Austin is one of the new “it” cities in the United State both for potential residents and weekend travelers. With a renowned bar district, diverse culinary influences, and an infamous live music scene, the city offers a wide range of experiences that can cater to anyone.
As the capital of Texas and the home to the University of Texas, Austin is a big time player in the entire Lone Star State. Whether you’re stopping by for the game or it’s just part of a longer itinerary, here’s a guide to getting the most out of your time in the Live Music Capital of the World.
Best places to eat:
Terry Black’s Barbecue
No trip to Austin is complete without a stop at a BBQ joint for brisket, ribs, and all the fixings. There are a handful of quality places in Austin, but no barbecue experience is more convenient and accessible without sacrificing quality than Terry Black’s Barbecue. Located just south of Town Lake, Terry Black’s is a short ride from downtown or the University of Texas campus. While there will undoubtedly be a wait, the line moves quickly and the food is worth it.
Enchiladas Y Mas
Perhaps the only thing in Austin more scrutinized than Arch Manning, a person’s opinion on Tex Mex can divide even the closest friends. One of my personal favorite spots is the unassuming Enchiladas Y Mas. Located just north of the downtown area, this restaurant will give you an authentic experience in enchiladas, margaritas, and everything Tex Mex.
Bird Bird Biscuit
A funky twist on the chicken sandwich, Bird Bird Biscuit offers fried chicken sandwiches inside fresh biscuits. A popular spot for breakfast, the sandwiches are a great start to a busy day. There are three locations in Austin and the method is to order online and pick it up to go in order to avoid the line.
P Terry’s Burger Stand
Need a quick bite? There is likely a P Terry’s just a stone’s throw away. A local chain, P Terry’s serves burgers, fries, and milkshakes. These are a great opportunity to eat like a local, especially late at night.
Places to tailgate, celebrate, or keep the game day party going:
Bevo Blvd and Longhorn City Limits
A new fixture of game days in Austin, both these tailgating spots are free and minutes from the stadium. Bevo Blvd offers food, drinks, and carnival games while Longhorn City Limits is a concert series within eye sight of the North End Zone. If you’re looking for an ocean of burnt orange before the game, this is the place for you.
Scholz Garten
No game day experience in Austin is complete without a stop at Scholz Garten, the legendary beer garden in the heart of the city. The food, drinks, and atmosphere are unmatched, but what really sets this spot apart is its history – it’s the oldest beer garden in the United States. Opened in 1866, Scholz has been serving up cold drinks to Longhorns for over 150 years, continuing to deliver one of the most authentic game day vibes in Austin.
Sixth Street
One of the more famous bar streets in the entire United States, Sixth Street is the place to be for a night out after the game. Whether you’re looking for a swanky cocktail lounge, live music, or something a little bit higher energy, Sixth Street has it. Split into three sections: East, Dirty, and West, each offers a different flavor. A short ride between each, Sixth Street is the perfect place to bounce between bars. This is a must-visit destination for anyone looking to experience the city’s music and nightlife scene.
Fun attractions outside of football:
Barton Springs, Zilker Park, and the Hike n Bike Trail
A green oasis just minutes from the hustle and bustle of the downtown area, any of these three options are a great spot to cool off from the heat, get some steps in, or relax. Barton Springs is a spring fed pool while Zilker Park is one of the most expansive parks in the city, spanning 350 acres. For fitness enthusiasts or people looking to walk off the Terry Black’s, the Hike n Bike Trail is a popular destination for walking, jogging, or biking.
South Congress Ave
SoCo as it is colloquially known is one of the most famous streets in the city. A walkable stretch of the city filled with shops, restaurants, and other Austin gems. This is a great spot to try on some boots, snap a few photos, and grab a meal.
The Texas State Capitol
One of the more underrated aspects of Austin is the history of the city and its role as the Capital of one of the most influential states in The Union. The largest state capitol in the United States, the architecture and grandiose of the building are impressive.
