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Big 12 teams have never had to muster enthusiasm to take on Texas or Oklahoma. The Sooners have won 14 Big 12 titles in the league's 24 years, including the past six. The Longhorns won the first Big 12 title in 1996 before adding two more in 2005 and 2009, and Texas' self-assuredness (school motto: "What Starts Here Changes The World") and standing in college football history elicits strong emotions from rivals.

But on Saturday, the Big 12's departing heavyweights will play their first conference road games since opting for the greener pastures of the SEC, which means the Sooners and Longhorns can expect even more hostility than usual.

"When you go on a trip, you just expect to arrive with the respect of who you are and what you represent," said Jack Crowe, who coached against the Longhorns as a coordinator and head coach at Arkansas and later as an assistant at Baylor. "Good luck on that one, boys. When they line up to boo you from between the bus and the door, you'll know things have changed."

Crowe would know. He was the Arkansas head coach in 1990 and 1991 when the Razorbacks were in the same boat. Crowe didn't know the Hogs would be leaving the Southwest Conference for the SEC when he took the job. Even further, he said he didn't know athletic director Frank Broyles would announce on Aug. 1, 1990, that the Razorbacks were departing, just three days before the Southwest Conference's annual media event.

Arkansas' experience three decades ago -- as well as a handful of others since -- could be a preview of what Texas and Oklahoma can expect.

In the recent history of college football realignment, Arkansas' move is probably the closest comparison to the Big 12's predicament, leaving a football-driven conference that was already facing questions about its future viability.

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Maryland was a founding member of the ACC in 1953 and announced its departure for the Big Ten in 2012, but it had won just one conference title in football since 1985, and basketball coaches in the league were most vocal about the switch. Miami and Virginia Tech left the Big East in 2004, but both had been in the league a relatively short time and were the two best football programs in a legendary basketball league. Colorado left the Big 12 for the Pac-12 in 2010 and Nebraska went to the Big Ten in 2011, both dealing blows to the conference, but big-market star power still remained.

But the Razorbacks weren't just leaving a conference. They were the only Southwest Conference school outside the Texas state lines, and their departure signaled the alarm that the conference could be in trouble.

If that sounds familiar, perhaps it's because it's a similar thought that's been whispered about the fate of the Big 12 after losing its two most prominent members.

So how hostile can Texas and Oklahoma expect it to get?

At that media day in 1990, emotions ran so high that Baylor coach Grant Teaff compared the Hogs' move to that week's invasion of Kuwait.

"I'm now thoroughly convinced that the Southeastern Conference is the Iraq of the college football scene in America," Teaff said.

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Then-Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum said that teams would be geared up to "get their last licks on Arkansas," adding, "The fans will probably be more emotionally involved than the players."

The players, for their part, were more insulated from it. They were already accustomed to fans taunting them. But the 1990 and 1991 seasons added a new wrinkle on the field.

"Players would hit you and say, 'Take that to the SEC with you,'" said Quinn Grovey, Crowe's quarterback in 1990. "There was a lot of trash talk."

In the Big 12, fans are already looking for their chance to make themselves heard. On Sept. 11, during the only College GameDay appearance at a Big 12 site this year for the Iowa-Iowa State game in Ames, there were several "HORNS DOWN" signs in the crowd and another that said "TRAITORS" with the Texas and Oklahoma logos.

Fans tailgating in the Jack Trice Stadium parking lots took aim at Texas in particular.

"We brought them in [to join the former Big Eight] and they've been chaos with other schools," said Joel Farley of Okoboji, Iowa. "I think we would still probably have an A&M in the conference, we would still have a Missouri, we would have a Colorado and even a Nebraska. We're like, 'Man, we just took everybody else's problem.'"

On a day Cyclones fans were facing their biggest rival, they were already ready for Texas. What happens when the Longhorns actually have to go to Ames on Nov. 6?

"The booing might be deafening," Crowe said. "The students will get their point across."

Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian has acknowledged the SEC move could stir up opponents.

"Our bull's-eye got a little bit bigger," Sarkisian said in August. "We can't be naive to that. Whether it's crowd noise, whether it's yelling at us on the bench, whether it's the 'Horns Down' signal, all those things are really irrelevant to our ability to execute and succeed at a really high level."

