[This is a long one, there is a TLDR at the bottom]
(This isn't just a story of revenge. This is a story of how revenge hurts both parties)
To this day, a good revenge story gives me a warm bubbly feeling inside. I believe it comes from this college experience years ago when I got revenge on my cheating girlfriend and it felt GOOD. I know I'm not suppose to enjoy it but I can't deny how satisfying it feels. Its probably one of my favorite feelings in the world even though I'm ashamed to admit it. So I decided to write my first post about this because I don't tell the story often. It is so extensive and honestly just makes me look bad.
I'm going to try my best to not paint a picture where my X looks as bad as possible and me as innocent as possible. I want to write this accurately as I can, even if it makes me look bad.
[Bit of context and back story]
At the time of this story, I played division 1 NCAA basketball at a school so I traveled a lot (weekly in different cities and states) and my entire life revolved around this.
During the events of this story I was in the early stages of a horrible drug and alcohol habit. Years after this story I ended up getting sober and joined a program whos name you can find at the front of almost any phonebook. I am sure many people reading this are also sober and will understand how we addicts/alcoholics can be. This story is an effort to explain a character defect that manifested from the events in this story that lead me down a very dark path, however, I don't mean this story to come off in a "self pity" kind of way.
Lastly, I was always a good kid, I was never "troubled". My upbringing was very difficult but I was able to keep an overall kindness in my spirit to other people and almost always "did the right thing" or "took the high road". When it came to dating, I knew people cheated in relationships but at the time of this story I always chalked it up to other people "not doing things the way I did". I never really thought it would happen to me.. I always thought that because I was a "5 star boyfriend" and my "amazing choice" in women, infidelity would never be a part of my dating journey. I was a naïve. I really thought highly of myself and also had a real arrogance like any guy in his early 20s I guess.
[The Build Up]
I was in my Jr year in University I had been single for about a year after me and my high school gf finally broke up after 3 years. I checked that relationship off as my "learning experience" and I now knew what to look for in my next girlfriend. The next woman I chose to have a relationship with I would most likely marry and start my future with. (I know I was young and dumb and thought I knew everything LOL)
I had my eye on this girl at my school [we will call her Lisa]. I saw Lisa around the collegiate athletic facility (the university teams training grounds, and locker rooms). Lisa ran for the track team and was damn good. The various athletic teams often had parties and I knew that the first one I saw her at I would introduce myself and try to chat her up a bit and see where it led.
Soon enough I see Lisa at one of these parties and we pass each other on the stairs. We make eye contact and she smiled at me. I sparked a conversation with her and after going back and forth a bit we exchange numbers. We begin the classic American style of flirting where we constantly just hint things back and forth indirectly. We slowly progressed the relationship in this manner for weeks. Sending texts back and forth hinting that we were interested in each other but also playing it cool to not let the other person know we had a crush on them.
At the time, she was on a break with her current boyfriend who was a popular player on the football team. She ended up leaving him completely to date me. This shoulda been a red flag obviously but remember, I had severe hubris. At the time her leaving him to date me just gave me a superiority complex. I was playing good in sport and if she was willing to leave this guy for me then she will never leave me for another guy.
Lmao I was a fucking idiot.
I cant express how much I was into Lisa. I was addictively attracted to her and had that weird feeling of "I cant believe my crush is actually into me to". I really was so drowned and blinded by my crush on her I missed so many red flags but our relationship began progressing really fast. Because of this I didn't really do a proper inventory on why I liked her so much.
[Fast forward like 8 months later.]
We are together officially. Lisa has her own athlete's dorm room but I was a couple years older than her and was working during the summers full time and part time during school / season and had my own apartment near campus and Lisa was basically living with me. She even would stay there when I was out of town which was like 3 or 4 days of every week because we were in season and the team was flying all over the country. Me and Lisa were deeply in love regardless.
At the end of the season I had planned two massive back to back parties. One was for my teammate's birthday (Friday night) and then my birthday (Saturday night). They just happened to be one day after the other and luckily landed on a Friday and Saturday night. Me and Lisa got drunk Friday night and had some unprotected sex.
Lisa kept a period-tracking calendar app on her phone. She was asleep and I drunkenly remembered she always marked down in her calendar when we had unprotected sex so she knew if she should be worried if she missed her period. She missed her period often because she was an athlete. My inebriated brain thought she should put it in her calendar now because we would forget the next day since we were so fucked up. So I woke her up and said "can you put in that calendar that we had unprotected sex". At this point it was like 5am and we were that 5am kinda drunk where you're mostly just tired. She unlocked her phone and opened the app and before she could even do it she fell back asleep. So I took the phone while it was still unlocked and proceeded to try and figure out how to put it in her calendar myself.
[side note] Through our entire relationship, Lisa went through my computer and phone constantly. She was very insecure and always had her suspicions. I didn't care that she was doing this all the time. She never found anything because I never did shady shit, ever.
Again, looking back at this its an obvious red flag I missed. Remember I thought this girl would never cheat on me.
So this wasn't one of those stories where I went through her phone looking for something and subsequently finding it. In this case I was innocently trying to navigate this damn period calendar while I was drunk and I was not suspicious at all.
When I looked at the period-calendar app on Lisa's phone, I saw all kinds of little markers on different days of each month. Each marker was a different color so I opened one to see what the color coding meant. I saw that red was obviously symbolling her period and then there was also black markers that showed when she had unprotected sex.
........This is when my heart sank into my stomach......
This fucking calendar was PEPPERED with black markers. It looked like a checker board with only a hand full of red pieces left and ALL the fucking black ones..... There was black markers on dates that I was in a different city playing basketball.... I proceeded to open all of black markers going back for our entire relationship. We did not have unprotected sex very often. MAYBE once or twice a month. She had written the names of the guys she had unprotected sex with in the notes section of the black markers. There was a total of 4 guys through out the entirety of our relationship that she allowed to penetrate her raw. Some months there was almost a dozens of those fucking black markers. Sometimes there was TWO in one day! Looking back on this I wonder if there were more unlisted men that I didn't see because she clearly only kept track of the guys and times she had UNPROTECTED sex.
In almost every story I hear of infidelity, it involves the discovery of text messages, being informed by a friend, or the classic coming home early and catching your partner red handed.
I, on the other hand, discovered a fucking well documented LEDGER of almost every time she cheated and had unprotected sex.
Amongst the 4 guys I discovered, one of them was her X that she originally left to date me. Cheating on me with him was a common occurrence. There was some other unkown guy she was also clearly sleeping with him regularly. The last 2 fellas looked to be just a one time thing but again like I said these markers were just the times she had sex without a condom. So who knows what the true story was there.
I sobered up real quick. I proceeded to look through Lisa's texts and calls and found nothing. However, at the time Android phones had a folder where you can see deleted texts but not the contents of the messages. She had THOUSANDS of deleted texts and calls but I couldn't see what they said but I saw the numbers and did a quick Facebook search and matched one with her X in addition to something like half a dozen other random dudes. The worst part was I found TWO of my teammates... one guy I was actually pretty close with.
I just put the phone down after a few minutes. The evidence was overwhelming. The more it seemed to look at the phone the more my insides began to hurt.
I felt so defeated. I cant fully describe the feeling but I'm sure anyone reading this that caught a significant other cheating knows what I'm talking about. I felt so stupid for trusting her and having no suspicions of her.
I couldn't stop thinking about how I regretted all the times that I had an "opportunity" to cheat and remained faithful to Lisa. I felt like and idiot for not cheating her when I could have. My loyalty felt like a waste. I know it sounds ridiculous and irrelevant to the fact that she was unfaithful. I think I obsessed over that because if I had cheated as well I wouldn't have hurt so much in that moment. All I could think about was about how much I was hurt. I would do anything to not feel the pain and embarrassment anymore.
[Question] Am I the only one who thought this way after catching their partner cheating? I'm curious about this.
I proceeded to leave my apartment and go for a long walk. I had never felt the emotions that were coming up and didn't know how to process them. My ego felt like it was literally dismantled in front of me. I wasn't sure what to do and I was too embarrassed to tell anyone. My sadness quickly turned to anger. I knew I was gunna get my revenge I just didn't know how yet.
I was SEETHING with rage and wanted make sure she never recovered from this.
My roommate/teammate and best friend at the who was sleeping on the couch in my living room [we will call him Bono] (an eastern European kid who stood 7 foot tall and was as Russian in demeanor as it you can imagine. He also had an equally ridiculous RL name hence: Bono) well, Bono called me shortly after I started my walk. I answered and he asked where I was. I asked him to keep this between us, and told him what happened. He stays on the phone and goes into my room and I hear him in his Russian accent yell at her "yo bitch, you cheated on OP?" Then I faintly hear her inaudibly say something in the background and him yelling at her to get out of the apartment. After hearing some scuffling Bono gets back on the line and says "yo! she gone, come back and lets talk"
I head back home and me and Bono go over what had happened. Things don't get sappy because we are both complete alpha males who both come from cultures where "men don't cry" and neither of us really knew what to say or do in this situation. He makes his best attempt to comfort me and says: "tonight is your birthday, we gunna get fucked up and find you some sluts. Fuck her! I never liked her anyway"
.... oh ya, this day was my birthday... forgot about that part ...
Me and Bono go out for breakfast. I am still a little drunk. My phone is blowing up with calls and texts from Lisa. I tell her I saw everything on her phone and I cant stand to speak with her or look at her. She keeps trying to convince me to let her come to my birthday party and I make it clear I don't want her there. She clearly was concerned about exactly what Bono suggested to me earlier when me and him chatted.
Lisa's entire reputation and popularity revolved around the fact that she was dating me. I think most people didn't like her in the first place but put up with her because we were together. She knew that if I acted single at my birthday party and she didn't show up everyone would know something was askew. I think Lisa was more worried about being embarrassed than our relationship.
I don't remember much of what happened that night. But one of my friends sent me a little package for my birthday from California filled with some really good weed, hash, moonrocks, some pills and "the devil's dandruff" and I proceeded to do a glorious swan dive into an intoxicated oblivion.
All I remember is sitting on my chair at the pregame for my party. There was two girls sitting on the arms of the chair and I still have a photo of that moment and I remember it vividly. We were preparing to head out. I had a few tables downtown at a popular nightclub. The booze and drugs were the only thing that made me feel normal. I had my sun glasses on and clearly had that happy loaded grin on my face. The longer you look at the photo of me on that chair, you can tell I'm hiding a huge amount of hurt.
Sitting on that chair, the cocktail of drugs start to take effect. This was the first time I ever used substances not to "party" but to feel better. To make me feel normal.
I remember thinking: "I want to feel this way for the rest of my life. I am never going to hurt like that ever again. With drugs, I have control and no one can hurt me again." Oh how ironic that turns out to be years down the line.
I told my teammates and friends that me and Lisa were done when they asked why she wasn't at the party. I didn't tell them why though. I also didn't show them that I was affected by it in anyway and just played it cool. I tried to focus everyone on the party ahead of us.
[The Revenge]
So this is one of those revenge stories where it was only half planned. I knew I wanted to get revenge on Lisa for hurting me so much. But I kind of just improvised as opportunities came up.
My original kind spirit had died at my birthday on that chair. All my morals went out the window. I never cheated in relationships therefore I believed I would never get cheated on. I realize now how dumb that is but that's what I thought at the time.
I didn't care what collateral damage I caused as long as my mission to hurt Lisa as much as possible was accomplished. So continued every day of my life with this new selfish mindset.
I was sitting at my computer later that next week skimming Facebook when I saw the profile of one of her track teammates on my feed. That's when I had my first vengeful idea. I decided I was going to attempt to get her teammates to bite the bait that I was about to cast out into the water. Though, I didn't have proof she hooked up with my teammates, she was clearly trying to hide conversations between them. So I was going to see how many people who are close to here I could "passionately hug". Luckily I had more options than she had when cheating on me. A women's track team is much larger than a men's basketball team. Also much better looking ;)
Lisa's teammate I originally spotted on my Facebook had a boyfriend but I thought: "clearly everyone cheats, lets see if its true". I proceed to do the little flirty social media dance with her. You know, the one where I like a couple of her photos, she likes a couple of mine back. I shoot her a message and BAM! shes at my house in my bed about a week later. I proceed to do something similar to other teammates of hers. All on her 4x4 relay team coincidentally.
2 of the 3 girls I "passionately hugged" had boyfriends and subsequently cheated on them with me which gave me some real mixed emotions. It stroked my broken ego and also made me bitter and sad. Giving me one of those "women aint shit! none of them are loyal" attitudes.
This is such a typical story of while fighting monsters I became a monster.
This actually became my go-to strategy because it accomplished two things in my fucked up mind. It exposed a cheater but more importantly if they were willing to cheat on their boyfriends they would:
A] be more secretive about it which meant the drama that would ensue when it came out would be elevated and
B] it made me feel better about Lisa cheating because it proved it wasn't me that was the problem. It was women that were the problem. (I know its fucked up but that's what I thought back then.)
I started to collect something from every girl that I hooked up with, like a bra, a pair of panties, or some jewelry etc.. (not for some creepy reason, but this is important later and was a part of my plan) Sometimes I didn't even have to try. One girl left a pair of very distinguishable shoes. I knew Lisa would know who's shoes they were. They belonged to the girl that Lisa's X boyfriend rebounded with after Lisa and him broke up which highly upset her because it was her friend. Now it would upset her more because that same girl slept with both of her X boyfriends. I especially tried to collect items if it was something that I knew Lisa could distinguish like a sweater from the women's track team with her teammates name on it. After some time I had collected a boatload of shit.
After a couple months or so, one of the Lisa's teammate's boyfriends found out about me and his girlfriend and it started a big beautiful dramatic explosion of series of events with her and her teammates. This led to all of them finding out about one another's promiscuity. The drama was MASSIVE. Even their coaches had to get involved it got so bad.
This made me feel so powerful in such and evil yet satisfying way. I fell in love with the destruction I was causing. (The most awesome part about all of it was that same week, the Athletics PR team had put massive posters of me all over campus promoting the next game. They were EVERYWHERE. Some of the posters took up the entire side of buildings) So Lisa and her friends had to see me all over campus every day while this drama was erupting all around them. I felt like a triumphant dictator. It was glorious and pathetic at the same time.
Their coach even proceeded to have a "serious" meeting with the compliance department and my team's coaches. My coaches literally laughed at her saying "this seems like and internal issue, but OP hasn't done anything illegal or broken any school policy so there is nothing we can do". This infuriated the women's track coach. Their team had fallen apart. Their national ranking began to plummet. Then Lisa's coach even got in trouble for being caught tearing down some of the smaller posters of me on campus in raging temper tantrum.
I loved all of it.
I continued to add fuel to the fire. Posting photos of me with girls, smiling, being happy every chance I could on Facebook and Instagram. But under it all, I was bitter. I was so deep into my new mindset I had already forgotten the kind hearted naïve kid I use to be. I hated my old self because I let some girl emasculate me. I was so full of self pity looking back it, its depressing. No one really knew though because I played the cool guy attitude in front of people.
There was even a girl on campus on one of the sports teams who claimed that she was pregnant with my kid after I pretended to like her the same way I did with all of the other girls on Lisa's team and soon as we "passionately hugged" I moved on. Its a long story, but it turned out she wasn't pregnant but the news or "press" that came from that further dug the knife deeper into Lisa's side. I left a trail of women I deceived and relationships I destroyed. I feel bad now but at the time I didn't care because they were equally at fault in my eyes since they were cheating on their boyfriends or sleeping with their friends X.
Quickly, girls became weary of me. Plus I was running out of "potential targets" (Fuck I was an awful human being then the way I was thinking) and I was going after girls that weren't even friends or on the track team with Lisa but were just around her in daily life. For example her classmates and as well as her own family. I even flirted with her sister who was married with a kid and I almost succeeded. She was down but her and Lisa's dad found out about it and stepped in and put a stop it all before we could do anything. Her sister was ostracized as the news spread within the family.
I wanted Lisa to know I was everywhere and constantly remind her how she fucked up. In my eyes this was all her fault and she unleashed this fury of chaos upon herself. She should never have fucked with me like that.
Lisa had to take an extended medical leave because of her depression and mental health issues she was experiencing from the whole situation. She was becoming suicidal. She even had to go on medication and lost TONS of weight. She began to look extremely unhealthy. The whole mess was torturing her and the more she hurt the better I felt. At this point I had already inflicted more damage than she did to me but I had become addicted to the feeling of power... I spent 0 time processing my own emotions or moving on from what happened. All I wanted was more revenge and I couldn't stop.
After weeks of ignoring Lisa's texts and calls she finally gets a hold of me by showing up to my apartment unannounced late at night. She was there to pick up some stuff she left from when she lived there to take home. She was actually a local and her parents lived close by. (She was still on her medical leave and no longer staying on campus but rather with her parents) I told her I would bring her stuff to her parents house that weekend but I couldn't let her in because I had "company". Which I did but it wasn't one of her teammates or friends unfortunately.
I then to take all the items I had collected from all the girls over the weeks. There was probably like 8 or 9 things from different girls including her teammates and threw their belongings in along with Lisa's stuff into big black trash bags. I took the bags to her house and then called Lisa's dad. I told him I left her stuff on his porch and to inform his demon daughter. Me and Lisa's dad actually really got along and he even took my side after Lisa and I broke up. But after all these events transpired he obviously had a negative opinion of me.
15 minutes after I get off the phone with her Lisa's dad, I get a call from Lisa. I answer because I want to hear her reaction to having all these other girls shit mixed in with hers. She was sobbing uncontrollably. It sounded like that half crying half mumbling thing people do when they are hysterical. She wasn't even angry, just desperately begging me to point to stop my tyranny.
I just smiled and baked in the glory of hearing her hurt. I responded "why were their other guys in our relationship? you mixed them into our relationship like I mixed other girls shit into your shit. Its perfect little ironic metaphor". I thought it sounded cool at the time and was real proud of myself. (*facepalm*)
I later found out from one of Lisa's friends (who knew she was cheating on me during our relationship) that Lisa was convinced I WAS THE ONE cheating on her because "I was always out of town." This doesn't make sense since I was out of town because of basketball, a very legit excuse. Not just randomly on my own accord. You could literally see my schedule on the school's website. I kept in contact with her constantly when I was gone but obviously when I had practice or team meetings I couldn't be on my phone. But she didn't have the logic in her brain to figure this out I guess. I assume its just an excuse she made to protect her insecurities about the whole fiasco or to keep face with people who knew she was cheating.
[months go by]
Lisa comes back to school from her medical leave and we bump into each other at the physical therapy center in our athlete facility building. I see this as yet another opportunity. It had been a while since I did something that hurt her and I was still hungry for more vengeance. I proceed to pretend like I want to rekindle things with her. She is cautious at first but eventually bites after about a week. We start to mend our "relationship". We proceed for about a month but I wouldn't call this a relationship. I forbid her to have any male friends nor is she allowed to go out and party with her girlfriends. I also need full access to all her accounts and her location at all times. It was more like a hostage situation. It gave me a sense of control.
Meanwhile I'm not being faithful at all. This was my plan all along. Finally, she finds out about me sleeping with a girl in one of her classes and we have a nasty "breakup". I told her that she literally knows what it felt like to be me when we last dated. Yet again, I felt Triumphant. It was just another chance to hurt her and I did.
[After this we don't speak for YEARS.]
I graduate university and move to Central America. She messages me while I'm there about a year after I moved and about 2 years after we last spoke. At this point my life has become that of a real degenerate. I was doing copious amounts of drugs on a daily basis and about 75% of my life was involved in some sort of illegal or nefarious activities. But I still blame her for me becoming the dark soul that I was and taking no responsibility for bitter immoral nature. I hadn't had another relationship since her and always had trouble because I couldn't trust a women in any capacity anymore. Even after years had passed, I saw this instance of her messaging me as yet another opportunity to hurt her.
We begin to talk as friends and even getting flirty with each other over Facebook messenger. Mind you there is literally many countries, states and an ocean between us at this point. I was planning a trip back to my old university to visit some friends. However I told her was different: I explained to her I was moving back to the city for a new job I was just offered. We decide to meet up when I get back and see if there is anything worth saving between us. I had put on my best acting hat and try to seem like I've put our past behind us. However I'm just as vengeful now as I was years ago. She's finishing up her last year at University and I make the trip back to the USA.
I meet Lisa at a coffee shop when I arrive.. We spend the entire night together. From her point of view it really looks like we had moved past our differences and what happened. We could actually work things out.
However I'm not moving back obviously like I told her. I am only stay 2 nights. She doesn't know this. After hooking up a few times and spending 2 days together, without mentioning anything to her about me leaving, I pack my things and get back on a plane back to Central America.
I blocked her on all my social media and communication outlets. This time I could only fantasize about what happened to her when I disappeared after she thought I had moved back and supposedly was ready to give our relationship another try. This time however it wasn't as satisfying as my previous plots of revenge.
My drug habit and lifestyle only got worse every year. 3 years later I was hospitalized and almost died because of my extended drug use. I was never sober a full 24 hours after that day that went through that fucking period calendar.
[Looking back]
As much pain as I might have caused her with my vengeful life, my new identity that consumed my old one was so tainted with a dark spirit at heart. I think I honestly did more harm to myself with my actions and led me to down the road where I had no morals anymore. Though I spent the entirety of this story telling everyone of how I kept getting revenge at my X for cheating on me, as satisfying as it was, I wish I would have spent an equal amount of energy healing myself from the incident. If anyone reading this is experiencing the pain that comes with cheating, a good revenge story can bring you some satisfaction but I hope you don't make the same mistake I did. Rather spend MORE time healing yourself from the hurt and moving past it. The revenge wont heal you. It will be a separate journey but could distract you from putting yourself back together.
Luckily I got sober and am sober now 4+ years. I even had another girl friend of 2 years cheat on me before I got sober but this time I didn't take revenge. I spent my time healing. I changed and only focused on myself and that was way more satisfying than the revenge I got on Lisa for cheating on me.
Now I'm married almost 2 years to a woman who is sober and man do I have a good life. I have a dream job and a dream marriage. Thank you everyone who read this. Sorry if it wasn't well written I never write like this but I have never told the full story in detail before and I got a lot out of writing it.
Mostly what I hope to get from this is to share my experiences doing horrible things but feeling an immense satisfying feel from it where its almost addictive. And morphing from generally a good person to a relatively dark evil one.. Obviously people have dark moments but I feel like my personality and psyche has never been the same since that experience. I'm looking forward to any responses to the people willing to read this shit.
[written by commenter] TLDR: OP dated a woman a few years younger than him in college, Lisa. Lisa kept a period tracker and kept when she had unprotected sex, while documenting their sex for gf who had fallen asleep, OP saw she had been having unprotected sex with at least 4 dudes since they had been dating. OPs roommate kicked her out. OP decided to get revenge. This started with fucking all 3 of her relay partners (track team) which eventually led to the team crashing. They also had bfs, so OP used this as fuel to say that women are the problem, not him. At this time OP starts going down the rabbit hole with drugs and alcohol. This continued on for a long time, and OP started keeping an item from women that would be identifiable to Lisa for his plan. He would purposely “target” (own words) girls close to Lisa so drama would be worse, and he would have more ammunition to hurt her. Lisa took a mental health break from depression, and came to OPs house asking for her stuff back. He brought it to her parents and put all the items he had been collecting. She called him crying and he reveled in it. Months later, they run into each other at PT and he convinces her to give it another shot, knowing its a game. Knowingly holds her “hostage,” no guy friends, no parties, no going out, all while cheating. They eventually break up. Years later, OP is contacted by Lisa and says hes moving back to their country for a job. (IRL hes going for a 2 day visit) and basically catfishes her into trying to date him again, they meet up and hang out the whole time. He then packs up and leaves without a word to hurt her again. After this OP goes down a bad road with drugs and alcohol, ends up in the hospital, and has another Gf cheat on him. He did not take revenge on her. OP is now married, and has a good job and has (presumably) been clean. He is also aware of how toxic it all is. I think that’s everything

