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On expansion into Europe, Silver confirmed the NBA is negotiating to become the majority owner of EuroLeague, saying NBA Europe would be strengthened by joining forces with EuroLeague.

Quote, "It doesn't have to happen, but I think we'd all be better off as a unified front in Europe." He also said there are several active bidding groups for a Las Vegas expansion team, with a renovated T-Mobile arena among the viable venue options there.

And Silver also addressed the ongoing standoff in Portland, where owner Tom Dundon is still negotiating with city and state officials over arena renovations.

Silver said, quote, "It is my hope and belief that the Blazers can be successful in Portland.

It's important at the same time that Tom Dundon reaches a deal with officials and makes operating in Portland viable for the long term." Silver added he'd view a relocation of the Blazers as a, quote, "failure." Let's move to college football and the extra security that's heading to Oxford as Lane Kiffin makes his first trip back this weekend since leaving Ole Miss for LSU, as number eight Ole Miss hosts number seven LSU Saturday, and Oxford police are ramping up their presence for the game.

The Oxford police chief says the National Guard won't be deployed but did confirm extra security preparations are underway given the emotions around Kiffin's arrival, which will include additional police units from Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry also has publicly called for, in his words, southern hospitality towards Kiffin and the Tigers.

This is the first top-10 showdown between the rivals since 1962, and Kiffin himself has acknowledged what he calls real safety concerns tied to his return.

How can you ever describe that? We all have kids.

Mobile, Alabama.

Where Henry Aaron is raised at.

What ballplayers have come out of that Mobile area? Billy Williams.

Willie McCovey.

Many of the greats in baseball.

Come on, man.

I'm from Mobile, Alabama.

I know about this Mardi Gras control.

Oh, yeah, you do.

You know, you already know that's going to happen.

There's going to be something thrown towards the Ole Miss bench.

You know, I don't think the city of Oxford, you know, asked the city of Mobile and New Orleans to bring in Mardi Gras control, which is what I'm calling it, Mardi Gras control for nothing.

But at the end of the day, I really just hope it's a – celebratory type atmosphere, the college football, and you've got trash talking going on, you know, between both sides and maybe a fight or two.

Uh, j- come on, man.

I'm from Mobile, Alabama.

I know.

I know about this Mardi Gras control business.

You know, I, you already know that's gonna happen.

There's gonna be something thrown towards the Ole Miss bench.

Um, you know, I don- I don't think the city of Oxford, you know, asked the city of Mobile and New Orleans, uh, to bring in Mardi Gras control, which is what I'm calling it, Mardi Gras control, for nothing.

Um, but at the end of the day, I, I really just hope it's a, a celebratory type atmosphere that college football and you've got trash talking going on, you know, between both sides and maybe a fight or two.

Remember, you master the trenches, you win the war.

My guest today is originally from Mobile, Alabama, and he began his football journey at the University of Northern Alabama in 2009.

He joined the storied line football program under coach Terry Bowden.

There, he would make appearances in three Division II national playoffs and win two Gulf South Conference championships.

As a member of this perennial national powerhouse, he would anchor the line at the center position.

He moved directly into coaching offensive line, spending time in both Talladega and Escambia before moving back home to Mobile to Murphy High School.

Looking for a larger challenge, he moved to MGM High and helped end their 22-game losing streak.

Now MGM has turned a corner.

But generally speaking, it's a waste of space.

What we're going to do is we're going to do what JAG Insurance did and actually open it up to the business community eventually and say, hey, anybody who owns a business in Mobile that wants to shoot a podcast here, you can do it.

I'm not going to do your editing, obviously.

But it's a studio, multiple scenes you can come shoot at.

Yeah, this is a Tuesday at 4 o'clock for him.

I said, dude, I don't know if this is the worst time and ever the best.

He goes, oh, dude, he's like, I drive a trash truck in Mobile, Alabama.

This isn't even the weirdest.

Utico, what's our next topic?

Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford this weekend will come with added security, including extra police units from Mobile, Alabama.

Is this necessary in your opinion?

Oh, expert delivery.

If he puts himself in these positions where he left Ole Miss and screwed over the program and did whatever, then it's his.

It's his thing to go out there and try to make sure that he's okay.

I don't want him getting extra money to put the Mobile Police out there.

They're paying extra tax dollars because he needs some extra bodies around him because he got himself into hot water.

Howard scouted the report and insulted the informants, charging them with telling a story that was the offspring of their imaginations or their fears, end quote.

If this be true, there has been but one similar case in our annals, and that was the massacre of the garrison of Fort Sims by the savages in 1813, near Mobile, Alabama, soon after a negro had been severely flogged by the commanding officer for reporting that he had seen Indians lurking around the post.

Adjutant Wilkinson, of the same regiment, confirms General Noble's statement and says, Why a stronger force was not sent out as skirmishers and the left of our line changed to front the foe is more than I am able to understand.

General Schimmelpfennig, commanding a brigade of Schertz's division, says he sent out a reconnaissance and reported the hostile movements fully two hours before the enemy charged.

The younger sons who did not inherit land, they were aristocrats, mostly in Ireland, Anglo-Irish, rewarded by Cromwell by giving them huge estates in Ireland for helping Cromwell in England.

they uh because they didn't inherit land it's uh the law of primogeniture so the oldest son always in england and ireland inherits the land and and everything the family money so the younger sons went she came to the united states or to the colonies and they settled in the southern states where they could have big plantations but they needed slaves to run those plantations And so that's where Newport and Mobile, Alabama became full of basically, they were probably Jesuits who were at Newport because they are slavers.

And so slavery was introduced to the United States, but because we have a constitution and people were concerned about that issue, human rights and so forth, slavery became an issue early on in the US.

Buchanan wanted to abolish slavery, but what he did was he pretended to the southern states that he supported it to get them to vote for him.