Whether you’re here for football, food, or just a taste of Austin’s culture, the city has something for everyone. From barbecue joints and live music on Sixth Street to a stroll down South Congress, there’s no shortage of ways to soak in the energy that makes Austin one of the best game day destinations in the country. Win or lose, you’ll leave with a full stomach, a few new favorite spots, and maybe even a greater appreciation of the Texas Longhorns.
Any women’s sports fan who walks into the 1972 Pub will feel immediately at home. Named after the year of the passing of Title IX, the groundbreaking legislation that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex at federally-funded educational institutions and opened the door to sports participation for women and girls, the 1972 Pub is the only women’s sports bar in Austin, Texas – and one of several such establishments that have popped up around the country since the early 2020s.
In many ways, it’s just like any other sports bar, but with a refreshing twist for women’s sports fans.
The walls of the 1972 Pub are peppered with framed Sports Illustrated covers featuring female athletes from Brandi Chastain to Candace Parker. Women’s sports memorabilia and banners from Togethxr and the Women’s Sports Foundation hang from the ceilings and walls. Take a closer look and you’ll notice signed jerseys from local Texas sports stars like Mia Scott and Dijonai Carrington. The pub also hosts women’s sports trivia nights and highlights local sports teams, from Austin’s semi-professional women’s soccer team, the Austin Rise, to local teams within the Granny Basketball League, a recreational sports league for female basketball players that are at least 50 years old. And for events like the WNBA finals, it’s the best place in town to grab a drink and watch a game.
The 1972 Pub is owned by Debra Hallum and her partner Marlene Du Plessis, who wanted to start a business with a purpose in Austin.
“We thought about a coffee shop, but, you know, that’s saturated.They’re on every corner,” Hallum explained. “And so, in the year 2022, I saw the article about Jen Nguyen opening the Sports Bra in Portland, and I showed it to Marlene, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, we both love sports. And you can’t have women’s sports without LGBTQ+ [folks].’ I mean, they just go together, and it’s about women, right? Women’s sports on the televisions, I mean, this is purpose, this does so much about what we have been talking about.”
Duplessis and Hallum continued brainstorming ideas for their business. But an in-person visit to a women’s sports bar cemented the idea to commit to the 1972 Pub in Hallum’s mind.
“We were in Seattle, and we went to the Rough and Tumble, and met the owner there, Jen Barnes, and visited with her, and just seeing it in person, and everybody there, it was just incredible,” Hallum said. “You know, some of them were just laughing and hanging out and having a great time, and some of them were there watching WNBA games, some of them had come for trivia, and I looked at Marlene, and I said, I really need to look at Austin, because I think this would be a great fit, a great place for Austin.”
1972 opened its doors this past spring and, although Hallum says the pub is still in a “growth phase” after six months in business, it has seen solid crowds for marquee events like women’s March Madness and the WNBA playoffs. 2025 was an especially salient year for Texas women’s sports fans, as the Longhorns made their first Final Four run since 2003 and the UT softball team won its first ever national championship. Add in the debut of League One Volleyball and Athletes Unlimited Softball featuring teams in Austin over the past couple of years and Austin is quickly becoming a women’s sports hub in one of the most progressive and fast-growing cities in Texas.
Photo Credit: 1972 Pub
And of course, women’s sports as a whole are also on the rise. Not only are WNBA stars like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers, and A’ja Wilson increasingly becoming household names, but viewership has steadily been increasing over the years. Female athletes from the youth level to the pros are also enjoying increased opportunities, from WNBA CBA negotiations to increases in flag football programs for girls. In other words, there is no better time to be a women’s sports fan or a female athlete, and women’s sports bars play no small part in that.
This movement comes on the heels of increased eyes on women’s sports, which is a movement that many traditional sports bars have failed to capitalize on.
