By Kevin Lonnquist
Publisher
The RJB has featured The Bangles in the past. It was one of the all-female group’s underrated hits.
But since we’re on this series of bringing back some of the signature 1980s hits, it was a must to revive this one. Walk Like an Egyptian was a creation that had nothing to do with Egypt.
So here’s the story: Composer Liam Sternberg said he was inspired to create the song while on a ferry crossing the English Channel. When the vessel hit choppy water, passengers stepped carefully and moved their arms awkwardly while struggling to maintain their balance, and that reminded Sternberg of the depiction of human figures in ancient Egypt Tomb Paintings He wrote the words "Walk like an Egyptian" in a notebook.
Sternberg gave it to The Bangles. It made its debut in 1986. They turned it into their first No. 1 hit in 1987. It then became certified Gold.
But did you know the rest of the story? No, you probably don’t. Growing up in Las Vegas when the Runnin’ Rebels were making their run to the Final Four in New Orleans, a local band covered that version but created it for the late head coach Jerry Tarkanian. They termed it Walk like a Tarkanian.
So you get the real banana and then you get the really bad cover.
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Just an epic weekend for the Third Weekend in October. And I’m not talking Alabama-Tennessee. I’ll get to that in a bit. But consider what we saw from the Big 12.
As disappointing as Baylor falling to West Virginia was, 43-40, you can’t deny the excitement as it was decided in the final 33 seconds.
Follow that up with maybe the “dud” but also the “where did that come from” was Oklahoma 52, Kansas 42. It helped that the Sooners got QB Dillon Gabriel (concussion) back. The trigger man does make a difference. However, it was wild to see the Sooners go from zero against Texas to half a hundred against Kansas.
Texas-Iowa State another dandy. A back-and-forth fourth quarter. The Cyclones are driving deep into Texas territory with less than three minutes to play. Iowa State QB Hunter Dekkers fumbles. Texas recovers and gets a first down and runs out the clock.
It’s been one gut punch after another for the Cyclones. They’ve lost their first four Big 12 games by 14 points, Baylor (7 – remember they closed to within 7 and had an onside kick inside minute), Kansas (3), Kansas State (1) and Texas (3). I swear to you the look on Matt Campbell’s face – he was furious thinking that Dekkers was down and didn’t fumble – and you would have thought he wanted to punch somebody.
TCU-Oklahoma State caps off with the best for last. Cowboys sprint to a 24-7 lead. Horned Frogs get this thing tied, 30-30, late in the game and then win it in double overtime, 43-40.
Horned Frogs are the surprise story in this conference under first-year head coach Sonny Dykes. But he has found the magic and perhaps his familiarity with the program when he was an analyst gave him a sense of what he needed to do to flip this around. Of course, there is a long way to go.
Three games decided by three points. The home team won all of them. The fourth where the teams combine for 94 points.
Football is a week-to-week sport. But it’s safe to say that this league is anybody’s to win. Iowa State won’t win it but sooner or later you have to think the Cyclones are going to pick off someone and ruin their chances.
Looking forward to this Saturday’s card (Oklahoma and Iowa State have byes):
*Kansas at Baylor for Homecoming
*Texas at Oklahoma State
*West Virginia at Texas Tech
*Kansas State at TCU
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Now, to the national scene. We’ll start with the actual Third Saturday in October. If you weren’t a believer in Tennessee, you should be now. The Vols ended 15 straight years of misery to Alabama with knuckleball 40-yard field goal as time expired to win, 52-49.
There’s no point getting into all the details. You can make the argument that if Alabama would stop beating itself with penalties, the Crimson Tide probably wins. But ifs are just water cooler talk. I posted elsewhere that I thought the Crimson Tide would go 9-3 if they keep up this style of play. They’re proving that out talenting people doesn’t mean you’re going to win. It’s a huge factor, no doubt. Still, you gotta play the game right.
I do like that tradition where the winners break out the victory cigar. The historian that I am, I looked up that series that Alabama leads, 58-39-7. Really streaky. And until Alabama’s 15-year streak, it was close, a 5-game lead for Alabama.
