNHILL Homeland; How I Met Your Mother; Legion; Sons of Anarchy HATED Girls; Leftovers; Rectify UNWATCHABLE Twin Peaks BEST ENDINGS Breaking Bad; Justified; Fleabag; Parks & Rec DUMBEST ENDING Dexter; Sons of Anarchy LATE NIGHT Desus & Mero POLITICAL John Oliver 2010s MOVIES 2010 Social Network Animal Kingdom; the Fighter; Four Lions; Inside Job; Jackass 3; MacGruber; Shutter Island; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter’s Bone 2011 the Raid Descendents; Drive; Fast Five; the Guard; Mission Impossible 4; Take This Waltz; Warrior 2012 Magic Mike 21 Jump Street; Argo; Cabin in the Woods; Chronicle; Django Unchained; Goon; Looper; Queen of Versailles; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall 2013 Wolf of Wall Street Before Midnight; the Conjuring; Gravity; Her; Inside Llewyn Davis; Prisoners; Short-Term 12 2014 John Wick the Drop; Edge of Tomorrow; Gone Girl; the Guest; Lego Movie; Nightcrawler; the Raid 2; Whiplash 2015 Mad Max 7 Days in Hell; Big Short; Brooklyn; Creed; Ex Machina; Fast 7; It Follows; Logan; Magic Mike XXL; the Martian; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation; Sicario 2016 the Nice Guys Deadpool; Edge of Seventeen; Everybody Wants Some!; Green Room; La La Land; Manchester By the Sea; Moonlight; OJ: Made in America; Popstar; Sing Street; Weiner 2017 Get Out Blade Runner 2049; Coco; Dunkirk; Lady Bird; Logan; Thor Ragnorak; Tour de Pharmacy 2018 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse BlacKKKlansman; Den of Thieves; Hereditary; If Beale Street Could Talk; Minding the Gap; Sorry to Bother You

THE BEST Mad Max BEST DOC OJ: Made in America FUNNIEST DOC Tickled UNDERRATED DOC Weiner HORROR Hereditary FAVORITE/FUNNIEST PERFORMANCE Ryan Gosling (Nice Guys) DESERVED 5 SEQUELS the Nice Guys SUPERHERO Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse WAR Dunkirk BEST FIGHT SCENES the Raid UNDERRATED any Lonely Island project NICE TRY Dark Knight Rises; Inception; Interstellar; Widows STAND-UP 2010s FAVORITE Bill Burr NEXT BEST Ali Wong; Anthony Jeselnik; Kyle Kinane; Bert Kreischer; Marc Maron; John Mulaney; Patton Oswalt; Rory Scovel; Tom Segura COMEBACK Chappelle DOWNFALL Louis CK DIED BEFORE PRIME Patrice O’Neal, Greg Giraldo UNDERRATED Joe Derosa MUST-SEE LIVE Robert Kelly  PODCASTS 2010s  BEST/FUNNIEST/UNDERRATED Walking the Room RUNNER-UP 600 Dollar Podcast ONE-MAN RANT Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast SPORTS Pardon My Take RIFFING Bodega Boys HISTORY/COMEDY Dollop HISTORY DEEP DIVE Hardcore History MOVIES Rewatchables HATE-WATCH CRITICISM West Wing Thing POP CULTURE/FILM Frotcast MIXED Revisionist History GOOD/BAD Joe Rogan: GOOD: propping up comic friends; BAD: useful idiot for propping up bad faith fascists who should be put out to pasture INTERNET CURIOSITY Reply All LEFTIST POLITICS Chapo Trap House TRUE CRIME In the Dark ADVICE Don’t Take Bullshit From Fuckers LAME Pod Save America OVERRATED Missing Richard Simmons DIDN’T LIKE S-Town SERIAL Season 3>Season 1 TRUMP Trump, Inc SPORTS SCHAUDENFREUDE Fuck the Chargers OKAY Bill Simmons WTF WITH MARON good when he talks to comics MURDER My Favorite Murder OTHER GOOD ONES Hound Tall; Press Box