“If you go into a regular sports bar today, you have to beg to have women on the television,” Hallum explained. “Sometimes they’ll do it, sometimes they give you sound, sometimes they don’t, but we’ve heard from a lot of customers, ‘Oh, I was down at X bar, and they argued with me that [a women’s game] wasn’t on, and they won’t put it on. Or they told me, ‘Absolutely not.’ They’ve got eight TVs, and there are nine football games on, so they can’t, you know?’”
With this demand in mind, you would think that running a women’s sports bar like the 1972 Pub would be a breeze. But Hallum notes that there are several unique challenges to running a bar that is centered around women’s sports. For instance, gaps in programming impact not only women’s sports fans, but women’s sports bar owners.
“We try to make sure and advertise [that patrons can] ask the staff if there’s something you want to watch, and it’s not on the television,” she said. “And we try to say we will accommodate the best we can, because it’s still very difficult. There are a lot of women’s stuff that we cannot access as a business because it’s not on the right channel or the right streaming platform, that we’re not allowed to use. It’s very different still for men.”
Even so, the 1972 Pub strives to stick to its brand and offer a safe space for women and nonbinary folks who just want to go to a bar to enjoy watching a game in a space that is designed to appeal to them. In essence, this is how women’s sports bars are changing the game for female fans. It’s rare for women to get the opportunity to enjoy spaces in sports that are designed specifically for them. And although 1972 Pub is for everyone and is advertised as family-friendly, its core audience remains the same.
“I think it’s that understanding that it’s gonna be primarily a space focused on women, and women on TV,” Hallum said. “Everyone is welcome, but we get a lot of female customers. And in our research, we found the largest consumers of women’s sports are lesbians and non-binary fans. And so, they know they have this space, and I think that’s how we exist for women and women’s sports. It’s a very safe space, and I think that lesbians and non-binary individuals feel comfortable in those spaces and will come.”
That said, the 1972 Pub has recently made the decision to expand beyond just airing women’s sports events. With its proximity to the University of Texas and increased requests for UT football, 1972 has adapted to fit consumer demands.
“We had a ton of lesbians, non-binary folks, and even women who identify as straight women… they would say, ‘We don’t get out, we watch at home, we’re not connecting at these events and getting out because’–I didn’t choose this word, but it has been used with me so many times that they think men’s sports bars are toxic,” Hallum explained. “That they’re either having to fight the men off from trying to flirt with them, because, you know, they’re drinking and they’re coming on to them, trying to bother them when they’re there to watch sports. And then just that they’re not comfortable in these highly male places, and they were begging us: ‘Please, I love UT football, I just want to watch UT football, but I’m not getting out of my house for games, and I’m not gonna go to these other places.’”
Photo Credit: 1972 Pub
At first, Hallum and Du Plessis didn’t want to waiver from their original business plan and stick to women’s sports. But eventually, the requests to play some men’s sports became “overwhelming” in Hallum’s words.
“We were hearing it so much, getting emails and DMs about it, and hearing these women needing a safe space, or a place where they felt that they wouldn’t have that mansplaining,” she explained. “They wouldn’t have people coming on to them and trying to pick them up. And so, we polled the [Instagram] followers. And more than 75% of them said yes, to please show some men’s events.”
The overwhelming demand for a space space for these fans to watch sports unbothered highlights a key issue that non-male sports fans face in simply being a fan: the fact that sports viewership isn’t safe for everyone. Data from recent studies show that up to 13% of women feel unsafe at in-person sporting events. This reality is why women’s sports bars like the 1972 Pub are vital safe spaces for a sizable, yet vulnerable, population of sports fans.
“The inside will always be focused on women for the memorabilia and our walls,” Hallum explained, adding that when men’s sports are on, “you probably won’t get sound if there’s something on for the women, if you’re competing with women. But for UT football, for example, if it’s at 11 a.m., and we open the doors, those are the only people coming in, and we go around, we try to make sure we know the customer. And if everyone is there to watch the football game, and they’re all like-minded fans, then we turn it on and we give them sound. But if there are any number of women who are wanting to watch women’s rugby, or women’s soccer, that’s gonna be the sound, or sometimes it’s just so rowdy, we just put on music. But it’s really important that women remain the priority, whatever we’re doing.”
