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Ask me about my girls and Ole Miss sports | Where I work: @OMSpiritOn3 / @On3Sports | Daily Ole Miss podcast:

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Ben Garrett
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Ivey League Extra Credit: All-time @OleMissFB great @1kalwaysopen_ pours into ‘forever home’ with foundation ⤵️ “This is home. This will forever be home, and I’m proud to say this is my home.” 🔗 🔴🔵 #OleMiss @OMSpiritOn3 @On3sports @RiverlandRoofs
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Dee Gordon, on his home run: "If y'all don't believe in God, y'all better start. I've never hit a ball that far in my life, even in BP."
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A.J. Brown, Starkville native, after his second touchdown catch. "My city! My city!"
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Tennessee fans cheered Matt Corral getting hurt. What garbage.
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#OleMiss has landed four-star guard Matthew Murrell, the highest-ranked commitment in school history at No. 43 in the country.
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#OleMiss justifiably called out @SECOfficiating after Alabama last week. They’re totally paying the price now, and you cannot convince me otherwise
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Lane Kiffin said #OleMiss is preparing for an Alabama defense coordinated by Travaris Robinson and not Kevin Steele: “We’ve been against Kevin a number of times. Worked with him at Alabama and against him at Auburn and LSU. There seems like there’s been a change there. I don’t…
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4 years
Ole Miss’ 2037 starting quarterback confirmed
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Ole Miss vs. Alabama and the refs A tale as old as time
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4 years
also, whoever put the hype video together deserves a raise
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OFFICIAL | @Lane_Kiffin named head football coach at Ole Miss 📰 🎟
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HC Lane Kiffin OC/QBs Jeff Lebby OL Randy Clements RBs Kevin Smith WRs Derrick Nix TEs Joe Jon Finley Co-DC/probably LBs D.J. Durkin Co-DC/probably safeties Chris Partridge Asst. HC/DL Freddie Roach CBs Terrell Buckley ST/defensive assistant Blake Gideon That’s STRONG
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Greatest revenge tour ever
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Loss is a loss is a loss, but Ole Miss football under Lane Kiffin is so much fun, man
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4 years
it takes a special kind of incompetence to go 5-7 with an offense featuring aj brown, dk metcalf and dawson knox
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4 years
Titans rookie A.J. Brown has a 100-yard performance for the third time in the past 4 games.
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Bruce Pearl: “Kermit Davis is one of the best coaches in our country. I’m not surprised Kermit has gotten it turned around this quickly. Great environment, great crowd. Good for the league that Kermit Davis has this program playing like they are.”
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Officially the greatest revenge tour ever
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Kermit Davis, on #OleMiss players kneeling: "I was not (aware). This was all about the hate groups that came to our community. It's created a lot of tension. I think our players made an emotional decision. We respect our players decision to do that."
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4 years
Lane Kiffin's shirt for his weekly press conference is the stuff of legends
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4 years
Lane Kiffin is #OleMiss ’ next head football coach, The Ole Miss Spirit has learned. Kiffin, who will coach FAU in the CUSA championship game on Saturday, replaces Matt Luke.
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Breein Tyree, on #OleMiss players kneeling: "We're tired of these hate groups coming to our school and portraying our campus like it's our actual university having hate groups in our school. The majority of it is we saw one of our teammates doing it, didn't want him to be alone."
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6 years
Get off the tracks when the Thomas Dillard train is coming through.
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4 years
Phone buzzed. It was a text from @Rebels247 . Said he's leaving the hospital and heading home on Friday, and dammit someone's cutting onions over here at my house
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6 years
A.J. Brown, on the second-and-goal run. Same, man.
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3 years
Matt Corral is the Heisman frontrunner through three weeks and I'm not sure it's close
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4 years
Oh no Jordan Ta’amu is gonna do it to him again
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Tom Pelissero
4 years
Former Michigan QB Shea Patterson is signing with the #Chiefs , source said.
