I listened to Scott Marsh interview Coach Les at halftime today on the radio broadcast of the UNC game. He said Beasley and DeBruhl were both doing a good job at PG. He also mentioned that Anigwe has really stepped up his game on both offense and defense after playing last year with a nagging injury most of the season. He said that Pepper has gotten even better after getting stronger and leaner in the off season. Les feels like he was able to recruit from the transfer portal to add the depth that we were missing last season.

Thanks. I think Les did a nice job of bringing in some talented players this year.

EWU 17 Cal Poly 10 - Final

Great! I'm excited about this team. Do you know what the final score was?

Montana State 43 Weber State 38 - Final
Idaho 56 Portland State 21 - Final (the game was tied 21-21 at the half)
Northern Arizona 24 Idaho State 10 - Final

Bob Dunning takes the Ags by 28:

AGGIES over NORTHERN COLORADO … After a tough five-game stretch to start the season, UC Davis finally found its footing last Saturday against Northern Arizona. Now they take on another Big Sky “Northern” from Greeley, but the result will be the same. Look out folks, there’s an Aggie freight train roaring through town. Takes the Ags by 28.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/bobs-picks-root-for-the-tree/

The Aggies are scrimmaging at Portland State on Saturday according to this website:

https://watchstadium.com/not-so-secret-list-of-2022-college-basketball-scrimmages-10-07-2022/

When the university makes an official statement that starts with, "It is time for new leadership atop our gymnastics program," it makes you wonder if something was amiss...??

I take it that it must have looked much smaller...?

Unfortunately, it seems likes sports can bring out the worst behavior of fans much like politics can for fervent supporters.

Chima takes an elbow to the jaw from LeBron James.

...Moneke’s two-year, $2.7 million deal will be guaranteed for $500,000 (fully guaranteed Jan. 10

Making the team in Sacramento represents a major step in Moneke’s career. It also provides a homecoming of sorts for the 26-year-old forward who went undrafted after leading UC Davis to the NCAA Tournament in 2018. Moneke spent the past four years overseas, playing professionally in France and Spain while awaiting his first big break in the NBA.

Kings coach Mike Brown got to know Okpala and Moneke well during their time together with the Nigerian national team. Known for their defensive prowess, both players spent time guarding LeBron James in a 133-86 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, helping the Kings hold James to 10 points on 4-of-13 shooting.

“As training camp has gone on, (Moneke) is trending upwards,” Brown said. “I think the initial shock of being in the NBA and the speed and athleticism and all that stuff caught him off guard a little bit, but he belongs on this level and he can help us. I think KZ, too. Both of those guys were two of my first calls, even before I really got the job.”

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/sports/nba/sacramento-kings/article267363562.html#storylink=cpy

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Final scores:

Idaho 30 Montana 23
Montana State 37 Northern Colorado 14
Weber State 42 Portland State 7
Idaho State 40 Cal Poly 31
Sac State 52 Eastern Washington 28
Aggies 56 Northern Arizona 27

How is the crowd size?

Not to get ahead of ourselves but now our final 2 games against Idaho and Sac are looking awfully tough....

Awesome! Looks like I'll have to take in a few Kings games this year for sure.

We're currently in Victoria, BC, so my ESPN+ account is geographically blocked here but I followed the last part of the game on Live Stats. Hamilton scored a TD with 11 seconds to go to win 35-32. Jake was 26 of 35 for 251 yards, 2 TD's but he also had 3 INT's.

The research study and conclusions drawn from it by Ladapo are seriously flawed:

The guidance from the Florida health department came in a terse release at 6:12 on Friday evening, ahead of a three-day weekend: Joseph Ladapo, the state’s top health official, warned young adult men to stop taking coronavirus vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, citing an “abnormally high risk” of heart-related deaths.

But Ladapo’s recommendation — extrapolated from a short state analysis that has not been peer-reviewed, carries no authors and warns that its findings are “preliminary” and “should be interpreted with caution” — was swiftly condemned by medical and public health leaders, who said the Florida surgeon general’s announcement was politics masquerading as science and could lead Americans to forgo lifesaving interventions.

More than a dozen experts interviewed by The Washington Post — including specialists in vaccines, patient safety and study design — listed concerns with Florida’s analysis, saying it relies on information gleaned from frequently inaccurate death certificates rather than medical records, skews the results by trying to exclude anyone with covid-19 or a covid-related death, and draws conclusions from a total of 20 cardiac-related deaths in men 18-to-39 that occurred within four weeks of vaccination. Experts noted the deaths might have been caused by other factors, including underlying illnesses or undetected covid.

“We’re talking about a very small number of deaths. An extra death or two would potentially change these results,” said Robert Wachter, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and co-author of a patient-safety textbook used in many medical schools. “I’m hesitant to even call it a paper; it isn’t published anywhere. The idea that [the analysis] … is being used to change policy — it does not have the scientific chops to do that.”

“If you submitted that to a peer-reviewed journal, unless you were paying them to publish it, it would get rejected,” added Daniel Salmon, who leads the Institute of Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He called Florida’s report “a dangerous thing to do.”

Whole article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/11/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccines/

Former Aggie great, Pele Giannoti, has been hired as an assistant coach for the Aggies.

UC Davis Women's Basketball head coach Jennifer Gross has named Pele Gianotti as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 season. Gianotti, one of the best to ever suit up for the Aggies, most recently played professionally overseas the last four years.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2022/10/10/womens-basketball-pele-gianotti-named-womens-basketball-assistant-coach.aspx

The fake punt was an amazing call. It worked because no one on the Montana State coaching staff or any of their players or anyone else in the stadium or watching the game on TV remotely expected it.. I jumped off the couch when I saw it. It was a brilliant play!