Miss Hooters February Kiana At The Pool, Livvy Dunne Has Big Night On The Floor & An Atmospheric River
Let's go over a couple of items from the new OutKick before I fade off into the weekend
Where shall we start?
1. I'm told that Brave is cutting out on Brave after my email address and my closing statements. No Instagram models. Try this for now: Keep scrolling past my email address, go down for two seconds, scroll back up past my email address and see if that triggers the rest of the post to load. It's my theory that there's an ad zone in there that's preventing the Instagram embeds to trigger.
2. The Morning Screencaps tag page hasn't updated since January 31. I'm told that is on the list. It's clearly a major item. It will be fixed. The site is doing the same for the "Culture" section. It WILL BE FIXED.
3. Photos: There is one universal horizontal size used across the size for uploaded photos. Please hang with me as I work to crop photos, add wings to the side of photos that are sent in vertical. I don't know when vertical photos will be addressed. I know we live in a vertical photo world and I know I receive thousands of vertical images each year. Hang with me.
4. Commenting on OutKick: I'm told it will be phased in. It's coming. How long until it's back? I'm not sure. The developers control all of that.
5. Font size: I know it's been mentioned. I don't know if we're at the finish line for font size. Yes, it has changed. It might change again in a week. That's above my pay grade.
Guys, that's it for now. Please understand there are 500 things going on with changes being made to the backend of OutKick, some that you will never realize. As always, we will work through this stuff, make the best of it and come out the other side a well-oiled machine.
It's our only option.
Morning Screencaps isn't going anywhere. The column isn't changing. Yes, this week hasn't been my best work. I feel it. You feel it. Mrs. Screencaps knows I've been working through multiple issues.
But, next week is Super Bowl week and we're going to go balls to the walls as we finish off the 2023-24 season.
Are your kids out of school for the solar eclipse?
• Paul Q. in Cincinnati asks:
Hi Joe, I hope all is well with you. Just got this note as part of the weekly newsletter from our son’s school and wondered if you heard similar news in your part of the state?
From the school:
Both campuses will be closed on Monday, April 8, due to the solar eclipse. The eclipse is due to take place during our dismissal times and our area anticipates a high traffic volume. Therefore, the Ohio Department of Education suggests this consideration. We will join many local schools in following their advice.
Sports related item is the Reds are home that day vs. the Brewers but with a 6:40 start time.
Sounds like a wacky day and another excuse to fire up the grill and have some brews!
Kinsey:
I had to ask Mrs. Screencaps about this and she confirmed the kids are out of school that day. I'll be honest, I haven't been keeping up on the solar eclipse, but the local TV stations have been running commercials about it for the last 12 months.
According to Astronomy.com, NW Ohio will be a hotbed for astrological experts like Beau in Toledo to go to work watching the eclipse. Lima, OH, which is an hour south, is No. 13 on Astronomy.com's 20 best places in the world to watch the eclipse, so I guess it's going to be a big deal around here.
I like Paul's idea: Let's party.
What else do you do during an eclipse? I'm not the expert here.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com
Sporting events you just happened to be at when history was made
• Andy F. shares :
In October 1985 I was lucky enough to get two seats row 2 behind Cardinals dugout for game 5 of the NLCS. They were my Dads tickets but he was stuck at work during the afternoon game. My friend Sam and I had the best seat in the house for Jack Buck’s famous "Go Crazy Folks" call. Ozzie Smith’s walk off home run cleared the right field wall by about a foot and pandemonium broke loose. For Cardinal fans one of the all time moments. Thanks for all you do!
• Rob J. writes:
After the 1979 NCAA Championship game, sorry have to write about that for a minute. From Indiana and a huge Larry Bird fan. I was 11 and my sister was at Indiana State then. She had a class with Bird and said he just sat quietly in the back. He got his degree in education and actually did his internship the last half of his senior year. Keep in mind the Celtics drafted him after his junior year and he came back for his senior year. How times have changed.
Any way, the local paper published how to get tickets for the 1980 final four in Indianapolis. This was before domes hosted so the capacity was around 16k plus. Only a few thousand tickets were available to the public. To get tickets, you had to mail a check in advance and hoped it was picked via a lottery system. Told my dad about it and my mom did the rest. Luckily we got tickets.