2010s MUSIC  FAVORITE anything Brian Fallon ROCK BAND Menzingers SONG Robyn-‘Dancing On My Own’ POP-PUNK BAND Wonder Years LIVE ALBUM Horrible Crowes-‘Elsie’ HEAVY BAND Every Time I Die ELECTRONIC Chvrches SOLO Rihanna COVER ALBUM Dustin Kensrue-‘Thoughts on a Different Blood’ GO-TO AT GYM Story So Far OFF THE INEVITABLE & IRRECOVERABLE DEEP END Kanye KIND OF LIKE THE MUSIC/HATE THE PERSON: LIKE KANYE Taylor Swift, Bieber THOUGHT I’D HATE BUT DOES NOT SUCK Lana Del Rey; Post Malone OTHER FAVES 1975; Arctic Monkeys; Beach Slang; Black Keys; Bon Iver; Carly Rae Jepsen; the National; Thrice MIXED Chance the Rapper; Kendrick Lamar I’ll be honest I spent far more time listening to podcasts nearly all the time and just listened to mostly the same couple of things I liked. 2010s PATRIOTS  2010s BEST GAMES 1) Seahawks Super Bowl 2) Falcons Super Bowl 3) Ravens 2015 Divisional 4) Chiefs 2019 AFCCG UNDERRATED CLASSIC Ravens 2015 Divisional BRADY/GRONK GO DOWN LIKE CHAMPS 1) 2018 Eagles Super Bowl 2) Broncos 2015 AFCCG: Brady’ offensive line was a sieve EITHER WAY Giants Super Bowl: game changed when Brady’s shoulder got fucked up by Tuck FAVORITE PLAYER TB12 MOST FUN/DOMINANT Gronk HEART OF TEAM Edelman BELOVED Wilfork ROCK SOLID 1) Hightower 2) McCourty 3) James White 1st BALLOT HALL OF FAMERS 1) Brady 2) Gronk 3) Revis LATER BALLOT 1) Edelman 2) Scarnecchia 3) Welker 4) Wilfork 5) Slater MAKING AN ARGUMENT Gilmore PATS HALL ONLY 1) McCourty 2) Hightower 3) Mankins 4) White 5) Gostkowski 6) Mayo 7) Chung UNDERRATED/GOOD VALUE 1) Amendola 2) Vollmer 3) Ninkovich 4) Chung 5) Woodhead DESERVED BETTER Welker UNSUNG Slater OVERRATED 1) Solder 2) Brandin Cooks NO-SHOWS Dolphins (Dec ’19); Jets Divisional (Jan ‘11) BEST REGULAR SEASON WINS 1) 2013 Broncos 2) 2017 Steelers 3) 2013 Saints BEST REGULAR SEASON LOSSES 1) 2012 49ers 2) 2016 Seahawks 3) 2014 Packers 4) 2015 Broncos LOL Miami Miracle: saved by winning Super Bowl LEAST TALENTED TEAM 1) 2013 by a mile 2) 2010 3) 2011 4) 2018 BEST TEAM 1) 2014  2) 2016 BEST PLAYS (NON-GRONK) 1) Butler INT Seahawks 2) Edelman TD pass vs Ravens 3) Buttfumble Jets 4) Edelman catch vs Falcons 5) Walk-off TD vs Falcons 6) Dan Connolly kick return 7) Brady TD pass to LaFell 2015 Divisional POUNDED TABLE TO DRAFT 1) Lamar Jackson 2) Kittle 3) AJ Brown 4) Honey Badger 5) Stefon Diggs WANTED BUT OUT OF REACH 1) Aaron Donald 2) Quenton Nelson 3) Derwin James 4) Hopkins 5) TJ Watt 6) Saquon 7) Keenan Allen 8) McCaffrey 9) Gurley WOULD’VE WON IT ALL IF NOT FOR INJURIES 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017. That’s football HEALTHIEST SEASON 2018 ROPE-A-DOPED/GOT BY ON VETERAN GUILE 2018: Belichick’s best coaching FAVORITE PICKS AT THE TIME OF GUYS I WANTED 1) Gronk 2) Hightower/Chandler Jones 3) Shaq Mason MOVES I HATED THAT I WAS WRONG ABOUT 1) Stephon Gilmore 2) trading Jamie Collins MOST IMPROVED Marcus Cannon BEST FIND Kyle Van Noy MOVE I LOVED getting Blount back the 2nd time IF BUTLER WASN’T BENCHED, DO THEY BEAT THE EAGLES? Yes 100%. If only because, if nothing else, he can tackle BUTLER’s INT KILLED THE ‘LEGION OF BOOM’ SEAHAWKS WOULD-BE DYNASTY Yes DRAFT REACH THAT MADE NO SENSE Jordan Richards: Tavon Wilson 2.0 BAD DRAFT MOVES 1) Dominique Easley 2) Cyrus Jones 3) Dobson 4) Mallett DIRTY SECRET Belichick sucks at drafting in 2nd round WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF HE STAYED HEALTHY Malcolm Mitchell HATE TO SEE WALK BUT COULDN’T AFFORD 1) Trey Flowers 2) Chandler Jones 3) Jimmy G 4) Talib 5) Akiem Hicks DEFLATEGATE fraud/power trip job by Goodell/owners BRADY OR BELICHICK MORE VALUABLE Brady 100% DISAPPOINTING/GAMBLES 1) Ochocinco 2) Michael Bennett: got him 2 years too late 3) Fanene signing 4) Haynesworth BEST SHORT-TERM 1) Martellus Bennett 2) Chris Long 3) Revis 4) Brian Waters SUSPECT CHARACTERS/EDGY PERSONALITY MACHINES Brandon Spikes; Brandon Browner…SERIAL KILLER Aaron Hernandez PERSONALITY DISORDER DISASTER Antonio Brown: bad signing/unexpected HOW THE FUCK DID WE LOSE TO THAT GUY? Eli Manning/Nick Foles LIFESAVER Scarnecchia MCDANIELS Frustrating—but continuity matters REFS FUCKED OVER Gronk  MISCELANNEOUS 2010s GOOD/ENJOY Bernie Sanders/AOC: people who actually want to get good done that’s long overdue…Lebron James; Stephen Curry; Kawhi; Zion Williamson; Luka Doncic...Lamar Jackson; Pat Mahomes; JJ Watt; Marshawn Lynch…Coach Ed Orgeron...David Ortiz…2011 Bruins…memes…Don Winslow crime novels…David Roth writing on Trump…David Grann non-fiction…’Book of Mormon’ DID NOT ENJOY Kyrie Irving…Deflategate…LeBron on the Heat…Bobby Valentine DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE ‘Between the World and Me’…Elon Musk…Lin Manuel-Miranda/’Hamilton’ INDEFENSIBLY AND INFURIATINGLY BAD THE MORE YOU LOOK AT IT Facebook…Obama Presidency/Democratic Party Leadership EVERYDAY DISASTER Media: CNN; Fox; MSNBC; NY Times Op-Ed…Trump/Republicans: Trump presidency was basically 2010s 9/11 for inevitable disastrous fallout & consequences my generation will never recover from…Grifters Trojan horsing way in shamelessly (Trump administration; Ben Shapiro; Alex Jones; Milo; Jordan Peterson, Tomi Lahren, etc.) and no repercussions...Republican Party basically one goal: to troll libs even with shitty ideas that suck FAVORITES WHO DIED Bourdain; Elmore Leonard; Garry Shandling; Muhammad Ali; Robin Williams; Tom Petty BEST TALENT CUT SHORT Philip Seymour Hoffman SHITTIEST PEOPLE WHO DIED Antonin Scalia; George HW Bush; John McCain; Osama; Steve Jobs; Whitey Bulger I FORGOT THAT SHIT HAPPENED Charlie Sheen loses it JEFFREY EPSTEIN did not kill himself WHAT DEFINES 2010s Amazon/Bezos…Climate Change/Gun Violence inaction…Journalism being taken over by Bane Capital-esque vultures/local places dying...one-sided Class War by the uber-rich…#MeToo…Netflix…Opioids…Outrage/Cancel culture…Police Injustice…Silicon Valley…Social Media…Superhero shit…Your mom

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PSAL to NFL: Four Former NYC Football Players at the Top Level

PSAL to NFL: Four Former NYC Football Players at the Top Level

By Jerry Del Priore

With week one of the NFL season underway, it’s a good time to look at ex-PSAL players who used to grace New York City high school gridirons and now roam NFL fields, a trip that seemed miles away to most NYC student-athlete, but became possible through hard work and determination, plus a ton of skill.

Folorunso Fatukasi – New York Jets

Folorunso “Foley” Fatukasi with the UConn…

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Gronk’s Basement Week 1/2 Recap

WHAT IS UP fellas. Alright so here’s the deal. ESPN ruined it’s platform and I’ve been forced to find a new method for posts. Super unhappy about it. For however many years I’ve been working the same shitty platform, trying to be funny, and it’s worked to some degree. I am all out of sorts now and I am going to try something new. The new platform won’t even allow you to post a video or a link. I think this tumblr is something the kids are using these days so I am giving it a shot. Seems pretty sweet so far. No idea if it will work but let’s give it a whirl.

Before I get into the action, I would like to start off by ranking the 2019 team names. If you did not change the name of your team, you tied for last and I hate you.

KT, Tuck, Ease, Macero, Pickett, hate you all, change your team names.

Tight End Luvr 87 - God I miss Gronk.

Purple Cobras - Doug went with a classic movie team name and I don’t hate it. Doug I hope you walk into every NFL Sunday watching location doing this:

Gronk’s Nation Can’t Hang at CF - Steve, I have absolutely NO fucking clue what is happening here. First, this isn’t Gronk’s Nation, it’s the damn basement. Second, CF? CrossFit? Cumberland Farms? Central Falls? Where you going with this name? Need some explanation, please elaborate.

Nuts on the Table - Great name, if this was 2018. Get a new thing Jmart. Also we all know there’s not enough room on the table for your giant disgusting nuts because you already filled the table with 48 empty beer cans.

Devil Without a Koz - DIGGING THIS ONE! A great reference to a timeless classic by Kid Rock. Is it also a nod to the big G-O-D for welcoming Koz into the family? Now that Koz is Jew-no-more, he’s throwing his Kippah in the air, praising the big guy upstairs and shunning the Devil. Koz, little tip from a lifetime Catholic: You only need to go to church once a year (or just tell people you do) and as long as you donate a little money when you do, you’ll get into heaven. Don’t buy into the every Sunday going to church hoopla.

The Vaginas - Honestly do not know if I love or hate this one. I will cut Branch some slack, he’s had a lot on his plate lately so a new team name was probably the least of his worries. So he did the least creative thing he could do and kept his yearly vaginal efforts on par and named his team, The Vaginas. Such a guru move.

Gay Lords - Govey is gay, Lord Jeff’s, all that stuff. Not giving the rest of the league much to say about him here by just admitting to what we’ve been saying all along. I can appreciate the humility here. Well done Gov.

Now I will jump right into the action with some recaps. I may not get to every game due to time/lack of fuck’s to give.

Week 1

**Jmart vs Hurley - **well here we have an ex-roommate battle. For those of you who don’t know, Jmart and I do not live together anymore. He up and moved to San Diego one day, it was the strangest thing. I came home from work one day and all his shit was gone, and all he left was a note on the kitchen table that said he had to go see about a girl.

