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December 12, 2025
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
State is the highest seed remaining in this College Cup. So they must a 1 or a 2 seed or something high like that? No, they're a 15 seed!
The College Cup is being played right here in Cary, NC. Too cold, though. If I wanted to be outside to watch a sporting event in the cold, I would still be in northern Michigan. Eff that ess.
posted by NoMich at 11:08 AM on December 12, 2025
This does seem a weird time of year for an outdoor championship. Growing up playing soccer in OK you kinda just dealt with the various elements, but I always found playing in the cold especially miserable. Nothing like hopping in the shower the next morning and looking down to find your legs that are tie-dyed with bruises from getting smacked by a rock-hard ball.
That might work in SLU's favor though - we're currently clear but are up to 10.5" of snow already for the Winter and it's felt like January more often than not for about six weeks so they should be pretty acclimated to it by now.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:48 AM on December 12, 2025
It's been cold here for the last few weeks so I think the Pack are acclimated as well. In fact, we've a few days of snow down here this week, plus right now. Nothing is sticking, though.
posted by NoMich at 01:26 PM on December 12, 2025
Ooh, so we may get some Snowccer. Nice!
posted by Ufez Jones at 02:51 PM on December 12, 2025
Don't get too excited about the prospect of that, but hey, you never know.
posted by NoMich at 03:08 PM on December 12, 2025
I popped on the Washington/Furman game (mostly to see if I actually have access to ESPNU, which, yay) and the Furman University team all have "FU" on the backs of their jerseys where the names usually are and I kinda love it.
posted by Ufez Jones at 07:25 PM on December 12, 2025
Sort of like the call letters of the radio station at the University of North Texas being KNTU, when a lot of folks think the letters should be placed in the correct order.
Don't worry about such things harming rcade's innocence. For decades, Jacksonville has had a radio station with the call letters WAPE.
The station uses a gorilla logo to accentuate the "APE" part of the call sign, but still...
In the 70's, they had a big billboard visible from I-95 somewhere up around Golfair Blvd. The call letters were much bigger than the monkey.
posted by beaverboard at 10:30 PM on December 12, 2025
Radio operators working in manual Morse Code sometimes use the sign-off "see you next time" abbreviated as --.--. ..-- --. -- or C * * *
posted by Howard_T at 02:08 PM on December 13, 2025
If you're sensing an unidentified source of tension in the locker room today, it's probably because my Billikens are down NoMich's way preparing to take on the NC State Wolfpack in one of tonight's Men's NCAA Soccer Final Four semifinal matches.