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NFL: If this is true, it's pretty awesome...

When I copied this, the link didn't attach so I'll have to see if i can find it and edit the OP...

The Arizona Cardinals have stepped up in a major way to help the Los Angeles Rams in a time of crisis🙏

The Cardinals are hosting Monday night’s Rams-Vikings playoff game, but they’ve done much more behind the scenes to make their divisional opponent feel at home.

On Friday, the Cardinals sent two of their 777 planes to Los Angeles to pick up the Rams’ team, its staff, and their families to bring them back to Arizona for the weekend.

In addition, the Cardinals turned over their training facility for the Rams to use in advance of Monday night’s game at State Farm Stadium.

The field will have the Rams’ markings and logo at the 50-yard line and in the end zones, and the team’s staff is working with the Cardinals’ stadium staff to use the on-screen graphics the Rams use on their SoFi Stadium video board.

Rams president of team operations Kevin Demoff offered gratitude to the Cardinals:
“Many thanks to the #AZCardinals, Michael Bidwill and his family for jumping in to help ahead of Monday’s game. We could not prepare, play or move our players & families without their help.”

Edit: Not the exact link, but same story.

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Basketball Men's Top 25 Polls & NET (1/13)

AP Top 25 (1/13)
1. Auburn (60) (15-1)
2. Iowa State (14-1)
3. Duke (1) (14-2)
4. Alabama (14-2)
5. Florida (1) (15-1)
6. Tennessee (15-1)
7. Marquette (14-2)
8. Kentucky (13-3)
9. Kansas (12-3)
10. Houston (12-3)
11. Texas A&M (13-3)
12. Michigan State (14-2)
13. Oregon (15-2)

14. Connecticut (13-4)
15. Mississippi State (14-2)
16. Gonzaga (14-4)
17. Purdue (13-4)
18. Memphis (13-3)
19. Illinois (12-4)
20. Michigan (13-3)

21. Mississippi (14-2)
22. Utah State (16-1)
23. Georgia (14-2)
24. Wisconsin (13-3)
25. Baylor (11-4)

Others Receiving Votes
St. John's, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, Louisville, Texas Tech, Maryland, Clemson, Missouri, Cincinnati, San Diego State, St. Mary's, UC-Irvine, New Mexico

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USA Today Coaches Top 25 (1/13)
1. Auburn (25) (15-1)
2. Iowa State (5) (14-1)
3. Duke (14-2)
4. Florida (15-1)
5. Alabama (14-2)
6. Tennessee (1) (15-1)
7. Marquette (14-2)
8. Houston (12-3)
9. Kentucky (13-3)
10. Kansas (12-3)
11. Texas A&M (13-3)
12. Michigan State (14-2)
13. Connecticut (13-4)
14. Oregon (15-2)
15. Purdue (13-4)

16. Gonzaga (14-4)
17. Memphis (13-3)
18. Mississippi State (14-2)
19. Michigan (13-3)
20. Illinois (12-4)

21. Mississippi
22. Utah State (16-1)
23. Georgia (14-2)
24. Baylor (11-4)
25. West Virginia (12-3)

Others Receiving Votes
St. John's, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, UCLA, Maryland, Texas Tech, Clemson, St. Mary's, Louisville, Indiana, Missouri, San Diego State, UC-Irvine

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NCAA NET (1/13)
1. Auburn
2. Duke
3. Houston
4. Tennessee
5. Florida
6. Iowa State
7. Alabama
8. Kansas
9. Illinois
10. Gonzaga
11. Michigan
12. Marquette
13. Kentucky
14. Michigan State
15. Purdue

16. Arizona
17. Texas A&M
18. Mississippi State
19. Texas Tech
20. Baylor
21. Oregon
22. Maryland

23. Mississippi
24. Wisconsin
25. Connecticut
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30. Ohio State
32. UCLA
44. Nebraska
45. Iowa
51. Penn State
56. Northwestern
60. Indiana
76. USC
95. Rutgers
97. Washington
147. Minnesota
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Basketball Women's Top 25 Polls & NET (1/13)

