Has been traded to LA.

As a Raven’s fan, wooohooooo.

Man LA is going to be scary next year!

I just watched the first episode of Pluribus and holy shit I put off watching this for too long.

The episode was great. At first it started off kind of awkward, as it is a Giligan show I expected it t be, but holy moly did it ramp up fast.

I am stoked for episode 2 this Thursday.

OK, so I guess this is my week of checking out Old guy, revenge gun Movies that are absolutely bananas and on the surface should be so idiotic that They should be terrible but… no.

Nobody Is a heap of fun from start to finish, and at the same time so absolutely over the top. Bob Odenkirk is one of the greatest.

I mean, who doesn’t want to see Christopher Lloyd mow down Russia mobsters with a double barrel shotgun?

Highly recommend this one

This movie was just absurd .. but at the same so much fun. Who doesn’t want to see a Finnish Super Soldier slaughter nazis, and then slaughter more Nazis and top that off with even more slaughtering of Nazis.

If you want to see a guy board a plane in flight using a pick axe… and then.. slaughter more nazis, than this movie for you!

I have a ridiculously long list of games that I want to play so I finally got a copy of this game.

I am about 3 hours into and and Wow, it is really great. The save system is a bit wonky so about an hour of that three hours was being annoyed getting past the first boss. You are only allowed to save at save points and the first save point you get to is after the first boss. So I died on him/it twice.

Most of what you do leading up to the first boss is just learning the mechanics of the game. So having to redo that three times was .. annoying.. but that makes you learn fight mechanics, so I appreciated that after I got him “down”.

Visually the game is great. The combat system is really intuitive and the game uses camera angles that are a bit jarring at first. Sometimes the camera angles feel like old school 90s arcade games. The aesthetic of the game is awesome.

The game seems to be very deliberately rolling out the story, so the experience so far has been very hack and slash. I am curious how that will play out. I am hoping that the story gets more involved the more I play the game.

Like I said I am only three hours into it and so far it has been fun!

Most of the Ivy League games this week are covered in the other conference matchup posts.

Yale V Fairfield is the only one that is not.

Yale should win this one handily.

University of North Carolina V Brown:

UNC has the one two punch in the game with Petramala and Duffy. Also the team is a whose who of LAX greats kids. Thing is, all those kids are really good at the game.

Prediction: UNC wins

University of Virginia V Towson.

UVA has been in rebuilding mode for three years and Towson is located in “The State of Lacrosse”. SO both teams have plenty of almosts.

Prediction UVA wins.

Duke V Air Force

As is the tradition, Duke is 6 games into the season and has yet to play a remotely competitive team.

Prediction: Duke Wins

Maryland V Delaware:

Maryland is 1 and 3 and their season is in crises. Maryland cannot lose another game this year this year if they hope to have a post season.

Prediction: Maryland Wins

Michigan V Harvard:

Harvard, like many Ivy League schools, is looking really good this year.

Prediction: Harvard Wins

Rutgers V Princeton:

This is the battle for New Jersey, Unfortunately for Rutgers Princeton is an absolute War Wagon this year.

Prediction: Princeton Wins

Ohio State V Notre Dame:

OSU has invested so much into LAX, unfortunately they have always been the bridesmaid, and never the bride. This year looks no different.

Prediction: Notre Dame Wins

Johns Hopkins V Syracuse:

These two teams are 1 and 2 for the most national title wins in history. So this is a battle of THE two blueblood teams.

Prediction: JHU Wins

Penn State V Cornell:

The battle of the Dark Horse teams. Both teams are so hard to figure out.

Prediction: PSU wins.

The tag line for this movie is, family is who you make it. The story rolls out in really predictable ways and you will be able to see major story events coming.

With that said, Justin Timberlake does a fantastic job as a lowlife ex-con, Palmer, who wants to do better and Rider Allan is great as a little kid just trying to get by in a world of shit. Who had no one on his side until he met Palmer. Watching the Timberlake and Allan characters bond is really great. These two make the movie worth it.

Juno Temple stars as the kid’s mother who has no business raising a kid.

I haven't seen much Timberlake stuff, but i will be checking out more now.

In honor of one of the greats. Here is my list of my favorite Robert Duvall’s roles:

- Tender Mercies: This is such a low key movie where Duvall illustrates dealing with alcoholism and how to build relationships as a sober person.