At any rate, I refuse to let Lamar Jackson help me to a win for the first time in two weeks (foreshadowing) and started Carson Wentz. Losing Tyreek Hill killed me really. Jmart had a pretty solid outing with 16 points from Steven Gostkowski and 31.6 from the Goat, ultimately beating me by less than 8 points.

Branch vs KT - Well this was an absolute slug fest. Branch had 36.7 from DeSean Watson, Jacobs rumbled for 23.8, and Barkley with 16, but he fell just shy of KT’s performances including 38 from McCaffrey, 33 from Mahomes, and 28.4 from Derrick Henry. KT certainly has some studs on his team and will be a tough out this year. KT notches one in the win column and the GURU one in the W.

Keach vs Koz - This one was not even close. Koz notched his first weekly points prize of $25 throwing up 151.7 with strong performances from Mark Ingram scoring 22.7, his random tight end Mark Andrews who added 20.8, another 30 from Bell and Fournette and Alshon scoring 19.6 to top it off. Keach had strong weeks from Keenan Allen who fucked me all year last year, as well as David Johnson and Emmanuel Sanders, but not too much to show from anyone else including a dud from his kicker.

Govey vs Hammy - Hammy of course took his boy Dak and boy did it pay off as he scored 41.4 week one. Relatively modest weeks from everyone else except Harry Butker who scored 17, Steven racked up 119.6. Govey’s team struggled to get much going with the only notable performances coming from Kamara with 20.4 and Tyrell Williams with 19.5. Look for Govey to make some moves to shake things up!

**Tucker vs Pickett **- Pretty close matchup here with each team having some really down weeks from their QB’s. Cam Newton absolutely is a shell of himself and only scored 5.4 points. Jared Goff struggled across the field from him only gaining 11.4. It was performances from Dalvin Cook and Evan Engram that gave Tuck the win over Pickett here, as Pick’s team struggled to get anything going from anyone but Delanie Walker and Austin Ekeler and Amari Cooper.

Macero vs Easley - Ees, Eeees, I don’t want to butcher your name man is it, Eas-i-lee? Fucking Scal! Anyway this was a low scoring match between one perennial contender and a guy who loves trying to sabotage this league with bad roster moves. Easley’s team got 22.6 from Matty Ice and 15.5 from Damien Williams but not too much from the rest of his NFC dominant team. Macero started Melvin Gordon who doesn’t plan to play till November. I can’t sit here and say it ultimately lost him the game given that although he only lost by 4.5 points, three out of the six options on his bench scored less than that. BUT he did have Sammy Watkins on his bench who scored 42.5 points, but that is what you get when you start players who are not playing.

Thought 1: Fuck I forgot how much work this is.

Thought 2: Really hope this tumblr shit saves and works.

Thought 3: Had a dream last night I was training Carson Wentz in some footwork drills, except he looked like John Mulholland. I love this shit so much I do it in my sleep.

Week 2 - gonna be a bit shorter

Hurley vs Guru - Again, I sat Jackson at QB and it bit me in the ass. Note to self: Start Lamar Jackson. Branch got a modest win with 83.5 points with solid weeks from his Vagina stars Barkley, Brown and Jacobs. My team needs help but I am not panicking yet.

Branch is 1-0, I am 0′for.

**Keach vs KT - **This one wasn’t very close. Mahomes scored 39.6, Tyler Boyd with 17.2, Derrick Henry with another strong week, KT cruised past Keach who rolled with the Baker Mayfield which net him 17. Honorable mentions: Sanders and Chubb totaling 40 points. Keach falls to 0-2, KT is undefeated.

Jmart vs Koz - Koz, love ya buddy and sorry I couldn’t make it to your bachelor party but I will let you know that if I wasn’t in front of my TV wearing my Gronk jersey the Pats D may not have scored 40, which helped you get another $25 weekly points prize. You’re welcome. This was a slaughtering and Mark Andrews once again showed out with 21.2. Jmart had a decent week with 28.7 from the GOAT but just barely broke the 100 point mark. Koz is 2-0, Jmart 1-1.

Tuck vs Macero - Actually a pretty tight game here. Cam Newton once again sucked, and the 26.6 from Dalvin Cook couldn’t help Tuck’s team past Macero, despite Macero losing Brees early on. A strong showing from Odell on Monday night pushed Macero past Tucker here pushing both teams to 1-1.

Govey vs Pickett - Another blowout as Govey is learning why the ‘stache may not have been such a hot pick after all. 18.4 from Rodgers, 13.1 from Tyrell Williams and 13 from the Houston D and Govey barely broke 90 points. Pickett’s team notched 125.4 behing Julio Jones and Austin Ekeler. Pickett is 1-1, Govey is 0-2.

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Court Rules Bombshell Criminal Evidence Against Trump Must Be Turned Over To The 1/6 Committee

A federal choose has dominated that John Eastman should flip over extra paperwork to the 1/6 Committee that together with Trump knowingly signing a false voter fraud declare. Kyle Cheney of Politico tweeted: NEWS: A federal choose has ordered a number of extra of John EASTMAN’s emails disclosed to the Jan. 6 choose committee, saying they’re topic to disclosure below the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege. Particulars TK — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 19, 2022 Federal Court docket Guidelines Proof Of Trump Conspiracy To Defraud The US Be Turned Over To The 1/6 Committee The courtroom dominated: President Trump and his attorneys in the end filed the criticism with the identical inaccurate numbers with out rectifying, clarifying, or in any other case altering them.  President Trump, furthermore, signed a verification swearing below oath that the integrated, inaccurate numbers “are true and proper” or “believed to be true and proper” to the very best of his information and perception.  The emails present that President Trump knew that the precise numbers of voter fraud had been flawed however continued to tout these numbers, each in courtroom and to the general public. The Court docket finds that these emails are sufficiently associated to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the USA. Accordingly, the Court docket ORDERS Dr. Eastman to reveal these 4 communications to the Choose Committee. Donald Trump knowingly signed a sworn authorized assertion that he knew contained false details about voter fraud. Trump’s assertion is proof of fraud as a result of the emails show that the previous president knew that the assertion that he was signing was false. The emails which might be being turned over to the 1/6 Committee are people who John Eastman fought the toughest to maintain secret. The 1/6 Committee can be getting proof that Donald Trump engaged in a prison conspiracy to defraud the USA. Trump dedicated against the law towards the nation, and the 1/6 Committee will make it possible for the Justice Division has entry to this proof. Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions. Awards and  Skilled Memberships Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation Supply hyperlink Originally published at SF Newsvine

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We honor Capt. Kimberly N. Hampton, 27, of Easley, S.C., who was killed on Jan. 2, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq. Hampton, was the pilot on a Kiowa, OH-58, Observation Helicopter when it was shot down by enemy ground fire and crashed. Hampton died as a result of her injuries. Hampton was assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Aviation Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. Kimberly attended Presbyterian College where she was enrolled in the ROTC and graduated in 1998. She served in Korea and Afghanistan before she deployed to Iraq in August 2003. She was posthumously awarded the Bronze Medal and Purple Heart. She was survived by her parents, Dale and Ann Hampton. “She [Kimberly] flew helicopters. She was a commander in the cavalry, and that’s a very male-dominated part of the army. Everyone I spoke to, she had (their) total respect. The men who worked under here had nothing but respect for her. Everyone said she had this command presence without raising her voice. By being the sweet, southern Easley woman that she was, she had so much respect.” Anna Simon, co-writer of “Kimberly’s Flight” We will run for about an hour today with (5) 1/2 mile hill repeats. We may even get some liquid sunshine. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAiKIW5HrXz/?igshid=1cafyw7jpis1y

[goalhofer]

2023 Arizona Diamondbacks Roster

Pitchers

#19 Ryne Nelson (Henderson, Nevada)