In other words, women’s sports bars like the 1972 Pub act as subversions of the sports industry. Whereas sports media dedicates roughly 15% of its coverage to women’s sports, female athletes dominate the screens at women’s sports bars. For fans like Hallum who grew up in an entirely different landscape, women’s sports bars are a sacred space to reclaim something valuable that has been lost to time.
“We only got something on the television during the Olympics every two years, and on the weekends, at times, we would get gymnastics and ice skating,” Hallum said. “I think that early on, there was this patriarchal belief that it’s okay for women to be in gymnastics and be into ice skating, because they’re not going to get hurt, and they need to have those dance bodies, and that’s the only sport that women should be doing, and so that’s what we had growing up. And my mother loved it, and so I watched a ton of gymnastics and ice skating with my mother, and then we would watch it during the summer and Winter Olympics. But that was it.”
Today’s young athletes and fans clearly have more options. While gymnastics remains popular both from a participation and viewership standpoint, volleyball is the fastest growing youth sport in the country. Additionally, thanks to the NFL FLAG initiative, flag football programs are also becoming increasingly widespread and popular for girls at the youth and high school level, seeing growth of 60% from previous years. Volleyball isn’t far behind with a growth rate of 40% from 2023-2024, and, as more schools are launching girls’ wrestling programs, the sport has seen a 15% participation increase. Of course, Title IX, which the 1972 Pub is named for, played a huge role in increasing access to sports. But the power of media representation for young girls cannot be understated, and it’s one of the reasons that the 1972 Pub is a family friendly establishment.
“Being family-friendly, all ages was a big deal to us because not only are we trying to grow viewership and interest in women’s sports, But also, [with] the whole see her, be her movement with young women, right? They need to see it…because I didn’t see it.”
And now that Hallum gets to see and share her vision every day she opens the doors to the 1972 Pub, after six months in business, it still hasn’t gotten old.
“I was watching professional women’s disc golf the other day. Holy cow. I mean, that is just so different than my childhood, yeah. Very different. And when I go in now, every day, and I turn on the televisions, it still has not gotten old for me to be in awe.”
Before we get to the week’s stadium and arena news, let’s pause to appreciate that New York’s nutso mayor Eric Adams‘ campaign staff have been revealed to be under investigation for illegally accepting donations from the government of Turkey. Which I guess sort of qualifies as stadium news given Adams’ boosterism of that NYC F.C. stadium that could cost city taxpayers $800 million in infrastructure spending and tax breaks, but mostly: Yes, Turkey. Also his chief fundraiser and campaign consultant who is at the heart of the investigation is apparently 25 years old? This is going to make a great Netflix documentary in a couple of years.
But enough about my city, how’s yours doing?
The St. Petersburg city council voted 5-3 yesterday to hold a public referendum on spending about $600 million on a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium — which means the referendum won’t happen, because the motion required a two-thirds supermajority. Also it would have been only advisory, anyway. Council chair Brandi Gabbard, who opposed the public ballot measure, said she was afraid it wouldn’t be possible to explain the stadium deal in the 75 words available, which is certainly a novel line of reasoning.
Former Miami Marlins president David Samson says there is still “a deal to be done to keep the A’s in Oakland” because Las Vegas has “several issues that are not worked out yet” like whether A’s owner John Fisher actually has the money for his share of the project. Meanwhile, former Oakland A’s VP Andy Dolich says it would be a mistake for MLB to approve the relocation of the team from a large market to what would be baseball’s smallest. Not that either of them holds clout with the current crop of MLB owners, or they would still have jobs with them, but it’s keeping hope alive in Oakland, anyway, in advance of a likely vote by owners on relocation sometime this month.