Unfortunately there can only be ten so one has to go.

• Second Hand Lions. Like Jones and Duvall in Lonesome Dove, Duvall and Caine in Second Hand Lions is such an excellent pairing of two of the greats. Duvall was great as the tough guy partner to the duo with Caine. I loved this movie and if there was ever a movie that needed a prequel TV show this is it.

• To Kill a Mockingbird. This is Duvall’s very first movie role and man was it a good one. He shared the screen with one of the Titans of Hollywood, Gregory Peck, who was delivering his greatest roles. Using next to no dialogue Duvall not only shared the screen with Peck, he owned the scene.

• A Civil Action: If you want to see a masterful display of an actor being the bad guy but in no way appearing to be the bad guy, watch this movie. Duvall crushes Travolta’s character’s hopes and dreams at every turn.

• Open Range: Everything about Duvall’s character in this movie is awesome starting with his name Boss Spearman. Boss is his nickname, Blue Bonnet is his given name, but don’t become between blue bonnet and those that he care about.

• The Apostle. Often passion project of actors are flaming disasters, this is not.

• Network: This movie is a comedy and is an invisceration of TV networks.

• Lonesome Dove. This was a TV mini-series and it starred Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, and many others. Jones and Duvall on screen chemistry is on par with Redford and Newman, Lemon and Matthau, Hepburn and Tracy.

• Apocalypse Now. Who doesn’t love the smell of naplam in the morning? Duvall was on screen for about 3 minutes (probably a lot more, but it is short) and delivered one of most iconic roles of all time.

• The Great Santini: Another absolute masterful performance as a macho Marine Pilot who is to scared to love his children and has no idea how. Duvall just blows you away with how subtly he illustrates that. As the macho asshole marine does all the wrong things to those that matter to him the most.

• The Godfather. Duvall is the legal council to the Godfather and his criminal empire and man Duvall is unreal

This movie was great! Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who uses a relay service to help his clients. A Relay service is typically for people with speech or hearing difficulties to use phones. It was directed by David Mackenzie, who also directed Hell or High Water.

This movie is a tight thriller and Riz Ahmed just killed it! The whole cast does.

The Ivy League season begins this weekend.

Harvard V Providence: This is hard game to call as both teams have ups and downs and are perennial bubble teams.

Prediction: Harvard Wins

Yale V WestPoint: Army is a tough opponent for anyone as is Yale.

Prediction: Yale Wins

Pennsylvania V Georgetown: Georgetown is a presiding top five this year.

Prediction: Georgetown wins

Brown V Fairfield: Brown has been a bottom feeder for too long.

Prediction: I have not idea

Cornell V UAlbany. There a two teams in New York that every New York team wants to beat. Cornell and Syracuse.

Prediction: Cornell Wins

Dartmouth V Boston University: BU has a top tier Goalie and Dartmouth is historically a mess.

Perdition: BU wins

Here are the ACC matchups for this weekend.

UNC v high Point: This is the first game of a weekend double-header for UNC. Last week both of UNC’s big time attackman were non factors. If that is the case this weekend UNC is in trouble this.

Prediction: UNC wins

Virginia V Richmond: Richmond is a wonder to behold. the program is only ten years old and they are a great team.

Prediction: Richmond Wins

Notre Dame v Marquette: Notre Dame begins its season with a body bag game.

Prediction: Notre Dame Wins

UNC V Iona: This is the second game of the weekend double-header for UNC and like the first it is a body bag game.

Prediction; UNC Wins

Duke V Vermont: Vermont is historically and almost was and they face one of the blue bloods this weekend.

Prediction: Duke Wins

Maryland V Syracuse: Number 1 and Number to square off. This should be the best game of the year until playoffs.

Prediction: Maryland Wins

Result: Syracuse wins

Michigan V Lehigh: this is a tough game to call. Michigan is a big question mark this year and Lehigh is one of those teams that is scrappy every year.

Perdition: Lehigh Wins

Penn State V Princeton: Princeton is a preseason top five team and PSU has been a mess this year.

Prediction: Princeton Wins

Johns Hopkins V Loyola: Every team in Mayland wants to beat two teams, Hopkins and Maryland. Unfortunately for Loyola they just don’t have the fire power this year.