#23 Zac Gallen (Somerdale, New Jersey)

#24 Kyle Nelson (San Francisco, California)

#25 Corbin Martin (Houston, Texas)

#29 Kenneth Kelly (Scottsdale, Arizona)

#30 Scott McGough (Plum, Pennsylvania)*

#32 Brandon Pfaadt (Louisville, Kentucky)**

#34 Mark Melancon (Golden, Colorado)

#35 Joe Mantiply (Danville, Virginia)

#37 Kevin Ginkel (San Diego County, California)

#38 Paul Sewald (Las Vegas, Nevada)*

#40 Bryce Jarvis (Brentwood, Tennessee)**

#47 Tommy Henry (Portage, Michigan)

#50 Miguel Castro (La Romana, Dominican Republic)*

#55 Austin Adams (Zephyrhills, Florida)*

#57 Andrew Saalfrank (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)**

#63 Justin Martínez (Bonao, Dominican Republic)**

#65 Luis Frías (Río San Juan, Dominican Republic)

#81 Ryan Thompson (Turner, Oregon)*

#99 Drey Jameson (Greenfield, Indiana)

Catchers

#14 Gabriel Moreno (Barquisimeto, Venezuela)*

#59 Bernardo Zavala (La Puente, California)

Infielders

#2 Gerardo Perdomo (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

#3 Evan Longoria (Downey, California)*

#4 Ketel Marte (Nizao, Dominican Republic)

#6 Jace Peterson (Lake Charles, Louisiana)*

#10 Jordan Lawler (Carrollton, Texas)**

#14 Emmanuel Rivera (Ciudad Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)

#53 Christian Walker (Norristown, Pennsylvania)

Outfielders

#5 Alek Thomas (Chicago, Illinois)

#7 Corbin Carroll (Seattle, Washington)

#8 Dominic Fletcher (Cypress, California)**

#12 Lourdes Gourriel; Jr. (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba)*

#28 Tommy Pham (Clark County, Nevada)*

#31 Jake McCarthy (Scranton, Pennsylvania)

Coaches

Manager Torey Lovullo (Los Angeles County, California)

Bench coach Jeff Banister (La Marque, Texas)

Hitting coach Joe Mather (Phoenix, Arizona)

Assistant hitting coach Jacinto Easley (Mt. Vernon, New York)

Assistant hitting coach Drew Hedman (Redding, California)

Assistant hitting coach Rick Short (Elgin, Illinois)

Pitching coach Brent Strom (San Diego, California)

Assistant pitching coach Dan Carlson (Portland, Oregon)

Assistant pitching coach Barry Enright (Stockton, California)

Bullpen coach Mike Fetters (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Bullpen catcher Sharif Othman (Riverside, California)

Bullpen catcher Jose Queliz (Valencia, Venezuela)

1B coach Dave McKay (Vancouver, British Columbia)

3B coach Tony Perezchica (Mexicali, Mexico)

[watchingthesuperbowl]

Notes taken during Super Bowl XLIX

PREGAME

This is an NBC broadcast with an extended Carrie Underwood music video at the beginning. Great. Perfect. Thanks for that. Football now?

Roof is open at the stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Temperature in the mid 60s.

Michaels opens with deflated football controversy. The Patriots are minimizing it. Collinsworth says he thinks the New England players will rally behind each other.

This recording doesn't seem to include commercials, which is fine with me.

Seattle wearing their dark blue uniforms. Patriots in white.

One of the Seahawks introduces himself as being from THE Utah State University, which is fun.

Patriots run in behind what appear to be actual soldiers. "Crazy Train" playing.

Seahawks get the string part from Bittersweet Symphony instead.

Walter Payton Man of the Year Award time. Last year's winner, Charles Tillman, announces this year's winner. Thomas Davis, Panthers LB.

Moment of silence for the Giants' Ann Mara.

John Legend performs America The Beautiful. He does it about as well as you'd expect, which is extremely well.

Color guard is made up of servicemembers in each branch of the armed forces, all based in Arizona.

Idina Menzel to perform the Star Spangled Banner. I remember this being bad. I hope it isn't.

It's not bad, per se, it's just weird. It's like she's a driver alternately slamming on the brakes, then gunning the engine. You can't get any sense of a regular tempo. She sang all the notes and sang them all well, but it was a weird performance.

Collinsworth: New England's offensive tackles need to play big and fast.

Collinsworth: The two key players are Tom Brady and Marshawn Lynch. You don't say, Cris. Thanks for the analysis.

Coin toss: Tedy Bruschi and Kenny Easley, honorary captains and club greats. Patriots call heads. It is tails. Seattle will defer, Patriots will receive in the first half.

Seattle coach Pete Carroll: Not thinking about going back to back. If it happens, it happens. We play every game like it's a championship and this one's no difference. Will play tough and smart, trust and believe in ourselves.

Cutaway: Marshawn Lynch on the sideline eating Skittles.

FIRST QUARTER

Decent runback, Amendola out to the New England 18.

Michaels: Tom Brady says there isn't a game he would want to win more than this one.

Patriots complete a few very short passes early. They're getting 3-5 yards per pass, but it gets them a first down.

First five plays are either runs or very quick throws. Patriots not putting Brady in a position to face the pass rush. He throws incomplete on third down and the Patriots will punt it away.

The Seahawks hit the kicker. Is it 5 or 15 yards? Five yards. Running into the kicker. It's 4th and 1. Declined, the punt stands.

Collinsworth is insisting that the rule says if you hit the punter's plant leg, it's roughing - a 15 yard penalty. That was clearly a collision with the knee of the plant leg.

NBC graphic: Russell Wilson is 10-0 (including postseason) in his career against quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl.

Seattle goes three and out. They'll give the ball right back to the Patriots. Fair catch at the New England 33.

Quick pass from Brady to Edelman. Brady is now 5-6 for 27 yards. Very short passing.

LeGarrette Blount up the middle for 5 to get into Seattle territory.

Brady to Gronk for 4. None of these passes are downfield. Swing pass to Shane Vereen for a few. These quick, short passes are keeping the clock rolling. Under 5:00 left in the first.

3rd and 1, Blount around right end for 6, to the Seattle 25. This is an impressive if methodical drive.

Quick out to Amendola in the flat. Another 13 yard gain. Brady is 8-9 for 44 yards.

Well, that's not terribly impressive. Brady throws to the end zone on third and six and the only person in the area is DB Jeremy Lane. That's an interception. New England gets zilch, other than field position, out of that drive.

Lane is injured as he's tackled. His arm is in what looks like an aircast. That's not great. I have no interest in seeing that replay.

Total plays: New England 19, Seattle 3. Score: 0-0.

First quarter ends. It's scoreless. Seahawks didn't throw a single pass in the first quarter, if memory serves.

SECOND QUARTER

Jeremy Lane is "doubtful" with a left wrist injury. I'm pretty sure the thing was completely shattered. The only way he was coming back in the game is if they amputated the arm..

Third and 9, Wilson buys time, rolls, looks around, runs some more, looks, doesn't see anything, and he throws an incomplete pass. Jon Ryan will punt.

Halftime show is Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz. Sure, if by "Lenny Kravitz", you mean "Left Shark".

Another quick outside pass, this time to Amendola. He breaks it for 17 yards, (almost?) all of them after the catch. They're into Seattle territory again.

Collinsworth: The Patriots are clearing space for Vereen, trying to get him one-on-one with a linebacker in the open.

Finally a deep pass. Brady deep to Gronkowski, incomplete. Vereen up the middle for 1 on the next play. Third and 9.

First down. Edelman does his best Wes Welker impersonation, comes across the middle short, and picks up 23. First and 10 from the Seattle 12.