Women's AP Top 25 (1/13)
1. UCLA (29) (16-0)

2. South Carolina (16-1)
3. Notre Dame (2) (14-2)
4. USC (16-1)
5. LSU (18-0)
6. Connecticut (15-2)
7. Texas (16-2)
8. Maryland (15-1)
9. Ohio State (16-0)

10. TCU (17-1)
11. Kansas State (17-1)
12. Kentucky (15-1)
13. Oklahoma (14-3)
14. North Carolina (15-3)
15. Tennessee (14-2)
16. Duke (13-4)
17. Georgia Tech (15-2)
18. California (16-2)
19. Alabama (16-2)
20. West Virginia (13-3)
21. North Carolina State (12-4)
22. Michigan State (13-3)
23. Utah (13-3)
24t. Minnesota (16-1)
24t. Oklahoma State (14-2)

Others Receiving Votes
Michigan
, Mississippi State, Indiana, Creighton, Nebraska, Baylor, Louisville, Harvard, Mississippi, Florida State, Iowa, Vanderbilt

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Coaches Poll
(released on Tuesday)
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Deion looking at open NFL job?

Shock and awe I say. Never would have thought he'd bail after his sons leave. Nobody could have predicted this.

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Today in History - January 13

January 13
1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

1898 - French writer Emile Zola publishes his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1941 - Author James Joyce died in Zurich.

1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.

1979 - Singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York at age 34.

1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

1990 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected Black governor in the United States.

1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had a role in abducting the so-called "comfort women."

2002 - After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.

2004 - Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.

2021 - President Donald Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives over the violent January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, becoming the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection." (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)

Birthdays
25 - Kensington Tillo (model)
28 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
30 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
35 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
48 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
59 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
63 - Trace Adkins (singer)
64 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
68 - Mark O'Meara (golfer)

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Today in Sports History - January 13

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers, which was an NBA single-game record at the time.

1968 - Bill Masterson (Minnesota North Stars) was injured when he was checked into the boards. He died two days later. He was the first casualty in the NHL.

1974 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 to win Super Bowl VIII.

1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.

1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.

1998 - The NFL completed a $9.2 billion deal to keep "Monday Night Football" on ABC and the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.

1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would unretire again in 2001.)

2003 - The NHL's Buffalo Sabres filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2005 - Major League Baseball adopted a steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.

2005 - The NFL fined Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win the previous weekend.

2008 - The Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA single-game record 23 3-pointers in 37 attempts (62.2%) in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.

2019 - Houston Rockets guard James Harden scores 38 points in a 116-108 loss to the Orlando Magic, giving him his 16th consecutive game with 30+ points, matching Kobe Bryant's NBA record.

2020 - LSU defeats Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

2020 - Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow are fired by team owner Jim Crane for their roles in the sign-stealing scandal after MLB suspends both for one year.
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Higher value players in the portal

It seems to me that there's four types of players who enter the portal (NIL money has a lot to do with this):

1. Players from P4 or other higher end schools who leave their schools relatively early (within the first 2 years). These are players who are most likely just players who weren't as good as their high school ranking indicated and less likely players who are good but just don't get a chance because of a crowded position room. To me, these are the most risky transfers because there's likely not a lot of film on them having meaningful playing time. It's more of a bet on their potential out of high school, albeit not a good start.

2. Players who play at lower end FBS or all FCS schools who have played a lot and proven their ability to be productive players despite them not being ranked very high out of high school. Players from the Dakota and Montana teams are perfect examples.

3. Players who are good P4 players and just need a change of scenery or seek more NIL money.

4. Grad transfers who are good P4 players and want to go to another school to enhance their NFL chances or get an advanced degree from somewhere else.