Former Nebraska coach Bo Pelini wasn't just worried about the fans heading into the Cornhuskers' lame-duck season in the Big 12 in 2010. He was already convinced the Cornhuskers were getting a raw deal from the league.

The season before, Nebraska celebrated on the field after Colt McCoy threw an incomplete pass as the final seconds ticked off the clock in the Big 12 championship game. But following a booth review, officials put a second back on the clock, and Texas kicked the game-winning field goal.

Now the Huskers were spurning the league and heading north.

"The league office was not happy and now you've got to play a whole year like that," he said. "I remember telling the team, 'Don't expect any help from the referees. We're changing conferences and that's just the way it is.' That's the way it turned out to be."

Late in the season, the 9-1 Huskers, ranked No. 8, traveled to Texas A&M for a big game against the No. 19 Aggies. Nebraska was penalized 16 times for 145 yards. Texas A&M had two penalties for 10 yards. The Aggies won 9-6.

Pelini cited several calls he considered puzzling. A pass interference call on A&M was waved off by officials. A player got called for what he considered an errant late hit. Another was flagged for targeting when Pelini said the film showed the player hitting the quarterback in the middle of his back.

"We didn't get any breaks from the referees, I tell you that," he said. "In my opinion, we got ripped off. It was a joke."

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And getting to and from the games could be a little less hospitable, Crowe said.

"You depend on a lot of people when you go on the road that aren't your people, and it's gonna be different," he said. "And you're gonna feel it."

He recalled walking into Texas' Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and being left at the entrance by the state troopers who normally escort coaches before and after games.

"The highway patrolmen walked out of the locker room and sort of stopped there for a second. One of them looked at me and said, 'Well, this is as far as we go, Coach,'" Crowe said. "Literally, they didn't want to be seen with me."

Grovey, the quarterback, said fans were even more animated than usual.

"It was already difficult for us when we went to go play in Texas but [the impending move] intensified it a little bit more," he said.

Both Pelini and Crowe don't believe it's sustainable for Texas and Oklahoma to remain in the conference until their grant of rights are up in 2025, as officials at both schools have indicated so far.

Pelini said even a 2023 departure would be tough.

"Two years of it?" he said. "That's crazy. You're dealing with bad blood. You have to answer questions all the time about 'This is gonna be the last time of this and the last time of that.' It gets old."

Pelini said it affected his focus in recruiting, too. Some players he was recruiting in Texas or California, two places Nebraska typically had fared well, didn't want to play in the Big Ten.

That's not likely a problem for either Texas or Oklahoma since their regional rivalries will remain intact, but there's still the issue of trying to explain when and if the current players or recruits will play in a different league. Crowe just thinks that two of the sport's blue bloods won't want to deal with the tension if they don't have to.

"I don't think either one of them's egos can stand to go down that path," Crowe said. "It ain't that much money [relative to the programs' finances] and when you put it in the hands of people that can make big things happen ... they won't let that go long."

Still, Crowe said it might be worth hastening the exit strategy for competitive reasons. Crowe was fired just one game into his third season after Arkansas joined the SEC. He took a job at Baylor and said it didn't just feel like all of Texas was plotting against him at Arkansas, but it could have actually been a coordinated effort.

"I was told by a Southwest Conference coach, 'Jack, it was sort of an unwritten rule that whenever you played Arkansas, every other school would help you with their information to put their game plan together,'" he said. "Normally, conference people don't do that. But you're not in the conference. They wanted to make sure every week you played every school."

Texas will head to Fort Worth on Saturday to face TCU, which is 7-2 against the Longhorns since joining the Big 12. The Horned Frogs already had a chip on their shoulder after being left behind when the Southwest Conference dissolved and had to claw to get back to equal standing, working their way through Conference USA, the WAC and the Mountain West to earn a Big 12 invite.

Oklahoma has its own challenges, facing Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, where the Wildcats stunned the Sooners two years ago 48-41 before beating OU again last year in Norman 38-35.

While both Texas and OU are favored this weekend, Crowe preached caution.