Two plays later, Brady throws a slant. Lafell splits two Seahawks and gets into the end zone. Safety Earl Thomas blasts CB Tharold Simon instead of the receiver and Simon looks hurt. He's only in the game because Jeremy Lane got injured. They've gotta make sure they don't run out of cornerbacks in the Super Bowl against Tom Brady.

Once again, the Seahawks go three and out. Collinsworth says the Patriots DBs have completely dominated the receivers and taken everything away from Russell Wilson. Second quarter is almost halfway over and Wilson still hasn't completed a pass.

Total yards: New England 140, Seattle 22.

Collinsworth: Patriots are running Shane Vereen out of the backfield and sending their tight end or slot deep down the seam. That gets quick WR Julian Edelman one-on-one over the middle against linebacker Bobby Wagner. They're winning the game with that strategy.

Maybe so, but Brady just threw incomplete on third down. Ryan Allen will punt with 7:17 left in the half. Downed near the 30.

Cutaways: John Travolta, Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Kenny Chesney, Steven Tyler, Paul McCartney.

This is the second-longest a team has ever gone in a Super Bowl without a completion. The '85 Patriots completed a pass with 5:00 in the half.

And, as soon as NBC mentions that, Wilson completes a pass. Hits Kearse for a first down. 

Michaels: None of these Seahawks wide receivers were drafted. Not a one.

Oh, what a play by Chris Matthews. Wilson throws downfield and Matthews makes a turning, jumping, falling catch at the New England 11. Seahawks threatening.

Lynch run, Lynch run, and the ball is on the three yard line. Less than 3:00 left in the half.

Next play is another Lynch run. He's pretty good. Bounces it outside, spins, breaks a tackle, and reaches into the end zone. Suddenly it's 7-7. 2:16 left before halftime.

Cutaway: All of the footballs for this game in duffel bags, being guarded so nobody messes with the air pressure.

Collinsworth repeats the Patriots' line about not knowingly tampering with footballs. His tone of voice suggests he believes them, which is precious.

One play into the New England drive, we reach the two minute warning. Patriots at their 31, but this is when their offense really hums.

Blount runs for 9. Second and inches. Clock at 1:30 and counting.

Quick out to Vereen. Tackled in bounds at the 45. 1:00. Clock rolling.

Brady misses Amendola downfield. It looks like the receiver had no idea where the ball was and just sort of stuck his arms into the air in case the ball came.

Edelman jet sweep. Gets out of bounds in Seattle territory. 0:49 before the half.

Brady to Vereen across the middle. Gets to the Seahawks' 26. Timeout called with 0:40 remaining. That was the same look the Patriots have been running, where they clear out an area of the field to get a little, quick guy one-on-one against a middle linebacker.

Collinsworth: Seahawks can't bring in extra cornerbacks to deal with the Patriots' passing game because of the injury to Lane.

This time, it's not a cornerback in coverage, it's a linebacker. Rob Gronkowski blows past K.J. Wright off the line and gets wide open. Total mismatch. Brady to Gronk, touchdown. 14-7 Patriots with 0:31 left before halftime.

That TD is Tom Brady's 11th touchdown pass in a Super Bowl, tying Joe Montana for the career record.

Kickoff through the end zone. Seahawks have 31 seconds and three timeouts to work with if they want to tie the game before halftime.

First play, 19 yard run up the middle from Turbin. Timeout #1. 0:24 left in the half, Seahawks at their own 39.

Next play, Wilson zone read run for 16. Gets out of bounds at the Patriots 45. 0:17 and two timeouts left.

Incomplete pass. 0:11. NBC graphic says Hauschka's pregame long going this direction was from 52 yards. Seattle needs 10 more yards to get him there.

Ricardo Lockette downfield gets 20 or so, but there's a flag down. Personal foul, defense, facemask. It's tacked on to the end of the play. Do the Seahawks kick a field goal here with 0:06 left? Nobody knows, even the Seahawks. They call a timeout to talk about it.

You don’t often see a personal foul facemask before the ball is thrown.

I think you have to kick here. The Seahawks will run a play. I am not a qualified NFL football coach. Pete Carroll is.

Everybody lines up and...New England calls a timeout. They wanted to see the Seahawks' formation.

Touchdown. Wow. Wilson throws a back-shoulder bullet to Chris Matthews in the end zone right after Collinsworth guessed it would be a throw to Matthews. Matthews was like twice as tall as the guy covering him.

What a great play call. Looks like it'll be 14-14 at halftime. Two seconds left - I assume squib kickoff.

Yep. The guy who picks the ball up takes a few steps and then kneels, which...dude, there was no time on the clock. The only possible benefit of giving yourself up is not fumbling, which I guess is something.

HALFTIME

John Harbaugh: Seattle is having major matchup problems on defense. They can't cover these guys and they need to do something.

Harbaugh: That was a really tough ask of the quarterback, going for it with six seconds left. Great play call from Seattle.

Dan Patrick: Katy Perry is coming up with the halftime show. She'll have a tough act to follow. Oh, she'll be fine, Dan. She'll be just fine.

Rodney Harrison: Seattle defense has no answer for Shane Vereen. If I'm Brady, I continue to spread him out and get coverage from a linebacker.

It's time. IT'S LEFT SHARK TIME. GET TURNT.

Katy Perry comes out with Roar. She's riding a giant "robotic" tiger, which is a neat prop but is run by people inside the legs. Dark Horse. This is, visually, light years better than anything I've ever seen at a Super Bowl halftime show. It's extremely well put-together. A wild Lenny Kravitz appears! I Kissed a Girl duet. I'm not sure the song means the same thing when a dude sings the lyrics.

YES. I see sharks, palm trees, and beach balls. It's time. Teenage Dream. DAT SHARK DOH. Left shark is completely out of sync with everything and looks crazy.

California Gurlz. They're undeniable, but not as undeniable as Left Shark.

Missy Elliott! Get Your Freak On. This is theoretically a duet, but Katy Perry is just a famous background dancer/singer. Work It. Now it's Missy Elliott solo. Lose Control. This probably allows Katy to change costumes.

Firework. Katy is alone on a small-ish stage. I guess that's how they close out halftime shows and get the stage off the field. Now she's on a platform that's being raised, going up up up like a firework. She's wearing a safety harness that matches her dress, which is neat. Okay, now she's flying across the sky. Looks like she's riding the NBC "The More You Know" logo.

That was the grand finale. She nailed it.

Costas: In all five Patriots Super Bowls, win or lose, the margin of victory has been four or fewer points.

Costas has a whole long monologue and at the end tells us that the kickers could decide the game. You think?

Michaels: Russell Wilson says halftime is so long that he took his uniform off, took a shower, and put a clean uniform on. I can't tell whether or not he's serious, but that's insane.

THIRD QUARTER

Seahawks to receive the kickoff. Through the end zone. Seahawks take over at their 20.

NBC graphic: Chris Matthews is the fourth player to have his first career catch in a Super Bowl.

Seahawks start the second half feeding it to Marshawn Lynch. Beast mode breaks the second run for 12-15 yards.

Oh, man, what a catch. Another back shoulder pass to Matthews, way downfield. Big gain. Michaels says Matthews was working at a Foot Locker when the Seahawks asked him to try out, and he had to convince his boss to give him time off. A replay shows a very subtle push-off by the receiver that went uncalled.

Seattle gets 8 yards on first down, 1 on second, 0 on third. They'll try a chip-shot field goal with Steven Hauschka. 27 yards. Right down the middle. Seahawks lead 17-14 with 11:09 left in the third.

Collinsworth: So far, everything's going fine for the Patriots, but they look at the scoreboard and it's 17-14 Seattle.

I mean, I guess so, Cris, but you aren't going to win games doing nothing but throwing slants and swing passes. If you force yourself to have to pick up 6-7 first downs in a drive, that's a high degree of difficulty.

