Obliteration! What's Next? 28 Hours? 28 Days? 28 Weeks? 28 ... (gasp!) Years?

The Schloss-Blog is willing to wait 28 years to see if Iran retaliates, but will Iran retaliate?

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Donald Trump says we have "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capacity. But have we obliterated their capacity to strike back at us?

We'll see, even if it take 28 hours.

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Hey Evan Cohen at ESPN's "Unsportsmanlike" radio show - Dillon Gabriel will not be the Cleveland Brown's starting quarterback this season.

Unless the rest of their prospective starters get obliterated in an attack by the U.S. or the Pittsburgh Steelers, whichever comes first.

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28 days?

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Columbia College Chicago, where I taught for 23 years, has just laid off 20 full-time and/or tenured faculty and reduced its number of major tracks to 33, plus seven graduate programs.

The layoffs were in addition to the 23 faculty told in January they would not be renewed this fall. Half the layoffs were from the School of Communication and Culture, in which I taught journalism until my retirement from the institution in 2017. 

Columbia was always a leading institution, noted for the elite graduates it has produced in film, TV, journalism, music and entertainment.. It was always a less-expensive, open-admissions college ideal for students who were left without an option because classes didn't start until after Labor Day.

Will classes start again on Labor Day, 2026? Hope so.

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28 weeks?

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So, if you've been watching, you probably tuned into ABC/ESPN coverage of the WWE and UFC anticipating to see premium, quality championship battles.

Instead, an NBA playoff basketball game broke out.

Commissioner Adam Silver has to be exasperated the way the refs are letting such a quantity of hard contact, virtual muggings occur on court, this from the league that once banned handchecking.

UFC 317 is June 28. NBA 317 was tonight.

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28 months?

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In this column's ongoing efforts to periodically define the differences between men and women (i.e., men wear jeans; women wear jeans that fit), and in deference to Will Smith's recent release of "Pretty Girls," we respectfully note that:

**When male recording artists sing about love, they sing about sex. Female artists, when they sing about love, on the other hand, sing about romance (candlelight dinners, nice wines, then a little sex).

**Men like to dance. Women know how to twerk. Uh, dance.

**Bill Maher of "Real Time with Bill Maher," thinks men deserve more respect than they get in commericals and sitcoms in which they come off as having less sophistication and common sense than women.

**Really, Bill?

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28 years?

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Chris Canty's top 5 superstars in sports by definiton of Magic Johnson (you'd pay to see this athlete), as he mentioned on "Unsportmanlike" on ESPN Radio, were ... Caitlin Clark on top, then everybody else (LeBron, Messi, Shohei, Coco). 

What about Aaron Judge? Cooper Flagg? Paul Skenes? Luka?

Do you agree? 

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28 seconds? Yeah, probably.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Lauren.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.