"You've drawn a line with every other state [in the Big 12] that you're about to throw 'em out," he said. "You can be their undoing. You're taking some of their pride with you, because it won't be the same. Those other teams know it's never gonna be any better than it was.

"Good luck, Texas and Oklahoma."

ESPN's Adam Rittenberg contributed to this report.

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Todays Highlight in History:

On Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra Day OConnor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

On this date:

In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park.

In 1911, ground was broken for Bostons Fenway Park.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY).

In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

In 1957, nine Black students whod been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Armys 101st Airborne Division.

In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.

In 1992, NASAs Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).

In 1991, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France, at age 77.

In 2015, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly announced his resignation.

In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After nearly three years in prison, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)

Ten years ago: Declaring theyd been detained because of their nationality, not their actions, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer, two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison, returned to the United States. Saudi Arabias King Abdullah decreed that women would, for the first time, have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015. Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH-ree mah-DY), 71, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Nairobi.

Five years ago: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met separately in New York with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, giving each candidate fresh foreign policy talking points on the eve of their first presidential debate. Golf legend Arnold Palmer, 87, died in Pittsburgh. Jose Fernandez, 24, ace right-hander for the Miami Marlins, was killed in a boating accident with two friends off Miami Beach. Country singer Jean Shepard, a Grand Old Opry staple, died in Nashville at 82.

One year ago: The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, making history as the first woman so honored in America. With coronavirus numbers soaring across France, officials said only 1,000 spectators would be allowed each day at the French Open tennis tournament. Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in Florida and banned local fines against people who refused to wear masks as he sought to reopen the states economy despite the spread of the coronavirus. The Mid-American Conference, the first major college football league to postpone its season because of the pandemic, became the final one to jump back in, making it 10 out of 10 conferences that would play in the fall.

Todays Birthdays: Former broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is 92. Folk singer Ian Tyson is 88.

Polka bandleader Jimmy Sturr is 80. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 78. Actor Josh Taylor is 78. Actor Robert Walden is 78. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 77. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 74. Actor Mimi Kennedy is 73. Movie director Pedro Almodovar is 72. Actor-director Anson Williams is 72. Actor Mark Hamill is 70. Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is 70. Actor Colin Friels is 69. Actor Michael Madsen is 63. Actor Heather Locklear is 60. Actor Aida Turturro is 59. Actor Tate Donovan is 58. TV personality Keely Shaye Smith is 58. Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy is 57. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 56. Actor Jason Flemyng is 55. Actor Will Smith is 53. Actor Hal Sparks is 52. Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones is 52. Rock musician Mike Luce (Drowning Pool) is 50. Actor Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is 48. Actor Clea DuVall is 44. Actor Robbie Jones is 44. Actor Joel David Moore is 44. Actor Chris Owen is 41. Rapper T. I. is 41. Actor Van Hansis is 40. Actor Lee Norris is 40. Actor/rapper Donald Glover (AKA Childish Gambino) is 38. Actor Zach Woods is 37. Actor Jordan Gavaris is 32. Olympic silver medal figure skater Mao Asada is 31. Actor Emmy Clarke is 30.

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Today in History: Today is Saturday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2021. - wausaupilotandreview.com

At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, the Friends of the Solana Beach Library will host a Zoom edition of Friends Night Out, a live online presentation for friends of all ages, by Beatrice Zamora, author of The Spirit of Chicano Park/El spritu del Parque Chicano.

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Drawing from her award-winning historical-fiction childrens book, Zamora will tell the rich and dynamic story of a determined group of neighbors in the San Diego community of Logan Heights/Barrio Logan. In 1970, they found their voice, stood their ground and began to create what would become San Diegos uniquely beautiful and internationally famous Chicano Park in a most unusual place under the mainland end of the Coronado Bridge. They came with picks, shovels and plants to begin the park they had been promised years before, when part of their vibrant neighborhood was taken by eminent domain.

Chicano Park was named a San Diego Historical Society Landmark in 1980 and a U.S. National Landmark in 2016. Today its a cultural resource famous around the world for the work of internationally- acclaimed muralists, its traditional celebrations and lowriders as an art form.