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Ben Garrett
7 years
Shea Patterson wasn't the only true freshman to shine at A&M. Greg Little blocked Myles Garrett all night. Garrett finished with one tackle.
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6 years
WHO DID THIS
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4 years
How in the world do you not review that kickoff? Auburn dude touched it. Ole Miss recovered in the end zone. Would have been a touchdown. I mean, what are we even doing here, @SEC ?
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6 years
LSU head coach Paul Mainieri: “I’m not sure (Mike Bianco's) had a better team than he’s got put together in this year’s team. Honestly, that’s clearly an Omaha team and a team I think can compete for a national championship.”
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2 years
#OleMiss has released the full terms of Lane Kiffin's new contract
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5 years
I asked Zion Williamson about Devontae Shuler, his former AAU teammate: "When I played with Shuler, I was a 9th-grader, he was a 10th-grader. I was like, 'Yeah, he's the best player in (South Carolina). He would impress me with so much. I used to watch in awe of him." #OleMiss
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8 years
When you make the offseason all about your rival, only to lose to South Alabama game one.
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6 years
Kentucky call of Metcalf TD is amazing. “Batted away!” “He caught it.” “Did he?” “He caught the ball. It’s a touchdown.” “Oh my goodness.”
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Give Ole Miss all the credit in the world. Yes, Arkansas is bad. Really bad. But this team fell behind big, fought back and won. Defense stepped up too. Season-saving stuff. If you’re gonna be snarky (me!), recognize the good. The Rebels had to have that.
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2 years
“They rushed (Levis). They were motivated all week by (Kentucky’s) offensive coordinator saying bring the blitz and we’ll light you up. “There you go.” — Lane Kiffin, to ESPN, on the #OleMiss defense in the 22-19 win over Kentucky
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6 years
I’d venture to say the ovations when Jordan Ta’amu and A.J. Brown are introduced in the starting lineups in the season opener are gonna he deafening.
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2 years
Matt Corral doing the legend shit
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Matt Corral is the best quarterback in the NFL Draft I said what I said #OleMiss
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2 years
I hear NOLA is great this time of year #OleMiss
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4 years
Bruce Pearl, unprovoked, as he's leaving the press room following Auburn's comeback win over Ole Miss: "Enjoy Lane. I had him at Tennessee. He's brilliant. He's really good."
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5 years
Hats off to Matt Luke and #OleMiss football. The university, in more ways than the obvious, needed a Vanderbilt ass-kicking, and that’s exactly what Luke and Co. dialed up. Props.
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Ben Garrett
3 years
Elijah Moore had 12 catches for 139 yards in the Egg Bowl. He's recorded 10 or more catches in seven of #OleMiss ' eight games. He's set the single-season school record for receptions, passing A.J. Brown. Again, dude has done this in EIGHT games and against all SEC teams.
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4 years
I can't get over how good this crowd is for #OleMiss -Arkansas State. I'm used to season openers with a few thousand, tops, in attendance. This is a crowd for, like, Auburn or Alabama. Just proves Ole Miss fans support winners. Crazy concept. And they're starving.
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6 years
Jordan Wilkins became the first Ole Miss 1,000-yard rusher since 2009 with this 47-yard touchdown run.
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4 years
I miss sports, this sucks and I will never, ever again complain about a non-conference game against an FBS opponent or a late kick or tipoff
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Ben Garrett
5 years
Former Rebel forward Ansu Sesay has returned to #OleMiss to finish course requirements for his degree. Kermit Davis also brought him on as a student assistant for the team.
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Ben Garrett
4 years
if keith carter announces a mascot redesign on top of his introduction of lane kiffin as head coach ole miss fans might hit the square like
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Ben Garrett
7 years
Find someone who loves you like Mississippi State Twitter loves a podcast discussing Ole Miss’ NCAA investigative case.