[This is a long one, there is a TLDR at the bottom]
(This isn't just a story of revenge. This is a story of how revenge hurts both parties)
To this day, a good revenge story gives me a warm bubbly feeling inside. I believe it comes from this college experience years ago when I got revenge on my cheating girlfriend and it felt GOOD. I know I'm not suppose to enjoy it but I can't deny how satisfying it feels. Its probably one of my favorite feelings in the world even though I'm ashamed to admit it. So I decided to write my first post about this because I don't tell the story often. It is so extensive and honestly just makes me look bad.
I'm going to try my best to not paint a picture where my X looks as bad as possible and me as innocent as possible. I want to write this accurately as I can, even if it makes me look bad.
[Bit of context and back story]
At the time of this story, I played division 1 NCAA basketball at a school so I traveled a lot (weekly in different cities and states) and my entire life revolved around this.
During the events of this story I was in the early stages of a horrible drug and alcohol habit. Years after this story I ended up getting sober and joined a program whos name you can find at the front of almost any phonebook. I am sure many people reading this are also sober and will understand how we addicts/alcoholics can be. This story is an effort to explain a character defect that manifested from the events in this story that lead me down a very dark path, however, I don't mean this story to come off in a "self pity" kind of way.
Lastly, I was always a good kid, I was never "troubled". My upbringing was very difficult but I was able to keep an overall kindness in my spirit to other people and almost always "did the right thing" or "took the high road". When it came to dating, I knew people cheated in relationships but at the time of this story I always chalked it up to other people "not doing things the way I did". I never really thought it would happen to me.. I always thought that because I was a "5 star boyfriend" and my "amazing choice" in women, infidelity would never be a part of my dating journey. I was a naïve. I really thought highly of myself and also had a real arrogance like any guy in his early 20s I guess.
[The Build Up]
I was in my Jr year in University I had been single for about a year after me and my high school gf finally broke up after 3 years. I checked that relationship off as my "learning experience" and I now knew what to look for in my next girlfriend. The next woman I chose to have a relationship with I would most likely marry and start my future with. (I know I was young and dumb and thought I knew everything LOL)
I had my eye on this girl at my school [we will call her Lisa]. I saw Lisa around the collegiate athletic facility (the university teams training grounds, and locker rooms). Lisa ran for the track team and was damn good. The various athletic teams often had parties and I knew that the first one I saw her at I would introduce myself and try to chat her up a bit and see where it led.
Soon enough I see Lisa at one of these parties and we pass each other on the stairs. We make eye contact and she smiled at me. I sparked a conversation with her and after going back and forth a bit we exchange numbers. We begin the classic American style of flirting where we constantly just hint things back and forth indirectly. We slowly progressed the relationship in this manner for weeks. Sending texts back and forth hinting that we were interested in each other but also playing it cool to not let the other person know we had a crush on them.
At the time, she was on a break with her current boyfriend who was a popular player on the football team. She ended up leaving him completely to date me. This shoulda been a red flag obviously but remember, I had severe hubris. At the time her leaving him to date me just gave me a superiority complex. I was playing good in sport and if she was willing to leave this guy for me then she will never leave me for another guy.
Lmao I was a fucking idiot.
I cant express how much I was into Lisa. I was addictively attracted to her and had that weird feeling of "I cant believe my crush is actually into me to". I really was so drowned and blinded by my crush on her I missed so many red flags but our relationship began progressing really fast. Because of this I didn't really do a proper inventory on why I liked her so much.
[Fast forward like 8 months later.]
We are together officially. Lisa has her own athlete's dorm room but I was a couple years older than her and was working during the summers full time and part time during school / season and had my own apartment near campus and Lisa was basically living with me. She even would stay there when I was out of town which was like 3 or 4 days of every week because we were in season and the team was flying all over the country. Me and Lisa were deeply in love regardless.
At the end of the season I had planned two massive back to back parties. One was for my teammate's birthday (Friday night) and then my birthday (Saturday night). They just happened to be one day after the other and luckily landed on a Friday and Saturday night. Me and Lisa got drunk Friday night and had some unprotected sex.
Lisa kept a period-tracking calendar app on her phone. She was asleep and I drunkenly remembered she always marked down in her calendar when we had unprotected sex so she knew if she should be worried if she missed her period. She missed her period often because she was an athlete. My inebriated brain thought she should put it in her calendar now because we would forget the next day since we were so fucked up. So I woke her up and said "can you put in that calendar that we had unprotected sex". At this point it was like 5am and we were that 5am kinda drunk where you're mostly just tired. She unlocked her phone and opened the app and before she could even do it she fell back asleep. So I took the phone while it was still unlocked and proceeded to try and figure out how to put it in her calendar myself.
[side note] Through our entire relationship, Lisa went through my computer and phone constantly. She was very insecure and always had her suspicions. I didn't care that she was doing this all the time. She never found anything because I never did shady shit, ever.
Again, looking back at this its an obvious red flag I missed. Remember I thought this girl would never cheat on me.
So this wasn't one of those stories where I went through her phone looking for something and subsequently finding it. In this case I was innocently trying to navigate this damn period calendar while I was drunk and I was not suspicious at all.
When I looked at the period-calendar app on Lisa's phone, I saw all kinds of little markers on different days of each month. Each marker was a different color so I opened one to see what the color coding meant. I saw that red was obviously symbolling her period and then there was also black markers that showed when she had unprotected sex.
........This is when my heart sank into my stomach......
This fucking calendar was PEPPERED with black markers. It looked like a checker board with only a hand full of red pieces left and ALL the fucking black ones..... There was black markers on dates that I was in a different city playing basketball.... I proceeded to open all of black markers going back for our entire relationship. We did not have unprotected sex very often. MAYBE once or twice a month. She had written the names of the guys she had unprotected sex with in the notes section of the black markers. There was a total of 4 guys through out the entirety of our relationship that she allowed to penetrate her raw. Some months there was almost a dozens of those fucking black markers. Sometimes there was TWO in one day! Looking back on this I wonder if there were more unlisted men that I didn't see because she clearly only kept track of the guys and times she had UNPROTECTED sex.
In almost every story I hear of infidelity, it involves the discovery of text messages, being informed by a friend, or the classic coming home early and catching your partner red handed.
I, on the other hand, discovered a fucking well documented LEDGER of almost every time she cheated and had unprotected sex.
Amongst the 4 guys I discovered, one of them was her X that she originally left to date me. Cheating on me with him was a common occurrence. There was some other unkown guy she was also clearly sleeping with him regularly. The last 2 fellas looked to be just a one time thing but again like I said these markers were just the times she had sex without a condom. So who knows what the true story was there.
I sobered up real quick. I proceeded to look through Lisa's texts and calls and found nothing. However, at the time Android phones had a folder where you can see deleted texts but not the contents of the messages. She had THOUSANDS of deleted texts and calls but I couldn't see what they said but I saw the numbers and did a quick Facebook search and matched one with her X in addition to something like half a dozen other random dudes. The worst part was I found TWO of my teammates... one guy I was actually pretty close with.
I just put the phone down after a few minutes. The evidence was overwhelming. The more it seemed to look at the phone the more my insides began to hurt.
I felt so defeated. I cant fully describe the feeling but I'm sure anyone reading this that caught a significant other cheating knows what I'm talking about. I felt so stupid for trusting her and having no suspicions of her.
I couldn't stop thinking about how I regretted all the times that I had an "opportunity" to cheat and remained faithful to Lisa. I felt like and idiot for not cheating her when I could have. My loyalty felt like a waste. I know it sounds ridiculous and irrelevant to the fact that she was unfaithful. I think I obsessed over that because if I had cheated as well I wouldn't have hurt so much in that moment. All I could think about was about how much I was hurt. I would do anything to not feel the pain and embarrassment anymore.
[Question] Am I the only one who thought this way after catching their partner cheating? I'm curious about this.
I proceeded to leave my apartment and go for a long walk. I had never felt the emotions that were coming up and didn't know how to process them. My ego felt like it was literally dismantled in front of me. I wasn't sure what to do and I was too embarrassed to tell anyone. My sadness quickly turned to anger. I knew I was gunna get my revenge I just didn't know how yet.
I was SEETHING with rage and wanted make sure she never recovered from this.
My roommate/teammate and best friend at the who was sleeping on the couch in my living room [we will call him Bono] (an eastern European kid who stood 7 foot tall and was as Russian in demeanor as it you can imagine. He also had an equally ridiculous RL name hence: Bono) well, Bono called me shortly after I started my walk. I answered and he asked where I was. I asked him to keep this between us, and told him what happened. He stays on the phone and goes into my room and I hear him in his Russian accent yell at her "yo bitch, you cheated on OP?" Then I faintly hear her inaudibly say something in the background and him yelling at her to get out of the apartment. After hearing some scuffling Bono gets back on the line and says "yo! she gone, come back and lets talk"
I head back home and me and Bono go over what had happened. Things don't get sappy because we are both complete alpha males who both come from cultures where "men don't cry" and neither of us really knew what to say or do in this situation. He makes his best attempt to comfort me and says: "tonight is your birthday, we gunna get fucked up and find you some sluts. Fuck her! I never liked her anyway"
.... oh ya, this day was my birthday... forgot about that part ...
Me and Bono go out for breakfast. I am still a little drunk. My phone is blowing up with calls and texts from Lisa. I tell her I saw everything on her phone and I cant stand to speak with her or look at her. She keeps trying to convince me to let her come to my birthday party and I make it clear I don't want her there. She clearly was concerned about exactly what Bono suggested to me earlier when me and him chatted.
Lisa's entire reputation and popularity revolved around the fact that she was dating me. I think most people didn't like her in the first place but put up with her because we were together. She knew that if I acted single at my birthday party and she didn't show up everyone would know something was askew. I think Lisa was more worried about being embarrassed than our relationship.
I don't remember much of what happened that night. But one of my friends sent me a little package for my birthday from California filled with some really good weed, hash, moonrocks, some pills and "the devil's dandruff" and I proceeded to do a glorious swan dive into an intoxicated oblivion.
All I remember is sitting on my chair at the pregame for my party. There was two girls sitting on the arms of the chair and I still have a photo of that moment and I remember it vividly. We were preparing to head out. I had a few tables downtown at a popular nightclub. The booze and drugs were the only thing that made me feel normal. I had my sun glasses on and clearly had that happy loaded grin on my face. The longer you look at the photo of me on that chair, you can tell I'm hiding a huge amount of hurt.
Sitting on that chair, the cocktail of drugs start to take effect. This was the first time I ever used substances not to "party" but to feel better. To make me feel normal.
I remember thinking: "I want to feel this way for the rest of my life. I am never going to hurt like that ever again. With drugs, I have control and no one can hurt me again." Oh how ironic that turns out to be years down the line.
I told my teammates and friends that me and Lisa were done when they asked why she wasn't at the party. I didn't tell them why though. I also didn't show them that I was affected by it in anyway and just played it cool. I tried to focus everyone on the party ahead of us.
[The Revenge]
So this is one of those revenge stories where it was only half planned. I knew I wanted to get revenge on Lisa for hurting me so much. But I kind of just improvised as opportunities came up.
My original kind spirit had died at my birthday on that chair. All my morals went out the window. I never cheated in relationships therefore I believed I would never get cheated on. I realize now how dumb that is but that's what I thought at the time.
I didn't care what collateral damage I caused as long as my mission to hurt Lisa as much as possible was accomplished. So continued every day of my life with this new selfish mindset.
I was sitting at my computer later that next week skimming Facebook when I saw the profile of one of her track teammates on my feed. That's when I had my first vengeful idea. I decided I was going to attempt to get her teammates to bite the bait that I was about to cast out into the water. Though, I didn't have proof she hooked up with my teammates, she was clearly trying to hide conversations between them. So I was going to see how many people who are close to here I could "passionately hug". Luckily I had more options than she had when cheating on me. A women's track team is much larger than a men's basketball team. Also much better looking ;)
Lisa's teammate I originally spotted on my Facebook had a boyfriend but I thought: "clearly everyone cheats, lets see if its true". I proceed to do the little flirty social media dance with her. You know, the one where I like a couple of her photos, she likes a couple of mine back. I shoot her a message and BAM! shes at my house in my bed about a week later. I proceed to do something similar to other teammates of hers. All on her 4x4 relay team coincidentally.
2 of the 3 girls I "passionately hugged" had boyfriends and subsequently cheated on them with me which gave me some real mixed emotions. It stroked my broken ego and also made me bitter and sad. Giving me one of those "women aint shit! none of them are loyal" attitudes.
This is such a typical story of while fighting monsters I became a monster.
This actually became my go-to strategy because it accomplished two things in my fucked up mind. It exposed a cheater but more importantly if they were willing to cheat on their boyfriends they would:
A] be more secretive about it which meant the drama that would ensue when it came out would be elevated and
B] it made me feel better about Lisa cheating because it proved it wasn't me that was the problem. It was women that were the problem. (I know its fucked up but that's what I thought back then.)
I started to collect something from every girl that I hooked up with, like a bra, a pair of panties, or some jewelry etc.. (not for some creepy reason, but this is important later and was a part of my plan) Sometimes I didn't even have to try. One girl left a pair of very distinguishable shoes. I knew Lisa would know who's shoes they were. They belonged to the girl that Lisa's X boyfriend rebounded with after Lisa and him broke up which highly upset her because it was her friend. Now it would upset her more because that same girl slept with both of her X boyfriends. I especially tried to collect items if it was something that I knew Lisa could distinguish like a sweater from the women's track team with her teammates name on it. After some time I had collected a boatload of shit.
After a couple months or so, one of the Lisa's teammate's boyfriends found out about me and his girlfriend and it started a big beautiful dramatic explosion of series of events with her and her teammates. This led to all of them finding out about one another's promiscuity. The drama was MASSIVE. Even their coaches had to get involved it got so bad.
This made me feel so powerful in such and evil yet satisfying way. I fell in love with the destruction I was causing. (The most awesome part about all of it was that same week, the Athletics PR team had put massive posters of me all over campus promoting the next game. They were EVERYWHERE. Some of the posters took up the entire side of buildings) So Lisa and her friends had to see me all over campus every day while this drama was erupting all around them. I felt like a triumphant dictator. It was glorious and pathetic at the same time.
Their coach even proceeded to have a "serious" meeting with the compliance department and my team's coaches. My coaches literally laughed at her saying "this seems like and internal issue, but OP hasn't done anything illegal or broken any school policy so there is nothing we can do". This infuriated the women's track coach. Their team had fallen apart. Their national ranking began to plummet. Then Lisa's coach even got in trouble for being caught tearing down some of the smaller posters of me on campus in raging temper tantrum.
I loved all of it.
I continued to add fuel to the fire. Posting photos of me with girls, smiling, being happy every chance I could on Facebook and Instagram. But under it all, I was bitter. I was so deep into my new mindset I had already forgotten the kind hearted naïve kid I use to be. I hated my old self because I let some girl emasculate me. I was so full of self pity looking back it, its depressing. No one really knew though because I played the cool guy attitude in front of people.
There was even a girl on campus on one of the sports teams who claimed that she was pregnant with my kid after I pretended to like her the same way I did with all of the other girls on Lisa's team and soon as we "passionately hugged" I moved on. Its a long story, but it turned out she wasn't pregnant but the news or "press" that came from that further dug the knife deeper into Lisa's side. I left a trail of women I deceived and relationships I destroyed. I feel bad now but at the time I didn't care because they were equally at fault in my eyes since they were cheating on their boyfriends or sleeping with their friends X.
Quickly, girls became weary of me. Plus I was running out of "potential targets" (Fuck I was an awful human being then the way I was thinking) and I was going after girls that weren't even friends or on the track team with Lisa but were just around her in daily life. For example her classmates and as well as her own family. I even flirted with her sister who was married with a kid and I almost succeeded. She was down but her and Lisa's dad found out about it and stepped in and put a stop it all before we could do anything. Her sister was ostracized as the news spread within the family.
I wanted Lisa to know I was everywhere and constantly remind her how she fucked up. In my eyes this was all her fault and she unleashed this fury of chaos upon herself. She should never have fucked with me like that.
Lisa had to take an extended medical leave because of her depression and mental health issues she was experiencing from the whole situation. She was becoming suicidal. She even had to go on medication and lost TONS of weight. She began to look extremely unhealthy. The whole mess was torturing her and the more she hurt the better I felt. At this point I had already inflicted more damage than she did to me but I had become addicted to the feeling of power... I spent 0 time processing my own emotions or moving on from what happened. All I wanted was more revenge and I couldn't stop.
After weeks of ignoring Lisa's texts and calls she finally gets a hold of me by showing up to my apartment unannounced late at night. She was there to pick up some stuff she left from when she lived there to take home. She was actually a local and her parents lived close by. (She was still on her medical leave and no longer staying on campus but rather with her parents) I told her I would bring her stuff to her parents house that weekend but I couldn't let her in because I had "company". Which I did but it wasn't one of her teammates or friends unfortunately.
I then to take all the items I had collected from all the girls over the weeks. There was probably like 8 or 9 things from different girls including her teammates and threw their belongings in along with Lisa's stuff into big black trash bags. I took the bags to her house and then called Lisa's dad. I told him I left her stuff on his porch and to inform his demon daughter. Me and Lisa's dad actually really got along and he even took my side after Lisa and I broke up. But after all these events transpired he obviously had a negative opinion of me.
15 minutes after I get off the phone with her Lisa's dad, I get a call from Lisa. I answer because I want to hear her reaction to having all these other girls shit mixed in with hers. She was sobbing uncontrollably. It sounded like that half crying half mumbling thing people do when they are hysterical. She wasn't even angry, just desperately begging me to point to stop my tyranny.
I just smiled and baked in the glory of hearing her hurt. I responded "why were their other guys in our relationship? you mixed them into our relationship like I mixed other girls shit into your shit. Its perfect little ironic metaphor". I thought it sounded cool at the time and was real proud of myself. (*facepalm*)
I later found out from one of Lisa's friends (who knew she was cheating on me during our relationship) that Lisa was convinced I WAS THE ONE cheating on her because "I was always out of town." This doesn't make sense since I was out of town because of basketball, a very legit excuse. Not just randomly on my own accord. You could literally see my schedule on the school's website. I kept in contact with her constantly when I was gone but obviously when I had practice or team meetings I couldn't be on my phone. But she didn't have the logic in her brain to figure this out I guess. I assume its just an excuse she made to protect her insecurities about the whole fiasco or to keep face with people who knew she was cheating.
[months go by]
Lisa comes back to school from her medical leave and we bump into each other at the physical therapy center in our athlete facility building. I see this as yet another opportunity. It had been a while since I did something that hurt her and I was still hungry for more vengeance. I proceed to pretend like I want to rekindle things with her. She is cautious at first but eventually bites after about a week. We start to mend our "relationship". We proceed for about a month but I wouldn't call this a relationship. I forbid her to have any male friends nor is she allowed to go out and party with her girlfriends. I also need full access to all her accounts and her location at all times. It was more like a hostage situation. It gave me a sense of control.
Meanwhile I'm not being faithful at all. This was my plan all along. Finally, she finds out about me sleeping with a girl in one of her classes and we have a nasty "breakup". I told her that she literally knows what it felt like to be me when we last dated. Yet again, I felt Triumphant. It was just another chance to hurt her and I did.
[After this we don't speak for YEARS.]
I graduate university and move to Central America. She messages me while I'm there about a year after I moved and about 2 years after we last spoke. At this point my life has become that of a real degenerate. I was doing copious amounts of drugs on a daily basis and about 75% of my life was involved in some sort of illegal or nefarious activities. But I still blame her for me becoming the dark soul that I was and taking no responsibility for bitter immoral nature. I hadn't had another relationship since her and always had trouble because I couldn't trust a women in any capacity anymore. Even after years had passed, I saw this instance of her messaging me as yet another opportunity to hurt her.
We begin to talk as friends and even getting flirty with each other over Facebook messenger. Mind you there is literally many countries, states and an ocean between us at this point. I was planning a trip back to my old university to visit some friends. However I told her was different: I explained to her I was moving back to the city for a new job I was just offered. We decide to meet up when I get back and see if there is anything worth saving between us. I had put on my best acting hat and try to seem like I've put our past behind us. However I'm just as vengeful now as I was years ago. She's finishing up her last year at University and I make the trip back to the USA.
I meet Lisa at a coffee shop when I arrive.. We spend the entire night together. From her point of view it really looks like we had moved past our differences and what happened. We could actually work things out.
However I'm not moving back obviously like I told her. I am only stay 2 nights. She doesn't know this. After hooking up a few times and spending 2 days together, without mentioning anything to her about me leaving, I pack my things and get back on a plane back to Central America.
I blocked her on all my social media and communication outlets. This time I could only fantasize about what happened to her when I disappeared after she thought I had moved back and supposedly was ready to give our relationship another try. This time however it wasn't as satisfying as my previous plots of revenge.
My drug habit and lifestyle only got worse every year. 3 years later I was hospitalized and almost died because of my extended drug use. I was never sober a full 24 hours after that day that went through that fucking period calendar.
[Looking back]
As much pain as I might have caused her with my vengeful life, my new identity that consumed my old one was so tainted with a dark spirit at heart. I think I honestly did more harm to myself with my actions and led me to down the road where I had no morals anymore. Though I spent the entirety of this story telling everyone of how I kept getting revenge at my X for cheating on me, as satisfying as it was, I wish I would have spent an equal amount of energy healing myself from the incident. If anyone reading this is experiencing the pain that comes with cheating, a good revenge story can bring you some satisfaction but I hope you don't make the same mistake I did. Rather spend MORE time healing yourself from the hurt and moving past it. The revenge wont heal you. It will be a separate journey but could distract you from putting yourself back together.
Luckily I got sober and am sober now 4+ years. I even had another girl friend of 2 years cheat on me before I got sober but this time I didn't take revenge. I spent my time healing. I changed and only focused on myself and that was way more satisfying than the revenge I got on Lisa for cheating on me.
Now I'm married almost 2 years to a woman who is sober and man do I have a good life. I have a dream job and a dream marriage. Thank you everyone who read this. Sorry if it wasn't well written I never write like this but I have never told the full story in detail before and I got a lot out of writing it.
Mostly what I hope to get from this is to share my experiences doing horrible things but feeling an immense satisfying feel from it where its almost addictive. And morphing from generally a good person to a relatively dark evil one.. Obviously people have dark moments but I feel like my personality and psyche has never been the same since that experience. I'm looking forward to any responses to the people willing to read this shit.
[written by commenter] TLDR: OP dated a woman a few years younger than him in college, Lisa. Lisa kept a period tracker and kept when she had unprotected sex, while documenting their sex for gf who had fallen asleep, OP saw she had been having unprotected sex with at least 4 dudes since they had been dating. OPs roommate kicked her out. OP decided to get revenge. This started with fucking all 3 of her relay partners (track team) which eventually led to the team crashing. They also had bfs, so OP used this as fuel to say that women are the problem, not him. At this time OP starts going down the rabbit hole with drugs and alcohol. This continued on for a long time, and OP started keeping an item from women that would be identifiable to Lisa for his plan. He would purposely “target” (own words) girls close to Lisa so drama would be worse, and he would have more ammunition to hurt her. Lisa took a mental health break from depression, and came to OPs house asking for her stuff back. He brought it to her parents and put all the items he had been collecting. She called him crying and he reveled in it. Months later, they run into each other at PT and he convinces her to give it another shot, knowing its a game. Knowingly holds her “hostage,” no guy friends, no parties, no going out, all while cheating. They eventually break up. Years later, OP is contacted by Lisa and says hes moving back to their country for a job. (IRL hes going for a 2 day visit) and basically catfishes her into trying to date him again, they meet up and hang out the whole time. He then packs up and leaves without a word to hurt her again. After this OP goes down a bad road with drugs and alcohol, ends up in the hospital, and has another Gf cheat on him. He did not take revenge on her. OP is now married, and has a good job and has (presumably) been clean. He is also aware of how toxic it all is. I think that’s everything