Zamora is a retired educator, an award-winning author, co-founder of Tolteca Press (toltecapress.com) and a member of the Chicano Park Steering Committee, which supports and promotes the Park and the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. The Spirit of Chicano Park/El spritu del Parque Chicano was published in April, 2020, to celebrate the Parks 50th anniversary. Zamoras newest book, Am I Blue or Am I Green?, reveals the beauty of a bicultural life, as well as the doubts, fears, resilience and strength of children embracing their rich cultural identity.

Instructions for connecting with the Zoom presentation can be found at friendsofsolanabeachlibrary.org/events

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Is Joe Bidens Presidency actually dead, failed, and all but over, as you have surely heard by now? The Republicans and their conservative allies in the commentariat, including some notable Never Trumpers, think so. Jim Geraghty, in National Review, wrote this week that Biden is both flailing and failing, and that the President and his Administration are nave, unprepared, slow-footed, and in over their heads. Matt Lewis, in the Daily Beast, wrote something similar, under the headline It Took Biden 48 Years to Be President and 8 Months to Fuck It Up. At least Geraghty and Lewis gave Biden until this week. In the Times, Bret Stephens warned of another failed presidency at hand the day after Labor Day, even before Congress came back to town, when it was yet to be seen whether legislators would enact Bidens agendaor sink it.

All of which strikes me as wildly overstated, a conservative analogue to the many progressives who declared Biden the second coming of F.D.R. this spring, merely because he had proposed a wave of expensive progressive legislation that may or may not ever get through Congress. It was too soon then to nominate him to a place on Mount Rushmore; it is too soon now to consign him to the ash heap of history. What we might be seeing, instead, is a bit of a return to normalcy in American politicsthe kind of normalcy in which a Presidents job-approval rating goes up or down depending on how people think he is actually doing. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were also considered by many to be failed Presidents early on in their tenures, and saw their parties each lose their first midterm elections as a result; both went on to be among the most popular two-term Presidents of the modern era.

The warning lights are undoubtedly flashing red for Biden right now. His Gallup approval rating is down to forty-three per cent, a drop of six points in the past monthwhich saw a deadly surge of COVID-19 in the U.S. and the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistanand a thirteen-point decline since June. The Pew Research Center, in a poll released on Thursday, showed Biden at forty-four per cent, down eleven points from July. The failed-Presidency crowd sees this as the inevitable outcome of a leader who strayed from the promise of his campaign to oust Donald Trumpto return America to competent, sane governanceand instead embraced a politically impractical vision of a progressive utopia.

Many liberals do not agree, of course. But it seems that the table stakes for the Biden Presidencyand the countrymay finally have become too big this week, even for diehard Biden supporters. No wonder. Bidens entire legislative agenda is tied up in a September snarl on Capitol Hill, as Democrats feud over how to proceed. In the meantime, the country is averaging more than two thousand deaths per day in a pandemic that Biden promised would be all but over this summer. An immigration crisis, with thousands of Haitian refugees at the southern U.S. border, has liberals furious at the Administrations Storm Trooper-esque tactics and conservatives in full Trumpian build-the-wall mode. France is so angry at the United States, for stealing away a multibillion-dollar submarine deal with Australia, that it recalled its Ambassador, in a snit, for the first time ever. Oh, and the government may be forced to shut down after next Friday unless Congress passes a bill to stop ita bill that Republicans vow to oppose. In October, the U.S. is set to run out of credit unless Congress raises the debt-ceiling limit, and Republicans vow to oppose that, too. The general feeling among Democrats these days: Is it time to panic yet?

Its not surprising, of course, when those who want Biden to fail label him as having failed. The New York Post, a Trumpian mouthpiece, editorialized that Biden was failing the nation back in May. After Bidens chaotic Afghanistan exit, in August, the Posts op-ed page was more definitive: Biden was a failed President. The official Republican Party communications shop was even faster to label Bidens Presidency a flopJoe Bidens 100 Days of Failure, the G.O.P. declared back in Aprilwhich was only notable, I suppose, because the Party of Trump was at least acknowledging that Biden was actually the President.

