Hate when I delete the wrong post by accident, trying to nix a reply but not the absolute work of art that I slaved over for seconds up above it

Nobody was kidding when they said that the Post-Gazette's treatment of its staff was going to kill local journalism in Pittsburgh. Tragic that we're here

I have to eat shit on this one; I sorted the wrong column of a sheet when rummaging for kicker stats for the Playoff. (Ole Miss and Oregon are indeed the cream of the crop, but Indiana's kicker is much better than I thought. Had some imaginary short misses in my head)

This is by a wide margin the most satisfying way to bring a new listener into the fold

The CFP semifinals have different shapes. There's Miami-Ole Miss and Indiana-Oregon, both with a trip to the national championship game on the line. @alexkirshner.com breaks them down while revealing the Opta supercomputer’s win probabilities for each. theanalyst.com/articles/cfp-...

Low-key shocking thing about the decline of Twitter is that the edit button really had nothing to do with it. A feature that as far as I can tell has not been abused at any scale and has mainly just worked fine while other things have crumbled around it. (I doubted it would go that way)

The U.S. military could've had the Bay of Pigs 2.0 if someone in Maduro's inner circle was enough of a gambling addict to be looking at Polymarket. I wrote about this @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

Bluesky-coded Jan 6 memory: I lived in D.C. at the time in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. There's a great restaurant there called Marx Cafe. Word on the street the afternoon of 1/6 was "stay away, some Proud Boys showed up at Marx Cafe because they thought Antifa would be there"

Fresh episode of HANG UP AND LISTEN w/ @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social and @benlindbergh.bsky.social. We talked to sports economics expert J.C. Bradbury about the false promises being sold to Kansas taxpayers over the Chiefs' new stadium. A complete boondoggle here, methinks slate.com/podcasts/han...

Can we please go back to Division I-A and I-AA now. FBS/FCS doesn't make sense anymore and it's still too difficult to explain to normal people.

Probably the most brutal loss ever taken in organized sport

Illinois State not going for two in the first OT was somehow even more ill-advised than the FG attempt that should've cost them the game 10 minutes ago

Not trying to make the main thing not the main thing but the amount of tampering that's gonna be done by FBS programs #4 for Illinois State is going to be generational

This is some of the worst football ever played in a championship game at any level lol

Honor system, really hadn't seen it, but it was somehow worse than my expectations

Deranged field goal attempt. Posting this before I see it go in or out. Deranged!

Montana State forgot how to tackle and forgot how to get plays off. These are unfortunately non-negotiables

This is a top-10 white guy open-field touchdown ever scored

Illinois State did something with God at some point

Vandy's stadium is an ideal venue for the FCS title game. Probably should never leave there, he says from watching on TV

FCS Championship on ESPN now. The Illinois State QB is one of my favorite types of CFB guy: a good bad QB (which is a distinct thing from a bad good QB)

condolencez

LRT: "Neither" is a great option but everyone on a microblogging app (you, me, etc) is a piggy who can't resist rolling around somewhere. Curing the desire to look at an endless scroll of words would be great, and I applaud you for wanting that. But as a matter of mass adoption, it's not happening

Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!

Slept on it. Five-year extension time for Tomlin

Like this hire for Pitt. Buffalo's linebackers have been insanely good for several years now. Thumpers all around

The Steelers have won multiple elimination games in my lifetime on missed field goals. But the other ones were all before NFL kickers became terminators. I have never felt a feeling like when Loop's kick went wide right

Mike Tomlin should still take a TV job for a year but it's been a pleasure to have one of the best coaches of all time

🫡

Mike Tomlin

Do we have the mandate of heaven?

Cannot believe this

Enough of the NFL

Goodell has the easiest job in the world, man

You have to be kidding with that

I will never really get the Collinsworth disdain that is all over the internet. A little over the top about good QBs from time to time but I think he's one of the best to ever do his job

Does Heyward have a good case as the best non-AD defensive tackle of the past 10-15 years?

Wisconsin-River Falls QB Kaleb Blaha just passed Joe Burrow for the most yards in a single season in NCAA history. www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

There are easily 15 college teams with superior WR groups to what the Steelers are fielding tonight. That may be an underestimate

I think about this sometimes. There's a family tie there from Taulia and Mike's son playing together at Maryland. Real nightmare fuel

It's another year of exactly the same thing, but this one is annoying because the Steelers traded one of the NFL's best WRs because he couldn't act normally for more than 15 minutes, and then his replacement set up their elimination because he hit a fan and got suspended

An underrated part of the past ~seven years of the Tomlin Steelers is that all of their season-ending losses are by a million points

It is academically kind of interesting to watch the Steelers try to play offense with, generously, one rosterable NFL wide receiver on their team

Great stuff!

In the next 20 minutes, Myles Garrett could reach new levels of a pass-rusher getting upfield for a sack and leaving rushing lanes open. Might as well

I like New York a lot. Objectively the greatest city. But I'm not gonna become one of those people who knows the difference between various Upper and Lower Sides. That's too much

Since nothing else is happening in the world and I'm back home now I just wanted to reflect on what a cool experience the Rose Bowl was. First of all there were IU fans everywhere we went in LA all week so that rocked. The game itself was probably 90-10 or 85-15 IU.

Rare Chotiner interview in which the subject was actually up to the job www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I can't tell you how important this NFC Southing is to the collective psyches of Steelers and probably Ravens fans at this time