It's the first game week for the 2020-21 NCAA college basketball season, including No. 14-ranked Texas Tech and head coach Chris Beard who are ready to begin the 96th season in program history and get back to competition through all the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic has caused. Tech will open the season against Northwestern State at 6 p.m. on Wednesday (Big 12 Now on ESPN+) before also hosting Sam Houston State at 1 p.m. on Friday (ESPNU) in a pair of home games at the United Supermarkets Arena.
Despite challenges and disruptions that have been associated with COVID-19, social issues, not having a secret scrimmage, and no exhibition game, the Red Raiders have been focused throughout the extended offseason to be prepared for what's on the schedule and also what is not. Texas Tech, which advanced to the 2018 Elite 8 and 2019 NCAA Championship Final, was poised to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight season for the first time in program history last season before it was canceled due to COVID-19. It's been an offseason unlike any other, assembling a team through Zoom recruiting and making adjustments on a daily basis, but the team is now ready to step up to the starting line and begin the 2020-21 season – fully expecting and embracing that there will be hurdles and other obstacles on the track.
"I have a lot of respect for the 14 players, coaches, and staff on this year's team," Beard said. "We talk a lot about 'Tough Times Pass, Tough People Last' and mental toughness every year, but this year is different. It's really something none of us could have prepared for with COVID 19. From our year being shut down last year, through recruiting a team without in-person visits to workouts being shut down from time to time, the amount of adversity we've already gone through has been challenging. Our guys have really executed what our plan has been through all this and have stayed focused through all the unknowns. We're living where our feet are and that's really all we can do right now."
THE RED RAIDERS: Texas Tech's roster is made of 14 players this season with seven returners and seven newcomers. Marcus Santos-Silva is the team's lone senior while the junior class is made up of Kyler Edwards, Avery Benson, Mac McClung, and Jamarius Burton. The sophomore class includes Kevin McCullar, Terrence Shannon, Jr., Clarence Nadolny, and Joel Ntambwe. Tyreek Smith is a redshirt freshman in a class that welcomes Chibuzo Agbo, Nimari Burnett, Micah Peavy, and Vladislav Goldin. Each player introduced themselves through the video series, DEFINE YOURSELF.
"We like our balance this season," Beard said. "It's as many returners as we've ever had with guys who were in our rotation. To have seven guys on our roster from last year is something we're hoping pays dividends this year. With the new players, we still stayed old with our transfers who can impact games from the first day."
The program returns two starters in Edwards and Shannon from last season, while McCullar started six games in Big 12 play. Off last year's team, starters Davide Moretti, TJ Holyfield, and Jahmi'us Ramsey left and are currently beginning professional careers. Ramsey led the team with 15.0 points per game and Moretti was second at 13.0 ppg., leaving the Red Raiders with 38.9 percent of their scoring back off last year's roster led by Edwards who averaged 11.4 per game.
SENIOR (1): Santos-Silva enters his first season at Texas Tech after playing his first three at VCU. Named the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year, Santos-Silva graduated from VCU this summer and arrived in Lubbock having already accumulated 828 points, 620 rebounds and 92 blocked shots through 97 games in his career. Beard said of Santos-Silva: "He's a guy that wants to get better and is working hard to get better. He's mature, experienced, and has thick skin to want the truth. He doesn't live in La-La Land. He understands what his strengths are and what he needs to improve on. I think it's our job to make sure he has his best year ever. He's a guy who holds himself accountable, wants his coaches to hold him accountable and his teammates accountable. He is respected enough already to hold other players accountable on our team. He's got the looks of a great leader and we have high expectations for him. It's hard being a leader and best player guy. He wants that responsibility."
JUNIORS (4): Benson is the only player on this year's team that was on the 2018 Elite 8 team and 2019 NCAA Championship finals team. A fourth-year player from Arkansas, Benson scored a career-high 10 points to help lead the Red Raiders to a win over No. 1-ranked Louisville in last year's Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Edwards is back for his third season after playing a reserve role in all 38 games as a freshman during the Final Four run and starting all games last year as a freshman. An Arlington native, Edwards averaged 11.4 points and 4.0 rebounds per game to go along with 95 assists. He's scored 562 points and has made 79 3-pointers through 69 career games. Edward said: "It's a competition every day with our team. No one is going to take a day off." The junior class includes Burton and McClung who both transferred in and both received NCAA waivers to play this season. Burton arrives after two years at Wichita State where he averaged 10.3 points and added 102 assists last season. A Charlotte, North Carolina native, he has racked up 228 assists and scored 530 points through 67 games in his career. McClung transferred to Texas Tech after he averaged 14.2 points, 2.2 assists, 1.1 steals, and 2.8 rebounds in 50 career games at Georgetown University. He was a two-time BIG EAST Player of the Week last season and is the all-time leading scorer in Virginia High School League history where he scored 2,801 points in his prep career. McClung averaged 15.7 points per game as a sophomore for the Hoyas. Edwards and McClung were both named Big 12 Preseason Honorable Mention selections.
SOPHOMORES (4): Shannon and McCullar highlight the sophomore class with both players returning from strong 2019-20 seasons. A Chicago native, Shannon averaged 9.8 points and 4.1 rebounds as a true freshman where he made 21 starts and played in 29 games. He scored a career-high 24 points at DePaul and secured a career-best 11 rebounds at Kansas. Shannon is on the Julius Erving Award Watch List for the top forwards in college basketball. McCullar is in his third season with the Red Raiders following a redshirt season during the historic 2018-19 season and then playing an important role last season on the court. He would finish his first season on the court by averaging 6.0 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, including scoring a career-high 15 points at Oklahoma State and grabbing a career-best 11 rebounds at Iowa State. McCullar started six games and played in 29 as a redshirt freshman. McCullar said: "I feel like it was just getting out there and getting experience and playing some. I just tried to build on every game. Being out there you grow more and more. Now I'm looking forward to this year because I can see the film I have from last year. Learn from those mistakes and things that I did good and build on that." Nadolny played in 24 games as a true freshman in a reserve role where he scored a career-high nine points against Houston Baptist. He averaged 2.0 points and 1.0 rebounds per game. Ntambwe transferred to TTU from UNLV and sat out last season. He averaged 11.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game as a freshman at UNLV with a career-high 31-point performance against Wyoming. He started all 31 during the 2018-19 season and made 44 3-pointers with a 38.6 percentage. Ntambwe practiced with the Red Raiders last season.
FRESHMEN (5): There's a lot of optimism in this year's freshman class with Smith returning for his second season after redshirting last year along with a four-player true freshman class. Smith suffered an injury during the 2018-19 season that forced him to miss the season after he had averaged 17.9 points and 12.3 rebounds per game as a senior at Trinity Christian. A Louisiana native, Smith moved to the Dallas area in high school where he was named the TAAPS 5A Player of the Year as a junior and all-state honor as a senior. Burnett is the first McDonald's All-American to play at Texas Tech and the highest-ranked recruit in program history. A Chicago native, he played at Prolific Prep in California and he was also named to the 2020 Jordan Brand Classic, played for the USA in the 2019 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup, and participated in the USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp. Peavy earned TABC Class 6A Player of the Year honors as a senior at Duncanville High School where he averaged 19 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He was named to the Jordan Brand Classic roster and was ranked second in Texas in the recruiting class. Peavy, who played for his father at Duncanville, helped lead his team to the 2019 Class 6A State Championship as a junior along with former Red Raider Jahmi'us Ramsey who was a senior on that team. Peavy was named the MVP of the State Championship game. Agbo is a sharpshooter from California who is coming off a senior season where he averaged 22 points per game at Saint Augustine High School in San Diego. He was a 4-star recruit who was his league's top player as a junior and the 2019-20 San Diego Preseason Player of the Year. Goldin is the tallest player on the roster this season, coming in at 7-foot-1 in his freshman season. The Russian forward played a season of prep basketball at Putnam Science before signing with the Red Raiders in the summer.
HEAD COACH: Chris Beard enters his fifth season as the Texas Tech head coach where he has led the program to a 94-44 record, including an 8-2 mark in the NCAA Tournament. Beard was named the 2018-19 Associated Press National Coach of the Year and earned Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2019. An assistant coach at Texas Tech under Bob and Pat Knight, Beard has amassed an impressive 124-49 record as a Division I head coach that started with one season at Little Rock where he was 30-5. He also has head coaching stops at Fort Scott Community College, Seminole State, McMurry, and Angelo State in his collegiate career. Beard is the 17th head coach in Texas Tech history.
THE STAFF: Beard is assisted this season by associate head coach Mark Adams, assistant coaches Ulric Maligi and Bob Donewald, Casey Perrin (Chief of Staff), Sean Sutton (AdvisoPlayer Development), John Reilly (Strength & Conditioning), and associate athletic trainer Mike Neal. Adams is entering his fifth season on Beard's staff and also assisted him at Little Rock. A 1979 graduate of Texas Tech, Adams is a former head coach at Clarendon College, Wayland Baptist, West Texas A&M, Texas-Pan American, and Howard College. He earned 2019 TABC Assistant Coach of the Year and is a member of multiple halls of fame, most recently being inducted into the NJCAA's Men's Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class for 2020. Donewald is in his second season on the staff, but his first as an assistant. He has extensive experience in professional basketball and worked last season as the program's director of player development. Maligi is also in his second season on the staff and is widely respected as one of the top emerging assistants in the nation. He led the charge in the recruitment of this year's signing class which was the highest-ranked in program history. Reilly, a Killeen, Texas native who competed on the BYU Track & Field team, is also in his fifth season having led the strength and conditioning each year for Beard. Neal is in his second season, coming over from Little Rock where he played basketball and was the team's athletic trainer during Beard's year leading the program.
THE SCHEDULE: Along with the 18-round fight of home-and-away games against each Big 12 team, the Red Raiders will play nine non-conference games with shortened COVID guidelines. The Red Raiders open the year with a two-game home stand by hosting Northwestern State and Sam Houston State from the Southland Conference before meeting up with No. 17-ranked Houston on Sunday, Nov. 29 at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. Tech will then host St. John's in the Big 12/BIG EAST Alliance followed by games against Grambling, Abilene Christian, and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Tech opens Big 12 play by hosting No. 6 Kansas on Thursday, Dec. 17, and traveling to Oklahoma on Dec. 22. The team goes back into non-conference play with a game against Incarnate Word (Dec. 29) and plays its final non-conference game against LSU on Jan. 30 in Baton Rouge in the middle of the Big 12 schedule. The regular-season finale is scheduled to have Texas play at the USA on Saturday, Feb. 27 before the start of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships on March 10-13 in Kansas City.
EARLY TEST: The first game of the season away from Lubbock will be a highly-anticipated matchup within the state and nation with the Red Raiders playing Houston in Fort Worth. The Cougars are at No. 17 in the AP Rankings and are picked to win the American Athletic Conference. They are coming off a 23-8 overall record and were 13-5 in conference play. The Cougars advanced to the 2019 Sweet 16 with wins over Georgia State and Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament before falling to Kentucky by four in the third round. Houston leads the all-time series against Tech with a 28-27 advantage, including an 82-69 win in the last matchup on Dec. 23, 2014, in Las Vegas to snap a nine-game winning streak by the Red Raiders over the Cougars. The programs first matched up in 1961 with the Red Raiders earning a 69-67 win in Lawrence, Kansas. Tech is 7-3 against UH in neutral-court games.
UNCOMFORTABLE – BEARD EXPLAINS: "Being comfortable gets you beat every single time. You see it all the time in sports. You win a big game and the next time there's a letdown and a loss. We've all seen that. Life is the same way. You can have a great day at work and you could take the edge off. It takes a special person, we use the word 'elite', to remain uncomfortable. Coach Knight would talk a lot about when things were going good that we need to shake the tree from time to time. Everybody expects the best and have focus during times of adversity, but only the elite people can push themselves each day to stay uncomfortable. I think being uncomfortable is where growth comes from. Uncomfortable is what you have to be to compete in the Big 12. Our guys have embraced this. Each season we try to have a theme and with this year's group, we just feel that if we can stay uncomfortable we'll be where we need to be. We like our talent. We like our culture. If this team can keep pushing and not get too high or too low by staying uncomfortable right there in the middle, we think we have a great chance to grow."
AP RANKINGS: Texas Tech will go into the 2020-21 season ranked No. 14 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. The Red Raiders, who were ranked No. 13 in last season's AP Preseason Top-25 Poll and spent 12 weeks in the rankings, are one of five Big 12 teams in the preseason rankings. Gonzaga is the top-ranked team in the poll, followed by Baylor, Villanova, Virginia, and Iowa. The Big 12 also has Kansas at No. 6, West Virginia at No. 15, and No. 19 Texas.
USA TODAY COACHES POLL: Texas Tech is at No. 13 in the USA TODAY Top 25 Men's Basketball Coaches Poll which was announced on Thursday ahead of the 2020-21 season that is scheduled to begin in two weeks. The USA TODAY Sports men's basketball coaches poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at Division I schools. The Red Raiders were ranked No. 12 in last season's first USA TODAY Coaches Poll. In this year's ranking, Baylor is the top-ranked team followed by Gonzaga, Villanova, Virginia, and Kansas. Tech is one of five Big 12 teams in the poll, including West Virginia at No. 15 and Texas which is No. 22.
BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL: Texas Tech was picked fifth in the 2020-21 Big 12 Men's Basketball Preseason Poll with Baylor at the top of the rankings as voted on by the league's head coaches. The Big 12 Preseason Polls began in the 1996-97 season with Tech being selected sixth. The Red Raiders were picked seventh in the 2018-19 preseason poll before going 14-4 to win their first Big 12 regular-season championship and were third in last year's preseason poll for their highest preseason ranking in program history.
BIG 12 PRESEASON AWARDS: Santos-Silva was named the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year while juniors Edwards and McClung are Big 12 Preseason Honorable Mention selections in the conference's preseason awards. Santos-Silva played the last three seasons at VCU where he was named NABC All-District Second Team and led his team in scoring (12.8), rebounding (8.9) and blocks (1.2). The senior forward also registered 10 double-doubles during the shortened season. Texas Tech boasts the preseason newcomer of the year in consecutive seasons as Chris Clarke grabbed the honor in 2019-20. Santos-Silva graduated from VCU over the summer and is the lone senior on this year's Texas Tech roster. Clarke and Charles Burgess (2006-07) are the only Red Raiders to be selected as the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year before Santos-Silva. Texas Tech has not had a Big 12 Newcomer of the Year in the postseason honors. Santos-Silva said: "I didn't come here for individual awards. I came here to win the Big 12 and win the National Championship. Awards and recognition are nice, but that's not my focus. I'm focused on team goals and success."
