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STORY: The Beautiful Game: A tribute to my son, soccer and bonds built

A few caveats:
1. This is long. Really long.
2. This is personal. It has one Ole Miss mention in it. If you don't like personal stuff, this is not the story for you.
3. I'm not sure this belongs here. That said, I've learned when I need to process, I write. So over the past few days, I just started writing. I'm so glad I did. I'd have been a mess otherwise. I never really intended to publish it, but maybe some will enjoy it and it will motivate them to slow down and smell the roses, so to speak. I didn't miss much this season. I'm so glad. And as I started thinking about this, I thought about all of the time the game gave us together. I know now it was a gift from God.
4. This is best-viewed, I suspect, on a laptop or PC. There are a lot of photos and the photos break up a ton -- more than 6,000 words -- of content.
5. If I am found dead, it was probably Carson. But someone do me a favor and get him an acquittal. He doesn't know I wrote this. One day, years from now, I hope he sees it and knows how lucky I am to be his dad, how proud of him I am and how very much I enjoyed falling in love with a game I knew nothing about. He's a special young man.

Just got the ax from our Tailgating set up guy

Apparently they are charging for the Grove this year and he said he would have to increase our tailgating fees by 150% to 200% to make it worth it for him. Guess the money grabbers are ruining tailgating now. Very sad!

We lost our tailgating spot to the new accounting building they are starting on anyway so guess that solves our problem of where we'll tailate.

BASEBALL: SEC Coaches Poll

2025 SEC Baseball Preseason Coaches Poll



1. Texas A&M (10) – 228

2. Tennessee (1) – 215

3. Arkansas (3) – 214

4. LSU (1) – 204

5. Florida (1) – 183

6. Georgia – 165

7. Vanderbilt – 156

8. Texas – 146

9. Mississippi State – 112

10. Kentucky - 102

11. Oklahoma – 101

12. Auburn – 100

13. Alabama – 98

14. South Carolina - 61

15. Ole Miss – 60

16. Missouri – 31

HOOPS: GAME THREAD: Kentucky at Ole Miss

Let's have an evening. Settled in for the Rebels and Wildcats at the Pavilion. A TON of UK fans are here it seems based on early seating. The upper deck is more UK than Ole Miss.

The media meal was catered by My Michelle's and was very good. Blackened chicken thighs, green beans and dirty rice. A+.

The security guard was very aggressive making sure my backpack had a tag and had been checked.
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