More notable, however, is that many in the current group of Biden critics at least nominally supported him, voted for him, and presumably wanted him to succeed; columnists such as Lewis and Stephens are not reflexive Biden-bashers but Never Trump Republicans who spent the past few years criticizing the G.O.P. for its embrace of Trump. And one important reason that Bidens numbers have dropped so much over all is that independents are losing faithindependents whose votes in key states very likely gave Biden the White House. No doubt some of this is simply conservatives reverting to their ideological comfort zone. That, in and of itself, is an example of the post-Trump return to regular order that Biden had promised. In the absence of a ranting demagogue in the White House, it was probably never realistic to expect conservatives to be supportive of a transformative legislative package with the biggest price tag in modern political history.

The warnings, however, are not just coming from budget hawks. Many of those who now fear Bidens Presidency is on the line include Democrats who support his goals but fear that he will not deliver. The difficult truth is that, should Congress fail to pass Bidens bills this fall, it would, in fact, be the kind of political blow that few new Presidents can recover from.

Consider John Podestas letter to congressional Democrats this week, a cri de coeur from a senior adviser to the past two Democratic Presidents. In it, he urges them to figure outnow!a compromise that would allow final passage of some version of both the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has already passed the Senate, and the $3.5-trillion budget-reconciliation bill. He wants progressives to get real about the price tag and moderates to give up on the idea of voting for the smaller infrastructure bill without going along with the bigger spending package, which will need the votes of essentially every Democratic member in both the House and the Senate to pass. The money quote, as cited by the Times: You are either getting both bills or neitherand the prospect of neither is unconscionable. It would signal a complete and utter failure of our democratic duty, and a reckless abdication of our responsibility. It would define our generations history and show that, when our time came, we failed, both for Americans now and in the years to come.

President Bidens response to this freak-out moment has been revealing. He has not, la Trump, taken to Twitter to denounce the dissenting members of his party as DINOs, though Im sure Biden, like his White House predecessors, wishes he could dismiss those who are failing to fall in line as Democrats in Name Only. (Then again, what is more Democratic than fighting with one another?) He has not fired anybody or started lining up primary challengers to his own partys members of Congress who have angered him. He has not called up MSNBC hosts in a panic for advice. (At least, not that I am aware of.)

Instead, Bidens approach to the matter of the irreconcilable camps in his party is very similar to his approach to everythinga philosophy neatly summed up in his address to the U.N. General Assembly this week as relentless diplomacy, rather than relentless war. On Wednesday, Biden spent five hours with Democratic members of Congress, in various groupings, in search of an elusive deal, and will surely be working the phones right up until Mondays deadline for the House vote on the infrastructure billand beyond. No one doubts that Biden is ready to talk this to death.

But diplomacy, like war, is a tactic, not an end in itself. The Biden Presidency, on both the foreign and domestic fronts, remains a jumble of aspirationsand retains a haze of uncertainty about how to achieve them. Much of his political problem, it seems to me, is a vast gap between his articulated goals and what is politically possible. The U.S. is no longer a lone superpower unchallenged abroad; the Democratic Party is barely a majority party in the U.S. Congress. Its a fifty-fifty Senate, and a fifty-fifty world. In a purely practical sense, the challenge for Biden is that he hasnt got to the hard part yet. He cant negotiate with China or the Republicans until he negotiates with his allies. France and the House progressives, ironically, are the obstacles of the week, not Xi Jinping and Mitch McConnell.

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Today is Saturday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2021. There are 97 days left in the year.

On Sept. 25, 1981, Sandra Day OConnor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park.

In 1911, ground was broken for Bostons Fenway Park.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY).

In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

In 1957, nine Black students whod been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Armys 101st Airborne Division.

In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.

In 1992, NASAs Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).

In 1991, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France, at age 77.

In 2015, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly announced his resignation.

In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After nearly three years in prison, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)

Ten years ago: Declaring theyd been detained because of their nationality, not their actions, Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer, two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison, returned to the United States. Saudi Arabias King Abdullah decreed that women would, for the first time, have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015. Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH-ree mah-DY), 71, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Nairobi.

Five years ago: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met separately in New York with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, giving each candidate fresh foreign policy talking points on the eve of their first presidential debate.