DR. TJ: Shannon has been selected as one of 20 players on the watch list for the 2021 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award. Named after Class of 1993 Hall of Famer and 16-year professional basketball player Julius Erving, the annual honor in its seventh year recognizes the top small forwards in Division I men's college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates that was announced by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A Chicago native, Shannon was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team last season after averaging 9.8 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. He started 21 of 29 games played and scored a season-high 24 points against DePaul and grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds at Kansas. Along with the watch list, Shannon has appeared in multiple 2021 NBA Draft projections.
COVID IMPACT: In an effort to ensure adequate levels of safety, Texas Tech will implement a reduced capacity to approximately 25% at The United Supermarkets Arena this basketball season. In addition to the limited seating capacity, fans will see the following safety protocols this season: Big 12 Conference has mandated an established perimeter around the playing surface – 20 feet behind both team benches and 12 feet on all other sides of the court. Face coverings for all patrons (fans and staff) will be required at all times. A 100 percent mobile ticketing process. Mobile ordering in our concession areas to decrease contacts throughout the concourse. Kirby Hocutt said: "Our staff has worked diligently to ensure we accommodate as many of our fans as possible at our home basketball games. We also want to ensure we offer a safe and enjoyable experience while being socially responsible."
A CONVERSATION PATCH: Texas Tech will have a patch on its jersey all season that was the idea of Kyler Edwards with collaboration from his teammates. The patch depicts a rotten apple core and is described by Edwards as: "The team wanted to make a patch that was unique and not just something that everyone else had. We want to get rid of all the bad apples in all walks of life, including police brutality, sexism, and racism. These are topics around the world and we have the support of our coaches. We need to keep talking about it until it gets fixed." The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules to allow student-athletes in all sports to wear patches on their uniforms for commemorative and memorial purposes, as well as to support social justice issues.
NCAA BOUND: The Red Raiders were projected to make their third NCAA tournament last season before the season was canceled due to COVID 19. Tech, which advanced to the 2018 Elite 8 and 2019 National Championship final, had never made the NCAA tournament three straight seasons in program history. The Red Raiders finished last season with an 18-13 overall record and were 9-9 in conference play.
ABRUPT ENDING: Texas Tech was on the Sprint Center in Kansas City court warming up for its first-round matchup of the Big 12 Championship against Texas on Thursday, March 12, 2019, when both teams were pulled off the court. With the tournament being canceled, the Red Raiders went to the airport and returned home to Lubbock. Before arriving back to Texas that afternoon by plane, news broke that the NCAA had canceled the remainder of the season.
COVID RINGS: While the 2019-20 season ended without the opportunity to play for any postseason championships, Beard wanted to show his appreciation to the players who battled throughout the year. Each player on the roster received a ring to commemorate the season, a token of respect from Beard who felt it was important that the players could keep remembering the season that was cut short.
NBA DRAFT: Texas Tech's Jahmi'us Ramsey was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 43rd pick of the 2020 NBA Draft on November 18, 2020. An Arlington, Texas native, Ramsey earned Big 12 Freshman of the Year, All-Big 12 Second Team, NABC All-District First Team, Big 12 All-Newcomer Team, Big 12 All-Freshman Team, and was a three-time Big 12 Newcomer of the Week selection. Ramsey, who is the first Red Raider to earn Big 12 Freshman of the Year, finished the season fifth in the Big 12 in scoring and was second with a 42.6 percentage on 3-pointers and fifth with a 44.2 shooting percentage. Ramsey's selection in the NBA Draft gives the Red Raiders three straight years with a pick following Zhaire Smith (2018) and Jarrett Culver (2019). Tech has now had 25 players picked in the NBA Draft in its program history.
FIRST-ROUND STUDENTS: Zhaire Smith and Jarrett Culver remain Texas Tech students despite being drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft as underclassmen. Both are currently enrolled in online classes at TTU where they remain focused on graduating while also being in the early stages of their professional playing careers. Smith said: "It is very important to me to get my education while playing because graduating was my first goal before playing basketball. I also made a promise to my mom and Coach Beard that I will finish. It means a lot to have Coach Beard motivating me by saying that education is the key. It's going to mean a lot to my family to see me graduate because school is not easy at all for me. They are going to cry tears of joy when I finish."
MALIGI DRAWS ATTENTION: Maligi was recognized during the offseason as one of 40 coaches on ESPN's "40 Under 40" list which highlights the top young coaches throughout the national college basketball landscape and The Athletic's 40 Under 40 which identified influential people in a variety of roles within college basketball who are under the age of 40. Maligi is entering his second season with the Red Raiders and was identified at No. 13 by ESPN on the list of head and assistant coaches. In the ESPN article, Myron Medcalf highlighted Maligi who turned 36 on May 14 by saying: "The Howard University product has identified and recruited some of the most talented players in the state of Texas and beyond, as proved by successful tenures as an assistant with Texas A&M, SMU, and Stephen F. Austin before joining Chris Beard's staff before last season. By all accounts, Maligi possesses the attributes and leadership qualities necessary to one day guide a Power 5 program."
DOCUMENTING HISTORY: Over the summer ESPN aired "Eddie", a documentary about legendary college basketball coach Eddie Sutton. The film covered many aspects of Eddie Sutton's life, including his family. Sean Sutton, one of Eddie's sons, was featured in the film and is entering his fourth season working with Beard at Tech as the program's director of player development and Beard's advisor. Sean played for his father at Kentucky and Oklahoma State and also worked for him as an assistant coach before being named the head coach at OSU. Talking about the documentary, Sean said: "To open up and talk about some of the things that went on behind the scenes for the public to view, I wouldn't necessarily say it was easy, but it was important. It was important to get an accurate depiction of his life and career."
ON THE NBA SIDELINES: Tech legend Darvin Ham continues to rise among the ranks of NBA assistant coaches where he helped lead Milwaukee to the best regular-season record (56-17) in the NBA last season. Ham, who became an iconic player nationally by ripping down a rim in the 1996 NCAA Tournament and winning the 1996 NCAA Slam Dunk Contest, played in the NBA from 1996-2005 and was on the Detroit Pistons' 2004 NBA Championship team. Ham was an Atlanta Hawks assistant coach from 2013-18 and has been on the Bucks sideline since the 2018 season where he is the lead assistant. He recently completed his bachelor's degree, earning his Texas Tech degree in 2019 – 23 years after leaving Lubbock to begin his professional basketball career. Along with Ham, Max Lefevre is entering his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's Video CoordinatoPlayer Development Associate. Lefevre was a graduate assistant for Beard at Angelo State and worked on his staff at Little Rock and for three seasons at Texas Tech.
BIG 12/SEC CHALLENGE: Texas Tech and LSU will meet for the second time in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge on Jan. 30, 2021, at the Maravich Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The eighth annual event will consist of 10 games as every Big 12 member faces 10 squads from the Southeastern Conference. The Red Raiders are 4-3 overall and 2-1 in Baton Rouge all-time against LSU. Tech has also played South Carolina, Auburn, Alabama, and Arkansas twice in the challenge. This will mark the sixth consecutive year for all games to be played in one day. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU will combine to televise the contests which also includes matchups of Auburn at Baylor, Iowa State at Mississippi State, Kansas at Tennessee, Texas A&M at Kansas State, Alabama at Oklahoma, Arkansas at Oklahoma State, TCU at Missouri, Texas at Kentucky and Florida at West Virginia. Texas Tech is 4-3 all-time in the Big 12-SEC Challenge after its 76-74 overtime loss to No. 15 Kentucky last season. The loss to the Wildcats ended a 54-game non-conference winning streak by the Red Raiders which was the second-best streak in the nation. Big 12 teams are 40-30 (.571) in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge after a tie in 2020.
BIG 12/BIG EAST ALLIANCE: The Red Raiders will host the Red Storm of St. John's on Dec. 3 in the second year of the Big 12/BIG EAST Alliance. Tech traveled to Chicago to play DePaul in the inaugural season of the matchups, dropping an overtime decision. The four-year agreement will continue through 2022-23 with an equal number of games played in each conference's home market each year. Texas Tech is 0-2 all-time against St. John's with the last matchup coming on April 1, 2003, in the NIT in New York.
HALL OF FAME SELECTION: Ronald Ross was selected for the 2020 Texas Tech Hall of Fame class during the offseason. Ross remains one of the beloved greats in the history of Texas Tech men's basketball as the former walk-on helped lead the Red Raiders to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including their first-ever trip to the Sweet 16 in 2005. Ross, a native of nearby Hobbs, New Mexico, was an All-Big 12 first-team selection and an All-American by Basketball Times as a senior after averaging 17.5 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.6 steals per game under head coach Bob Knight. Ross also established the single-season and career school records that year by recording 86 steals, pushing his career total to 204 over 132 games. He served as a graduate assistant the past two seasons under Beard following a professional career overseas.
CONTINUED IMPACT, DREAM COURT: Nancy Lieberman Charities teamed up with Texas Tech University and The Culver Foundation to give the City of Lubbock a brand new Dream Court. The new Dream Court is located at Duran Park in Lubbock. This court will serve as a safe play space for youth in the community to interact with friends, family, and local law enforcement. "I am so excited for the Red Raiders, Jarrett Culver, and the City of Lubbock to partner with Nancy Lieberman Charities to honor our beloved, Andre Emmett. We all deeply miss him and want his legacy to live on forever in the lives of people who were touched by his genuine kindness." Basketball Hall of Famer, Nancy Lieberman said. The Dream Court™ is 50-by-84 feet with two brand new basketball goals and features a high-performance PowerGame™ surface from Sport Court® in signature Texas Tech red and black colors. Its centerpiece is the Dream Courts logo, flanked by the brands of all supporting organizations. Emmett, who is Texas Tech's all-time leading scorer, was murdered in 2019. A dedication ceremony was held on Friday, October 23.
DFW PRESENCE: Every year Beard looks forward to the trip to play TCU, not only to compete against the Horned Frogs but also to reconnect with the Red Raider fan base in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This season, even though the challenges we'll all face in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program is excited about traveling to the area three times with the addition of non-conference games in Fort Worth and Frisco on the schedule. Beard said: "The DFW market is obviously very important to our program. Many of our players and coaches currently and throughout the years grew up there and we have a huge fan and alumni base there that shows up for us every year. To play non-conference games in the area has been an objective of mine since we started and I'm really excited that we're getting it done twice. These types of games are something that I'm going to be committed to for years to come because of how important we think the Metroplex is to our program." The Red Raiders are scheduled to play their third game of the season on Sunday, Nov. 29 against No. 17-ranked Houston in the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth and will also take on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 12 at the Comerica Center in Frisco. The final trip will be their Big 12 clash against TCU on Jan. 20, 2021.
PLAYING IN THE USA: Texas Tech Athletics announced an extension of the current naming rights agreement to United Supermarkets Arena as the grocery chain will remain the facility's namesake through 2035. Texas Tech will receive an additional $16 million over the course of the agreement, which continues the long-standing partnership between the university and United Supermarkets. The West Texas-based chain has now committed more than $30 million to Texas Tech Athletics since securing the original naming rights to the 15,000-seat arena in 1996. United provided Texas Tech with a key $10 million investment that jumpstarted fundraising efforts for the arena, opening in 1999 as United Spirit Arena. In 2014, Texas Tech and United extended their original agreement for $9.45 million. The second extension will ink the relationship until 2035.
IT'S ACADEMIC: Beard announced the hiring of Jamaal Scott as the program's Academic Advisor on July 7, 2020. An experienced educator and athletics leader following a decorated playing career which includes being named the 2000 Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year, Scott will provide the Red Raider program personal, vocational, educational, and advanced counseling and training at both the individual and group levels. Scott is pivotal in the management of academic advising for the men's basketball program by assisting with course selection to ensure degree progress and completion along with serving as the contact between student-athletes and the coaching staff regarding academic progress. Scott is a graduate of the University of Richmond where he played for the Spiders from 2002-05 and was an Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference Team selection and a two-year team captain.
A GROWING TREE: Brian Burg was named the head coach at Georgia Southern over the summer to add to the growing list of former Beard assistant coaches who have been hired as head coaches. Burg, who joined forces with Beard at Little Rock, would work on his staff for four seasons at Texas Tech where the program reached new heights by advancing to the 2018 Elite 8, winning the 2019 Big 12 regular-season title, and then reaching the 2019 NCAA Championship final. Burg is now entering his first season as a head coach at Georgia Southern and hired Tim MacAllister (former Tech Chief of Staff) as an assistant. Along with Burg, Chris Ogden is now entering his fourth season as the head coach at UT Arlington after being an assistant at Tech under Beard. Wes Flanigan was the first Beard assistant to land a Division I head coaching job, being named the Little Rock head coach after Beard left the Trojan program. Flanigan is currently an assistant at Auburn. Along with Division 1 coaches, Cinco Boone is the head coach at Angelo State (DII), a position he's held for six seasons after being Beard's assistant there for two years and at McMurry for one.
TYSON SIGNS: Beard announced the signing of Jaylon Tyson to his national letter of intent for the 2021-22 academic year. A 6-foot-7 guard/forward from Allen, Texas, Tyson is a senior at John Paul II High School where he helped lead his team to its first-ever Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) state championship last season. A four-star recruit by ESPN, Rivals, and 247Sports, he earned TAPPS All-State first-team honors as a junior after averaging 24.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. ESPN currently lists Tyson as the seventh-best recruit in the state of Texas and 18th by the small forward position. 247Sports puts Tyson at No. 4 in Texas, while Rivals has him as the No. 34-ranked player nationally. Tyson signed on November 11, 2020.
RED RAIDERS IN THE PROS: Jarrett Culver (Minnesota – NBA), Jahmi'us Ramsey (Sacramento – NBA), Matt Mooney (Cleveland – NBA), Tariq Owens (Phoenix – NBA), Zhaire Smith (Philadelphia – NBA), Keenan Evans (Hapoel Haifa – Israel), Davide Moretti (Olimpia Milano – Italy), Norense Odiase (Brose Bamberg – Germany), Brandone Francis (Gipuzkoa Basket – Spain), TJ Holyfield (Kauhajoki Karhu – Finland).
RECENT GRADS: A pair of our No. 22s are now Texas Tech graduates. Despite different academic paths and life timelines, Jarrius Jackson and TJ Holyfield shared a milestone on August 8, 2020, as the former Red Raiders (both wore 22 during their playing days) received their diplomas in a virtual ceremony. Jackson, who played from 2004-07 and then enjoyed a successful professional career overseas, completed his degree in University Studies while Holyfield played last season and earned his master's degree in one year as a graduate transfer. Beard said: "I'm really proud of both of them. I was really fortunate that I got the opportunity to coach Jay Jackson and Holyfield. Earning their degrees was always something we talked about being important to them and their families. It's impressive the way both of them did it."
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE: The 2019-20 season saw the largest average attendance in program history with 14,057 fans per game. The Red Raiders sold out six home games during the season, including non-conference games against Eastern Illinois and Bethune-Cookman. The regular-season finale against Kansas was another sellout and the 32nd game in program history with 15,000-plus games at the home arena. Texas Tech is 262-93 all-time at the United Supermarkets Arena, including a 61-9 record under Beard.

