The thing about Brown is that yes, they were 12-17 -- but having won 6 straight games at that point, including having knocked off the three 20-win Ivy league teams (Cornell and Yale in the regular season, Princeton in the Ivy Semis), they were actually a very tough out, playing as well as any mid major in the country.
I am grateful beyond all measure that JH took us to the pinnacle. I am at peace with JH's probable departure, especially since the transition to Sherrone is set up to be as smooth as such a thing could possibly be.
Thaw's fair catch at the 29 before the start of the first 4th quarter TD drive in the NCG was an underrated key play in the game: Washington had sneakily gained field position on most of its punts to that point, which were short but hard-to-field line drives that would bounce in the right direction (for UW, that is). Coming up and catching that punt with 9:44 left in the game set the "ok, now it's time to do what we do best and take care of business" tone for the subsequent drive.
Real emotions, man. We spend so much time not having them and then sports comes along and offers them up but it turns out you get most all of them. Or you substitute "Fire the Coach" for half of them. But if you don't do that -- and if you wallow when wallowing is emotionally appropriate -- damn do the emotions you got in it for in the first place feel good.
This needs a NSFW disclaimer -- not for any sexybit-related reasoning (obvly) but for the significant potential of defying the generic expectation that grown men don't sit at their desk with tears in the eyes at 11:54 on a needs-to-be-productive Monday morning.
Corum had 25 TD runs this year but I swear 22 of them involved ping pinging off the calves and quads of the interior OL until everybody looked down and said "Hey I guess we're in the end zone. Tell the band."
But the other three: hoo boy, permanently etched into my archive of Happy Sports Memories.
Also: sorry but Trouble With The Snap is already times a billion.
Thought Nugent might get a little more love (than +0.5) for his block on the Corum 22-yd TD. Corum's feint puts Chambers on the wrong foot, but Nugent's massive sealing block on the DL keeps Chambers from getting back into the play just past the line.
If the B1G were the still the old Big Ten, with it's Great Lakes (+Iowa) footprint, I'd be sad. But since it's about to be a ludicrous coast-to-coast spectacle, I'm all in favor of joining the ACC instead. FSU and Clemson in football? Duke, UNC, and Louisville in basketball? Regular trips to Boston and Miami? I'm in.
Finally reading this from my laptop where I can login and comment: Just want to say that I love the data visualization, presentation, and prose of these posts. Incredibly good stuff!
Certified Tough Guy Lou Holtz. Setting aside the octogenarian issue, he'd bring national appeal to MSU's Big Ten East tilts (and Minnesota, too--they haven't forgiven him for bolting, sometime last century.)
Taste aside, one thing that the coffee pod concept does pretty well is reduce the amount of coffee bean that is wasted. Compared to packaging, the amount of water, transportation costs, and the like that go into getting the bean into your kitchen has a much higher ecological footprint. The efficiency gains in the dosing of the beans make it way less wasteful than people think, and probably a good deal less wasteful than other forms of coffee.
Looks like Hemby added a relatively pedestrian 48 yards from scrimmage to his season total on Friday night, a slight downgrade to the "Michigan should worry about . . ." line for Maryland.
And yet Marxist and post-colonial frames of analysis strike me as reductionist at best and (at worst) produce precisely the type of denial of agency that motivates the school of thought in the first place.
(Caveat #1: I don't really believe what I said in terms of "at best" -- at best these theories help us perceive the impact of deeply imbedded biases and power structures.)
(Caveat #2: As is presumably clear with abundance to Prof. Boddicker, I have zero training in literary theory. But feel like I can safely expound on what I don't know, for a sentence or so anyway, on this here sports website.)
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So awful to hear this news. He was the beginning of a great era at Crisler, and certainly a star in his own right. Condolences to his family.
The English-speaking world minus the United States
"Accused of" or "credited with"?
My bad. They have them there after all. Forgot they were a 1 seed. (Aberration, to be sure)
Deleted post because I screwed up, looking for State in the wrong place. Sorry about that.
Impressive: St. Lawrence has a chance to make the tournament with a ranking of 40 in the pairwise. Before the ECAC tournament started they were at 51.
The thing about Brown is that yes, they were 12-17 -- but having won 6 straight games at that point, including having knocked off the three 20-win Ivy league teams (Cornell and Yale in the regular season, Princeton in the Ivy Semis), they were actually a very tough out, playing as well as any mid major in the country.
Free throws, though. That part is accurate.
100% this.
So is the…
My heart is empty
So is the basketball hoop
at which we're shooting
CC: Eli Brooks
The crowd singing "I wanna know....have you ever seeeen the rain . . ."
Cue Keith Jackson: It's OK if you want to cry now.
Forget the jokes about dusty drafts or cutting onions. I'm f**king weeping right now. Tremendous tremendous stuff
I am grateful beyond all measure that JH took us to the pinnacle. I am at peace with JH's probable departure, especially since the transition to Sherrone is set up to be as smooth as such a thing could possibly be.