One year ago: The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, making history as the first woman so honored in America. With coronavirus numbers soaring across France, officials said only 1,000 spectators would be allowed each day at the French Open tennis tournament.

Todays Birthdays: Former broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is 92. Folk singer Ian Tyson is 88. Polka bandleader Jimmy Sturr is 80. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 78. Actor Josh Taylor is 78. Actor Robert Walden is 78. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 77. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 74. Actor Mimi Kennedy is 73.

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Nasa Hataoka made history today at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship when she became the fifth player to make two aces in an LPGA event, and first since 2016.

Her hole-in-one today came at the par-3 sixth at Pinnacle Country Club in Rodgers, Arkansas, measuring 180 yards. Aside from her ace, she made 5 birdies with one bogey for a 6-under 64. She enters the third round at 12-under, and in a share of the lead.

Joining her at 12-under is Minjee Lee who fired a bogey-free 63, making six birdies on the front-side of Pinnacle CC. Through two rounds, Lee has yet to make a bogey.

Jeongeun Lee6 tied Hataoka for the lowest round of the day, 63. The 2019 U.S. Womens Open champion, through 36 holes, has made just one bogey. She enters the final round just two back of the two leaders.

Notable names in the mix include U.S. Solheim Cup star Jennifer Kupcho (T-6), Yuka Saso (T-9), Danielle Kang (T-9), Jin Young Ko (T-9), and Maria Fassi (T-18).

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As a 31-point underdog, Appalachian States massive upset of traditional powerhouse Michigan in 2007 holds a special place in annals of college football.

On Saturday, the Gophers effectively said: Hold my beer.

Coming off an impressive 30-0 beatdown at Colorado last week, Minnesota was a 31-point favorite over a young and struggling Bowling Green team on a 10-game losing streak to FBS programs since early November 2019.

Yet Minnesotas passing game and special teams kept sputtering and sputtering in a mistake, penalty and turnover-filled 14-10 loss at Huntington Bank Stadium. Considering betting lines, Saturdays game ties App. States shocker for the second-biggest Big Ten upset in at least the last 40 years. The largest upset was when Minnesota was a 31.5-point favorite and lost to Northwestern in 1982.

The Us homecoming crowd Saturday booed as coaches and players went to the locker room trailing 7-3 at halftime, and when they opted to punt while down in the fourth quarter, they chorus cascaded.

Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck said there was not one thing this week to foreshadow such a face-plant on Saturday. We had a great week of practice, he said. After the game, Fleck told his team: Whatever you felt like could be some of the worst football we could have played, we just put it out there.

Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan (2) scrambles with the ball during an NCAA college football game against Bowling Green, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green quarterback Matt McDonald (3) throws the ball during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Minnesota, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota linebacker Braelen Oliver (14) tackles Bowling Green wide receiver Tyrone Broden (86) during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green defensive lineman Blaine Spires (9) calls out to his team during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Minnesota, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota running back Treyson Potts (3) avoids a tackle by Bowling Green linebacker Brock Horne (34) during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota wide receiver Chris Autman-Bell (7) is tackled by Bowling Green safety Jordan Anderson (0) during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan (2) runs with the ball against Bowling Green linebacker Brock Horne (34) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford (88) leaps over Bowling Green cornerback Marcus Sheppard (21) during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green quarterback Matt McDonald (3) runs with the ball after avoiding a tackle by Minnesota defensive lineman DeAngelo Carter (99) during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota quarterback Cole Kramer (12) runs with the ball during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Bowling Green, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green safety Jordan Anderson (0) is surrounded by teammates in celebration after intercepting the ball during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Minnesota, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Minnesota linebacker Mariano Sori-Marin (55) celebrates with teammates after intercepting the ball against Bowling Green during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green punter Matt Naranjo (96) celebrates with teammate cornerback Jalen Burton after winning 14-10 against Minnesota during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Bowling Green quarterback Matt McDonald (3) smiles in celebration after winning 14-10 against Minnesota during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Fleck lost for the first time in 14 non-conference games and none of his 20 Big Ten losses holds a candle Saturdays considering this teams vast experience and internal expectations to compete at the top of the Big Ten West.