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In the second round, with the 46th pick, the Rockies select RHP Chris McMahon from the University of Miami.

MLB's 29th overall draft prospect.
Fastball grade: 60 | Slider grade: 60 | Change Up grade: 55 | Curveball grade: 50 | Control grade: 50 | Overall: 50
Bats: Right | Throws: Right | Height: 6'2'' | Weight: 217 lbs | DOB: 02/04/1999 (age 21)
From MLB.com:

McMahon was a solid high school product outside of Philadelphia who was No. 100 on MLB Pipeline's Draft Top 200 as the 2017 Draft rolled around. The former three-sport standout (soccer and basketball) slid in the Draft, going in the 33rd round, and opted to go to Miami instead. A knee injury cut short his freshman year, and his sophomore year was up-and-down as the Hurricanes' Saturday starter. But he was one of the best performers for USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team, something that carried over to the start of his junior season. The right-hander has more than enough stuff to succeed as a starter at the next level. His fastball is up to 95-96 mph consistently, with late action on it down in the zone, and he was up to 98 mph this fall. He knows how to spin a breaking ball, but it gets caught in between being a curve and slider, looking more like the former. He has a very good feel for his changeup that can miss bats and get ground-ball outs. When he's on, McMahon combines athleticism, stuff, feel for pitching and command to make him a complete package. With an arm action that can be a little deep, he can get flat and gets hit more than he should. He got out front more consistently and didn't leave pitches up for Team USA and early this spring, solidifying his spot as one of the more solid college arms in the class.

