I've gotta look up some old box scores and game stories because I can't imagine what Lauren Betts was doing against regular-ass high-schoolers out here in Colorado

Cleveland, Detroit and Memphis I'd lump Pittsburgh in here, too, but you kind of surrender the right to be misunderstood and overlooked when the New York Times has done like 57 "36 Hours In" features on you

we could erase the national debt if we turned a live stream of Mick Cronin watching Aday Mara in the Final Four into a pay-per-view

the Final Four being on TBS and truTV is great, if only because I love the thought of a dedicated Impractical Jokers viewer tuning in to watch it on Saturday night and yelling "what the hell is this shit?!" when they see basketball on instead

he probably won't, but my sincere hope as a Coloradan is that he runs in 2028 and drops out after getting 0.2% of the vote in South Carolina (or wherever the first primary ends up being)

all the videos from PNC Park today are a reminder that Pittsburgh is an incredible baseball town that's just been treated like absolute dogshit by ownership the past 30 years those three years when I lived there when they were in the playoffs were magical. totally different vibe in the city

we're three days into April and I have yet to post this. personally embarrassed it took this long

heading into the Final Four, I wrote in my newsletter this week about the divergent paths of UConn and Tennessee women's basketball also took a look at this being the 30-year anniversary of the last time a Final Four was played in an actual basketball arena

Puka seems pretty committed to recreating the Kenny Powers career arc from the series-opening montage for Eastbound and Down

this was the height of graphic design. the profession has never found a way to top it

it's on a much smaller scale, but watching the Teflon nature of the Platner campaign has left me feeling like how I imagine a lot of the Bulwark type Republicans felt watching Trump roll through the GOP primary in 2016

if he's the No. 2 player in the portal, I've gotta assume there are like only seven dudes in there right now

seeing a lot of the responses on Twitter to Jaden Ivey getting released really shows what a cesspool that whole place has become

there's a lot to sift through with this Jaden Ivey saga, even beyond his outright homophobia, but one of the wilder wrinkles is him going in his IG comments to say Catholicism is a fake religion despite his mom being the women's basketball coach at Notre Dame

pretty ballsy of Shedeur Sanders to follow in these legendary footsteps

coaches and programs are NCAA Tournament underachievers until they're not, but Duke's in a pretty tough spot they've got a wildly accomplished 38-year-old prodigy of a head coach who has successfully succeeded a legend...and who also seems to have an unshakeable case of lemon booty

watching Duke choke that away really makes me wonder how people root for conferences. couldn't be me

losing by 20 in the first half against an ACC opponent. Luke Murray's already starting his preparation for being the BC basketball coach

shouts to Chuck for saying this, especially with Bruce Pearl two seats over to his right

Louisville and Michigan have fought over a men's basketball coach twice in my lifetime. in 2001, Louisville won out and got Rick Pitino. two years ago, Michigan got Dusty May guess we can call it even

Ringer Tailgate is funnier than any comedy podcast

was pretty awesome being a part of history today in Denver

it feels so wrong that Peja Stojakovic's kid is a 30% career 3-point shooter. it's like Deion Sanders' son being slow and unathletic

instead of that, how about you enlist, Deuce Bigalow?

[the mushroom cloud grows as those around me pray and say their goodbyes] college basketball analyst: don’t need a three here

it's fascinating to think how we'd think of Tom Izzo if Kenyon Martin didn't break his leg and miss the NCAA Tournament in 2000

Dylan Darling on that 3

speaking as someone who broke his foot a few months ago, Caleb Foster probably has enough toradol coursing through his veins to kill a small mammal

I've got vivid memories of some of the most random stuff from my childhood and Duke and St. John's basketball playing a random but really compelling January or February non-conference game seemingly every year is one of them will be a ton of fun seeing them square off in the Sweet 16

watching Nebraska-Iowa

he may end up doing well there, but I kinda wonder if he may end up learning the same lesson at BC that his pops did doing Garfield: all money ain't good money

Michael Malone's out there somewhere making a hit list of all the people referring to him as "Mike" in their North Carolina coaching candidates stories

it'll only be for the next nine months, but he'll get to live out his dream of having Ron DeSantis as his governor

this Will Wade situation is undeniably, and I'd be pissed if I were an NC State fan, but I don't feel bad for that school or athletic department. y'all knew who you were getting in bed with

like a lot of people who grew up in the south, I was taught in school that Lee was a master tactician. it took one visit to Gettysburg to completely disabuse me of that notion he was an awful person, too, which shouldn't be overshadowed

I think Darian DeVries will do OK there, but Indiana fans have gotta be sick. could have made a change in '24 & hired native son Dusty May, but hung on to Mike Woodson one more year. next year, they didn't get Ben McCollum, who's basically Basketball Cignetti and has Iowa in first Sweet 16 since '99

Go enlist then, bitch.

there's now officially a power-conference women's basketball coach who was in Juwanna Mann

Winning back-to-back national championships is hard, unlike talking to women your own age. Todd Golden struggles with both though, apparently.

Iowa vs. Nebraska in the Sweet 16

seeing Tre White and Skyy Clark playing prominent roles for teams in the round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament really reminds me that Louisville went 8-24 with those two as their starting backcourt Kenny Payne is a war criminal

on one hand, Florida losing to Iowa would fuck up my bracket. on the other hand, it would mean something bad happened to Todd Golden

few things illustrate Rick Pitino's force of personality more effectively than people thinking this St. John's team with this offense could win five straight games against elite competition

I can't believe UK spent $22 million on this roster. real "teenager on shopping spree with mom's credit card" vibes their big acquisitions were a big man who was never gonna play even a majority of the season, a point guard who can't shoot and the seventh-best player from last year's Florida team

don't know how many Denver people follow me on here, but Riot BBQ is one of the five or 10 best restaurants I've ever been to

already regretting not picking Miami to beat Purdue

Danny Hurley vs. Mick Cronin on Sunday

Steve Lappas is Cory Alexander with a New York accent. brother, dial it back a bit. I'm trying to watch the game, not hear you constantly talk over the action