Players from categories 1 and 2 are the majority of the players with the first category being far more risky than the second. Categories 3 and 4 seem to be cases where a team needs a particular player for 1 year (i.e. Will Howard, Russell Wilson, etc.).

IMO, Nebraska's portal strategy should look to all categories based on need, but focus the most on Category 2 with strategic picks from the other categories. It seems that a really good and proven P4 player wanting to transfer is rare, where it would seem that almost all of the NFL level players playing for the the lower end of FBS or from the FCS would desire transfer to a P4 program where they can make better money and get more exposure for the NFL.
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Basketball Big Ten Men's Scores and Standings (1/12)

January 12
#15 Oregon 82, Penn State 81
#16 Michigan State 78, Northwestern 68
#20 Purdue 104, Nebraska 68
#24 Michigan 91, Washington 75

Standings
1. Michigan (13-3, 5-0)
1. Michigan State (14-2, 5-0)
3. Purdue (13-4, 5-1)
4. Illinois (12-4, 4-2)
4. Indiana (13-4, 4-2)
4. Oregon (15-2, 4-2)
7. Iowa (12-4, 3-2)
7. Wisconsin (13-3, 3-2)
9. Nebraska (12-4, 2-3)
9. Maryland (12-4, 2-3)
9. Ohio State (10-6, 2-3)
9. UCLA (11-5, 2-3)
9. USC (10-6, 2-3)
14. Penn State (12-5, 2-4)
15. Northwestern (10-6, 1-4)
15. Rutgers (8-8, 1-4)
17. Washington (10-7, 1-5)
18. Minnesota (8-8, 0-5)

Games for Monday, January 13
#22 UCLA at Rutgers (5:30 PM - FS1)
Minnesota at Maryland (5:30 PM - BTN)

Next Nebraska Game - Thursday, January 16
Rutgers at Nebraska (8:00 PM - FS1)
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Basketball Big Ten Women's Scores and Standings (1/12)

January 12
#4 USC 95, Penn State 73
#9 Ohio State 69, Oregon 60
#20 Michigan State 80, Washington 68
Indiana 74, #23 Iowa 67
Nebraska 69, Rutgers 62

Postponed
Northwestern at #1 UCLA

Standings
1. USC (16-1, 6-0)
2. Ohio State (16-0, 5-0)
2. UCLA (16-0, 5-0)
4. Maryland (15-1, 5-1)
5. Indiana (12-4, 4-1)
5. Minnesota (16-1, 4-1)
7. Nebraska (13-4, 4-2)
8. Michigan State (13-3, 3-2)
8. Washington (12-5, 3-2)
10. Oregon (12-5, 3-3)
11. Illinois (12-4, 2-3)
11. Michigan (11-5, 2-3)
13. Iowa (12-5, 2-4)
14. Wisconsin (10-7, 1-5)
15. Northwestern (7-9, 0-5)
15. Purdue (7-9, 0-5)
17. Penn State (9-8, 0-6)
17. Rutgers (8-9, 0-6)

Games for Tuesday, January 14
Minnesota at #8 Maryland (6:00 PM - BTN)

Next Nebraska Game - Thursday, January 16
Nebraska at #23 Iowa (6:00 PM - BTN)
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Basketball Purdue hits 19 3s as Huskers get blown out in West Lafayette

Second game in a row where you can say Nebraska was embarrassed. Huskers fall to 2-3 in conference play. All four losses this season have come outside the friendly confines of Pinnacle Bank Arena.

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New Commits?

The OL and WR in for visit. Sup with them?

We’re old and our lives revolve around the Grandkids, Yellowstone, Nebraska Football and Grandma.

Grandkids: All grown and gone except 3 boys in high school, all local, with girl friends. 😟

Yellowstone: Done

Nebraska Football: Done

Grandma: Old, Grumpy and Nasty. Unless she wants something, then she’s just Old. 😊

I’m bored. Need Action. And Spring Practice is way too far down the line. 😟

Other than all that, Life is Great!! 😊😊😊
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