Here’s an article about how a special tax district for Indy Eleven‘s new $1 billion stadium wouldn’t really cost taxpayers anything because it would just be a “special tax” that will be levied on soccer fans. And here’s an article explaining that the district would actually divert existing sales and income tax revenues from a large swath of downtown toward the USL team. The city-county council is set to vote on the tax district later this month; let’s hope they’re reading all the news coverage first and not just WRTV’s.
The Oklahoma City Thunder arena has been “the centerpiece of OKC’s innovative self-help effort, producing energy and economic impact that academic studies cannot predict, but 30 years of OKC success prove,” according to some downtown business development dude who was given a “guest column” in the Oklahoman to make this case. He adds that tearing it down and building a newer one would “create new and currently unimaginable opportunities,” which, that’s certainly an interesting choice of adjectives there.
Kansas City Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt says he’s waiting to see what the Royals decide about a new stadium before deciding what to ask for in terms of a new or renovated stadium for his team. “If the Royals do decide to stay in Jackson County, that’s going to be an issue that we’ve got to resolve,” Hunt said, which is maybe a hint that he’s hoping they’ll move to the county next door so he can get all of the future sales tax proceeds? That would have been a good followup question, if the reporters covering this had asked any, oh well.
The ad was for a Whopper Jr. promotion. The conceit was that you
could get two of the baby burgers for a mere $5: one for you and
one for a friend. But — spoiler alert! — you’d probably want to
consume the pair yourself. Or, as the text on the screen put it:
JK YOU
ATE ‘EM
BOTH
I grabbed my remote, rewound, paused and took a photo. This was
the Zapruder film to me, even if the JK stood for “Just kidding,”
not “John Kelly.”
This must not stand, or — to keep with the theme — it
mustn’t stand.
This sort of mistake drives me nuts, and I spot such wrongly-curled apostrophes instantly. To me it’s as glaring a mistake as a misspelled word. So god bless Kelly for griping about it in a column in The Washington Post. (I’d argue that perhaps it’s correct for Burger King to use the wrong apostrophe, as a signifier of the care with which they prepare their food.)
But Kelly doesn’t mention the obvious explanation for how this happens: automatic smart quote algorithms that aren’t smart enough, in the hands of ignorant designers who don’t have an eye for typography. If you type:
'em' dashes and 'en' dashes
you want the apostrophe before em to be an opening single quote, the one shaped like a 6 in most typefaces. But if you type:
screw 'em
you want the apostrophe preceding the em to be a closing single quote, the one shaped like a 9. The various “smart quotes” algorithms you get while typing aren’t smart enough to make this contextual distinction — even very good ones — so you need to do it by hand. Here’s how to type them manually:
I was struck by this section of a report by Politico’s Eric Geller involving the deletion of Secret Service messages related to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol:
The phone resets occurred as the Secret Service was implementing a new mobile device management (MDM) platform, a technology that employers use to centrally manage and preserve emails, photos and other data stored on employees’ phones. Apple’s iMessages cannot be backed up by this system, because they are encrypted and stored on users’ devices, unlike regular text messages.
This explanation seemed off to me, because while iMessage data is end-to-end encrypted in transmission and not stored by Apple as a part of the transmission process, it’s not actually encrypted on the device itself. Which is why iCloud backups, which are unencrypted, can contain the entire contents of iMessage conversations. (This is a workaround that has been used by law enforcement to obtain iMessage records in numerous occasions.)
Geller goes on:
Because of this issue, the Secret Service couldn’t store iMessages in a central location the way it managed its email system and other technologies. Thus, when individual agents failed to manually back up their data before their phones were erased and reconfigured for the new management system, the only copies of those iMessages were lost.
This portion seems to suggest that this is more an issue about a failure of backing up phones before wiping them, rather than the encrypted nature of iMessage itself. I ran it by Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager at JumpCloud and co-host of the MacAdmins podcast, in the Six Colors Discord, and here’s what he had to say:
iMessage histories may be device specific and limited, and if they were not utilizing iCloud Backup (for Federal Government Cloud Reasons) it is possible that when the devices were wiped and setup anew with the MDM — so that the devices are supervised by the new MDM — the previous history was lost.