Third down, the Patriots keep picking on Bobby Wagner over the middle, but Wagner wins this one. It's an interception. Seahawks in business at midfield. Brady was looking for Gronk.

Michaels says that Matthews jokingly gets upset when he googles himself and sees the MSNBC guy with the same name. Says that might not be the case anymore.

Marshawn Lynch up the middle. Tough, strong, quick run and it's first and goal from the 4.

Secons and goal, Patriots sell out to stop the run. Play fake by Wilson and Doug Baldwin is WIDE open in the end zone. He nearly trips and drops the ball. Replay shows he used the umpire as a pick to gain a step on the DB. It's 24-14 Seahawks with 4:54 left in the third.

Michaels: This is the biggest deficit Brady has faced in any of his Super Bowls.

Patriots drive opens with an offensive holding penalty. 1st and 20 from the 25.

Patriots go three-and-out. The holding penalty was too big to overcome. Seattle will get the ball back with 3:15 left in the third and a ten point lead.

First play, Wilson downfield to Ricardo Lockette for a 25 yard gain. Seattle averaging more than 15 yards per pass attempt.

Third and 3, Wilson makes a terrific throw downfield to Jermaine Kearse, but Kearse just flat drops the ball. Jon Ryan to punt with a minute left in the quarter. Out of bounds at the 14.

After a run on first down and a short pass to the tight end on second down, the third quarter comes to an end. 15 minutes left.

FOURTH QUARTER

Third and 1 to start the quarter, the Patriots run with Blount. Stopped. They punt.

Seahawks feeding Lynch now. Patriots respond with run blitzes.

The Seahawks go five-wide on third and seven. Wilson sacked by Ninkovich. A coverage sack - Russell Wilson had nothing to throw to. Seattle will punt it back to New England.

NBC graphic: Brady has two interceptions today. That's as many as he threw in his first five Super Bowls combined.

First down, nobody can get open. It's a sack. Makes it 2nd and 18.

3rd and 14, Brady steps up and throws to Edelman at midfield. Gain of 21 and a first down. Clock now below 10:00.

Swing pass to Vereen, steps out of bounds and is hit afterwards. Personal foul. Dumb play by Earl Thomas. Patriots are in field goal range and rolling.

Vereen run to the 25. Clock below 9:00, third and 8. Patriots down 10.

Complete down the middle to Edelman. First and goal inside the 5. Clock closing in on 8:00.

Holy cow. Edelman just faked Tharold Simon out of existence on first and goal, but Brady missed him. It was a double move that just about broke Simon's ankles.

Second down, Brady to Amendola coming across the back of the end zone. Touchdown. 24-21 Seahawks, a bit less than 8:00 to go.

That touchdown pass was Brady's 12th career Super Bowl TD pass. That makes him #1 all-time, passing Joe Montana (11).

NBC: Seahawks have allowed a total of 13 points in the fourth quarter in their last 8 games. Patriots have allowed 12.

First play of the Seattle drive, a huge non-call. Patriots DB Malcolm Butler slips, falls, and clearly reaches out to trip WR Ricardo Lockette. Incomplete pass, no call.

Third and 5. 7:05 left. Wilson overthrows an open Marshawn Lynch going down the sideline. Lynch wasn't going very hard on the pass route and it threw Wilson off. It's a three-and-out that takes less than a minute. Ryan to punt. Patriots get the ball with 6:52 left.

Patriots moving downfield slowly. A couple completions to Vereen. Less than 5:45 left, first and 10 near midfield. Plenty of time for New England.

Swing pass to Edelman for 9, into Seattle territory. Less than 5:00 left, ball at the 42.

Second and long, GRONK. He's covered by Kam Chancellor and beats him. Gain of 20 or so. First and 10 from the 32.

Second down, Brady to Gronk again. He's one-on-one with a linebacker. 13 yard completion. to the 19. Next play is Vereen up the middle for 7. Clock approaches 3:00, 2nd and 3.

Complete to Lafell. First and goal at the 6. 2:52 left. Brady calls a timeout when the play clock runs low.

Brady's 36 completions have set a new single game Super Bowl record.

Blount up the middle for 3. Second and goal. Clock will be around 2:10 at the next snap. Second down, they run the same play that torched Tharold Simon on the last drive. Edelman with a double move toasts Simon. Brady won't miss that twice in a row and he doesn't. It's 28-24 Patriots with 2:02 left on the clock. Seahawks have all three timeouts.

Kickoff is a touchback. Gives Seattle an extra play. We'll hit the two minute warning after the first play of the Seahawk drive.

And that play is a 31 pass down to Marshawn Lynch down the left sideline by Wilson. Gets his team into Patriots territory. 1:55 left.

Next play, incomplete pass. They have to burn a timeout before the second down play - the play clock was down to 1. Second down, Wilson throws deep to Matthews in the end zone. Can't quite get to the ball. Incomplete. Third and 10.

No problem. Wilson to Lockette for 12. First down. 1:15 and counting.

HOLY CRAP. On first down, Wilson throws deep, it bounces off of the defensive back's hand, Jermaine Kearse falls and lands on his back, the ball hits Kearse in the outstretched leg hits the other leg, pops up, hits him in the hand, bounces, and then Kearse finally catches it at the 6 yard line. That's a crazy play.

Seahawks have to burn their second timeout before the next play.

First down, Lynch up the middle. Tackled inside the 1. Clock still rolling. 0:36 and counting, second and goal.

Second down, it's a pass. AND IT'S INTERCEPTED AT THE GOAL LINE. WHAT THE HECK WERE THE SEAHAWKS DOING?

Collinsworth is apoplectic about the play call. Michaels is just confused. You have Marshawn Lynch and you throw the ball?

Seahawks CB Richard Sherman looks like someone farted on his breakfast.

Collinsworth: "If I lose the Super Bowl because Marshawn Lynch can't get it in from the one yard line, so be it. So be it! There is no way....*stuttering*...I don't believe the call."

Patriots have the ball inside their own 1. They can't just take a knee - they need to get it out of the end zone.

Collinsworth, watching the replay: "WHY?!?"

Seattle jumps offside before the Patriots' first snap. Now Brady can just take a knee. And he does.

Now there's pushing and shoving. I see Gronk throw more than one punch. He should really be ejected. We'll see if he is. #51, Irvin for Seattle threw a punch too, it appeared.

Irvin is ejected. Gronk is not.

Brady takes another knee. Seahawks can't stop the clock and it's over. 28-24 Patriots.

POSTGAME

Malcolm Butler: I had a vision I was going to make a big play and it came true. I'm just blessed. Can't explain it right now.

Butler: Could tell from the formation what the play was going to be. It's because of the preparation.

Michaels: One of the things I love about this game, you've got all these huge stars on the field and Chris Matthews would have been an MVP candidate if the Seahawks has won. And now Malcolm Butler, a guy nobody has ever heard of, makes the game-winning play.

Robert Kraft on Deflategate controversy: Every year, if you're privileged to get to this game, hard things happen. You have to be resilient.

Lombardi trophy presented by Kurt Warner, the MVP of Super Bowl XXXIV.

Fans boo Roger Goodell.

Kraft: To all the Patriot fans, this is our fourth Super Bowl championship in 14 years. The first one we won, I thought was pretty special because it happened at a unique time in our country. (9/11, I assume) I never thought another could feel as special, but this one does. We're all Patriots.

Dan Patrick to Belichick: You ever think you'd win another one of those? Belichick: Sure did.

Belichick: So proud of all these players, I love these guys.

Patrick: Did you expect a Marshawn Lynch run on second down at the goal line? Belichick, refusing to throw anyone under the bus: They do a lot of things at the goal line, we needed to be ready for anything.

Tom Brady named MVP.

