Leading Off

With the Christmas holiday right around the corner, things will probably slow down a bit for me. I’m doing some things personally that takes up a ton of time (we’ll get to that later, but it involves running really long distances for fun). Anyway, I’ll try to have an open thread on Saturday morning for sure and for most of the bowl games moving forward.

Enjoy your holiday and love-up those close to you.

Lady Raider Basketball

Lady Raiders add mid-year transfer Shug Dickson to the roster

📰➡️ https://t.co/EI3iAAvaFe#WreckEm pic.twitter.com/Hup5jphunt

— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) December 20, 2018

Lady Raider Fans, here’s your personal invitation to our Ugly Sweater Christmas Party on Saturday! 🎅☃🎄 pic.twitter.com/aPplANN3xN

— Lady Raider WBB (@LadyRaiderWBB) December 21, 2018

Texas Tech Football

Just some miscellaneous links this morning and I do want to point out the terrific work of the person in charge of making Texas Tech football look so cool, a guy named Logan Hawk (that’s his Twitter), who is pretty amazing at his job and we’re lucky to have him do what he does for Texas Tech football. Getting all of those things done for signing day is not an easy job.

Miscellaneous . . . DallasNews has a look back at the 2017 recruiting class . . . A-J Media’s Don Williams has the signees at a glance . . . CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd writes about how expanding the College Football Playoff is not as easy as you may think (and I think he’s correct despite what conference commissioners want) . . . the Heartland College Sports’ staff debate who had the best Big 12 coaching hire of the offseason (one for Klieman, one for Wells, and two for Miles) . . .