Saturday’s games were Iowa/Louisville and UCLA/Purdue. Our tickets were first row second bowl. Two things I remember. There was a walkway right below us. John Thompson, the Georgetown legend, walked by us. He was a giant. Second, smoking was allowed in the concourse. Thirty minutes between games so people took a break as well. By the start of game two the smoke was unbelievably thick. If you looked up to the top of the arena it looked like the fog over San Francisco Bay.
Monday championship day. UCLA with Kiki Vandeweigh and Louisville with Darrel Griffith(Dr. Dunkenstein). Before the game we stopped next door at City Market to eat. Went to a place where you walk up and order. They give you your food and you stand at the counter and eat. One of my favorite roast beef sandwiches ever.
As we are eating our sandwiches, Craig Roberts comes over and gets a sandwich. He’s a local TV sports anchor and I can’t believe he’s next to me. Pre ESPN, sport’s anchors were revered as much as weathermen. I did not say anything but thought it was pretty cool he was eating next to me.
Game time and how I came to hate Louisville. As stated earlier, we were first row upper level. Louisville fan base was behind us. It was a constant, "Giv’ em hell Uuuu ov ELLL. Let’s go Scooter. Let’s go Rodney. The McCray brothers. Even at 11 years old it was exhausting. Louisville won on that Monday night. I will root against them the rest of my life. Still do.
We drive an hour home, and I went to school the next day.
• Matt T. writes:
Thinking about your solicitation for stories of in-person attendance at famous sporting events and I have one by proxy:
I wasn't quite born yet but my father attended the Lawrence Taylor/Joe Theisman leg break game on MNF at RFK Stadium. He said you could literally hear the leg snap from his seats...perhaps an exaggeration but the old man isn't one for tall tales!
Kinsey:
I was young when that happened, but I can still remember my father the next day saying over and over how the sound was horrifying. Then, during Super Bowl XXIII, I was old enough to know what I saw when Tim Krumrie's leg snapped. My father still talks about both incidents to this day.
The Ts are enjoying their Saturday at the beach and it looks like Mike might be hungry
• Mike T. reports:
Fish bbq on the beach in Malaga. The fish are mainly sardines.
How far are you willing to travel for a specific meal or food item?
• Sean writes:
Living in Colorado, we get down to New Mexico once a year or so. We always try to make a stop at Roswell Donuts. 312 W 2nd St, Roswell, NM 88201. It's a hole in wall place but are easily the best donuts I've ever had. Roswell is a goofy alien town, Carlsbad Caverns are nearby. It's worth a stop, trust me. Thanks for all you do!
• Ron is willing to travel:
Pizza in Oregon sucks! If I want an Arugula Salad with warm flatbread I will order that but don't put those two food items together and tell me it is the "Best Pizza in America '. SIGH they are so good wanna be pretentious here. To that end I have made the the 1250 mile round-trip (12ish hours each way) visit to Zachary's Pizza in Oakland, CA multiple weekends since our move.
Not only to enjoy a fresh pie there, but also to bring home half baked pizzas that we freeze overnight for our friends. The most I have muled home is 20 small stuffed pizzas. We actually double dip and stop in Redding, CA on way home and buy liquor at the Costco and Bevmo for effectively 70 cents on the dollar as well.
Worth the weekend trip, worth the overnight hotel and CA gas prices, and a valid reason on Mondays to be work from home in a lesser paying corporate gig.
Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston spotted this one
No more Tara Reid!
• George in Savannah writes :
I'm pleading with you! No more of that scarecrow Tara Reid! What were you thinking?
Kinsey:
George, I have a duty to keep readers up-to-date on the stars they grew up with. Friday, I was talking to Mrs. Screencaps while writing the column about past stars of the 1990s and 2000s that time has forgotten. That's when I remembered that it's always good to check in with Tara Reid to see what's up.
We have to take the good with the bad, George. Not all of the past stars are going to look like Salma Hayek and Elizabeth Hurley, but it's still nice to catch up with those whom we grew up with.
It's also a good reminder to be cautious with the plastic surgery. Shit can hit the fan, George.
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And that's it this morning. I need to put up plastic fencing to stop the dog from running her ass off through our garden beds. I need to paint. I need to do basement work room organizing.
It's going to be a big weekend for my own behind-the-scenes work. Now, I'm off the grid until Monday morning.
Have a great weekend.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com