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Houston takeover squad: who wants one???

Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down and Keanu Reeves of Dogstar

Nolan’s Odyssey raises a harder question than whether the film looks beautiful. Can a modern artist adapt an ancient myth without making the myth smaller? Tradition does not mean keeping Homer locked behind glass. Great stories survive because every age returns to them. But returning to Homer is different from remaking Odysseus into a modern man placed inside ancient scenery. “The Odyssey” is not just a strange journey filled with monsters. It is about homecoming, pride, cunning, divine judgment, loyalty, temptation, and the restoration of a broken household. Odysseus blinds the Cyclops through intelligence, survives the Sirens through restraint, rejects Calypso’s immortality because he still longs for Penelope, and returns to Ithaca as a man who must reclaim order after years of violence and wandering. If a modern adaptation keeps those pressures alive, it honors Homer. If it reshapes them until the story mainly reflects our own anxieties, then the question changes. Who understood Odysseus better: Homer or Nolan? And if every old myth must be modernized before we can bear it, then why keep adapting old myths at all? Why not have the courage to create new ones? Homer does not need modern permission to matter. An adaptation earns Homer’s name only if it preserves Homer’s moral world. Because if Odysseus must be remade into a modern man before we can admire him, then the problem is not Homer. The problem is us. Old myths should challenge the modern world, not be reduced until they fit inside it.

I really don’t think all the SEC schools want to be comparing their histories at the moment. That’s not a road that any of you want to go down.

Texas Tech should have at least one former Border Conference or SWC opponent scheduled for a non-conference game each season.

The lax transfer requirements at Ole Miss explain how they’re grabbing a new mascot out of the portal almost every year.

Must watch American movies before the 250th: The Patriot Saving Private Ryan Remember the Titans Top Gun Independence Day American Sniper Lone Survivor Ford v Ferrari Miracle What did i miss?

I can’t wait for college football

Who’s surprised? 😀 Texas A&M softball is the No. 15 national seed and paired with the Austin Regional. If both teams were to advance, that would three times during Ford’s four-year tenure that the rivals met in the NCAA Tournament.

FSU-Georgia cancel home-and-home and are working on a neutral site game.

According to Jim Schlossnagle, Texas Baseball will be making changes to its turf at the end of 2026. This weekend's Tennessee road trip will be a test for the Longhorns in many ways, but one of them will be judging the playing surface in Lindsay Nelson Stadium. "Their turf is faster than I remember. Ours is slower. However, I did meet with the turf company yesterday, so the new turf that we’re going to get next year is going to be somewhat similar to what’s going to be at Tennessee. We get a chance to test it out and see what we like and don’t like and see if there’s any adjustments we want to make,” Schlossnagle said. Schlossnagle added: “I want it to be faster than what we currently have because our turf is tilted to the pitcher, slower, a bit uphill, because there’s still a crown on the field from Coach Gus days,” Schlossnagle said. “I just want our field to play as neutral as it can, and I wanted to mirror grass and dirt as best as possible. And so we’ve had a lot of conversations with the company that was chosen by the university to do the project. And so we’re going to get to kind of design it to that as best it possibly can be.” The 'crown' Schlossnagle refers to is the slight bump in the middle of the field and the sloped nature of the turf, originally designed to help with drainage. But that crown can drastically affect gameplay, and it's clear Texas is looking for a change. Schlossnagle confirmed that the new turf will be coming in next Winter, after fall practices, and should be ready for preseason practice. The crown is set to be fully removed, and the field flattened.

Glad the weather entertainers worked folks into a frenzy today and got schools to close at noon etc. Has barely rained here.