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Things are pretty darned quiet right now. Maybe this is the calm before the storm or just everyone taking a break from the Christmas holiday? I’m not totally sure, but it is quiet. Men’s basketball picks back up tomorrow with a game at 1:00 p.m., hosting Winthrop and I’ll have a preview for that game.

However, the biggest Texas Tech news has nothing to do with athletics, via the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, a team of archeologists from Texas Tech along with the Texas Historical Commission found a lost site (literally have been looking for this for a long time) of a French and Spanish mission, the Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo – is located in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis:

The team was led by Tamra Walter, assistant professor of archeology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work and included Texas Historical Commission archeologists Kay Hindes, Jim Bruseth, Tiffany Osburn and Brad Jones.

The site was initially established in the 1680s by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle as part of France’s efforts to colonize the New World. He left the colony to try to find the mouth of the Mississippi before being killed by his own men. The remaining colonists were eventually killed or captured by the native Karankawa tribe.

Spain eventually settled on the site as part of its missionary efforts. However, their habitation was short-lived and became lost when the Spanish left in the mid-1720s. Archaeologists had been looking for the mission site for decades.

On the Gridiron

Via Action Network, the Oregon vs. Texas Tech line has moved to Oregon -2. It started out at Oregon -1.5.

On3 has the most up to date Transfer Portal tracker where you can see the list of players who have entered the transfer portal. I’ll be honest, I get that websites need to make money, but the intrusiveness of the ads on 24/7 Sports, the On3/Rivals site, and CBS Sports is fairly significant. It’s difficult to navigate those sites and I still link to them when I ca, but it’s a lot.