>Flip it to USC-Utah. The atmosphere in Salt Lake City was amazing. They were loud from start to finish even as USC raced out to a 21-7 lead. But the Utes kept playing.
Quarterback Cameron Rising will be known for the bonehead goal line interception he threw in the opener at Florida. But he was money in the second half including the drive that kept their PAC 12 title game berths hopes alive. His fourth-and-goal run from the 1-yard line cut the lead to 42-41 Trojans.
Then HC Kyle Whittington didn’t want to go into OT. He goes for the win with the try for 2. Rising finds a lane and converts. No. 12 USC’s last-ditch effort really didn’t amount to much. Utah, 43-42.
>Then the jaw-dropping fact is No. 5 Michigan rushing for more than 400 yards against Penn State in a 41-17 blowout. Nittany Lions led, 17-16, early in the third.
>Colorado gets its first win, 20-13 in OT against Cal. No team should ever go winless unless it’s the hated rival you want to see lose 50-0 each game.
>Don’t look now but Tulane is ranked. No. 25. Good team. Remember when they won at Kansas State, 17-10, most thought it was product of Kansas State being bad. After all, Tulane had lost to nothing burger Southern Miss the previous week.
>Vanderbilt hasn’t scored against No. 1 Georgia since it scored six points in a 2019 meeting. There was no 2020 meeting because of the pandemic.
I also have this PSA for you. Midweek college football games on TV are returning. We started with Louisiana-Marshall last Wednesday. This Wednesday we have Georgia State-Appalachian State.
And if you’re looking for a game to avoid the nauseating election night TV coverage on Nov. 8 – and your publisher will do everything to disregard/ignore every talking head pointing out the extreme gravity of a race – MACtion has you covered with three games that night.
Most will tell you that this is the most important election in our lifetime (wasn’t that used in 2020 then 2018 and 2016?). But Ball State facing 4th-and-2 at the Toledo 36 in the second quarter probably has more importance to it.
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Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
>Averi Carlson had her first career double-double and Elise McGhee totaled a career-high 17 kills but No. 1 Texas outlasted No. 18 Baylor volleyball in four sets (19-25, 25-22, 17-25, 19-25), in front of 5,604, the third-largest crowd in program history, on Saturday afternoon at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor (15-4, 4-2 Big 12 Conference) used a thrilling second set to even the match, snapping a 16-set streak of wins for Texas (14-0, 6-0 Big 12), but the Horns were able to answer with wins in the third and fourth sets to secure the victory.
The Bears will return to action on Wednesday, hosting Texas Tech at 7 p.m. on ESPN+ in the Ferrell Center.
> Baylor soccer fell against West Virginia, 3-1, Sunday afternoon at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, WV.
The Bears who are now 4-8-2 on the season, 2-4-0 in conference play, scored their lone goal in the first half.
The Bears will make a trip to Lubbock, Texas to take on Texas Tech Thursday, Oct. 20, before returning home for their final two games of the regular season.
>Baylor cross country closed the regular season at the Arturo Barrios Invitational on Saturday morning on the Dale Watts Cross Country Course. The women’s squad finished eighth as a team, while the men finished 13th.
The Baylor women were led by Ellie Hodge in 18th with a 21:03.4 6k time on the 2022 NCAA regional course.
The men’s race was highlighted by Ryan Day finishing in seventh place out of the field of 360. Day’s 23:56.6 was only five seconds behind his personal best that was set at the Gans Creek Classic, just two weeks ago.
The Bears head to Lubbock, Texas, for the Big 12 Championship meet on Oct. 28 hosted by Texas Tech.
>Baylor men’s golf will open the Big 12 Match Play on Monday morning at the Golf Club at Houston Oaks. The event began in 2018, and since its inception, the Bears have won two of the four tournaments. The last win came in the fall of 2020 when BU went 5-0 with a win over Oklahoma State in the championship match, thanks to a 9-4 hole differential in favor of the Bears.
Baylor enters the fifth edition of the match play as a No. 6 seed, and head coach Mike McGraw is looking forward to watching his team compete at Houston Oaks.
Let’s make it a great week.
