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Pickleball starter kit?

My oldest has started playing pickle ball with her friends, but she has to rent a paddle.

Was going to get her a paddle (really 2 so I could go play with her), but have no idea what a good starter.

Don't want to buy the most expensive stuff, but also not looking to buy the cheap stuff. Something of good quality for a decent price, in case this is just a fad and she doesn't stick to playing it much

LamSp: So, ole 73’s youngest son is a Coast Guard pilot stationed in Mobile. Just learned today he was the pilot that found the kayaker lost

Earlier this week. Pretty cool. He’d helped find some lost commercial fishermen 4 + years ago when stationed at Cape Cod

BTW, this is NOT an April Fools prank

EDIT addition: my son flies the CASA-212. He and the crew flew grids and located the kayak. 6 folks on the flight

WDE

OT: Anyone ever ride the BBC?

The Beautiful Backroads Century bike ride in Cartersville, GA. I want to finally get to the 100 mile mark and I’m reading that this one doesn’t require you to climb many hills, but wanted to verify with the bunk, in case anyone has rode it.

Proceeds to this ride go to Hickory Log, a home for mentally disabled male adults.

40 point massacre of #11 was a nice way to get back on track...

Tonight illustrated how crazy college basketball can be from game to game. We looked as hapless as we could be a few days ago being blown out in Gainesville. Tonight we were right back to being the same world beaters who wrecked UAT last week. USCe is a very tough team with a win @UT and blew out UK at their place. Prior to tonight, the most points they had given up on the season was 77 and had given up less than 70 in all but 1 other game. Incredibly impressive for us to put up 101 on them, much less to win it by 40. Incredible job by our guys not to let the shellacking in Gainesville impact their confidence.

Jaylin struggled as much as anyone this past weekend but bounced back with one of his best games of the year. 23 points on 5/7 shooting from deep. I texted @MattAU05 after he hit his first 3 of the game and said we needed to get him twice as many attempts. He was averaging 2.5 attempts/game on the year so 7 tonight was a huge increase. Would love to see us get him that many looks in every tough game going forward.

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Not to be outdone, Johni had a career game from deep tonight going 4/5. His confidence on his 3 pt shot has increased so much over the course of the season. From hesitant to take open looks to knocking down step-backs tonight. Amazing to see him adding this element to his game as the season progresses.

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Really proud of Bruce and the rest of the coaches for getting the guys past the blowout and onto this game. A lesser coaching staff and team could have easily had its confidence damaged by a terrible showing like that. Our guys have the short memory necessary to move on to the next test and play their best game of the year. A 40 point win over the #11 ranked team in the country is as much of a statement win as we could hope to make. To put triple digits on a solid defense makes it even more impressive. UK's defense has been pretty terrible this year so play like this again this weekend and we should be able to put up another big point total. The regular season title is still very much within reach with us favored in all but one of our remaining games. Tonight was a great start to the stretch run.

To all the bunker bros who complain about AU fans complaining about officials blatant inconsistency when they call AU basketball games,

How did you feel when the double dribble heard around the world happened, to go along with the questionable foul that followed? Just curious as a friend sent me the video this am and I wanted others to share my pain of watching that complete garbage officiating again. I would post the link but I would likely get bannt

We’ve just missed on the elite prospects in MBB

The last two season we’ve just missed on the young guys needed to make an impact.

Bruce hit on Sharife, Isaac and Jabari but missed on Chance, Yohan and Aden.

Not saying Aden can’t improve but the assumption with these 5 star kids is that they make an instant impact and potentially move on. Hasn’t happened the last few years but I think that is part of what is holding the team back from long NCAA tournament runs. Especially with Chance and Aden being crucial guards we needed immediate impact with.
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