Sports are the best thing humans have ever come up with. I grant you that the wheel was a good invention, but it rarely has caused people to find themselves jumping around the room and yelling, unsure of when or how they even got to their feet, just screaming into the void out of pure joy

Oh man, the guy in the crowd in an Oilers jersey. That man has seen some things.

My guys, this could be the most Special the Special Relationship has ever been.

Holding out for Wuthering Heights 2: Electric Wutheroo.

If a height wuthers and nobody is there to see it, has it wuthered at all?

I love the idea of Philly people behaving like Philly people as some kind of Socratic dialogue on the place of robots in society.

I said that in these difficult times, I will only live with Angered people. I'm now relocating to southwest Gothenburg.

I knew there were lots of things wealthy people just don't have or need. Didn't know that included keys.

"Let's have unity" is never, ever followed by "so here's what my side is willing to offer." The unity brigade doesn't suggest unity in order to enter into negotiation, they only do it to tell other people to sit down and shut up.

I love it when the Guardian finds a Guardian way of doing stuff that feels a bit Daily Mail somehow.

I find British folks frustrating on this. Dudes, the reason you see fewer unhoused people in London than, say, Seattle is that the latter has made a decision to allow a level of high-profile, central encampments. Try setting up tents in Russell Square and see how the Met lets you get on.

Well, I saw Livorno beat Bra in extra time in what was undoubtedly today's most thrilling Serie C match, and then the team I loved as a kid won the Super Bowl. Fun day of sport.

If I ran ICC outreach, we'd go to all the olive oil European countries with a pitch centered around beating the English at their thing and stopping twice a day for meals.

In Italy for work and I am sad to report that T20 World Cup Fever doesn't seem to have taken hold as thoroughly as we might have hoped.

Calling the first six overs of a t20 "LAUNCH" feels like when every Sci-fi movie comes up with a new name for coffee

I really want to write to the publisher of Chiropractic Weekly magazine, to ask them if they have any back issues

Honestly? This could be the last straw for me with this guy.

I thought a john pond was what a town has when it's too small to justify an industrial wastewater treatment facility.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think of peace."

If I have hope for a NATO future, it involves a future Democrat president on a Let's Be Friends Again tour and European leaders weighing (entirely legit) trust issues against the fundamental changes that come with spending US-style money on the military.

In baseball, the American League brought in the designated hitter after a season when only one team hit above .250. Today, Perth put up 219. The Bash is probably fine without this.

Ah lovely. They hate Wrexham in Mansfield, they hate them on the north side of the Trent and now a new bunch of Nottinghamshire football fans gets to hate them.

I love a theory of Why England Lost that, for it to work, must also imply that Australians are now teetotal altar boys who get to bed at 9:30 after a nice warm cocoa.

Any Hundred criticism that doesn't consider this and respond to it isn't worth reading.

As a man, you haven't lived until a big burly Nottingham bus driver calls you duck. ("Duckeh" for the peak Notts points.)

Good morning from Florida, where is 5:30am and I've been up for a bit because police found a guy in the street who seems to have been doing rather a lot of meth.

"Americans would never watch Test cricket on TV." Let me tell you a little story about what Americans will watch on our sport TV channels.

The galling thing is, Broad was right. This is the softest Australian side in some time. But the outside of the Twinkie doesn't have to be hard to make the Twinkie work, it just has to be made of former stuff than the filling.

Watching this, I cannot help but agree that Americans will never understand three-day cricket.

I was not a cricket fan in the '80s or "90s, so it's really fun for me to experience classic hits like The Inspired England Performance When The Ashes Are Already Lost.

This is a much better conversation to have than another round of County Championship/t20/Hundred discourse.

Welp, England's earliest opportunity to win back the Ashes now moves to the summer I turn 50, some of which I plan to spend watching cricket and having a mild breakdown. I'll see you then.

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Morris dancing. I could have got into Morris dancing when I moved to England. Victorian steam train restoration. Badger preservation. I could have become an officer in my local Camra branch. There were so many things that weren't cricket.

The thing about Australia isn't the absolutely crushing innings, it's that the innings where they're a bit shit turn out to be, eh, good enough.

I was hoping this post indicated availability on his part.

I've lived in several cities near the top of US crime stats. The most violent incidents I've ever experienced in my life, including the time my parents were randomly attacked in the street, happened when I lived in Nottingham. London was where I went in the UK when I wanted a menace-free weekend.

The main reason I wanted my child to be educated in the US rather than the UK is that Broad With Multiple Tracks is better than deciding what you're good at in your mid-teens.

Do we turn the "County Cricket is..." dial from "a true test of mettle" to "the problem" now, or are we supposed to wait until after Adelaide?

In cricket terms: a team that thinks it's India keeps finding out in increasingly hilarious ways that it's more New Zealand (only much less likeable.)

Labour bros are parochial fucks.

People in the US should be enraged every day about this. People in other rich countries should ponder how it is that, when the US stops doing some things, they stop getting done almost entirely.

They're missing a trick in this halftime show by not also having Tim Robinson come out to just act awkward for 45 seconds.

Was there some sort of mass email that went out to all the "funny" Australian cricket content makers that instructed them to all do the same bit about Perth wickets by birth nation?

Cannot believe they buried this USA v Namibia news under some "India v Pakistan" nonsense.

I love the idea that any of this manic lunacy can be described as a stirring comeback.

If you told cricket fans from any time other than this that one Ashes side keeps getting out because they're swaggering morons and the other side keeps getting out because they're brittle wimps, and then you asked who's who ...