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4 years
Ole Miss' final touchdown was a thing of beauty
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6 years
Signing day shocker: #OleMiss has flipped, and signed, Mississippi State commitment James Williams, a three-star defensive lineman out of Callaway (Miss.) High School.
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7 years
Countersuit:
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4 years
Penny paid $11,500 to Wiseman for moving expenses. Total number of two Ole Miss NOAs? $16,000, including charges for Laremy Tunsil sleeping on a couch and Austin Golsan hunting on a booster's land. But Penny just made a mistake, national media writes, while Ole Miss was the devil
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Seth Davis
4 years
Penny Hardaway made a bad mistake, and now Memphis and James Wiseman are paying the price
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Ben Garrett
3 years
Luke Logan better buy all his defensive teammates all the blooming onions
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6 years
Ole Miss football
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4 years
Today is a good reminder that Heisman voters gave Jason White the trophy over Eli, who pretty much single-handedly carried Ole Miss to 10 wins and won the Maxwell, which is also given to college football’s best player. Those two Super Bowl wins and MVPs got the last laugh
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Ben Garrett
3 years
Ole Miss hadn't played in three weeks. Without its top-two receiving options. Minus-five in turnover differential. And still hung 48 on LSU and had myriad chances to win. If you're feeling any type of way about that one, I just don't know
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Ben Garrett
4 years
he’s the rookie of the year and every nfl team that passed on him and let him fall to the second round is dumb
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4 years
the Titans aren't missing Derrick Henry yet
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6 years
#OleMiss WR A.J. Brown, who broke Laquon Treadwell's single-season receiving yards record, has won the Conerly Trophy.
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6 years
Never have seven Ole Miss football games, and a 5-2 record, been so exhausting
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5 years
My dad always wanted to sing the National Anthem at an Ole Miss sporting event. So I set it up for today prior to the FGCU game as his gift for Christmas. Many thanks to @ARebelKuffner , @paris_buchanan and @RebelCoachDavis for their help in making it happen.
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Ben Garrett
2 years
ESPN bitching about a missed targeting like Will Levis didn’t lower the crown of his helmet as a runner to initiate contact GTFO
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5 years
College football, where the same two teams play for the national title every single season and everyone just goes along with it like this totally normal, not rigged and all schools have an equal shot
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6 years
Spent my NYE running into Hugh Freeze at a gas station and cordially discussing our boring New Year’s plans. He was headed home to make soup. I was headed home to take care of a 5-year-old who threw up all over me at 3 a.m. this morning. Kind of a perfect ending to 2017.
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6 years
Thomas Dillard hit 33 home runs at the College Home Run Derby. Though his night is done, he was the first-ever Rebel to reach the second round. #RebsBSB
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3 years
Sure has the feel of a program-defining day all around. #OleMiss
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5 years
One last thing: Yeah, that was a catch. Any reasonable person would agree. But Ole Miss was in the red zone SEVEN times and scored a touchdown once.
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3 years
Oh yeah this is what defense is supposed to look like Chance Campbell forever
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2 years
Sam Williams come next spring #OleMiss
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6 years
Someone’s dad is gonna make sooooo many angry Facebook posts tonight
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5 months
He’s the Most #OleMiss Coach Ever. And he’s cooking
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Ben Garrett
3 years
This is helluva picture, @OleMissPix . @GunnarHoglund was robbed of postseason baseball each of the last two seasons, and, well, that just sucks. One of the best to ever do it for @OleMissBSB . #OleMiss #RebsBSB
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Ben Garrett
10 years
Yeah, @katyperry stormed the field with fans after the game. http://t.co/OkQN2ZNrBx
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Ben Garrett
4 years
Lane Kiffin contract terms: 4 years, $16.2 million. He'll make $3.9 million in 2020, $4 in 2021, $4.1 in 2022 and $4.2 in 2023. $250k bonus for appearing in an CFP access bowl, $100k for Group of Six SEC bowl games. $5.3 million for 10 asst. coaches. $2.2 for support staff.