In the third round, with the 81st pick, the Rockies select LHP Sam Weatherly from Clemson University.

MLB's 85th overall draft prospect.
Fastball grade: 55 | Slider grade: 60 | Change Up grade: 50 | Control grade: 40 | Overall: 45
Bats: Left | Throws: Left | Height: 6'4'' | Weight: 205 lbs | DOB: 05/28/1999 (age 21)
From MLB.com:

Projectable pitchers Jeff Criswell and Weatherly were Michigan's best high school prospects three years ago and now are poised to go in the top three rounds after going to college at Michigan and Clemson, respectively. After turning down the Blue Jays as a 27th-round pick, Weatherly has gone from two-way player to reliever to starter with the Tigers. He was spectacular in the brief 2020 season, allowing two runs in four starts while ranking among the NCAA Division I leaders in opponent average (.096, seventh), strikeouts (43, seventh) and strikeout rate (17.1 per nine innings, eighth). Weatherly's best pitch is a low-80s slider that consistently grades as plus and can wipe out both left-handers and right-handers. He sets it up with a 91-94 mph fastball that tops out at 96 with good spin rates that create riding life that leads to swings and misses up in the strike zone. His changeup is improving as he uses it more often as a starter and shows the makings of an average third pitch. Weatherly has the stuff to start and a 6-foot-4 frame built for durability. He's also more athletic than most pitchers and his arm works well, which makes his struggles to throw strikes baffling. He commands his slider better than his fastball and will land in the bullpen if he can't do a better job of finding the zone.

In the fourth round, with the 110th pick, the Rockies select RHP Case Williams from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado.

Bats: Right | Throws: Right | Height: 6'3'' | Weight: 210 lbs | DOB: 02/16/2002 (age 18)
COMMITTED TO SANTA CLARA

In the fifth round, with the 140th pick, the Rockies select SS Jack Blomgren from the University of Michigan.

MLB's 168th overall draft prospect.
Hit: 45 | Power: 30 | Run: 50 | Arm: 55 | Field: 55 | Overall: 40
Bats: Right | Throws: Right | Height: 5'10'' | Weight: 180 lbs | DOB: 09/27/1998 (Age 21)
From MLB.com:

A classic glue guy who helps hold a team together, Blomgren won Michigan's shortstop job as a freshman and has started 137 of the Wolverines' 141 games over the last three seasons. He hit .360 at the 2019 College World Series as Michigan lost in the finals, its best finish since winning the 1962 national title. His makeup stands out more than any of his individual tools but he makes contact at the plate and plays in the field. Blomgren's speed and pure arm strength are just average, but his range and throwing are better than that. He has reliable hands, good instincts that help him reach grounders and a quick release and internal clock that allow him to get the ball across the diamond in plenty of time. He's capable of playing shortstop at the next level and has the skills to serve all over the infield in a utility role if needed. It remains to be seen whether Blomgren can provide enough offensive impact to profile as a big league regular. He makes consistent contact with a flat right-handed swing and his patience and knack for getting hit by pitches enhance his on-base skills. He sprays line drives to all fields but offers ordinary bat speed and little power, as evidenced by his .357 slugging percentage in college.

Looking to make some swaps! I have 80 confirmed trades. Also, fair warning, these lists are long, I have a lot of stuff for trade! Looking to do fair value but where I have an item that is worn / in poor shape I value that lower than eBay averages due to condition.
p.s. "CIB" means including all the booklets and such that were supposed to come in there, otherwise I will clarify what is included. "NIB" means New In Box, aka sealed, "brand new," in the shrink, etc.

HAVE

Switch games and accessories

• Celeste CE - NIB, hard trade
• Danmaku Unlimited 3 - NIB with card
• Downwell - NIB
• Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge - CIB
• Helmut the Badass from Hell - NIB
• Rive - SRG trading pack only
• Snake Pass - SRG trading pack only
• The Darkside Detective - NIB with sealed cards, hard trade
• PowerA Premium Game Card Case red Super Mario M - NIB and authentic
• PowerA game card case black Zelda Z - loose, knock-off :(

Wii U

• Assassin's Creed III - NIB
• NintendoLand - box, manual and booklets only
• Runbow Deluxe Edition - NIB or CIB (willing to trade one of these)
• Shovel Knight - NIB, hard trade

Wii games and accessories

• ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - NIB
• Gallop and Ride! - CIB
• Game Party - CIB
• Ghost Squad - CIB
• Ghostbusters the Video Game - NIB
• Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
• Link's Crossbow Training - disc and manual in cardboard sleeve
• M. Knight Shamalayan's The Last Airbender - CIB
• MLB Power Pros 2008 - CIB
• NCIS - CIB
• PBR Out of the Chute - CIB
• Petz Horse Club - CIB
• Petz Sports - CIB
• Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
• Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - CIB
• Vegas Party - CIB
• Victorious Boxers Revolution - CIB
• Walk it Out! - NIB
• Wii Fit Plus - CIB (no balance board)
• Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
• Big Town Shootout 2 Blasters big box - NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)

GameCube games and accessories

• Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - game and manual only
• Hunter the Reckoning - CIB, hard trade
• Lego Star Wars - CIB
• Lego Star Wars II - CIB
• NBA Courtside 2002 - CIB, has wear
• NCAA Football 2003 - CIB
• Robotech Battlecry - CIB
• Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem - CIB, hard trade
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - CIB
• Action Replay - manual only

N64 booklets
Most of these have wear

• 1080 Snowboarding - manual and operations card
• Army Men Air Combat - manual
• Banjo Kazooie - manual (wrinkled)
• Banjo Tooie - manual
• Battletanx Global Assault - manual (wrinkled)
• Bomberman 64 - manual
• Buck Bumble - manual
• Diddy Kong Racing - manual, operations card
• Donkey Kong 64 - manual
• Extreme-G - manual
• Goldeneye 007 - manual
• Kirby 64 - manual
• Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
• Mario Party 2 - manual
• Mario Tennis - manual
• Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
• Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual (has marker on top right)
• Super Mario 64 - manual
• Yoshi's Story - manual and operations card
• Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual

NES games and accessories
Pictures of most items here

• Original game pad
• Original orange zapper
• RC Pro Am - game only
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt - game only
• Tiger Heli - game only

3DS games and accessories

• Brain Age Concentration Training - box, manual (cover art has a small tear on back)
• Legend of Legacy big box launch edition - CIB, hard trade
• Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes - NIB
• Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World EU region big box only (can hold both game and Poochy amiibo)
• Sonic Lost World - CIB, has a small hole on front cover
• Tomodachi Life - manual
• Operations manual and other inserts (no AR cards) for launch model 3DS in bag
• 2DS XL quick start guide
• Nyko Game Boost power attachment for launch model 3DS - NIB, some box damage

DS games and more

• Chrono Trigger - box, manual, all inserts including the poster
• Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime - box, manual, all inserts
• Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship - CIB
• Hamsterz Life - CIB
• Go Diego Go Great Dinosaur Rescue - CIB
• Junior Brain Trainer - CIB
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - manual, all inserts
• Metroid Prime Pinball - box, manual, health and safety insert (cover art says Rumble Pak included but there is no Rumble Pak)
• Rune Factory - box, manual, all inserts
• Scribblenauts Unlimited - manual only
• Spongebob Squarepants Atlantis Squarepantis - NIB
• Star Fox Command - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioware DIY - box, manual, all inserts
• Yoshi's Island DS - box, manual, health and safety insert
• EMS NDS Adapter - CIB (Not the newest version, works best with Windows XP)
• Operations manual and other inserts for black DSi in bag
• Instruction booklet for launch model DS
• I also have some health and safety precautions booklets and one WiFi connection booklet

GBA

• 3rd party charger - looks like an OEM charger but isn't
• An American Tail Fievel's Gold Rush - CIB
• Atari Anniversary Advance - CIB
• Backyard Basketball - game only
• Backyard Football - game only
• Candy Land / Chutes and Ladders / Memory - CIB
• Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble - CIB
• Crash Bandicoot the Huge Adventure - game only
• Disney's Monsters Inc. / Finding Nemo - game only
• Ecks vs Sever - game only
• Ed Edd n Eddy the Mis-Edventures - game only
• F-14 Tomcat - game only
• Garfield the Search for Pooky - CIB
• Golden Nugget Casino / Texas Hold 'Em Poker 2 in 1 value - CIB
• Madden 2003 - game only
• Mario Pinball Land - CIB
• Mario Tennis Power Tour - game only
• Medabots Rokusho Version - game only
• Monster Trucks - game only
• Muppet Pinball Mayhem - game only
• Need for Speed Underground - game only
• Pac Man Collection - game only
• Pac Man World - game only
• Pocket Dogs - CIB
• Rayman Advance - game only
• Road Trip Shifting Gears - CIB
• Rugrats I Gotta Go Party - game only
• Sonic Advance 2 - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Lights Camera Pants - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Revenge of the Flying Dutchman - game only
• Spyro 2 Season of Flame - CIB
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - game only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - game only
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - game only
• Uno / Skip Bo - game only
• Yoshi's Topsy Turvy - CIB

GBA Video sealed titles
Pictures here

• Dragon Ball GT Volume 1
• Nickelodeon Rugrats All Grown Up! Volume 1
• Nicktoons Collection Volume 2

GBC games and more

• Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 - game and manual
• Game and Watch Gallery 2 - box, manual and game with repro tray
• The Legend of the River King - game only
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - game only
• Wings of Fury - CIB
• GameShark Pro - box, manual (no tray)

GB games and more

• Mint condition Game Boy Pocket silver launch model with booklets
• 4 in 1 Funpak Volume II - game only
• Baseball - box, game with repro tray
• Battleship - box, game, registration card, poster with repro tray
• Bo Jackson Hit and Run - game and manual
• Centipede and Millipede - box, tray, game, manual
• Desert Strike - box, manual, game, inserts with repro tray
• Dr Mario - box and game with repro tray
• Face Ball 2000 - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery - box and manual with repro tray
• Ghostbusters II - game only
• Golf Player's Choice - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Hyper Lode Runner - game only
• James Bond 007 - game only
• Kirby's Pinball Land - game only
• Kwirk - game only
• Mickey's Dangerous Chase player's choice - game only
• Mole Mania - game only
• Nemesis - game only
• Paperboy - game only
• Penguin Wars - CIB
• Shanghai - game only
• Super Mario Land - Box, game, manual, with repro tray, game label has some wear
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan - game only
• The Chessmaster - box, game, inserts with repro tray (no manual)
• The Smurfs - game only
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - game only
• WWF Superstars 2 - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Nuby Worm Light safety instructions booklet only

SEGA Genesis games

• Madden NFL '94 - CIB
• Mike Ditka Power Football - Cardboard box and game, box has a lot of wear
• Pat Riley Basketball - CIB, has wear
• Sports Talk Baseball - CIB, has wear
• Super Battleship - CIB
• Triple Play 96 - CIB, has wear
• Unnecessary Roughness 95 - CIB, has wear
• World Series Baseball 96 - CIB, in cardboard box with registration card, has wear

PS3 games

• Battleship - NIB
• Burnout Paradise greatest hits - CIB
• Killzone 3 - NIB
• Mini Ninjas - CIB
• Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception - NIB
• WWE 12 - CIB

PS2 games
Pictures of most games here

• Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
• Alter Echo - CIB
• American Idol - CIB
• Blade II - CIB, poor condition
• Crash and Burn - CIB
• Dead to Rights - CIB, poor condition
• Dropship: United Peace Force - Box and disc
• FIFA Soccer 2003 - CIB
• Final Fantasy XI Online - CIB (I have two copies, one is a double disc version)
• Gadget Racers - CIB
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy - CIB
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - CIB
• IndyCar Series - CIB
• LA Rush - Box and disc, no bonus disc, case is a rental case
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - CIB but disc is red label
• Pirates Legend of the Black Buccaneer - box and disc
• Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - CIB, poor condition
• R-Type Final - disc only
• RTX Red Rock - CIB, poor condition
• Rumble Racing - CIB, hard trade
• Rune: Viking Warlord - CIB
• Savage Skies - Box and disc, poor condition
• Sky Odyssey - CIB, hard trade
• Star Wars Battlefront greatest hits red label - CIB
• SOCOM II: US Navy Seals - manual only
• Supercar Street Challenge - CIB
• The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - CIB with a bonus loose DVD disc of the film
• UFC Throwdown - CIB
• Wrath Unleashed - CIB, poor condition
• WWE Crush Hour - Box and disc
• Yanya Caballista City Skater - CIB, poor condition

PSX games
Pictures of most games here

• 007 Tomorrow Never Dies - Case, manual (no disc)
• Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Box, back cover art, disc (missing manual)
• Jeopardy! - CIB
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
• Star Wars Rebel Assault II - CIB
• Tetris Plus greatest hits green label - CIB
• Wheel of Fortune greatest hits green label - CIB

IBM Tandy

• Mario Teaches Typing big box - NIB

PC

• Cubix: Robots for Everyone - NIB
• Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron - manual only
• Oil Tycoon - NIB

Strategy guides and gaming magazines
Pictures of most guides here

• Pokemon Black White
• Pokemon Black White Version 2 CE Hardcover
• Pokemon Ruby Sapphire
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Conflict Desert Storm II (Prima)
• Mario 64 Unauthorized guide (missing front cover)
• Game Informer (Magic Legends Cover)
• Game Informer (Pokemon Sword Shield cover, the style with legendaries on front and back)
• PC Gamer (Star Trek Online)
• EGM (Year of the Portables), missing back cover

