Arksulli

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No one to blame but himself. Maybe he felt indebted to Jeff Long after Long helped him get a raise from LSU by pretending Miles was a candidate for the Arkansas job.

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Long does have a history of nuking football programs from orbit. I thought he was fine here at Arkansas... until we discovered he'd been playing loosey goosey with the finances.

Mentally, as someone else said, the Hogs need an opening win more.

You will be hard pressed to find two more evenly matched teams in college baseball.

Hell, I'm hoping for Arkansas to finally break the curse and win a natty in baseball, but I wouldn't cry myself to sleep every night if LSU goes on to win it all.

I had no idea y'all were on such a roll. :cheers:

You obviously do not know that the sports gods hate Arkansas with a passion.

I have very much seen more than my fair share of teams rolling through town headed there.

Vitello is doing a bit of arse covering. "We'd have won but for this!" The man does not handle adversity well.

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Did you just assume that ship's gender?

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:lol:

Ship's are traditionally referred to as she. Unless you are Russian then they are he. For example. "He is laying on bottom of Black Sea floor." Or, "He needs to be towed everywhere." Or "He is piece of shite boat."

The Ukrainians are saying they purposely left the US in the dark over this. Given that some members of the administration have close ties to Russia... I'd have kept it secret as well.

The operational security for this strike (a year and a half in the planning) is frankly amazing.

I love Arkansas, and we have the talent, but never bet on the Hogs to win a championship in anything but track. We are cursed.

I suspect we are screwed. The Arkansas curse strikes again in losing both of our starting pitchers just long enough to last through the Super Regionals.

I am not even upset. More like "ah, there it is. The frickening."

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1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.

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The danger of being a lightweight fighting heavyweights. Mary was a devout, and I do mean devout, Catholic in a region that had embraced the Protestant faith.

Mary never met a conspiracy she wouldn't join, an unpopular stance she wouldn't endorse, or an opportunity to mess with people far more powerful than her.

To make matters worse her principal opponent was Elizabeth the Great. A monarch that out matched every royal in Europe and by sheer stint of willpower stabilized England when it was in danger of slipping into yet another disastrous civil war.

Add to that Elizabeth would kill you in a heartbeat if she thought you were a danger to her rule. Not paranoid ruthless like Stalin, but a very pragmatic ruthless. She would give you just enough rope to hang yourself... and than make damn sure you were left hanging.

Lizzy, for a variety of reasons, partly political and partly an unwillingness to remove Mary due to their family connection (cousins, though the two never met personally) treated Mary very well during the imprisonment in England. But Mary just couldn't step away power or restoring the Catholic faith to dominance. Even her strident defenders can't deny her constant attempts to meddle in Scottish politics and her clandestine correspondence with France.

Of course Elizabeth knew all about the letters to France. She used them to smoke out some rebellious nobles and then, tired of Mary's actions, sentenced her to death. I suspect she might have still let Mary live but frankly Mary was expensive as hell to maintain in the splendor she demanded.