Publisher
The RJB has featured The Bangles in the past. It was one of the all-female group’s underrated hits.
But since we’re on this series of bringing back some of the signature 1980s hits, it was a must to revive this one. Walk Like an Egyptian was a creation that had nothing to do with Egypt.
So here’s the story: Composer Liam Sternberg said he was inspired to create the song while on a ferry crossing the English Channel. When the vessel hit choppy water, passengers stepped carefully and moved their arms awkwardly while struggling to maintain their balance, and that reminded Sternberg of the depiction of human figures in ancient Egypt Tomb Paintings He wrote the words "Walk like an Egyptian" in a notebook.
Sternberg gave it to The Bangles. It made its debut in 1986. They turned it into their first No. 1 hit in 1987. It then became certified Gold.
But did you know the rest of the story? No, you probably don’t. Growing up in Las Vegas when the Runnin’ Rebels were making their run to the Final Four in New Orleans, a local band covered that version but created it for the late head coach Jerry Tarkanian. They termed it Walk like a Tarkanian.
So you get the real banana and then you get the really bad cover.
****
Just an epic weekend for the Third Weekend in October. And I’m not talking Alabama-Tennessee. I’ll get to that in a bit. But consider what we saw from the Big 12.
As disappointing as Baylor falling to West Virginia was, 43-40, you can’t deny the excitement as it was decided in the final 33 seconds.
Follow that up with maybe the “dud” but also the “where did that come from” was Oklahoma 52, Kansas 42. It helped that the Sooners got QB Dillon Gabriel (concussion) back. The trigger man does make a difference. However, it was wild to see the Sooners go from zero against Texas to half a hundred against Kansas.
Texas-Iowa State another dandy. A back-and-forth fourth quarter. The Cyclones are driving deep into Texas territory with less than three minutes to play. Iowa State QB Hunter Dekkers fumbles. Texas recovers and gets a first down and runs out the clock.
It’s been one gut punch after another for the Cyclones. They’ve lost their first four Big 12 games by 14 points, Baylor (7 – remember they closed to within 7 and had an onside kick inside minute), Kansas (3), Kansas State (1) and Texas (3). I swear to you the look on Matt Campbell’s face – he was furious thinking that Dekkers was down and didn’t fumble – and you would have thought he wanted to punch somebody.
TCU-Oklahoma State caps off with the best for last. Cowboys sprint to a 24-7 lead. Horned Frogs get this thing tied, 30-30, late in the game and then win it in double overtime, 43-40.
Horned Frogs are the surprise story in this conference under first-year head coach Sonny Dykes. But he has found the magic and perhaps his familiarity with the program when he was an analyst gave him a sense of what he needed to do to flip this around. Of course, there is a long way to go.
Three games decided by three points. The home team won all of them. The fourth where the teams combine for 94 points.
Football is a week-to-week sport. But it’s safe to say that this league is anybody’s to win. Iowa State won’t win it but sooner or later you have to think the Cyclones are going to pick off someone and ruin their chances.
Looking forward to this Saturday’s card (Oklahoma and Iowa State have byes):
*Kansas at Baylor for Homecoming
*Texas at Oklahoma State
*West Virginia at Texas Tech
*Kansas State at TCU
****
Now, to the national scene. We’ll start with the actual Third Saturday in October. If you weren’t a believer in Tennessee, you should be now. The Vols ended 15 straight years of misery to Alabama with knuckleball 40-yard field goal as time expired to win, 52-49.
There’s no point getting into all the details. You can make the argument that if Alabama would stop beating itself with penalties, the Crimson Tide probably wins. But ifs are just water cooler talk. I posted elsewhere that I thought the Crimson Tide would go 9-3 if they keep up this style of play. They’re proving that out talenting people doesn’t mean you’re going to win. It’s a huge factor, no doubt. Still, you gotta play the game right.
I do like that tradition where the winners break out the victory cigar. The historian that I am, I looked up that series that Alabama leads, 58-39-7. Really streaky. And until Alabama’s 15-year streak, it was close, a 5-game lead for Alabama.