Thaw's fair catch at the 29 before the start of the first 4th quarter TD drive in the NCG was an underrated key play in the game: Washington had sneakily gained field position on most of its punts to that point, which were short but hard-to-field line drives that would bounce in the right direction (for UW, that is). Coming up and catching that punt with 9:44 left in the game set the "ok, now it's time to do what we do best and take care of business" tone for the subsequent drive.
Also, CT represent!
Real emotions, man. We spend so much time not having them and then sports comes along and offers them up but it turns out you get most all of them. Or you substitute "Fire the Coach" for half of them. But if you don't do that -- and if you wallow when wallowing is emotionally appropriate -- damn do the emotions you got in it for in the first place feel good.
Go Blue
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This needs a NSFW disclaimer -- not for any sexybit-related reasoning (obvly) but for the significant potential of defying the generic expectation that grown men don't sit at their desk with tears in the eyes at 11:54 on a needs-to-be-productive Monday morning.
Thank you both.
Corum had 25 TD runs this year but I swear 22 of them involved ping pinging off the calves and quads of the interior OL until everybody looked down and said "Hey I guess we're in the end zone. Tell the band."
But the other three: hoo boy, permanently etched into my archive of Happy Sports Memories.
Also: sorry but Trouble With The Snap is already times a billion.
I'm OK with TIkTok, but honestly I think it wasn't even Ke$ha's best song
Thought Nugent might get a little more love (than +0.5) for his block on the Corum 22-yd TD. Corum's feint puts Chambers on the wrong foot, but Nugent's massive sealing block on the DL keeps Chambers from getting back into the play just past the line.
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With a rebel yell she cried . . .
Bet.
Would rather see a jump to the ACC. Higher academics, already has northern elements in its footprint. SEC is mostly a bunch OSUs.
A sweet +39 line for Duggy Mac
This isn't the first time, either. Think about the 1973 Rose Bowl vote.
Gotta be the ACC. Fits our values better, plus our addition makes it better than the SEC in just about everything.
ACC is better in pretty much all sports except women's volleyball and ice hockey.
If the B1G were the still the old Big Ten, with it's Great Lakes (+Iowa) footprint, I'd be sad. But since it's about to be a ludicrous coast-to-coast spectacle, I'm all in favor of joining the ACC instead. FSU and Clemson in football? Duke, UNC, and Louisville in basketball? Regular trips to Boston and Miami? I'm in.
"I switched to The Athletic"
"Local coverage is better anyway"
"Worldwide Laggard"
Shows…
The world-wide leader
Shows it's anti-M bias;
I'm ditching the app
No Christmas shopping allowed before the leaves are raked. I hold firm on that.
…
Which of these is worse:
Felonious assault or
Aggressive scouting?
This sign…
If only Tuck saw
This sign on Daugherty Hall:
"Keep your zipper zipped"
Finally reading this from my laptop where I can login and comment: Just want to say that I love the data visualization, presentation, and prose of these posts. Incredibly good stuff!
Just wanted to say that I like the new guy's shirt:
Is not the…
Storied rivalry
Is not the LBJ with
Chair thrown through window
Every score has been more or less 31-6 this year. Same this week.
Certified Tough Guy Lou Holtz. Setting aside the octogenarian issue, he'd bring national appeal to MSU's Big Ten East tilts (and Minnesota, too--they haven't forgiven him for bolting, sometime last century.)
And no, I'm not serious.
I'm guessing that they didn't play a rubber match on account of "rubber" having not yet been invented (probably).
Favors…
Battle In the trench
Favors not the Red and Black
Say "Cyan-ara"
New…
Did Rutgers bring more
New York cable subscriptions
Than S'cuse would have?
Taste aside, one thing that the coffee pod concept does pretty well is reduce the amount of coffee bean that is wasted. Compared to packaging, the amount of water, transportation costs, and the like that go into getting the bean into your kitchen has a much higher ecological footprint. The efficiency gains in the dosing of the beans make it way less wasteful than people think, and probably a good deal less wasteful than other forms of coffee.
Looks like Hemby added a relatively pedestrian 48 yards from scrimmage to his season total on Friday night, a slight downgrade to the "Michigan should worry about . . ." line for Maryland.
And yet Marxist and post-colonial frames of analysis strike me as reductionist at best and (at worst) produce precisely the type of denial of agency that motivates the school of thought in the first place.
(Caveat #1: I don't really believe what I said in terms of "at best" -- at best these theories help us perceive the impact of deeply imbedded biases and power structures.)
(Caveat #2: As is presumably clear with abundance to Prof. Boddicker, I have zero training in literary theory. But feel like I can safely expound on what I don't know, for a sentence or so anyway, on this here sports website.)
Didn't we already know this?
Keurig and French press simply sit at opposite ends of the "I really like coffee" - "I would rather not ingest solid chunks of coffee beans" spectrum.
I feel like I can and should begin about three sentences a day with "In the world of capitalistic abundance..."
Great football bar -- but not the kind with the brown oblong thing. More of an EPL kind of place.