{"id":15621,"date":"2014-10-05T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=15621"},"modified":"2014-10-05T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:53:24","slug":"sun-update-football-thoughts-katy-perry-grizzlies-open-practice-hard-rock-planning-grand-re-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/05\/sun-update-football-thoughts-katy-perry-grizzlies-open-practice-hard-rock-planning-grand-re-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun update: Football thoughts, Katy Perry, Grizzlies open practice, Hard Rock planning grand re-opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an exciting day of college football yesterday. As you all know, Ole Miss has not exactly been my favorite school over the years. However, there is absolutely no way I can detract from\u00a0what Ole Miss&#8217;s football team accomplished yesterday. They earned and deserved their win over #1 Alabama. Great game. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Also, congratulations to the Memphis Tigers football team on their 41-14 win over Cincinnati. Wasn&#8217;t Cincy favored to win that game? I bet the Tigers will get votes for the Top 25 this week. They won&#8217;t get enough votes to crack the Top 25, but they will get some votes. Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/235\/memphis-tigers\">the Tigers&#8217; schedule<\/a> and seeing who the remaining teams to play are, is it possible they could run the table from here on out, finish with a top 20 ranking, win the AAC, and be invited to a damn sweet bowl? None of the remaining opponents are football powerhouses. The Tigers are lucky to not have to cross paths with nationally-ranked ECU in the American this year.<\/p>\n<p>Right as I was typing about the Tigers going to a bowl, 92.9 PM&#8217;s John Martin (@JohnMartin929) tweeted a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/theamerican.org\/news\/2013\/12\/5\/FB_1205134743.aspx\">AAC bowl affiliations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#15 LSU got clobbered by #5 Auburn 41-7. One of my favorite sports writers is not going to be too happy to see me post\u00a0this, but I think LSU is Arkansas&#8217; best shot at getting a win over an SEC West team this year.<\/p>\n<p>The big event Downtown today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katyperry.com\/\">Katy Perry<\/a> in concert at the FedExForum at 7 tonight. The singer was in Oxford for yesterday&#8217;s game and appeared on College GameDay.<\/p>\n<p>If you work Downtown, you can spend your lunch break with the Grizzlies tomorrow. They will host an open practice at 12:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date: The weekend of October 24-26 will be a huge Grand Reopening weekend at Hard Rock Cafe. I will have more details in the days and weeks to come, as management is still finalizing the lineup. I can tell you to expect live music from some well-known names.<\/p>\n<p>Pet peeve of mine: People who say &#8220;the Twitters,&#8221; &#8220;the Internets,&#8221; or worst of all, &#8220;the Intarwebs.&#8221; I need to write a widget that automatically unfollows accounts that use any of those.<\/p>\n<p>All right, time for Sunday Fun Day. I&#8217;ll start out at Bloom&#8217;s bar at Bardog at 11 and end up at poker at the Blind Bear at 6:30. Stops in between TBD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an exciting day of college football yesterday. As you all know, Ole Miss has not exactly been my favorite school over the years. However, there is absolutely no way I can detract from\u00a0what Ole Miss&#8217;s football team accomplished yesterday. They earned and deserved their win over #1 Alabama. Great game. Congratulations. Also, congratulations to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/05\/sun-update-football-thoughts-katy-perry-grizzlies-open-practice-hard-rock-planning-grand-re-opening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sun update: Football thoughts, Katy Perry, Grizzlies open practice, Hard Rock planning grand re-opening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15622,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621\/revisions\/15622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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