We made some mistakes (Saturday) that were uncharacteristic of our football team, and Im talking like our football team since weve been here, Fleck said.

The Gophers put Bowling Green on its schedule back in November 2017, during Flecks first season, and they will pay the Mid-American Conference school $1.45 million for the trip. Given the Falcons recent struggles, the Us organizers did their part in putting an expected cupcake up as its homecoming opponent.

So that fat check, along with ruining the Us homecoming, will be nice parting gifts to go with the W.

The loss for Minnesota is more head-scratching. The Gophers just destroyed Colorado in front of roughly 10,000 fans in Boulder, a fun-loving party amid the programs first road shutout of a Power Five team since 1977. It looked like the type of victory that couldspringboard the team on a long winning streak in a favorable reopening of Big Ten play.

Not anymore.

(We) couldnt have played any worse, Fleck said on the radio postgame.

Minnesota had three turnovers and were lucky to not have a fourth. They allowed four sacks and suffered seven penalties, some coming at the worst times. They were also bailed out a few times by Bowling Green, which has 71 players that graduated in 2020 or 2021. But the breaks stopped coming.

Minnesota had only 94 yards of total offense in the first half and lost its top receiver Chris Autman-Bell to an ankle injury on the first drive. They finished with a paltry 241 yards, and the passing offense dragged them down.

Veteran QB Tanner Morgan completed only 5 of 13 passes for 59 yards. Morgan fumbled after a 18-yard gain in the first half and had two interceptions in the second half.The offensive line struggled with blitzes and stunts. The Falcons brought Kansas transfer Davon Ferguson on a cornerback blitz in the first half for a sack and had the same success when they dialed it up in the second half.

Minnesota got an interception from Mariano Sori-Marin in the first quarter, but despite starting the drive from the Falcons 23, the U had to settle for a field goal.

Minnesotas offense failed to convert on fourth-and-1 from its own 29. The line was beat and Trey Potts had to eat a 5-yard loss. Bowling Green put together a 24-yard touchdown drive, which Fleck put in his shoulders considering it was his fourth-down call that backfired. Minnesota quarterback Cole Kramer (12) runs with the ball during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Bowling Green, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Bowling Green won 14-10. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

The U responded early in the third quarter with backup quarterback Cole Kramer coming in for a play and rushing for a 18-yard score, the first of his career. It gave Minnesota a brief 10-7 lead.

Fleck said he tried to calm his team down at the half and that he liked the adjustments they made for the second half. But he fell to 0-17 at Minnesota when trailing at the half; none of those predecessors will sting more.

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A dark-eyed beauty lies dead. One of Americas biggest movie stars implicated. A politically-ambitious prosecutor. A salacious Hollywood screenplay?

No. It was Hollywood in real life.

Exactly 100 years ago this month, America was engrossed in perhaps the biggest Hollywood scandal of all time. In September 1921 a young actress was dead, a major movie stars career was destroyed, and the entire motion picture industry faced extinction.

All because of a single party gone terribly wrong.

Americas love affair with movies was in full bloom a century ago. Folks took to the new medium with a passion. They also embraced the popular perceptioncarefully nurtured by studio headsof Hollywood as a kind of Neverland where stars wholesomely frolicked in the sun like carefree teenagers. With a major morality push underway just then (Prohibition had become the law of the land the year before), movie moguls made sure their box office breadwinners appeared squeaky clean.

That carefully-crafted illusion was shattered in a San Francisco hotel room.

Holy Cow! History is written by novelist, former television journalist and diehard history buff J. Mark Powell. Have a historic mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth remembering? Send it to HolyCow@insidesources.com.

At the center of the storm was 300-pound celluloid darling Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle. He had slogged his way up the entertainment ranks, paying his dues while mastering the art of comedy. He made cinematic history in 1913 by becoming the first comic to get hit in the face with a pie on screen.

Arbuckle worked alongside silent movie legends, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Cops. He may have practiced slapstick comedy, but he stood out from the pack with his clever wit. And his obesity was always part of the gag.