Brady: It wasn't the way we drew it up, and me throwing a couple of picks didn't help, but we were resilient and got it done. It was a great team win.

Brady: Want to thank friends, family, and teammates.

Gronk: It feels unbelievable! Had no doubts at all, everyone on this team is great.

Edelman: We're bringing this thing back to Foxboro. Feels unbelievable.

Edelman: Nothing but respect for Seattle. They have a great team. We have a mentally tough team that works its tails off and I'm proud of them.

Harbaugh on the Seahawks' decision to pass: That's hard, you've gotta think about running the ball there. You have a timeout if you don't get in.

Dungy and Harrison both agree that you absolutely have to hand the ball to Lynch on second down.

Pete Carroll: It was a fantastic football game. A true championship game.

Carroll on the pass: We had three receivers on the field, they had their goal line defense in, didn't want to run against their goal line package. It's my fault, totally. Everybody said why didn't you just run it and that would have been a good idea. We were playing for third and fourth down, with the amount of time on the clock it would have been perfect.

Carroll: For everything to work out this way, I hate that it happened. Everybody did a great job and we had a chance to win.

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A Seat at the Table – Honoring Black History Month

Many black women in history have been pioneers in their field, changed history by standing up for what they believed, broke barriers in male-dominated industries or gave back in ways that changed the world.  We honor, love, and admire all their efforts and sacrifice.  This month we would like to celebrate a few women who accomplished what some considered impossible. During a recent visit to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, I was elated to witness the honor and praise attributed to women who had contributed to STEM fields.  I would like to highlight a few superstars and their amazing accomplishments. 

Annie Easley, computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist.

Not many people can say they were rocket scientists. What an accomplishment and honor.  Annie was raised by a mother who always assured Annie that she could do anything as long as she worked hard.  Against all odds and fighting discrimination all the way, Annie paved the way to a long and lasting 30-year career at NASA.  What moved me most was seeing young girls honor such a brilliant mind by writing a post-it note: “Women of Color Rock” and posting it by her photo.

Katrina Miller, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics at the University of Chicago

Katrina Miller is inspiring young women everywhere to pursue careers in STEM. As the founder of the #Iam Project, Katrina gives back by mentoring young minds and helping them pursue work in STEM because as Katrina noted, “the first time I met another black woman in physics wasn’t until my senior year of college. I want young girls to have that moment much sooner.”  Katrina is a leader and mentor to all young women aspiring in the STEM fields.

Joan Higginbotham, engineer, and former NASA Astronaut 

We are Chicago proud of Joan, the 3rd African American woman to go to space.  (1st - Mae Jemison; 2nd - Stephanie Wilson.)  Joan graduated with an electrical engineering degree from Southern Illinois University and began her career at the Kennedy Space Center in 1987 and was then chosen for the astronaut program in 1996. Joan was a member of the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-116 mission that launched to the International Space Station on December 9, 2006. Joan is an inspiration to all young girls who dream of being an astronaut. 

Katherine Johnson, mathematician 

Katherine joined NASA in 1953, and throughout her 33 years at NASA, she broke barriers in mathematics.  Her accomplishments were highlighted in the movie, Hidden Figures. The film shows how Katherine’s mathematical calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the Mercury's vessel, Friendship 7, which orbited Earth.  Katherine also assisted Alan Shepard’s 1961 journey to space and Apollo 11’s moon landing and return to Earth in 1969. Her work continued to amaze us through her career at NASA. In 2015 President Obama awarded Katherine the Presidential Medal of Freedom stating, “Katherine G. Johnson refused to be limited by society’s expectations of her gender and race while expanding the boundaries of humanity’s reach.”

Katherine said during her tenure at Langley, which spanned from 1953 until her retirement in 1986, was “a time when computers wore skirts.”

In honor of Katherine’s accomplishments, NASA has dedicated a building in her name, the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility in VA. 

We are so inspired by the contributions Katherine made to mathematics and the role model she is for young women everywhere, we are proud to announce we have named a lip-gloss in her honor. This spring, you will be able to purchase the dome BEAUTY lip-gloss in the shade, Katherine, in honor of Katherine Johnson!

Highlighting the successes of women in STEM is so important to dome BEAUTY.  The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields are a critical component of the cosmetic industry.  All the product advances you see today are a direct result of someone from the STEM field, whether it is a chemist developing new ingredients for improved formulations, technology that provides new and improved beauty product packaging or a scientist making enhancements to improve the quality of the products you use every day like our dome BEAUTY gold eye shadow or magnetic mascara. We owe it all to STEM and the people behind the scenes--our own beauty Hidden Figures.

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Historic Dungeons & Dragons® Campaign Returns

Legendary game designer Frank Mentzer, famed for his worldwide version of the Dungeons & Dragons® game, has teamed with fiction author Ted Fauster to revisit one of the earliest known D&D® fantasy worlds.

Welcome to the Realm of Empyrea

In 1981, Mentzer was given written permission from E. Gary Gygax (co-author of the original game in 1974) to establish and develop this little-known portion of Oerth, one of the game’s original settings. This new realm of Empyrea has a 40-year history (starting with simple materials from Judges Guild) and is still actively used. The artist Darlene, who painted Gary’s maps in his 1980 product, will create similar maps for this one. Other famous artists of that era — including Caldwell, Dee,  Diesel, Easley, Elmore, Holloway, Jaquays, and Otus — are being invited to join the project.

Empyrea lies on the mysterious and isolated continent of Aquaria, east of Gygax’s World of Greyhawk™ setting. Until now, knowledge of this portion of the world has remained largely a mystery, as the broad and dangerous Solnor ocean separates the two regions. The continent is briefly described in the Advanced D&D® adventure “Egg of the Phoenix” (Mentzer & Jaquays, TSR Inc., 1987).

“It’s time to share this Dungeons & Dragons® world with hobby gamers,” Mentzer says. “Unlike others, Gary approved this personally. Empyrea combines both traditional fantasy and science fiction elements. Magic is dominant, but technology lurks. And it’s one Realm… this isn’t a cluster of medieval city-states like Greyhawk.”

Author Ted Fauster has accepted the role of Creative Aide, which was Mentzer’s original title when he worked with Gygax at TSR in the 1980s.

Mentzer and Darlene will finance the set through crowdfunding, with support from Judges Guild. It will be compatible with the most recent Fifth Edition D&D® game (D&D 5E) as well as Mentzer’s own world-famous “Red Box” edition of the game.

Dungeons & Dragons® continues to be one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games of all time, and Mentzer’s version is still available in fourteen languages, on every continent. An official start date for the Kickstarter will be announced shortly after the GenCon® 50 Game Convention in August.

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Iowa should be more than an NFL tight ends farm team

Modernized schemes could make greater use of the Hawkeyes’ pipeline.

It’s difficult to find and train tight ends who can both block and run routes in the seams, running over smaller defenders and then running around bigger defenders.

But Iowa has a strong tradition, and they’ve really been on a tear of late. Following Mackey Award winner Dallas Clark’s run with the Colts, Iowa sent guys like Allen Reisner, C.J. Fiedorowicz, and Henry Krieger-Coble to the NFL. Their last three main TEs were George Kittle (2018 NFL record breaker), Noah Fant (All-Big Ten in 2017 and 2018), and T.J. Hockenson (also a Mackey Award winner).

In the 2019 NFL Draft, both Hockenson and Fant went early — Hockenson eighth overall to the Lions, Fant 20th to the Broncos — after a season in which they led the Iowa attack and combined for 78 catches, 1,279 yards, and 13 touchdowns.

Iowa’s consistent production at tight end is a nice sell on the recruiting trail.

Their last class included three players at that position, all from Illinois, and the 2020 class already includes a verbal commitment from another out of Texas (all three-stars like Kittle, Fant, and Hockenson, of course).

