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WBB: ESPN's Too Early Top 25 - Longhorns at #2 for 2024-2025

The last bit of confetti from today's championship might still be floating around the arena but that doesn't stop looking ahead to next season. In ESPN's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2024-2025, Texas checks in at #2. From what Vic has said, Rori's rehab is going phenomenally well <knock wood>. DeYona hasn't officially announced she's returning but neither have Shay or Taylor but I'll be surprised if they don't.

There is still a lot that could change and teams could look very different between now and May 1st when the portal closes. As of today 1,059 players have entered the portal and only 73 have announced/committed to a destination.

Paraphrasing Vic: "Paying rent in the Top 25 won't cut it, a lot of teams do that. We want to own property in the Top 5."

Their Top 10:
  1. South Carolina
  2. Texas
  3. Notre Dame
  4. UCONN
  5. USC
  6. UCLA
  7. LSU
  8. NC State
  9. Stanford
  10. Iowa State

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2. Texas Longhorns

Expect Madison Booker to slide back to the wing and form what could be the nation's best backcourt with Rori Harmon returning from knee injury. Aaliyah Moore and DeYona Gaston are expected to anchor the frontcourt, and Vic Schaefer has two top-10 recruits on the way in 6-2 Justice Carlton from Texas and 6-0 Jordan Lee from California. The Longhorns might not be battling South Carolina for just SEC supremacy. This could be a season-long battle to be the top team in the country.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college...-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-2024-25-poll

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EDIT: We're 2 weeks away with only room for 6 more foursomes. We've had great support from OB in the past, loads of fun, hand-rolled cigars, good food, great fun

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Appreciate OB's support


Wanted to reach out to my OB family to get support for a great Marine and an even greater cause.

The cause is Homeless Veteran Services of Dallas powered by the Veteran Resource Center. One of North Texas' strongest organizations supporting our veterans in multiple areas. Since opening our doors, we have served over 70,000 unique veterans and their families. And frequently we are dealing with our most vulnerable veterans. We offer support in the following areas

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  • Employment counseling. One of our homeless veterans is a Navy Vet with an MBA (no shit). Jerry now runs the employment center which in just over a year has placed over 500 veterans into new jobs.
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One of our biggest fundraisers every year is the R Lee Ermey Memorial Golf Classic. Don't recognize the name? That's OK, many don't. You know the face of this iconic Marine and award-winning actor, better known as "The Gunny", R Lee starred in over 80 films, TV shows, and commercials. He was a long-time friend of our program and annually emceed our sponsor dinner.

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Lucky's story, one of my favorites.

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Gunny's award-winning commercial for Glock

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Yeah, Violence has gone way down!

“I believe we narrowly escaped a line-of-duty death scenario of our own. Because one of our officers was surrounded by a bunch of masked, tough-guy-wannabe-thugs who surrounded her car, and acted in a criminal manner, in a way that I’ll tell you is never going to happen again in Fairfax County,”

Virginia Cop Nearly Killed When Masked “Wannabe Thugs” Surround Car During Chaotic Street Takeover

Our First Black President had this to say, about HAMAS ...

... In 2016, Slick Willey explained how he tried to get HAMAS to buy into a deal for land - Which they turned downed, because that doesn't interest HAMAS. Total annihilation of the Jews is what HAMAS, the Terrorist organization, is all about.

Bill knew what he was talking about. He briefly explains how HAMAS uses Palestinians as shields. This is just a 2+ min video from his speech.

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Today's Gift (4-8)

I am once again deeply indebted to today's author, @Bmk1989 .
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Enjoy:

Rx:
1. Trust God
2. Clean house
3. Help others


~~~~~~~~~ Bob Smith, MD

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded by Bob Smith ("Doctor Bob") and Bill Wilson ("Bill W"). They met in May of 1935, and frantically began working on outreach, two years before they would write one of the most revolutionary books of our lifetimes. In February of 1937, Doctor Bob comedically authored the above three-part "prescription" for sobriety.

Never before has so much been accomplished by so few words.

These three very simple clauses became the backbone of the famous 12 Steps, published in the equally famous "Big Book" (BB) in April 1939. That second clause, "cleaning house," is where those in recovery get rid of everything but God, setting us up on a path to serve Him (BB p. 98). As Bill W. and Doctor Bob went on to elaborate, it is in this phase that we conduct a thorough and searching "moral inventory," which is explicitly designed so that that we can, with humility as our guide, ask God to "remove whatever self-will has blocked [us] off from Him." (BB p. 71; 12/12 p. 34). Importantly, this clause mirrors James 4:8.

Nearly a century later, for a few minutes in the Texas sky, the moon will block us from the Sun; that is, that which we all revolve around. Today, the total solar eclipse enters Texas at 1:27 p.m. CDT, and exits at 1:49 p.m., traveling in excess of 1700 mph. As people gather round here from far and wide, wild celebrations will occur as people make cherished memories. While all that is going on, let those of us here reshape the down-the-road memories we're bound to make. As science and history take place before our very eyes, let's pause to consider what, despite our best efforts, still selfishly "blocks" us from our Creator, our Higher Power, our "Sun" if you will. What well-recognized assets and strengths do we undoubtedly possess, and that serve us so well, can, by cleaning house of the latent insecurities that often travel with those same assets, we use to serve Him and others better?

Shouting out to our friend @smileartisan who knows a thing or two about fine tuning his God-given assets. James 4:8.

BMK
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