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Thursdays With Raider: Fish Fries and Tartar Sauce

RAIDER THOUGHTS “Give a man a fish, and he’ll ask for fries and tartar sauce”. -postmodern proverb For nearly the entire basketball season, I have had this rather pessimistic mindset…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: Shooting The Messenger

RAIDER THOUGHTS From my estimation, no single thing is more indicative of just how moribund the basketball program is than the fact that a rogue swimming coach is getting more attention. Think about this…Read More

Thursdays With Raider- Bang The Drum Slowly (Sunday Edition)

(This is over a week late and all my fault.  Its been a busy week and this piece takes a little bit of time to edit because of its nature so I let it go.  Its a shame because its one of our better ones.…Read More

Thursdays With Raider- Growing Up Wyoming

Raider Thoughts Last week after I noticed you had made an accidental insistence that my fiancée and I have our wedding in a few months in Tucson, something occurred to me.  You may be the only person…Read More

Thursdays With Raider- To Live And Die In L.A.

Editor’s Note: Yeah I know it’s Saturday, a week with Dennis Erickson, a Utah Basketball Win and Valentine’s Day, not to mention young Raider’s engagement put me behind. Raider…Read More

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Thursdays With Raider- Tuck Everlasting

Raider Thoughts Seeing as how it’s a good time to be a Bay Area sports fan and what not, you would…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: What If?

Editors Note: I scheduled this to post on Friday but some how screwed it up and made it for Friday a…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: Part Of The Solution

Raider Thoughts “Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:  The effect doth operate…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: Good Job Good Effort

Raider Thoughts Fighting the worst strain of flu known to man for the better part of a week left…Read More

Thursdays With Raider Special Edition: Demise of the Silver and Black Part IV

Editors Note: This is the conclusion of Raider Ute’s four part series on how his beloved team became…Read More

Thursdays With Raider Special Edition: The Demise of the Silver and Black Part II

Editors Note: This is Part II of our very own Raider Ute’s description of how his beloved Raiders…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: SPECIAL EDITION, The Demise of the Silver and Black… Part I

Editors Note: Since I’ve been lax in my blogging duties during the holidays in order to spend time…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: The Mayans Were Right

Raider Thoughts For at least the past three or four days now, I’ve had the end of days on my mind.  I…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: Being Larry Krystkowiak

Raider Thoughts Over the weekend while I was up in Boise introducing my girlfriend to some of the…Read More

Thursday’s With Raider: Special Edition, A Tribute to Rick Majerus

Editors Note: Sorry I should have gotten this posted last week.  But I couldn’t seem to get it…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: The Return of the Mangino

Raider Thoughts Cal finally did what they probably should have done about three years ago and fired Jeff…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: LET FESTIVUS BEGIN

Raider Thoughts So the holiday season is now upon us, and I thought now would be as good of a time as…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: Johnny Football

Raider Thoughts Saturday afternoon, I’m minding my own business while the girlfriend and her mother…Read More

Thursdays With Raider: In Defense of the Blackout

Raider Thoughts I‘ve been waiting since the start of the football season to write this particular…Read More

Thursday’s With Raider: Did We Really Have A Chance

As a child of the 90s, I can’t quite purge the “Saved by the Bell” portion of my cultural…Read More