>Flip it to USC-Utah. The atmosphere in Salt Lake City was amazing. They were loud from start to finish even as USC raced out to a 21-7 lead. But the Utes kept playing.
Quarterback Cameron Rising will be known for the bonehead goal line interception he threw in the opener at Florida. But he was money in the second half including the drive that kept their PAC 12 title game berths hopes alive. His fourth-and-goal run from the 1-yard line cut the lead to 42-41 Trojans.
Then HC Kyle Whittington didn’t want to go into OT. He goes for the win with the try for 2. Rising finds a lane and converts. No. 12 USC’s last-ditch effort really didn’t amount to much. Utah, 43-42.
>Then the jaw-dropping fact is No. 5 Michigan rushing for more than 400 yards against Penn State in a 41-17 blowout. Nittany Lions led, 17-16, early in the third.
>Colorado gets its first win, 20-13 in OT against Cal. No team should ever go winless unless it’s the hated rival you want to see lose 50-0 each game.
>Don’t look now but Tulane is ranked. No. 25. Good team. Remember when they won at Kansas State, 17-10, most thought it was product of Kansas State being bad. After all, Tulane had lost to nothing burger Southern Miss the previous week.
>Vanderbilt hasn’t scored against No. 1 Georgia since it scored six points in a 2019 meeting. There was no 2020 meeting because of the pandemic.
I also have this PSA for you. Midweek college football games on TV are returning. We started with Louisiana-Marshall last Wednesday. This Wednesday we have Georgia State-Appalachian State.
And if you’re looking for a game to avoid the nauseating election night TV coverage on Nov. 8 – and your publisher will do everything to disregard/ignore every talking head pointing out the extreme gravity of a race – MACtion has you covered with three games that night.
Most will tell you that this is the most important election in our lifetime (wasn’t that used in 2020 then 2018 and 2016?). But Ball State facing 4th-and-2 at the Toledo 36 in the second quarter probably has more importance to it.
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Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
>Averi Carlson had her first career double-double and Elise McGhee totaled a career-high 17 kills but No. 1 Texas outlasted No. 18 Baylor volleyball in four sets (19-25, 25-22, 17-25, 19-25), in front of 5,604, the third-largest crowd in program history, on Saturday afternoon at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor (15-4, 4-2 Big 12 Conference) used a thrilling second set to even the match, snapping a 16-set streak of wins for Texas (14-0, 6-0 Big 12), but the Horns were able to answer with wins in the third and fourth sets to secure the victory.
The Bears will return to action on Wednesday, hosting Texas Tech at 7 p.m. on ESPN+ in the Ferrell Center.
> Baylor soccer fell against West Virginia, 3-1, Sunday afternoon at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, WV.
The Bears who are now 4-8-2 on the season, 2-4-0 in conference play, scored their lone goal in the first half.
The Bears will make a trip to Lubbock, Texas to take on Texas Tech Thursday, Oct. 20, before returning home for their final two games of the regular season.
>Baylor cross country closed the regular season at the Arturo Barrios Invitational on Saturday morning on the Dale Watts Cross Country Course. The women’s squad finished eighth as a team, while the men finished 13th.
The Baylor women were led by Ellie Hodge in 18th with a 21:03.4 6k time on the 2022 NCAA regional course.
The men’s race was highlighted by Ryan Day finishing in seventh place out of the field of 360. Day’s 23:56.6 was only five seconds behind his personal best that was set at the Gans Creek Classic, just two weeks ago.
The Bears head to Lubbock, Texas, for the Big 12 Championship meet on Oct. 28 hosted by Texas Tech.
>Baylor men’s golf will open the Big 12 Match Play on Monday morning at the Golf Club at Houston Oaks. The event began in 2018, and since its inception, the Bears have won two of the four tournaments. The last win came in the fall of 2020 when BU went 5-0 with a win over Oklahoma State in the championship match, thanks to a 9-4 hole differential in favor of the Bears.
Baylor enters the fifth edition of the match play as a No. 6 seed, and head coach Mike McGraw is looking forward to watching his team compete at Houston Oaks.
Let’s make it a great week.