In short, I suspect they were prohibited from using any iCloud service because iCloud isn’t FedRAMP certified for security, and when they wiped the device to set them up with the new MDM service, they could not restore even a local on-disk backup, because those backups would’ve stored the supervision identity and the MDM enrollment from the previous MDM service.
There would be a way to do this, but it would’ve been a pain in the butt to organize because it requires that you swap handsets with your nearest other handset. (Local backups CAN be restored if the device UDID is different, because the supervision identity and MDM enrollment are entangled with the hardware.)
We ran into this with a healthcare startup I used to support. When they swapped MDMs, their text history was not preserved because they did not believe iCloud’s security was adequate for their HIPAA requirements. (They later changed their mind.)
Is it possible that this was, in fact, malicious? 100% yes. Is it possible that this was, actually, unintentionally caused? Also 100% yes.
My thanks to Tom for picking through the technical details of what might have gone on here.
The ManningCast has been a relatively unqualified success by just about any measure.
It’s attracted and held an audience, been met with plenty of deserved critical acclaim, and has led to plenty of viral social media moments throughout the inaugural season. It’s gone so well, in fact, that despite not yet completing the first year of a three-year deal with ESPN, there’s already speculation that the entire thing could be poached by another outlet once the ESPN deal expires.
Andy Jassy, the new president and chief executive officer of Amazon, is a “huge sports fan” noted one sports TV executive. With 2020 sales of $386 billion, Amazon could pay whatever it takes to land the brothers as it takes over exclusive national coverage of TNF in 2022.
“Amazon could just come in with a ton of money for the show — plus Amazon Prime content deals for Omaha — then move ManningCast over in two years,” said the source.
None of the parties involved commented, as you’d expect, and McCarthy notes that ESPN might have an exclusive negotiating window in place to retain the pr0gram before an outside network/streaming platform could make a run at taking it away.
So, could the ManningCast end up moving to Amazon?
Well, sure, it’s possible. Amazon is one of the only corporations in the world that can match Disney in terms of spending, after all, and there have been plenty of reports that they very much want to be taken seriously with their Thursday Night Football coverage. McCarthy notes the possible synergy options for Omaha Productions within Amazon as well.
Is it likely?
That’s harder to see. Monday Night Football is still Monday Night Football, and ESPN/Disney have worked very, very hard to shore up their relationship with the NFL. That includes the ManningCast calling a playoff game, and with ABC returning to the Super Bowl rotation in 2026, it’s not hard to see a scenario where Peyton and Eli feature in that coverage in some way, if they’re still interested in doing this for ten weeks a year. Plus, while streaming is probably the future, it’s not immediately going to provide a larger audience than the current linear setup, and that’s likely to be the case for at least as long as Peyton and Eli would want to keep doing this. (And ESPN+ is already soaking up any of that audience migration anyway.) Disney offers just as much if not more synergy for any supplemental production deals.
Putting the speculation cap on, it feels more likely that while, yes, other outlets would want to grab this property (which would basically be plug and play anywhere), it’s easier to see a world in which ESPN moves early to lock things down on a longer-term basis, perhaps with more weeks per season as well. Obviously, as with everything ManningCast related, that’s only if the Mannings want to do it.
They pretty much have all the leverage in this situation, because they’re the entire franchise.
Ben DiNucci’s lone start this year was obviously not very good, as the rookie quarterback hasn’t so much as suited up since then, but Jerry Jones may have overstated the Nooch’s struggles on Tuesday when he compared it to the Broncos’ situation this past week.
