The Schloss-Blog has been paying attention to Venezuala, San Antonio and the torpedo.
Bat.
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Not in that order, but were you paying attention to what went down in San Antonio on Saturday night?
Duke choked (sorry, Jay Williams, the Blue Devils choked). Kinda' watched in disbelief as the Blue Devils let a double-digit lead slip away, only scored one field goal in the last 10 minutes and tossed away an inbounds pass on which they nuight have - might have - found a way to clinch the semifinal win.
Feel bad for Jon Scheyer, Duke's coach. They should've won but he's a winner, took the Blue Devils a game closer than he took them last year.
I do remember watching him play for Glenbrook North High, an unstoppable force, a 6-7 guard who couldn't be guarded.
I do remember the game at which I realized that, with everyone thinking he'd go to the University of Illinois, where his high school coach's brother (Bruce Weber) was the head coach, he was instead going to Duke, because head coach Mike Krzyzewski and assistant (and soon-to-be Northwestern head man) Chris Collins were in attendance. Coach K showed up to seal the deal.
Which he did. Scheyer has been a Blue Devil ever since, and a damn good one. He'll get a step further next year - maybe - but it'll be difficult without Cooper Flagg.
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A Venezualan who was detained by ICE was supposed to donate a lifesaving kidney to his brother.
Pretty cruel, right? However, Jose Gregorio Gonzalez was released from custody to complete the task, even if his kidney turned out not to be a perfect match.
Looks like even the Trump administration has a heart, or at least a kidney.
More likely an ego that can't stand the PR fallout from an event like this.
Updates to come...
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Hillary Clinton got blasted by Republicans for her supposed off-property private server.
However, where's the outcry from Republcans in Congress over the Signal chat with the national defense team that essentially tipped the Houthis about the U.S attack on them?
And Trump says he knew nothing about it. The Commander-In-Cheat knew noting about a major, United States military maneuver.
Yeah, right.
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The Torpedo Bat.
The Yankees and anyone else who's been using one have been mashing the ball in the 2025 season.
How long though, do ya' think, before Major League Baseball banishes it? Sort of like what the National Football League wants to do with the Tush-Push.
If you can think of it, the powers-that-be can do away with it.
Because they can.
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The Women's Final Four may be just about over, and I don't know about you, but I miss Kim Mulkey's outlandish outfits and facial expressions when her LSU Tigers don't get a call to go their way.
I do like when she loses though. It's like hating the Yankees or Bill Belichick's Patriots.
And so much fun.
Miss ya', Kim, miss ya'.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Paige Bueckers.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
My last for three weeks while I take a break. And the lasr for the Schloss-Blog for the same amount of time.
Bon voyage, mes amis.
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