Posted Oct 24, 2022
After more than three decades as the voice of the Final Four, Jim Nantz will call his last NCAA Men’s Tournament this March, and then Ian Eagle will succeed him as the lead play-by-player on CBS and Turner Sports’ coverage of the tournament. Nantz, 63, picked 2023 for his final run because of the location of this year’s Final Four and the network it will be on. (New York Post)

Will Pitt still be in the doldrums?

I have major doubts that UNC will have used to bye week to make important improvements. That just may not be in Mack's coaching marrow bones. So I think the game may hinge significantly on how Pitt responds to its latest loss. 2 losses to ACC teams that were expected to finish in the bottom 3rd of the league could demoralize the team. Or Narduzzi might be able to use the loss at Louisville to rally the troops - their season can still lead to 10 wins if they can beat UNC in Chapel Hill.

If Pitt were to beat ranked UNC and then beat ranked Syracuse, a 9-3 team would look for a decent bowl, with the chance to finish 10-3.

UNC has more to play for, as the Coastal is now waiting to be taken by a UNC team that should finish the regular season no worse than 10-2, with only 1 ACC loss.

Mack just told us. Not sure yet about the network.

The UNC men's golf team is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Yale Regional, which will be played May 16-18 at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, Conn. The top five teams and best individual finisher not on one of those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championship. The Tar Heels are ranked No. 5 in the country by Golfstat and No. 7 by Golfweek. (GoHeels.com)

Haven’t received anything from UNC yet, but here is the article from the AP. That site is horrible for pop up ads so I’ll paste the section about him

Bacot also has a chance to do something special with the Tar Heels.

The 6-11 forward tied the NCAA record with 31 double-doubles last season and became the first to have six in the same NCAA Tournament while leading North Carolina to the national title game. The Tar Heels lost to Kansas, but are No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25 and among the favorites to win it all with Bacot back.

“I don’t go a day where we’re not like saying, man, we can’t wait to get to that,” Bacot said of winning a national title. “Maybe that’s not the best approach, but I mean, we’re human.”

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The UNC men's golf team is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Yale Regional, which will be played May 16-18 at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, Conn. The top five teams and best individual finisher not on one of those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championship. The Tar Heels are ranked No. 5 in the country by Golfstat and No. 7 by Golfweek. (GoHeels.com)

Posted Oct 18, 2022
Vanderbilt has signed Jerry Stackhouse to an extension as he enters his fourth season as the Commodores’ head basketball coach. Athletic director Candice Lee announced the extension Tuesday, crediting how the program has gone in the right direction in Stackhouse’s first three seasons. The SEC's only private university did not announce any specifics. (Associated Press)

"After the patient’s situation became seemingly hopeless, the surgeons wrote a death certificate, informed the man’s wife of his death, and shut down the machines.

“For one reason or another, they had forgotten to switch off the machine that measures body functions such as blood pressure,” the researchers wrote. “Also, before they had proclaimed the patient to be beyond cure, they had lowered a long tube with a microphone at the end into his body to get a precise impression of certain body functions, such as his heartbeat.

“Rudy and his assistant were already changing. They both took off their jackets, gloves, and masks and stood in the door opening. They talked about what they could have done and which medicines they could have administered to save the patient.

“About 20 to 25 minutes had passed since the patient had been pronounced dead. Suddenly, there seemed to be some sort of electrical activity … Rudy and his assistant thought it to be some kind of heart convulsions, but the activity increased and resulted in a heartbeat, first slow then quicker.”

No one had done anything to revive the patient since he was declared dead; the revival was spontaneous. It took the patient a couple of days to regain consciousness, but he made a full recovery without any sign of brain damage.

Amado-Cattaneo said, “I have experienced a few times that people recovered from a deep and long shock, but these people were still alive, whereas in this case the man had died.”

As with many who have been reported leaving the body during an NDE, the patient described a bright light at the end of a tunnel. It’s the happenings he observed within the hospital, though, that intrigue those looking to scientifically verify NDEs.

He saw Rudy and Amado-Cattaneo talking; he accurately described their position in the room and how they stood with arms folded over their chest; he saw the anesthesiologist enter the room; but most interestingly, he saw a nurse’s computer monitor with a row of post-it notes lined up one over the other. Indeed, the nurse had taken telephone messages for Rudy on post-it notes and stuck them up in this arrangement.

The authors wrote: “Rudy points out that the patient could not have seen the notes before the operation, since there had not been any unanswered calls [at that time]. Obviously, the way the post-it notes were stuck up on top of each other on the monitor was not common, and the patient could not have randomly guessed how [the nurse] had stuck up the notes in this case.

“Rudy concludes that the patient really must have been positioned above his body, because he could not have described the room and such otherwise. He thus conjectures that coincidence or normal foreknowledge could not be realistic explanations.”


Amado-Cattaneo also could not explain the phenomenon. He confirmed that the patient accurately described events he could not have seen, because his eyes were taped shut to protect the cornea during the operation."

Congrats young man.
RJ somehow was not on the list……at least not yet.

I am here for the weekly presser. WIll post notes here and full reports later.

Interesting games, Duke is hanging in there with Miami. Lots of turnovers so far, with defenses playing well. Game has implications on the Coastal Division race, with Duke leading 14 to 7 with 12: 47 left in second quarter. Riley Leonard has scored two touchdowns.