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“Right now it’s a lot of inmates semi-supervised running the asylum.” - me to my husband just now, about the situation at our house. I’d say it applies to some other things, but semi-supervised seems like too strong of a term…

It’s barely 9a, kids are on 1000, husband is on call, and then there’s all of *gestures vaguely*. There is not enough caffeine in the world.

Go Deacs. Mostly because of who Hail State's coach is.

RIP my nearly 11-year-old KitchenAid mixer bowl. It cracked upon contact with the part you put the whisk/beater attachments on, so have a feeling it was ready to go, because there’s no way that’s the first time I’ve done that.

Kate Paye on Stanford’s loss at NC State: “It was a good, old-fashioned ass kicking.” Stanford missed the NCAA Tournament last year for the first time since the Reagan Administration. It’s clear they’re improved, but is it enough to win ACC road games? www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

"I don't care who wins the football, I'm tired & should go to bed." I did not, in fact, go to bed, instead updated a bunch of my ACC stuff. There's a very good chance UVA is undefeated in the ACC when they go to Duke on 1/15. Biggest hurdle is Syracuse & their size, but they get them in C'ville.

Miami and Virginia's only trips to the Triangle are also on the same night. Only an hour apart.

Georgia Tech's Talayah Walker put up 33 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists against Notre Dame today. Those 33 are her career high, clearing her previous one by 11.

"Logically [the overtime game paired with ND/GT] should be VT/Miami because VT was GT’s opponent in the last one..." Me to @jackwchurch.bsky.social an hour and 13 minutes ago.

Can’t have one of three live games on ACC Network right now, gotta show a replay of Miami/Ohio State football. 🤬

Angry ND at rested Duke (yes, they played today, but they won by 51) on Sunday should be interesting…

Apparently Georgia Tech just likes 80-80 ties. @jackwchurch.bsky.social and I were discussing one from last season, because it happened on the same night as the Duke/UNC game ended 40-all after regulation…

Okay I’ve s*** talked Georgia Tech crowds before, and this one isn’t GREAT/big by any means, but they are loud.

We all had 10-2 #18 Notre Dame going to OT with 5-9 Georgia Tech, right?

Uhhhhh Notre Dame?

Lara Somfai is bigger and quicker in person. Also, I was pronouncing her name completely wrong in my head, as I just checked the pronunciation guide.

If they showed that Zam Jones out-of-bounds effort on TV, yes, that was my face she just swore in. Trying to decide if that's higher or lower on my pantheon of media moments than getting clocked in the head with a panda at the Duke teddy bear toss game a couple years ago...

Well, my estimate of seeing 1.5 games is perfectly coming to fruition.

Lola Donez wants that one back. She knew it wasn't good from the second it left her hand, and she appeared to stretch her hand out after it missed badly. She'd been 2-2 from 3 prior, though.

Me to the TV ad overlords who are slowing this game down...

It does not appear I'm getting a blowout so I can gracefully leave early for Raleigh...

Aforementioned tough finish.

TOUGH move from Walker right there, quite possibly the only Cal player with family in attendance...

I think the UNC and Cal staffs have the same pants on. Tar Heels' might technically be labeled as Jordan not Nike, but y'all know they're the same. #importantanalysis

The size of the names on the backs of Cal's jerseys is perplexing. I know you play for the name on the front, but I still have questions.

Let's see how much of 2 games that tip off 2 hours apart I can see in a day, episode 1. Episode 2 coming Sunday.

Someone needs to ask the GameDay guys if they’re the Wicked Witch of the West, because they’re whining worse than my 6yo does about the rain.

Sir, you're supposed to throw to the guys wearing the SAME color as you. Follow me for more in-depth football analysis.

Only semi-related, does anyone know WHY Florida State uses cheerleaders for these things/other appearances? They have a costumed mascot, Cimarron...

Points scored in 2025 playoff games: JMU 34 Ohio State 14 Time for a serious conversation about handing out these participation-trophy bids like candy. Bad TV. Safety issue. I just feel so bad for Ohio State. They should have their own junior tournament

OMG this has been the longest 2 minutes ever.

I am both annoyed I have to run around like crazy and kind of curious to see how much of two games I can see both tomorrow and Sunday thanks to the ACC schedulers making the California teams' and Notre Dame's only trips to the Triangle all be this weekend.

BEVO’S CHEEZ-IT CAKE

USC band member showing respect to all members of the high school band who opened the show at the Alamo Bowl

I've told this story before, but hey, it's relevant again. *sigh* December '23: I'm home in MI for holidays, saw #17 Ohio St. @ UM rivalry on schedule. Got credentialed, saw Wolverines pull upset. There were 2 other media ppl there: a MI Daily "stringer" and @thomascostello.bsky.social on OSU. 1/2

Student papers are, quite honestly, the outlets I see most consistently at all games, home/road/neutral. Michigan Daily had WBB beat writers in Charlotte all 3 years of Jumpman. Duke had WBB writers in Vegas this year for Players Era. Those are just two of many examples off top of my head.

While we’re on the topic of coverage, a Michigan outlet could’ve sent a writer west to cover both Michigan WBB conference games against teams that were a combined 22-5 going into their matchups with the Wolverines and still flown home in time to make the men’s tipoff against USC with time to spare.

Do not bank or have credit cards with Alliant Credit Union if you want your family to have competent help dealing with your accounts once you've died.

My sincere year-end thought isn’t an original one, but its importance has been underscored to me repeatedly over the last 12 months: be free with telling the people you love that you love them, casually, and at every chance. Great love, small love, every type of love.

Figured out which player to select instead of numerous other semi-urgent things on my to-do list so I could further mitigate feeling like an a**hole by giving the SID a full almost 2 days to send me a photo. The SID responded to my email with photos in 5 minutes. 🙌🏻

Not counting conference games, ACC opponents over the past two weeks had average NET rankings and HHS ratings of 216.77 and 219.96, out of a possible 363.

ACC Roundup for @herhoopstats.com due Thursday. Feel like a bit of an a**hole emailing an SID today about needing a photo, but all 18 teams are playing Thursday so unfortunately for them they're are probably working today and/or tomorrow, so I feel marginally less bad.

Survived losing my mother (who was a single mom into my teen years), stepdad and a secondary maternal figure all before June 20. Still dealing with a s*** ton of grief and random crying fits, not to mention paperwork and logistics, but I survived.

You know what I wanted to do today? Argue with the credit union that I told my mother died in August (maybe July, it’s a f***ing blur) about a bill for a charge in October. The audacity, callousness and epic incompetence of some of these companies should be studied in a lab and then banned.

I know Notre Dame and UNC are the name brand ACC WBB teams on the slate tonight so they get the real ACC Network, but them likely whomping Pitt and BC, respectively, are much less interesting contests to me than SMU v. Virginia, which is on ACCNX.

This. Flew to Vegas 90% on my own dime to cover Players Era. There were some personal reasons which made me want to take a trip, but reason I went to Vegas specifically/not elsewhere was to make sure a WBB event w/ 3 top 10 teams that was playing its title game on Thanksgiving Day got covered.

BTN consistently bumps live women’s sports events where one or both of the teams involved is ranked to BTN+ so they can show men’s game or even Journey show replays on live air. I simply do not understand.

NEW! From me: Leaning into the "fuck it, we'll do it ourselves" attitude here on Bluesky, here's a preview of Michigan WBB's upcoming games tonight in Eugene and Thursday in Seattle.

Papers and other outlets, but THISSSSSS. (Relatedly, I live 2,800 miles from SF, but have a Chronicle subscription because of Marisa/them having a women’s sports reporter.)