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FIBA rules in NCAA would ruin Haggerty’s Game

FIBA rules call all fouls on offensive players initiating contact while dribbling. If NCAA officials start following this pattern as has been recommended then 80% of Haggerty’s game is gone. Team USA lost to France in the Olympics for this exact reason. TU was hoping they would never change to this interpretation but now maybe we would be okay with it. With rules as currently interpreted, the defender cannot keep from being called with a foul when contact is initiated by the offensive player.

Haggerty was one of the best in the nation at what is called “foul baiting “.

Avian flu sneaks in via cows

Pasteurization seems to break the flu down, but who would have thought bird flu would infect cows?


Commercial milk supply

On April 24, the US FDA announced it found genetic evidence of H5N1 virus in commercially purchased milk samples. The testing, conducted with polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cannot distinguish between whole virus or viral fragments. H5N1 viral remnants have also been identified in milk samples by NIAID-funded researchers and a team from Ohio State University. The results indicate the H5N1 outbreak in dairy herds is likely far more widespread than official counts indicate. Preliminary culture tests are so far negative for viable virus in the milk supply, but tests are ongoing.

The FDA and USDA have said that based on currently available information, the US commercial milk supply is safe because it undergoes the pasteurization process and milk from cows known to be sick is diverted from the supply and destroyed. Pasteurization is likely to inactivate the virus but not eliminate the presence of viral particles that could be detected using PCR testing. HPAI H5N1 has been found almost exclusively in raw milk in the current outbreak, and the FDA reiterated its longstanding recommendation to avoid its consumption.
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TU On Pro Rosters

With the NFL draft starting Thursday and I can guarnatee no one from TU will be going in the first round. I wanted to see who was on a Roster.

Here is what we got

Canadian Football League

NamePositionTeamLeague
Tyon DavisDBBC LionsCFL
Isaiah EppsWRCalgary StampedersCFL
Travon FullerDBWinnipeg Blue BombersCFL
Josh JohnsonWRWinnipeg Blue BombersCFL
JuanCarlos SantanaWRHamilton TigercatsCFL

National Football League

NamePositionTeamLeague
Zaven CollinsOLBArizona CardinalsNFL
Tyler SmithOTDallas CowboysNFL
Chris PaulGWashington CommandersNFL
Deneric PrinceRBKansas City ChiefsNFL
Trevis GipsonLBJacksonville JaguarsNFL

🏀 Recruiting TU Basketball hosts three visitors from transfer portal

The Tulsa men’s basketball coaches are combing the transfer portal to help fill out their roster for next season, and three players have made recent visits to the TU campus.

G5 realignment, playoffs

I mean, has private equity ever done anything but improve things?

This idea sounds pretty interesting, I have to say. I get the "we don't want to label ourselves as second tier" but G5 conferences are second tier and will only become more so as money becomes even more unevenly distributed. I'm honestly not interested in watching teams with $5m NIL players, that's just pro ball. I'd like a real college football system again.

"The idea of G5 reorganization or the creation of a G5 football-only Super League consisting of the top handful of programs was informally discussed among some administrators when the current wave of conference realignment kicked off in 2021. Former Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany presented to leagues an idea of the three G5 leagues with southeastern footprints (AAC, CUSA, Sun Belt) reorganizing geographically. A few weeks later, the AAC added six schools from CUSA. The AAC earns millions more per school than other G5 leagues."

📝 Larry Lewis Rick Dickson made lasting impact at TU

To say Rick Dickson's imminent departure as TU's athletic director is the end of an era is an understatement. When he retires, this time for good, as Tulsa's AD at the end of June at age 70, it will be 50 years since he first came to TU as a football player from Bishop Kelley.


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Al McGuire and TU link

I read this on an Al McGuire website. I didn’t realize the last game he called was Tulsa and College of Charleston.

“I worked with Al McGuire his last year of the tournament (1999). And Coach McGuire was never known for the depth of his preparation. As in, ‘I’ll react to what’s going on.’ And that Thursday or Friday is the longest day in broadcast television. It is. It’s a grind. I can still tell you the teams. We were in Charlotte. We lead off with Delaware and Tennessee. Get that done. Then we’ve got Southwest Missouri State and Wisconsin in what I would still argue is one of the worst college basketball games I’ve ever done. Like, 42-31, and that was at the end of the game. So now we get a short break. My pile (of papers) is going down. You take half of it and throw it away. The evening game was Mississippi Valley State and Duke, and Duke was a 48-point favorite, and they covered. So the last game of the night is College of Charleston and Tulsa. We’re taking a break and I said, ‘Coach, anything I can do for you in this last game?’ And he said, ‘No, no.’ We get back and sit down. He doesn’t have a note. He doesn’t have a roster. And I said, ‘Is there anything I can do to help you out?’ He said, ‘No, no—they’ll take their warmups off and I’ll get the names and numbers, and I’ll listen to you for the first five minutes, and I’ll pick things up and I’ll be fine.’ Charleston comes out and they have maroon warmups. They take them off and they have no names, just numbers. Tulsa, with Bill Self as the coach, comes out in blue—no names. McGuire looked at me and said, ‘Son, you might have to help me—I think I’m screwed.’”

--- Verne Lundquist

Music news for old guys

Yesterday marked the passing of the great Mike Pinder, Mellotron king and last living co-founder of the Moody Blues. He was also a fine songwriter and vocalist, winning the Igor Novella songwriting award for the Moody Blues song "A Simple Game." He retired from music (mostly) in 1978 to California, and later worked in the video gaming industry.

He also recited the spoken word poems written by drummer Graeme Edge, such as Late Lament:

"Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion"

Godspeed Mike. Too many of my musical heros are passing. Tis the season it appears.

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