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It's a little known fact that UT participated in the first game of the now regular series of ESPN's Thursday Night Games. Despite being uranked coming into this one, Louisville was getting a lot of hype after finishing 1990 ranked #14 with a 34-7 upset of Alabama in the Fiesta Bowl and this was a highly anticipated game.

If you had trouble viewing the Blorch! Shop last week, I think I got everything sorted out. It was presenting itself as a blank website if you viewed it in newer versions of Internet Explorer (a browser I personally avoid like the plague). I made some adjustments to the template code and it's showing up fine now in my seldom-used IE8. If it's STILL giving you errors, please let me know! So now's your chance to finally pre-order that Numbersota Tee! Link right here (the Blorch! Shop link is also always on the left side of your screen, over there). Remember, the pre-sale goes through the holiday weekend and ends November 30th. The standard white mens and midnight blue ladies Numbersota Tees will stick around through the new year, but I'm only printing the aqua/red super special edition tee for those who pre-order, and only a few extra. Again, pre-ordering will guarantee you a shirt! Shirts are still on schedule to start shipping the second week of December. More updates as I get 'em! Thanks again to everyone who has pre-ordered already!

OK, I plead ignorance in a large piece of Tampa Bay Lightning franchise history that seems swept under the rug and forgotten about more often than anything... Jonathan Willis at Copper and Blue gives you the story of Phil Esposito and the Duke of Manchester -- one time prospective investor in the Tampa Bay professional hockey franchise now known as the Lightning.