Wednesday, November 09, 2022

The Heisman Race

Why isn't Stetson Bennett mentioned as a Heisman Trophy contender? He's already outplayed three contenders head to head (Hooker, Nix. & Young). See how Bennett compares.

pass total TD INT rec

2606 2736 17 3 9-0 Stetson Bennett UGA

2533 2888 25 2 8-1 H Hooker Tenn

2235 2381 22 4 7-2 B Young Bama

2453 2528 29 4 9-0 CJ Stroud Ohio State

2407 2689 28 2 9-0 Max Duggan TCU

2964 3477 35 3 8-1 Drake Maye UNC

2495 2952 35 3 8-1 Bo Nix Oregon

2742 3029 32 1 8-1 Caleb Williams USC

John Grisham on Writing 48 Books, his new 'The Boys From Biloxi,' 'The Firm,' and More.

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Baseball has embraced its specialists, particularly relief pitchers. Football – not so much.

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Before Barry Bonds did it in 2002, WILLIE MAYS  [SABR Bio] was the last Giant to lead the National League in batting Mays led the NL and MLB in batting average, hitting .345 in the season of his first MVP, in 1954. In May 1951, Mays's team, the AAA Minneapolis Millers, had an off day before playing an exhibition game in Sioux City, Iowa. At the movies, between films of a double feature, the house lights went on & the theater manager announced, "If Willie Mays is here, would he please immediately report to his manager at the hotel." In his youth, Mays was trained in the cleaning and pressing skills needed in a laundry. His family needed income from all sources so his extended family worked together and helped each other make it during the immediate aftermath the Great Depression.

French philosopher Joseph de Maistre: "In a democracy, people get the leaders they deserve."

History professor Daniel K. Williams notes, "Political parties work well as highly imperfect tools for accomplishing particular aims, but they become horrific idols when we treat them as sources of our moral identity."

Denison: the fact we are fallen people explains the fallenness of our society and of our politics. We can only elect sinners like ourselves. While we are critically aware of the fallacies held by others, we are blind about our own. We must rely on the expertise of others for the essentials of life, so we do the same with our opinions, depending on the "knowledge" of those with whom we already agree. We are much more able to see the shortcomings of the other group's candidates than our own.

ME: This does not mean we as individuals are inadequate, except that we all need God in our lives to complete us.

https://www.denisonforum.org/daily-article/republicans-predicted-to-take-the-house-senate-too-close-to-call-insights-from-the-father-of-democracy/ 

Charles Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan from 1564-1584: "Be sure you preach first by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice you say one thing but live another, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head."

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