Fant came from Nebraska, and Kittle from Oklahoma. Kittle and Hockenson redshirted, allowing them to spend quality time with college football’s highest paid strength coach. Fant played sporadically as a freshman before coming on strong as a sophomore in 2017.

It’s rare for tight ends to come out of high school with the full complement of skills. The guys with the expertise in blocking need time to master the route running, and vice versa. While all positions have to add new skills, it’s not uncommon for tight ends to have been big receivers in high school who start from scratch as they learn to block box defenders.

Iowa’s offense requires its tight ends to be especially capable in the run game.

There are no workarounds for Iowa’s key players. The offense relies as heavily on head coach Kirk Ferentz’s favored stretch blocking schemes as it does on sending them up the seam on routes. Many of the best high school tight ends were allowed to remain flexed-out full time as receivers, and there are plenty of colleges that don’t require them to build out their blocking skills before they see the field, but Iowa’s system doesn’t make exceptions.

While the Hawkeyes’ consistency in developing well-rounded players makes them a solid farm team for the NFL, it also gives them a potential leg up on much of college football.

Yet the Hawkeyes played Hockenson and Fant together less often than you’d think.

They’d regularly mix in 21 personnel (two running backs, one tight end) with a fullback instead of Fant or 11 personnel with a WR instead of Fant. And when the two TEs played together in 12 personnel, the Hawkeyes put an extra emphasis on the stretch blocking game:

They were big fans of this set, which put a lot of passing strength to the field with Fant and the twin receivers while still getting into bigger personnel. Of course on this play, Penn State matched with 4-3 personnel and brought a linebacker off the edge late and unaccounted for, so the benefit of effecting zone blocking was limited.

The vision is to force a defense into personnel that is either too big to cover or too small to beat blocks, but the Hawkeyes yielded the advantage by running into a blitz.

Occasionally the Hawkeyes mixed in RPOs or screens to the perimeter off their stretch runs, but their most devastating plays involved throwing to their tight ends. Here, they lined up their tight end tandem in a run blocking formation only to send them deep and confuse Wisconsin’s defense:

The Hawkeyes run a shallow cross, with Hockenson running a dig, Fant outside of him running a post, and the RB running a wheel route outside. This is a pretty standard concept, but it’s not as common for the vertical stresses to come from the tight ends and running back.

In 2018, Iowa had arguably the country’s two best tight ends ... and a lacking offense.

Ferentz had a RB committee that combined for 4.4 yards per carry. That’s totally underwhelming for a team that had a pair of dominant tight ends who could force opponents into difficult matchups.

The main wideouts were Nick Easley, Brandon Smith, and Ihmir Smith-Marsette. Easley led that trio with 52 catches for 494 yards and five scores, only 9.5 per catch. Given the safety attention that Fant and Hockenson could command, that’s remarkably unexplosive. The other two did more damage per catch but only hauled in 28 and 23 catches apiece.

The unit finished 54th in Offensive S&P+ — a step up from 2017, when they finished 70th — but still calling into question how Iowa isn’t getting more from its NFL pipeline at such a crucial position. In 2016, they finished 68th in Offensive S&P+ as future Pro Bowler Kittle averaged fewer than three catches per game he played.

In 2018, Iowa failed to use Fant enough as a flexed-out receiver. They’d also regularly take him off the field, to insert a slot receiver or fullback. Given Fant’s speed and route ability, there was little reason to play with more than one or two wide receivers at a time. By playing with Fant or Hockenson in flexed-out positions, the Hawkeyes could have easily used motion to abuse opponents for choices in personnel.

The Hawkeyes didn’t use much motion, save to move blockers toward weaker DL or for play-action opportunities:

One play that was most emblematic of the Hawkeyes’ lack of creativity was this third-and-20 call against the Nittany Lions:

The Hawkeyes get into 11 personnel, with Fant attached to the line and Hockenson on the bench. After moving a receiver across the set, they run stretch behind Fant into a defense that felt no need to back up to the first down sticks.

It was rare to see the Hawkeyes leverage the hybrid abilities of their tight ends.

They didn’t build around these players by going big and then flexing them out against linebackers, or running over defensive backs if opponents tried to take away the passing game.

In 2018 with the 49ers, Kittle caught more balls (88) for more yardage (1,377) than both of Iowa’s tight ends combined, some of them coming from former Iowa QB C.J. Beathard.

The Hawkeyes are poised to continue producing versatile players for the NFL, but they’re missing out on some of the benefits for themselves along the way.

[astrid-easley]

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“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”

BASIC

NAME:  Astrid Noelle Easley  NICKNAMES: Ace  AGE:  23 BIRTHDAY: November 13th  GENDER: Female PRONOUNS: She/her ZODIAC: Scorpio  CHINESE ZODIAC: Rooster HOGWARTS HOUSE: Ravenclaw  SONG: Nearly Witches - Panic! At The Disco

FAMILY

MOTHER:  Abigail Easley FATHER: Richard Easley  SIBLINGS: n/a

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

FACE CLAIM: Kat McNamara NATIONALITY: American HEIGHT: 5′5  HAIR:  Red EYE COLOR: Amber SKIN COLOR: White DOMINANT HAND: Left ACCENT: Massachusetts, but definitely not Boston.  ALLERGIES: shellfish  FASHION: Is it clean? Is it comfortable? Does it fit? Perfect.  NERVOUS TICS: Hair twirling, lip biting, cuticle picking, tongue clicking, fake texting. QUIRKS: narrating everyday activities as songs, always carrying a journal, snorts when she laughs really hard.

LIFESTYLE

BORN: Salem, MA RAISED: Salem, MA VEHICLE: She doesn’t drive - in fact she never learned how. Instead she uses public transport offered throughout New York City. PHONE: Iphone 7 PETS: She’s always wanted a pet, however, she’s pretty sure she’d suck at having the responsibility. 

MAJOR: None. CURRENT OCCUPATION: Psychic/Tarot card reader PAST OCCUPATION(S): Dairy Queen Cashier  YEARLY SALARY: Depends on tips.

MISDEMEANORS: n/a FELONIES: n/a TICKETS AND/OR VIOLATIONS: n/a DRUGS: Marijuana isn’t really a “drug” as much as a plant - anything else, hard pass.  SMOKES: Tried it once in the 8th grade, she got so sick she threw up. Never again.  ALCOHOL: Everyone wants a girl who can handle her own handle of tequila. Astrid is not that girl, but bless her heart, she tries to be. 

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual  MARTIAL STATUS: Single. CHILDREN: Not yet. AVAILABILITY:  Physically available, emotionally closed off.  LOOKING FOR: A connection. Sense of humor. Someone who doesn’t judge the fact she won’t use a napkin until she’s finished eating. 

LANGUAGES: English, Romanian, Latin (dabbles) 

PHOBIAS:  Heights, spiders, snakes, drowning. HOBBIES:  Astrology, reading, playing video games, writing, camping.  TRAITS:  Loyal, honest, stubborn, funny, resourceful, shy. SOCIAL MEDIA: instagram and facebook is where it’s at, homie. 

FAVOURITE

LOCATION: Bed. SPORTS TEAM: Uh… nah.  MUSIC: Metal, classic rock, classical, pop, all pretty much.  SONG: This changes often, but for the moment “Year Zero” by Ghost.  SHOW: Another one that changes often, but Tales From The Crypt is what she’s powering through for then uptenth time.  MOVIE: Practical Magic  FOOD: You can’t go wrong with pizza. Or chicken. Or pasta. Or hamburgers. Or tacos (and nachos). Or mac and cheese. Or… you get the hint.   BEVERAGE: 1/2 lemonade ½ sweet tea.  COLOR: Pastel purple.