Predition: Hopkins wins

Ohio State V Airforce: The military academies have one hand tied behind their back when it comes to sports, EXCEPT lacrosse. Lacrosse does not have the financial opportunities post graduation that other sports do and the lacrosse physique is beneficial to military life. Hence why Army has the success it does.

Predition: Ohio State Wins

Man, this Friday is a big time Match. Number 1 Maryland V Number 2 Syracuse playing in the dome at Syracuse.

It is wild that we get this big of a game this early in the season.

John Tillman (Head Coach Maryland) is the gold standard for Coaching in Lacrosse and is the master at building super teams. The 2022 Squad is one of the greatest of all time. Will his 2026 team be on that level?

If so, that will be tested this Friday Night.

Gary Gait (Head Coach Syracuse) is listed as the greatest midfielder to ever play the game. What he did as a player was unreal. He once scored a goal from behind the net!.. by jumping over top of it…. His primary attack-man is Joey Spallina who is on the verge of breaking all of Gait’s records. The Syracuse squad is hungry for a nation title and ..

the quest for that will be tested this Friday Night.

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Tim Blake Nelson is just excellent. The guys does it all so well. I will be checking this out!

Weather permitting for season finally begins for most conferences, including the toughest conference in D1, the Big Ten. The Big Ten matchups this week are:

Penn State University v Villanova. Nova is he cornerstone of the Big East conference and this is the battle for PA. This should be a fun game.

PSU wins

UPDATE: Villanova Won.

Rutgers v Army. Rutgers is the bottom feeder of the Big Ten and Army has graduated a ton of talent. This one is a hard game to call.

Army Wins

update: Army Won

Johns Hopkins V Georgetown: This is the best game of the weekend. Georgetown is planning to make a championship run and it is time for JHU to turn the corner under Peter Milliman. LAX and Doctors are the two things Hopkins does.

Georgetown Wins

Update Game Postponed

Ohio State V Cleveland St: This is a bodybag game.

OSU wins

Update: OSU Won

University of Maryland V Loyola University. For every team in Maryland (The state of Lacrosse) when they play the Terps it is the Super Bowl. Loyola will be hungry but they are facing the Tillman Machine.

Terps Win

Update: Terps Win

Michigan v Marquette: Michigan is the perineal dark horse of the big ten as is Marquette of The Big East.

Michigan Wins

Update: Michigan Won

This week weather permitting the season finally starts for most conferences. The ACC matches this week are:

• Duke v Utah: Utah is the western most Men’s LAX program in the country so the cards are stacked against them. This week they play one of the blue bloods of the sport.

Duke Wins

Update: Duke Won

• UNC v Jacksonville: UNC has a top tier FOGO and a dynamic duo on attack.

UNC Wins

Update: UNC Won

• Syracuse V St Joseph; This is the epitome of a body bag game.

Cuse wins Update: Cuse Won

• Virginia v Colgate: UVA has been on a decline for a while now and it is time for Lars Tiffany to turn things around.

UVA Wins

Update: UVA Won

So they are trying again with Harry Hole. The first major attempt to bring this character to western audiences was in The Snowman.

The Snowman was made by the same guy who directed Tinker Tailor Solder Spy.

While I found Tinker Tailor.. a hard watch the first time around, there was enough goodness to make me rewatch it. On rewatch it has became one of my favorite movies.

The Snowman is another animal all together. The movie is a mess from the start and just gets worse.

Harry Hole is pretty popular in Norway, I wonder how this will be.

Preseason polls are what they are. Fortunately for lacrosse what a team does in the season is all that matters.

So since this place seems like my personal instance/community I will keep posting.

Per Insider Lacrosse here is the D1 Top Ten:

1. Maryland
2. Princeton
3. Syracuse
4. Cornell
5. Georgetown
6. North Carolina
7. Penn State
8. Notre Dame
9. Richmond
10. Ohio State

This season is starting off right. This Saturday UMD and Richmond will open the season against each other. Also the Terps as usual have a brutal schedule in there first four games three of the teams are in the top ten and the fourth team is a bitter in-state rival.

I am lucky enough to live in The State of Lacrosse and it am a huge Terps fan. This is going to be a fun season.