Fatty eventually was earning a staggering $1,000 per day ($30,000 in 2021 dollars) plus 25 percent cut of the profit. Additionally, he had the one thing performers covet most: complete artistic control.

By 1921, Fatty Arbuckle was second only to Charlie Chaplin as Americas favorite funnyman.

He and two male buddies decided to spend a Labor Day weekend getaway in San Francisco. They rented rooms in the elegant St. Francis Hotel. Women were invited, a phonograph provided music, and bootleg alcohol flowed freely.

When it was over, Virginia Rappe, a 20-something model and movie actress, was seriously ill. She was hospitalized with a ruptured kidney, developed peritonitis, and died four days later.

Two days after that, Arbuckle was arrested.

One partygoer, a woman with a shady past, claimed Fatty had raped Rappe. San Franciscos DA harbored dreams of being elected governor and he swooped down on Arbuckle without doing legal due diligence.

Then the floodgates opened in the press. Americans were deluged with a wave of lurid stories (some true, some embellished, some completely fabricated). Readers were rattled by tales that transformed virtuous Hollywood into a lusty den of midnight orgies and decadence, all driven by illicit narcotics and marching to the beat of newly popular jazz music. Moralists had a field day condemning southern Californias modern-day Sodom.

Fatty Arbuckle bore the brunt of it, falling from movie poster favorite to poster boy for lascivious lifestyles. Wild rumors spread like wildfire. Many of those rumors persist to this day.

Whatever his faults, for he certainly was no choirboy, it appears Arbuckle didnt rape Virginia Rappe. It was later learned she suffered from cystitis and had previously had a venereal disease, suggesting her health was in delicate condition before the events of Sept. 5, 1921. A weekend of bootleg hooch didnt help.

Fatty was tried and acquitted in three trials over seven months. When the third concluded in April 1922, jurors took the highly unusual step of apologizing to him! Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done to him for there is not the slightest proof to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime.

But the damage could not be undone. The industry eventually regained much of the publics trust by instituting the Hays Code that made sure movies were so innocent, nuns playing a hand of pinochle looked racy in comparison.

A decade later, Fatty finally persuaded Warner Brothers to let him appear in short comedies. On June 29, 1933, he signed a contract to finally star once more in a feature film. It was also his first wedding anniversary with his second wife. He told friends, This is the best day of my life.

That night he suffered a heart attack and died in his sleep. He was 46, a victim of whatever had happened a dozen years earlier in Room 1219 at that San Francisco hotel.

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The St. Louis Cardinals have won 14 consecutive games. They have a 99.6 percent chance of making the postseason, a feat that seemed impossible on Aug. 10 when those chances were just 1.4 percent, and have positioned them for a winner-take-all wild-card matchup.

It is tied for the longest winning streak in franchise history, tying a mark that was set in 1935. Earlier on Friday afternoon, when that streak was extended to 13 games, it was tied for the second longest streak in team history since at least 1901.

Such an improbable run possible required the Cardinals to get otherworldly performances from their key players. Tyler ONeill, 26, is the youngest team player with 19+ RBI in an 11-game span since Albert Pujols in 2006. Paul Goldschmidt secured his sixth 30+ homer season since 2013, the most among first basemen. ONeill, Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado have all hit at least 30 homers this season.

Arenado, of course, provided a scare when he left a game against the Milwaukee Brewers with back tightness, but he is OK and back to being an elite presence both offensively and defensively. Goldschmidt, however, has been the hottest hitter on the planet, hitting .407/.476/.870 six home runs and 15 RBI in his last 14 games, and has emerged as a sneaky candidate in the National League MVP discussion.

The three hitters have led the Cardinals to this 14 game winning streak, becoming the third team in the last 100 years to win 14+ consecutive games in September (1935 Chicago Cubs, 1965 San Francisco Giants).

With Arenado, Goldschmidt and ONeill, as well as Adam Wainwright and a healthy Jack Flaherty, the Cardinals are a matchup nightmare in a wild card game. They will face either the Giants or Los Angeles Dodgers, who will both end the season with 100+ wins, but are capable of beating any team given how they are playing right now. Especially at the rate they continue to make history.

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