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Music Welcome to the latest edition of until Saturday, strep throat edition.

I am Ari Wasserman, joined by Dave Ubbin and Sam Khan, two of my favorite colleagues at the athletic.

And we are doing what we do every week on Thursday, which is going through... joined by Dave Ubin and Sam Cahn, two of my favorite colleagues at the Athletic.

And we are doing what we do every week on Thursday, which is going through the big games of the weekend,

trying to give some picks, trying to contextualize the hardest thing to do in the world,

which is look at a game, see it for face value, and then actually get that opinion right about what's going to happen. So Dave, big week for you, huh? Good to see you again. How are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Well, another week, another Texas test. Is there, is there anything that you'd like to talk about, like in terms of how big your week was? What are we referring to?

I'm lost. You wanted a big award. Winner, chicken dinner, baby. Sorry, excuse me. I was very confused. I thought we were jumping off talking Texas. Yeah. We will. We'll get there. Yeah. I wanted to give you your flowers for winning a really outstanding award before you look like an idiot talking about Texas again. Well, I appreciate it, yes.

The annual FWA writing contest. outstanding award before you look like an idiot talking about Texas again. Well, I appreciate it. Yes.

The annual FWA writing contest. I spent like three months last year writing about the retelling of the Bobby Petrino saga at Arkansas, mostly the end, but a little bit of stuff in the middle.

But that was quite a project uh shout

out to matt brown for pitching that to me in july and initially i'll just give some behind the scenes

here initially the idea of the story is there is a very prevalent conspiracy theory surrounding

that incident and we wanted to figure, is there any truth to that?

There is not.

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