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Bye week topic: Smoking a......

Turkey

I normally fry a turkey for Thanksgiving. My kid has asked that I smoke a turkey this Thanksgiving. I've smoked ribs, butts, briskets, prime rib, and chicken. I've never smoked a turkey. How hard is it? I'd be concerned with how long it'd take to get such a big bird cooked all the way through?

It'll likely be about a 16lb bird.

Coach me up por favor.
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Man pleads guilty to 2022 murders of three Virginia players

Man pleads guilty to 2022 murders of three Virginia players

By: Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A former University of Virginia student pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the Charlottesville campus in 2022.

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and five counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. A four-day sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin Feb. 4 in Albemarle County Circuit Court.

Authorities said Jones opened fire on a charter bus as he and other students arrived back on campus after seeing a play and having dinner together in Washington, D.C.

Authorities had not released a motive. Jones was a former member of the Virginia football team at the time of the shooting. A witness told police that he had targeted specific victims.

Football players Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were killed, while a fourth member of the team, Mike Hollins, and another student, Marlee Morgan, were wounded.

The shooting erupted near a parking garage and set off panic and a 12-hour lockdown of the campus until the suspect was captured.

Within days of the shooting, university leaders had asked for an outside review to investigate Virginia's safety policies and procedures, its response to the violence and its prior efforts to assess the potential threat of the student who was eventually charged. School officials acknowledged he previously had been on the radar of the university's threat-assessment team.

In June, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families had announced that the university had agreed to pay $9 million in a settlement.

Kimberly Wald, an attorney who represents some of the families, said at the time that the school would pay $2 million each to the families of the three students who died, the maximum allowable under Virginia law. The school would also pay $3 million total to the two students who were wounded.

Following the settlement, some of the families had also called for the immediate release of an independent investigation into the shooting, which was completed last year.

Wald had said the university should have removed Jones from campus before the attack because he displayed multiple red flags through erratic and unstable behavior.

University officials said they had postponed the report's release last year over concerns that it could affect a trial that had been scheduled for January.
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Pennsylvania Election Issues

The beat goes on.

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BREAKING: An election integrity group has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania election officials to force them to clean the voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election after discovering more votes were counted than voters who voted in the 2022 midterm election, similar to 2020

"The official canvas for the 2022 Pennsylvania Election was 5,410,022 ballots cast yet the data shows there exist 5,400,869 total votes cast – a discrepancy of 9,153 votes."

"Petitioners believe and therefore aver that it is reasonable to believe that systemic issues which occurred in the 2022 combined Federal and state election in Pennsylvania will continue uncorrected in 2024, 2026, 2028, etc. absent intervention by this Court."

The 56 page lawsuit also brings forth many bombshell findings especially from the experts at @Auditthevotepa
- 54,463 people voted in a county in which they were no longer living;
-8,177 people voted despite not actually living in Pennsylvania;
- 6,356 people were credited as submitting a mail-in ballot, but did not have any votes credited in Pennsylvania’s SURE system;
- 644 people voted by mail or absentee ballot, but are not on the mail ballot list;
- 138 people voted by mail, but they had missed the deadline to vote by mail-in ballot;
- 69,832 mail ballots were sent to an address unaffiliated with the voter’s registration;
- 5,914 people requested a mail ballot, who do not exist on the PA voter rolls between 10/3/2022 and 1/16/2023;
- 18,589 people requested multiple ballots be sent to multiple addresses, with some people requesting additional ballots to be sent to up to four (4) separate addresses;
- 5,492 registrations show as having two votes on record in two separate counties.

The lawsuit was filed by United Sovereign Americans
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****Clemson fans, you are not alone

Ohio State is also going through some major OL injury woes.

Ohio State has suffered a second major injury to its offensive line.

Seth McLaughlin tore his Achilles on Tuesday, according to multiple reports, and is expected to miss the remainder of the 2024 season. Per the Columbus Dispatch, McLaughlin suffered the injury during Tuesday’s practice.

Ohio State has not confirmed the reports, though Ryan Day is scheduled to meet with reporters after Wednesday’s practice.

The injury forces Ohio State to replace its starting center going into a defining stretch of its season that begins Saturday with a top-five matchup against Indiana.

McLaughlin’s injury is a massive loss for the Buckeyes as his stabilizing presence in the middle of the offensive line has been seen as one of the biggest factors in Ohio State’s improvement in the trenches this season. The Alabama transfer earned midseason All-American honors from several media outlets and started all of the Buckeyes’ first 10 games this season at center.

He’s the second starter on Ohio State’s offensive line to be sidelined by a major injury this season. Ohio State left tackle Josh Simmons went down with a season-ending knee injury in the Buckeyes’ sixth game of the year vs. Oregon.


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Georgia and Ohio this morning passed executive orders

That allow schools to begin paying immediately as if the House settlement was already finalized and in place. This allows schools in those states to immediately begin paying athletes directly and does not require collective use. Collectives may be used as additives but the schools now have $22 million to use today if they want to directly pay athletes, obviously a huge advantage to schools in those states.

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Prayers Coach Venables Family



Prayers are pouring in for the family of Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables on Tuesday morning.

Venables, a longtime Clemson Tigers assistant coach who took the Oklahoma Sooners job when Lincoln Riley left for USC, is having a difficult season. The Sooners are 5-5 on the year in their first season in the SEC. Oklahoma needs to win one of its final two games - vs. Alabama, at LSU - to reach bowl eligibility. It's going to be difficult to do that, to say the least.

Unfortunately, Venables is also going through a difficult time off of the field. His longtime wife, Julie, is battling cancer.

Venables announced on Monday night that his wife's cancer had returned. She underwent surgery to remove a tumor last week.

“A big part of the battle was her choice to fight and she’s going to keep swinging," Venables said.

Prayers are pouring in for his family.

"I can’t imagine how hard it has been on their family. What a toll that must take. Prayers for her and the rest of the family for sure," one fan wrote.

"Praying for the Venables family all the way from longhorn nation," one fan added.

"Some things are bigger than football and I hope people can realize that. Prayers for the Venables family !" one fan added.

"Extremely sad news. From watching my wife’s battle, the absolute greatest fear is the cancer returning. Continued prayers for Julie and the family as they keep fighting," one fan added.

"I’ve been through this with my wife for the last two years Three surgeries and the loss of a breast we are in the all clear. Prayers to the Venables," one fan added.

Our thoughts are with Brent and his family during this difficult time. Our hope is that Julie Venables will be able to fight this and emerge victorious on the other side.

Oklahoma will return to the field on Saturday, taking on Alabama.

Kickoff is currently scheduled for 7:30 p.m. E.T. The game will be airing on ABC.


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