Collectibles and posters

• Ni No Kuni II Figpin "Evan" - still in box
• Hatsune Miku Funko Pop - NIB
• Club Nintendo Super Mario Children's Book JP Exclusive - New
• 2003 Nintendo Duck Hunt Patch - New
• Poster: Monster Hunter 3 Tri 20x27"
• Poster: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 40x14"
• Poster: New Super Mario Bros Wii / Zelda Spirit Tracks 12x17"
• Poster set: Bravoman and Bravoman x Wonder-Momo 11x15"
• Poster: Superman Shadow of Apokolips (from Nintendo Power)

Comic Books

• Marvel - Toys R Us Limited Edition X-Men #1
• Marvel - X-Men: The Ultra Collection Jan Book 2 of 5
• Marvel - Wolverine #109
• Marvel - Wolverine #111
• Marvel - X-Force #27
• Marvel - X-Force #28
• Marvel - The Invincible Iron Man #1
• Marvel - Original Human Torch #3
• Marvel - The Thing #16
• Marvel - Daredevil #362
• Marvel - The Beast #3
• Marvel - Cable #34
• Marvel - The Secret Defenders #15
• Marvel Fanfare #2
• Marvel - X-Factor #\71
• Marvel - Wonder Man #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #2
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #3
• Marvel - Steelgrip Starkey #6
• Marvel - Kickers Inc #1
• Marvel - Justice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Marvel - The 'Nam #14
• Marvel - The Punisher Armory #9
• Marvel - Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen!
• Marvel - Spider-Man Battles the Myth Monster
• Marvel - Spider-Man Magazine for Kids - Summer 1996, Fall 1996
• DC - Steel #1
• DC - Batman #509
• DC - Catwoman (93 Series) #4
• DC - The Green Lantern Corps #206
• DC - Hawkman #2
• DC - Tales of the Legion of Super Heroes #5
• Dark Horse - Predator Big Game #1
• Dark Horse - Jonny Quest The Real Adventures 1, 2, 3
• image - The Savage Dragon #11
• Star Wars X-Wing Rogue Squadron The Phantom Affair (book)
• Officer Snook #1

Random Stuff

• White Verizon iPhone 5S with protective case and charger
• Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Pretty sure this is unlocked, but will not work on Verizon, comes with Cyanogen OS, charging cable and dock
• GameKlip controller mount NIB - Would work great with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, requires a PS3 (aka DS3) controller, learn more here
• Ledger Nano S Whitepaper Edition NIB
• Micro Machines Star Wars Tie Starfighter Sealed
• Holy Ghost - Static on the Wire Vinyl Like New
• ABSRDST- Boss Beats CD sealed (An EP of Mega Man remixes)
• Speed Racer: The Movie VHS CIB
• Adventure Time: Jake vs Me-Mow DVD + Finn Hat CIB
• Regular Show: The Best DVD in the Universe
• AMC Walking Dead playing cards NIB (NY Comic Con promo)
• Avengers: Infinity War Moviebill
• 2x Madonna CDs
• Trial of the Clone - A modern CYOA style book
• Three Word Phrase Volume One
• Little Red Book Complete Street Guide to New York City
• 2 1932 Olympic stamps
• Dolce and Gabanna Intenso leather bag new, open box
• Vintage Academy Broadway Duffel Bag
• Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run Gold card

WANT

Would really like to pick up a Super Mario Maker 2DS console either CIB or loose with stylus
I also need cover art and manual for The Messenger on Switch, in case anyone snagged the cover art and manual extras that were on sale from SLG recently.
Pre-order bonuses

• ACNH GameStop Poster
• ACNH Target Journal
• Fire Emblem 3 Houses pin set
• Link’s Awakening HD GameStop Poster
• Link’s Awakening HD Pin Set
• Puyo Puyo Tetris Target exclusive decals
• Yoshi’s Crafted World frame

AC Amiibo Cards

• #107 Katie

Mario Sports Amiibo Cards

• Peach Golf
• Bowser Jr. Soccer
• Rosalina Soccer
• Rosalina Baseball
• Rosalina Horse Racing

Amiibo

• Poochy (loose)
• Goomba (loose)
• Boo (loose)

LRG Cards
Cards for Flinthook, Dust, Slime San, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, ToeJam and Earl, Golf Story, Dragon's Lair Trilogy, PixelJunk Monsters 2, Lumines Remastered, Yooka-Laylee, Blazing Chrome, Battle Chef, Windjammers, The Escapists and Saturday Morning RPG
Limited Print Switch Games (prefer CIB but also fine with NIB)

• Bridge Constructor Portal
• Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans
• Dimension Drive (LE or standard)
• Duck Game
• Fox n Forests
• Furi
• Gorogoa
• Gris
• Ms. Splosion Man
• Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
• Puyo Puyo Tetris big box contents with target exclusive decals or CIB
• RXN Raijin
• The Messenger cover art and manual or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer copy)
• Timespinner
• Transistor

Other Switch Games (looking for CIB and clean)

• 1-2 Switch
• Astral Chain
• PENDING Atari Flashback Classics
• Axiom Verge
• Disgaea 1 Complete
• Dusk Diver Day 1 Edition
• Hollow Knight box or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer box)
• I am Setsuna
• Little Town Hero Big Idea Edition
• Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Moonlighter
• Ninja Saviors
• Octopath Traveler
• Overcooked Special Edition or double pack
• Phoenix Wright Trilogy (JP)
• Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection (JP)
• Super Mario Maker 2 stylus
• Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[Cl-R]
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country with unused DLC code or NIB
• Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• WRC 8

3DS Games

• Beyblade Collector's Edition - CIB or NIB
• Bravely Default - CIB
• Cooking Mama 5 - CIB
• Cooking Mama Sweet Shop - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Untold soundtrack bundle - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Nexus launch edition - CIB
• Frogger 3D - CIB big box version with cover plates
• LEGO Chima Laval's Journey - CIB big box with minifigure
• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - CIB
• Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology launch edition - big box with contents or CIB
• Style Savvy Fashion Forward - CIB

DS

• Bomberman Land Touch 2 - CIB
• Elektroplankton - Nintendo Power booklet
• Infinite Space - loose
• Jewel Time Deluxe - box, manual
• Korg DS10+ JP Limited Edition - CIB
• Korg M01 JP - Club Nintendo insert
• Nanostray - CIB
• Phantasy Star 0 - CIB
• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney games (except Trials and Tribulations) - CIB
• Shepherd's Crossing 2 - CIB
• Space Invaders Extreme - CIB

GBA

• Car Battler Joe - manual
• Drill Dozer - A Girl and Her Dozer Mini Comic (the one I have is ripped)
• Fire Emblem - CIB
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - CIB

GBC

• Metal Gear Solid - box, manual, inserts
• Shantae - CIB
• The Legend of the River King 2 - CIB
• The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Ages - CIB

GB

• Kirby's Dreamland 2 - CIB
• Mario's Picross - manual

Wii

• Babysitting Mama - CIB or NIB bassinet bundle
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - CIB
• The Last Story - soundtrack in sleeve

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat the Elite Missions - box
• Baten Kaitos Origins - CIB
• Doshin the Giant (PAL) - CIB
• Mega Man Network Transmission - CIB
• Mega Man X Command Mission - CIB with trading card
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Plus - CIB
• Smashing Drive - CIB
• Smuggler's Run War Zones - CIB
• Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble - CIB

N64

• N64 Expansion Pack with tool to open expansion slot, or Donkey Kong 64 box, tray, manual, etc with expansion pack included
• Hey You Pikachu! - box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have the game, mic and voice unit)
• Star Fox 64 box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have game and rumble pack)

PS3

• Boku no Natsuyasumi 3 (JP) - CIB
• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness - disc
• Railfan: Taiwan High Speed Rail Asian version with English subtitles - CIB

PS2

• Godzilla Save the Earth - CIB
• Gradius 3 and 4 - CIB
• Naval Ops Warship Gunner - manual
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - black label disc
• River King a Wonderful Journey - disc

PSX

• Army Men: World War - disc only
• Konami Justifier Lightgun(s)
• Official mouse - loose or CIB

NGPC
If anyone has a Neo Geo Pocket Color and/or games for it, I'm interested...
Strategy Guides

• Gotcha Force
• The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages / Seasons Nintendo Power

I'm also happy to look at lists, but these are my priority wants.

With the recent cancellation of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments commonly known as March Madness, I will be hosting a March Madness style OFM tourney.
Time:
With coronavirus messing up everyone's schedules, there is no specific date, but I will let players choose when to play their games from Saturday, 3/21 to Sunday, 3/29. Signups are due by 11:59 PM EDT, Friday 3/20
Server:
Default server is Dallas but players can agree to any server. I will try to group players by their home server.
Games format:
One 5 minute, 1v1 Open Field Masters game. If it's a tie, replay the game. After the game has finished, please either take a screenshot of the scoreboard, or send me the match link on tagpro.eu. Message me the screenshot or match link on tagpro.eu on Discord, where my username is JARVISLANDRY#7537
Tournament format:
Just like March Madness, it will be a single elimination format. I hope that we can reach 64 signups, and if not, then we will use 32, or, if necessary, give some players a bye week to reach a round of 32. There will be deadlines for when all matches in each round will need to be completed by, which I will post when the time comes closer. If I notice a match has not been completed the day before that round's deadline has reached, I will message both players with a warning. If only one player shows up on that day, then they will win by forfeit. If neither play shows up on that day, no one will advance, and the player who would have played the winner of that game will advance to the next round by forfeit. I will help the 2 players playing communicate to each other about when they want to schedule their game.
Seeding:
To avoid any questionable judgments by me, and to give the players a way to have fun giving an input in the tourney, I will send out a player rating form on Saturday, 3/21, in the morning, where the participants can rank the players to their best ability to determine what seeds each player is, and thus the format of the bracket. If not enough people do this form, or there are too many meme results, then I will make the seeds to the best of my ability.
Predictions:
I will also be posting a prediction sheet where everyone can make their picks for all of the rounds. Getting matches correct in higher rounds will result in more points. It will be filled out like a normal March Madness bracket would be. The most accurate predictors will win a prize.
Prize:
Not too sure what the prize will be yet, and how many players will receive a prize. If you have any ideas or want to contribute to the prize, message me on Discord at JARVISLANDRY#7537
I'm not good enough to compete, why signup?
Even if you don't think you have the skills to compete with the top tier players, I still recommend signing up because the community seeding process might put you against an easier group of players than you might have originally thought, so you might still win some games. If not, it is still only a 5 minute game, and you might learn some things while playing.
How to signup:
Signup link= https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNOTVn-EGcV5nZVhYO1Aeu9zi9285Fv4am_77hD-OnmAPMrw/viewform?usp=sf_link
You must also be verified in the Competitive TagPro Discord in order to play. This is to prevent smurfing and unverified players. The invite link can be found here: https://discord.gg/JCyQaZH. If you need a new link, message me on Discord at JARVISLANDRY#7537.
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Trying to get some trades in before Coronavirus shuts down the USPS and Kevin Costner's The Postman becomes our reality. I have 80 confirmed trades. Also, fair warning, these lists are long, I have a lot of stuff for trade! Looking to do fair value but where I have an item that is worn / in poor shape I value that lower than eBay averages due to condition.
p.s. "CIB" means including all the booklets and such that were supposed to come in there, otherwise I will clarify what is included. "NIB" means New In Box, aka sealed, "brand new," in the shrink, etc.

HAVE

Switch games and accessories

• Celeste CE - NIB, hard trade
• Cosmic Star Heroine - NIB
• Danmaku Unlimited 3 - NIB with card
• Downwell - NIB
• Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge - CIB
• Mutant Mudds Collection - CIB (crease on slipcover) with loose cards
• PixelJunk Monsters 2 - NIB
• Rive - SRG trading pack only
• Snake Pass - SRG trading pack only
• Splasher - NIB
• The Adventure Pals - NIB with sealed cards
• The Darkside Detective - NIB with sealed cards, hard trade
• PowerA Premium Game Card Case red Super Mario M - NIB and authentic
• PowerA game card case black Zelda Z - loose, knock-off :(

Wii U

• Assassin's Creed III - NIB
• NintendoLand - box, manual and booklets only
• Runbow Deluxe Edition - NIB or CIB (willing to trade one of these)
• Shovel Knight - NIB, hard trade

Wii games and accessories

• ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - NIB
• Gallop and Ride! - CIB
• Game Party - CIB
• Ghost Squad - CIB
• Ghostbusters the Video Game - NIB
• Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
• Link's Crossbow Training - disc and manual in cardboard sleeve
• M. Knight Shamalayan's The Last Airbender - CIB
• MLB Power Pros 2008 - CIB
• NCIS - CIB
• PBR Out of the Chute - CIB
• Petz Horse Club - CIB
• Petz Sports - CIB
• Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
• Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - CIB
• Super Paper Mario - box and manual only
• Vegas Party - CIB
• Victorious Boxers Revolution - CIB
• Walk it Out! - NIB
• Wii Fit Plus - CIB (no balance board)
• Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
• Big Town Shootout 2 Blasters big box - NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)

GameCube games and accessories

• Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - game and manual only
• Hunter the Reckoning - CIB, hard trade
• Lego Star Wars - CIB
• Lego Star Wars II - CIB
• NBA Courtside 2002 - CIB, has wear
• NCAA Football 2003 - CIB
• Robotech Battlecry - CIB
• Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem - CIB, hard trade
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - CIB
• Orange Spice original controller - loose, hard trade
• Action Replay - manual only

N64 booklets
Most of these have wear

• 1080 Snowboarding - manual and operations card
• Army Men Air Combat - manual
• Banjo Kazooie - manual (wrinkled)
• Banjo Tooie - manual
• Battletanx Global Assault - manual (wrinkled)
• Bomberman 64 - manual
• Buck Bumble - manual
• Diddy Kong Racing - manual, operations card
• Donkey Kong 64 - manual
• Extreme-G - manual
• Goldeneye 007 - manual
• Kirby 64 - manual
• Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
• Mario Party 2 - manual
• Mario Tennis - manual
• Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
• Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual (has marker on top right)
• Super Mario 64 - manual
• Yoshi's Story - manual and operations card
• Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual

NES games and accessories
Pictures of most items here

• Original game pad
• Original orange zapper
• Blaster Master - game only
• Casino Kid - game only
• Dr Mario - game only
• RC Pro Am - game only
• Star Tropics - CIB, letter is still attached to manual!
• Star Tropics 2 Zoda's Revenge - CIB
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt - game only
• The King of Kings (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Tiger Heli - game only

3DS games and accessories

• Brain Age Concentration Training - box, manual (cover art has a small tear on back)
• Legend of Legacy big box launch edition - CIB, very hard trade
• Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes - NIB
• Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World EU region big box only (can hold both game and Poochy amiibo)
• Puzzler 3D World 2012 - CIB
• Puzzler Mind Gym 3D - CIB
• Tomodachi Life - manual
• OEM charger
• Operations manual and other inserts (no AR cards) for launch model 3DS in bag
• 2DS XL quick start guide
• Nyko Game Boost power attachment for launch model 3DS - NIB, some box damage

