Ted Cruz held out as long as he could, but tonight he finally gave up the ghost. He went ahead and endorsed the man who called his wife ugly and suggested that his father was responsible for the JFK assassination. But all is forgiven in Cruz world. He has jumped on board the Trump train.

Good, say we. Does that mean that Cruz’s support will have the same effect on political races that it does on sports teams? After all, Cruz helped launch Lauren Boebert and look at how that worked out? This could be the start of something big, seriously. The rounder they are, the harder they fall, that kind of thing. And if they’re orange and round, they really go boom.

Ted Cruz’s curse in the world of sports has been profound enough to warrant articles      being written on it. But before we explore that, here’s a clip made right after Cruz announced he was supporting Trump.

We might be seeing a lot more of that. Here’s the story of Cruz’ Curse.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), like many Americans, enjoys attending live sporting events — especially when they involve teams from his home state. He also enjoys posting photos of himself at these events on social media. But the teams the Senator shows up to support have not been winning with him in the building, leading some to speculate that his mere presence is a sports curse:

  • Baylor football’s home opener, which they lost to Texas State
  • Texas A&M’s loss to Alabama on Oct. 7

Cruz has also been at some extremely painful moments in Texas sports. Remember that Western Conference finals Game 7 where the Rockets missed 27 three-pointers and lost to the Warriors? Cruz was there. The 2019 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, where Texas Tech led by three points with 22 seconds left but lost in overtime? Cruz was there, too. He was present when the Longhorns nearly beat Alabama last season and when Texas came back from a 20-point deficit against Oklahoma in 2017 but still lost.

Cruz is not exactly adored, even in his home state. Check out Colin Allred. This is the Democrat we need to beat Cruz.

“Colin is a fourth-generation Texan. He was raised in Dallas by a single mom who was a public school teacher and often worked two jobs to make ends meet. With a lot of support along the way, Colin was able to chase his version of the American dream: He earned a full ride football scholarship to Baylor University and went on to play in the NFL before going to law school to become a civil rights lawyer.”

We will be talking a lot about Colin Allred in the months to come and endeavoring to do whatever small thing we can to get Allred elected. Cruz is a terrible senator. He spends more time on his podcast and on Fox News than he does legislating. That’s always been the case.

As to whether there is a Ted Cruz curse? God, I hope so. And I hope it does for Donald Trump what it seems to be doing for athletic teams all over.

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      • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest…written by Ken Kesey, an Oregon state wrestling champ, an advocate of being on the bus, i.e., taking LSD, and who had Neil Cassady of Beat fame drive a wild bunch across America to meet Timothy Leary, on a day glow bus named Further. He worked in the state hospital as an orderly and wrote the book based on that. Neil was the hero of Jack Kerouac’s books, and died of exposure in Mexico while still a young man. Kesey went back to his farm in Oregon that kept attracting outcasts from the industrial/military capitalist society of forced conformity. Same battle we are fighting today, as Dr. King pointed out in his speech a year before his death. A brief synopsis of our cultural history. Michael Douglas bought the book rights and produced the movie which won Jack Nicholson an Oscar, along with the actress who played nurse Ratchet, Louise Fletcher, who attended UNC-CH.

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        • “Sometimes a Great Notion” was a great book, but a really poor movie. It was the first book I read where it made sense to finish it, not put it down and go back and immediately re-read Chapter One.

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          • I didn’t think the movie was all that bad but as is so often (usually) the case the book was better. In this case quite a bit better which also isn’t uncommon. I actually remembered it for some reason recently, and that it was good enough that the next time I order a batch of used books I should get a copy if available. I make a list so that when I’ve got five or six and the order is enough to qualify for free shipping I place an order with a pretty good dealer of used books. So far every second hand book I’ve gotten has been in quite good condition. And sometimes I’m able to get hardcover copies of books I once owned but only in paperback versions! I know Kindle is all the rage now and my sister keeps raving about hers but for me there’s something satisfying about holding a book in my hands, turning the pages, putting in a bookmark so I can easily pick up where I left off. I also miss having an old-fashioned newspaper in my hands.

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  3. I can’t wait to hear the tearjerker when in NH
    he gets overtaken by girlfriend. I am so there for the tantrum and tears.
    so much election fraud. so many dead voters. plus all the rest of the hits
    in one convenient frozen venue.

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  4. Denis. Agree. Just finished 1448 pages of Gone With The Wind…an easy read for a book that could serve as a backstop. Ha. The movie cut out so much it is a poor representative of the book. It’s a fascinating tale with both black and white characters that are fully fleshed out. Ms Mitchell wrote it in a basement apt in Atlanta in 1936 starting with the last chapter. An amazing feat! No wonder it won the Pulitzer. Tragically she was killed crossing the street in Atlanta years later. Unbelievable command of language and the social morays of the old plantation south. I always read or reread books movies are based on just to see how close they come to the original.

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    • I could carry on for days ranting about screenwriters and/or directors that decide even great books “need some dramatization” and start fucking with the story. Or deciding, even when the author is alive and kicking don’t bother to even ask them but go ahead and change the original work because “this is what the author REALLLY meant, or would go back and rewrite if they could.” Once in a blue moon a movie turns out to be sort of close to what the book version was. Not nearly often enough but it has been known to happen.

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      • Yes, I agree. I’m going to see “The Boys In The Boat” sometime this week at a local theater. I read the book last year and it was well written and fascinating in its re-creation of a different time and place and the incredible human story probably few if any people alive today would ever be aware of were it not for this book. Hope the movie is at least close. Non fiction by the way.

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        • Having lived in Oregon, I can’t imagine them training in the Ocean on cold wet days in Pugent Sound. I read the book also and am still amazed at the grit those guys had to have to train the way they did early in the am.

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