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5 years
Dawson Knox, one of the most underutilized players in college football history
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6 years
The NCAA threw out the appeal request submitted by Mars in support of Shea Patterson and went with Ole Miss. As in, Ole Miss was instrumental in getting him eligible. Mars almost cost Patterson. But those facts aren’t click-baity enough, right?
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3 years
Ole Miss is an NCAA Tournament team
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6 years
Robert Nkemdiche fumble recovery for a touchdown
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8 years
The #OleMiss QB Club exploded when A.J. Brown said he's going to be a Rebel.
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4 years
Kermit Davis gets it, man. His quote on the @OleMissNetwork after the loss to OSU: “I’m sorry to our fans. I apologize. That’s embarrassing. I don’t know if I’ve ever had that happen in a game that means as much as this one. I just apologize to our fans. That was embarrassing.”
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Ben Garrett
6 years
Two things you can bank on with Miss. St. Twitter: 1. Obsessed/respond with/to anything Ole Miss. 2. Nine out of 10 accounts are anonymous with some variation of 'Dawg' in the handle. At least you guys are consistent. Lame as hell, but consistent.
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5 years
Thomas Dillard hit a three-run home run but all I'm here for is how he pimped it with a bat flip added #RebsBSB
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4 years
John Rhys Plumlee, baseball player #OleMiss
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Ben Garrett
6 years
The facts are cut and dry. Patterson claims he started considering a transfer in October of 2017. Huh, what happened that month? Oh, he suffered a season-ending injury and lost his starting job to his then-backup who played better.
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Ben Garrett
4 years
I wrote a column about my friend, David Johnson, who, despite some improvement, is still in very critical condition as he deals with complications from COVID-19. But he's gonna keep fighting like hell. He knows no other way #OleMiss @Rebels247
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3 years
Take a bow, Doug Nikhazy
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5 years
Dawson Knox with his first NFL touchdown, and one more than he had in his entire #OleMiss career. Yeah.
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5 years
Elijah Moore was in
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6 years
Remember when Tennessee “sources” asked Dan to help sell Greg Schiano to the fanbase and he agreed? That was ethical.
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Ben Garrett
4 years
Chris Collinsworth speaking for all of us, re: the stupidity of DK Metcalf falling to the last pick in the second round of the NFL Draft: “I had him as the seventh (overall) pick!” #OleMiss
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Ben Garrett
5 years
The last time #OleMiss was ranked in the Top 25 was Feb. 4, 2013. Near-five-year drought should be over next week. The Rebels pick up their second Top 15 win of the week, downing in-state rival Mississippi State, 81-77, to move to 13-2 (3-0 SEC) on the year.
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1 year
#OleMiss is so close to being an elite team
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4 years
ole miss didn’t go to a bowl with an offense that featured dk metcalf, aj brown, dawson knox, a veteran line and a productive, now-xfl quarterback. no excuse is acceptable
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Hey Phil Longo
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6 years
Early signing day is off and rolling: Four-star wide receiver Elijah Moore has flipped from Georgia to #OleMiss . He's rated the No. 197 prospect in the country and the No. 38 wide receiver.
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Ben Garrett
4 years
Y'all keep praying/thinking/whatever for @Rebels247 . My guy needs all the good vibes right now. They don't come any better than David. He's the best.
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Ben Garrett
4 years
The biggest #OleMiss takeaway from today will be how good Matt Corral looked. His skillset is a perfect match with Lane Kiffin/Jeff Lebby
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7 years
Evan Engram, Ole Miss, scores his first NFL touchdown on a throw from Eli Manning, Ole Miss.
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Mike Bianco with the highest of praise for #OleMiss ace Doug Nikhazy following the 12-3 win over Arizona: “I’ve been here a long time, and we’ve had some really good guys. I don’t know if we’ve had a guy better than Doug. He’s been terrific.”
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