In a Tuesday morning interview with 105.3FM the Fan, the Hall of Fame owner used the comparison to crutch a point regarding the integrity of the game, and his belief that competitive disadvantages still exist in a season ravaged by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“I don’t know that Denver had any more of a challenge than we’ve had with [Ben] DiNucci or with the young quarterbacks that we’ve had,” Jones said. “And, by the way, two or three of those [Broncos] quarterbacks will be back from the [COVID/Reserve list].”
It’s a bold comparison, if not a downright inaccurate one that takes a swipe in both directions, seeing as the Broncos wished they had a QB of any sort to take on the Saints, while DiNucci would rather not be compared to a practice squad wide receiver.
I’m of the opinion that Doug Pederson won’t be with the Eagles next year, as I’ve written previously here. A split is likely best for both parties (I lean towards thinking the same for Carson Wentz). Whether Howie Roseman is the one overseeing the coaching search is an entirely different matter, but for the sake of this exercise, I’ll say Pederson is fired at the season’s end.
My head immediately went to the Jets given that Adam Gase will be canned once their tankfest for Trevor Lawrence concludes. There’s an obvious connection here given that former Eagles executive Joe Douglas is now the general manager for the Jets. When dealing with maybe the best quarterback prospect in a decade though, I feel as if almost every organization would rather pair him with a young upstart in the Sean McVay mold (your Kliff Kingsburys, your Zac Taylors, etc.) than an older retread like Pederson, so let’s rule that out.
Same thing goes for the Jaguars and their likely draftee Justin Fields. The Jacksonville move feels a tad more intriguing because they need a huge cultural overhaul, but know what other team is in desperate need of that? The Lions. Detroit needs to wash away the stench of the Matt Patricia era. There’s already a great veteran quarterback in place in Matthew Stafford. The organization would drool over his championship and playoff pedigree.
Giants fans should likely prepare to see veteran Colt McCoy, 7-21 in his career as a starter, on Sunday vs. Seattle.
“Look, he’s a vet, he has a lot of experience. He goes out there with a good amount of savvy, can really manage a game,” Judge said. “But we’ll set the game up however we need to, whether it’s Daniel, whether it’s Colt, whether it’s Clayton [Thorson], whoever it ends up being, in terms of working to their strong points.”
Clayton Thorson, who has been on the team’s practice squad since the end of September, is likely to be No. 2 behind McCoy for the Giants vs. Seattle.
Interestingly, the Giants reportedly have a pair of journeyman backup quarterbacks — Alex Tanney and Joe Webb — going through COVID-19 testing protocols right now. That could mean that the Giants, with what happened to Denver when the Broncos lost all four quarterbacks due to COVID-19 for last Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints, might add both Tanney and Webb.
The Great Wall of Dallas could be making a comeback.
To say this line has been decimated in 2020 would be an understatement. Back in October, we pointed out how offensive line coach Joe Philbin was doing a phenomenal job of handling all these changes to his line, and that’s still true today. While this line has fallen apart plenty of times recently, they currently rank ninth in adjusted line yards, tenth in power success rate, and eighth in adjusted sack rate. While their pass block win rate of 53% ranks them near the bottom of the league, this line is actually fifth in the NFL in run block win rate.
[T]he Cowboys have three top-ten run blockers on the interior of their line right now, with one of them also being an elite pass blocker. And next year they’ll be getting their two tackles back, both of whom are among the very best at their respective positions, which should help turn this offensive line into a juggernaut once again. The season obviously isn’t over, although there are plenty of fans who are already looking to next year. To those who are, the future is very bright in the trenches for Dallas.
Automakers likely sold fewer than 1.5 million new vehicles in the United States in June 2017, a modest decrease of around 2 percent compared with June 2016. While auto sales remain high by historic standards — 1.48 million sales would still make June 2017 more than 15-percent better than the 1.33 million June average from 2011-2015 […]
Richard Harkaway, a practicing urologist who moonlights as a comedian, became an internet sensation after showing both of his middle fingers to Westbrook. He was escorted from his seat by security and roasted by ESPN’s Jeff Gundy on the television broadcast.
