The University of Miami plays Ole Miss in the Fiesta Bowl tonight. And as we all know in Miami, Fiesta means chips party!
UM is in the college football playoffs. Only 11 one more win and they are in the National Championship game to be played on April 1 January 19.
The Canes are -3.5 and the o/u is a high 52.5. First, take the under. It has hit in all the Canes playoff games. They have a great Defense.
Ole Miss is the Cinderella underdog of college football, with their coach having been blown up left them high and dry for LSU. Like the platoon in Stripes (see below) they are training themselves and winning. But alas, even for Cinderella midnight came, and for Ole Miss it will be tonight. Your Miami Hurricanes will win and advance to the national championship game! Almost time for everyone in Miami to jump on the bandwagon and pretend they are loyal Canes fans.
ANOTHER ONE BITE THE DUST
Another great American newspaper is closing forever. Word has reached us that Pittsburgh's oldest and largest Newspaper- the Pittsburgh Post Gazette -is closing on May 3, 2026, ten years to the day the Tampa Tribune folded.
Capitalists we, we cannot help but feel alarmed for the future. Newspapers were and are not only the conscious of the community, allowing for a decent discussion in the OP Ed pages and letters to the editor, they were and are the cop on the beat for local, state, and the national government. If a city-council person had their brother-in-law on the city payroll with a no-show job, a local beat reporter would dig it up and publicize the waste and fraud. They reported on the victories of the Rumpoles of our profession, labouring away in criminal court and speaking truth to power. And they provided the flavour of the community with local sports, and lifestyle news coverage.
Now all we have is IG streams where you have to hope to get a glimpse of some news between the posts on new recipes for chicken salad made in an air fryer, and fetching 20 somethings bemoaning their loneliness behind pictures of Starbucks lattes while sitting seemingly alone in a bikini in a cafe in January, or hiking a mountain in Karachi. And if you click on their profile you can join their OFs*!
(Sarcasm alert!) What a great world we live in!
* Only For idiots accounts. What ever happened to the good old days of watching porn in a dingy movie theater on 79th street in Miami or Times Square in NYC? *sigh*
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