DS games and more

• Chrono Trigger - box, manual, all inserts including the poster
• Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime - box, manual, all inserts
• Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship - CIB
• Hamsterz Life - CIB
• Go Diego Go Great Dinosaur Rescue - CIB
• Junior Brain Trainer - CIB
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - manual, all inserts
• Metroid Prime Pinball - box, manual, health and safety insert (cover art says Rumble Pak included but there is no Rumble Pak)
• Rune Factory - box, manual, all inserts
• Scribblenauts Unlimited - manual only
• Spongebob Squarepants Atlantis Squarepantis - NIB
• Star Fox Command - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioware DIY - box, manual, all inserts
• Yoshi's Island DS - box, manual, health and safety insert
• EMS NDS Adapter - CIB (Not the newest version, works best with Windows XP)
• Operations manual and other inserts for black DSi in bag
• Instruction booklet for launch model DS
• I also have some health and safety precautions booklets and one WiFi connection booklet

GBA

• 3rd party charger - looks like an OEM charger but isn't
• An American Tail Fievel's Gold Rush - CIB
• Atari Anniversary Advance - CIB
• Backyard Basketball - game only
• Backyard Football - game only
• Candy Land / Chutes and Ladders / Memory - CIB
• Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble - CIB
• Crash Bandicoot the Huge Adventure - game only
• Disney's Magical Quest 2 Starring Mickey and Minnie - game only
• Disney's Monsters Inc. / Finding Nemo - game only
• Donkey Kong Country - game only
• Donkey Kong Country 2 - game only
• Ecks vs Sever - game only
• Ed Edd n Eddy the Mis-Edventures - game only
• F-14 Tomcat - game only
• Garfield the Search for Pooky - CIB
• Golden Nugget Casino / Texas Hold 'Em Poker 2 in 1 value - CIB
• Madden 2003 - game only
• Mario Pinball Land - CIB
• Mario Tennis Power Tour - game only
• Medabots Rokusho Version - game only
• Monster Trucks - game only
• Muppet Pinball Mayhem - game only
• Need for Speed Underground - game only
• Pac Man Collection - game only
• Pac Man World - game only
• Pocket Dogs - CIB
• Pokemon Glazed (bootleg, clear blue cart) - game only
• Rayman Advance - game only
• Road Trip Shifting Gears - CIB
• Rugrats I Gotta Go Party - game only
• Sonic Advance 2 - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Lights Camera Pants - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Revenge of the Flying Dutchman - game only
• Spyro 2 Season of Flame - CIB
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - game only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - game only
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - game only
• Uno / Skip Bo - game only
• Yoshi's Topsy Turvy - CIB

GBA Video sealed titles
Pictures here

• Dragon Ball GT Volume 1
• Nickelodeon Rugrats All Grown Up! Volume 1
• Nicktoons Collection Volume 2

GBC games and more

• Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 - game and manual
• Croc - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery 2 - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - game only
• Wings of Fury - CIB
• GameShark Pro - box, manual (no tray)

GB games and more

• Mint condition Game Boy Pocket silver launch model with booklets
• 4 in 1 Funpak Volume II - game only
• Baseball - box, game with repro tray
• Battleship - box, game, registration card, poster with repro tray
• Bill Elliott's Nascar Fast Tracks - box, game, manual, inserts with repro tray and original receipt from 1992
• Bo Jackson Hit and Run - game and manual
• Centipede and Millipede - box, tray, game, manual
• Cleaning Kit - box only
• Dead Heat Scramble - game only
• Desert Strike - box, manual, game, inserts with repro tray
• Donkey Kong Land - game only
• Donkey Kong Land 2 - game only
• Dr Mario - box and game with repro tray
• Face Ball 2000 - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery - box and manual with repro tray
• Ghostbusters II - game only
• Golf Player's Choice - box, manual and game with repro tray
• High Stakes Gambling - game only
• Hyper Lode Runner - game only
• James Bond 007 - game only
• Jeopardy! - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• King James Bible (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Kirby's Pinball Land - game only
• Kwirk - game only
• Mickey's Dangerous Chase player's choice - game only
• Mole Mania - game only
• Monopoly - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Nemesis - game only
• Paperboy - game only
• Penguin Wars - CIB
• Revenge of the Gator - game only
• Shanghai - game only
• Super Mario Land - Box, game, manual, with repro tray, game label has some wear
• Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins - game only, battery is dead
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan - game only x2
• Tetris Attack - game only
• The Chessmaster - box, game, inserts with repro tray (no manual)
• The Smurfs - game only
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - game only
• WWF Superstars 2 - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Yoshi's Cookie - game only
• Nuby Worm Light safety instructions booklet only

SEGA Genesis games

• Clue - CIB
• Madden NFL '94 - CIB
• Mike Ditka Power Football - Cardboard box and game, box has a lot of wear
• Pat Riley Basketball - CIB, has wear
• Spider-Man - loose
• Sports Talk Baseball - CIB, has wear
• Super Battleship - CIB
• Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition - loose
• Triple Play 96 - CIB, has wear
• Unnecessary Roughness 95 - CIB, has wear
• World Series Baseball 96 - CIB, in cardboard box with registration card, has wear

PS3 games

• Battleship - NIB
• PENDING Burnout Paradise greatest hits - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam - NIB
• Killzone 3 - NIB
• PENDING Mini Ninjas - CIB
• Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception - NIB
• WWE 12 - CIB

PS2 games
Pictures of most games here

• Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
• Alter Echo - CIB
• American Idol - CIB
• Blade II - CIB, poor condition
• Crash and Burn - CIB
• Dead to Rights - CIB, poor condition
• Dropship: United Peace Force - Box and disc
• Everblue 2 - Box and disc
• FIFA Soccer 2003 - CIB
• Final Fantasy XI Online - CIB (I have two copies, one is a double disc version)
• Gadget Racers - CIB
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy - CIB
• Godzilla Save the Earth - Box and disc
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - CIB
• Indigo Prophecy - CIB in a rental box
• IndyCar Series - CIB
• LA Rush - Box and disc, no bonus disc, case is a rental case
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - CIB but disc is red label
• Pirates Legend of the Black Buccaneer - box and disc
• Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - CIB, poor condition
• R-Type Final - disc only
• Risk Global Domination - CIB
• RTX Red Rock - CIB, poor condition
• Rumble Racing - CIB, hard trade
• Rune: Viking Warlord - CIB
• Savage Skies - Box and disc, poor condition
• Sky Odyssey - CIB, hard trade
• Star Wars Battlefront greatest hits red label - CIB
• SOCOM II: US Navy Seals - manual only
• Supercar Street Challenge - CIB
• The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - CIB with a bonus loose DVD disc of the film
• UFC Throwdown - CIB
• We Love Katamari - CIB
• Wrath Unleashed - CIB, poor condition
• WWE Crush Hour - Box and disc
• Yanya Caballista City Skater - CIB, poor condition

PSX games
Pictures of most games here

• Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Box, back cover art, disc (missing manual)
• Jeopardy! - CIB
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
• Star Wars Rebel Assault II - CIB
• Tetris Plus greatest hits green label - CIB
• Wheel of Fortune greatest hits green label - CIB

Xbox

• Bruce Lee Quest of the Dragon - CIB
• Cel Damage - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors 3 - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors 5 - Box and disc
• Halo Combat Evolved Platinum Hits - CIB
• Kung Fu Chaos - Box and disc, poor condition
• Red Card 20-03 - Box and disc, poor condition

IBM Tandy

• Mario Teaches Typing big box - NIB

PC

• Cubix: Robots for Everyone - NIB
• Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron - manual only
• Oil Tycoon - NIB

Strategy guides and gaming magazines
Pictures of most guides here

• Pokemon Black White
• Pokemon Black White Version 2 CE Hardcover
• Pokemon Colosseum (Prima)
• Pokemon Ruby Sapphire
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Conflict Desert Storm II (Prima)
• Mario 64 Unauthorized guide (missing front cover)
• Game Informer (Magic Legends Cover)
• Game Informer (Pokemon Sword Shield cover, the style with legendaries on front and back)
• PC Gamer (Star Trek Online)
• EGM (Year of the Portables), missing back cover

Collectibles and posters

• Ni No Kuni II Figpin "Evan" - still in box
• Hatsune Miku Funko Pop - NIB
• Club Nintendo Red Mario Hat DS carrying case - New
• Club Nintendo Super Mario Children's Book JP Exclusive - New
• 2003 Nintendo Duck Hunt Patch - New
• Poster: Monster Hunter 3 Tri 20x27"
• Poster: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 40x14"
• Poster: New Super Mario Bros Wii / Zelda Spirit Tracks 12x17"
• Poster set: Bravoman and Bravoman x Wonder-Momo 11x15"
• Poster: Superman Shadow of Apokolips (from Nintendo Power)

Comic Books

• Marvel - Toys R Us Limited Edition X-Men #1
• Marvel - X-Men: The Ultra Collection Jan Book 2 of 5
• Marvel - Wolverine #109
• Marvel - Wolverine #111
• Marvel - X-Force #27
• Marvel - X-Force #28
• Marvel - The Invincible Iron Man #1
• Marvel - Original Human Torch #3
• Marvel - The Thing #16
• Marvel - Daredevil #362
• Marvel - The Beast #3
• Marvel - Cable #34
• Marvel - The Secret Defenders #15
• Marvel Fanfare #2
• Marvel - X-Factor #\71
• Marvel - Wonder Man #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #2
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #3
• Marvel - Steelgrip Starkey #6
• Marvel - Kickers Inc #1
• Marvel - Justice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Marvel - The 'Nam #14
• Marvel - The Punisher Armory #9
• Marvel - Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen!
• Marvel - Spider-Man Battles the Myth Monster
• Marvel - Spider-Man Magazine for Kids - Summer 1996, Fall 1996
• DC - Steel #1
• DC - Batman #509
• DC - Catwoman (93 Series) #4
• DC - The Green Lantern Corps #206
• DC - Hawkman #2
• DC - Tales of the Legion of Super Heroes #5
• Dark Horse - Predator Big Game #1
• Dark Horse - Jonny Quest The Real Adventures 1, 2, 3
• image - The Savage Dragon #11
• Star Wars X-Wing Rogue Squadron The Phantom Affair (book)
• Officer Snook #1

Random Stuff

• White Verizon iPhone 5S with protective case and charger
• Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Pretty sure this is unlocked, but will not work on Verizon, comes with Cyanogen OS, charging cable and dock
• GameKlip controller mount NIB - Would work great with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, requires a PS3 (aka DS3) controller, learn more here
• Ledger Nano S Whitepaper Edition NIB
• Micro Machines Star Wars Tie Starfighter Sealed
• Holy Ghost - Static on the Wire Vinyl Like New
• ABSRDST- Boss Beats CD sealed (An EP of Mega Man remixes)
• Speed Racer: The Movie VHS CIB
• Adventure Time: Jake vs Me-Mow DVD + Finn Hat CIB
• Regular Show: The Best DVD in the Universe
• AMC Walking Dead playing cards NIB (NY Comic Con promo)
• Avengers: Infinity War Moviebill
• 2x Madonna CDs
• Trial of the Clone - A modern CYOA style book
• Three Word Phrase Volume One
• Little Red Book Complete Street Guide to New York City
• 2 1932 Olympic stamps
• Dolce and Gabanna Intenso leather bag new, open box
• Vintage Academy Broadway Duffel Bag
• Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run Gold card

WANT

Would really like to pick up a Super Mario Maker 2DS console either CIB or loose
Pre-order bonuses

• ACNH GameStop Poster
• ACNH Target Journal
• Fire Emblem 3 Houses pin set
• Link’s Awakening HD GameStop Poster
• Link’s Awakening Pin Set
• Puyo Puyo Tetris Target exclusive decals
• Yoshi’s Crafted World frame

AC Amiibo Cards

• #107 Katie

Mario Sports Amiibo Cards

• Peach Golf
• Bowser Jr. Soccer
• Rosalina Soccer
• Rosalina Baseball
• Rosalina Horse Racing

Amiibo

• Poochy (loose)
• Goomba (loose)
• Boo (loose)

LRG Cards
Cards for Flinthook, Dust, Slime San, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, ToeJam and Earl, Golf Story, Dragon's Lair Trilogy, PixelJunk Monsters 2, Lumines Remastered, Yooka-Laylee, Blazing Chrome, Battle Chef, Windjammers, The Escapists and Saturday Morning RPG
Limited Print Switch Games (prefer CIB but also fine with NIB)

• Aegis Defenders
• Alliance Alive HD (CE or standard)
• Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans
• Dimension Drive (LE or standard)
• Fox n Forests
• Furi
• Gorogoa
• Gris
• Musynx
• Puyo Puyo Tetris big box contents with target exclusive decals or CIB
• The Messenger cover art and manual or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer copy)
• Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap launch edition

Other Switch Games (looking for CIB and clean)

• Arms
• Astral Chain
• Atari Flashback Classics
• Cat Quest 2 Pawsome Version
• Disgaea 1 Complete
• Disgaea 4 Complete
• Dragonball FighterZ
• Hasbro Game Night - Monopoly / Risk / Trivial Pursuit
• Hero Land Knowble Edition
• Hollow Knight box or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer box)
• Layton's Mystery Journey Katrielle and the Millionaire's Conspiracy
• Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Ninja Saviors
• Octopath Traveler
• Overcooked Special Edition or double pack
• Phoenix Wright Trilogy
• Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection (JP)
• Super Mario Maker 2 stylus
• Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• WRC 8

3DS Games

• Beyblade Collector's Edition - CIB or NIB
• Bravely Default - CIB
• Bravely Second - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Untold soundtrack bundle - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Nexus launch edition - CIB
• Frogger 3D - CIB big box version with cover plates
• LEGO Chima Laval's Journey - CIB big box with minifigure
• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - CIB
• Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology launch edition - big box with contents or CIB
• Style Savvy Fashion Forward - CIB

DS

• Bomberman Land Touch 2 - CIB
• Elektroplankton - Nintendo Power booklet
• Infinite Space - loose
• Jewel Time Deluxe - box, manual
• Korg DS10+ JP Limited Edition - CIB
• Korg M01 JP - Club Nintendo insert
• Nanostray - CIB
• Phantasy Star 0 - CIB
• Shepherd's Crossing 2 - CIB
• Space Invaders Extreme 2 - CIB

GBA

• Car Battler Joe - manual
• Drill Dozer - A Girl and Her Dozer Mini Comic (the one I have is ripped)
• Fire Emblem - CIB
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - CIB

GBC

• Metal Gear Solid - box, manual, inserts
• Shantae - CIB

GB

• Kirby's Dreamland 2 - CIB
• Mario's Picross - manual
• Yoshi - DMG-USA-4 poster

Also could really use a styrofoam tray with lid for the original console box and plastic trays for game boxes.
Wii

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - CIB
• Mini Ninjas - CIB
• The Last Story - soundtrack in sleeve

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat the Elite Missions - box
• Baten Kaitos Origins - CIB
• Mega Man Network Transmission - CIB
• Mega Man X Command Mission - CIB with trading card
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - manual
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Plus - CIB
• Smuggler's Run War Zones - CIB
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - CIB

N64

• N64 Expansion Pack with tool to open expansion slot, or Donkey Kong 64 box, tray, manual, etc with expansion pack included
• Hey You Pikachu! - box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have the game, mic and voice unit)
• Star Fox 64 box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have game and rumble pack)

PS3

• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness - disc

PS2

• Godzilla Save the Earth - manual or CIB
• Gradius 3 and 4 - CIB
• Naval Ops Warship Gunner - manual
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - black label disc
• River King a Wonderful Journey - disc

PSX

• Army Men: World War - disc only
• Konami Justifier Lightgun(s)
• Official mouse - loose or CIB

NGPC
If anyone has a Neo Geo Pocket Color and/or games for it, I'm interested...
Strategy Guides

• Gotcha Force
• Pokemon Sword and Shield

I'm also happy to look at lists, but these are my priority wants.