“As a part-time comedian I realize that my words and actions are sometimes inappropriate,” Harkaway said in a statement to Philly.com issued by a personal representative. “In this instance, after standing up to boo and being provoked by Russell Westbrook calling attention to my being overweight, my action in response was clearly inexcusable and I am embarrassed. I sincerely apologize to my fellow Sixers fans, the Sixers organization, my colleagues and patients, and to Mr. Westbrook for my behavior.”
Give credit to Harkaway for accepting responsibility but his statement is definitely the first thing we’ve ever read containing the phrase “as a part-time comedian.” It’s truly an attention-grabber perfect for best man speeches or awards banquets.
While we haven’t had the privilege of catching any of Harkaway’s sets, it’s being reported that he routinely makes light of his weight.
A nation won’t be satisfied until we get the isolated audio of Westbrook yelling at the crowd. This is a scandal that deserves all of our attention until we learn what really happened.
Newspaper editors have hard jobs. They often log long, late hours, reading thousands of words a day, and their work gets seen and criticized by thousands of people.
Before internet, this headline would have drawn snickers from a few people in Jacksonville, who would have then been embarrassed at their own immaturity and moved on to the next thing.
S Brandon Jones - 1 PR for 14 yards, 1 blocked punt
Week two, we saw the four freshmen that were on the depth chart but didn’t play against Notre Dame (Humphrey, Delance, Okafor, and Christmas) get in the game against UTEP.
There was still no sign of DE/OLB Erick Fowler this week. And we haven’t really heard much on that front in general. So at this point, we probably could expect a redshirt unless something changes sooner than later.
Below are the remaining freshmen that are still eligible for a redshirt (14)
WR Davion Curtis
WR Reggie Hemphill-Mapps
TE Peyton Aucion
OL Tope Imade
OL J.P. Uriquidez
OL Patrick Hudson
DL Marcel Southall
DL Chris Daniels
DE Andrew Fitzgerald
DE/OLB Erick Fowler
LB Demarco Boyd
DB Chris Brown
DB Eric Cuffee
DB Donovan Duvernay
By this point, I would have thought both Devin Duvernay and Collin Johnson would have been bigger factors on offense. But Jerrod Heard moving to receiver has seemingly taken snaps away from Duvernay. And in some regards, I see Jacorey Warrick and Jake Oliver as two guys taking snaps away from Johnson and Humphrey (we could even throw in Dorian Leonard into that mix as well - he scored a long 46-yard touchdown against UTEP).
Maybe we’ll see the freshmen wide outs get in there more as the season progresses. So far, Texas has been just fine with using its older players though. Depth is deep at wide receiver, as we all know by now.
As for the defense, Malcolm Roach will be a name to watch as a pass-rusher on the outside. He’s been holding his own and the position needs him for depth too. But in general, the freshmen on defense are being utilized as key reserves and depth.
We’ll check back in on this report next week after the Cal game.
Want to watch two of the fastest production automobiles in the world line up on an open runway to race? Want to see it happen a whole bunch of times?
We thought so. Featuring the well-known Bugatti Veyron in one lane and the less-well-known but just as impressive Koenigsegg Agera S Hundra - which is powered by the same 1,040-horsepower twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 engine as other Agera S models, but with some extra lightweight bits along with lots and lots of gold - in the other, you can rest assured that the video down below is full of carbon fiber, booming exhaust notes, turbo whine and asinine acceleration. And, though we won't spoil the results, we think it may be full of surprising victories for those who don't keep tabs on such important figures as power-to-weight ratios and the like...
Now for the disclaimers. Are both drivers aware of how to extract maximum performance from their machines? Are they both in perfect states of tune? Would the result be different from a standing start? Was the fact that the video was shot at Koenigsegg's home track a display of favoritism? Was there a full moon the night before? We have no idea. That said, watching well over 2,000 horsepower line up for a race is nearly always worth watching. So, without further ado, we present the video below.
