An absolute monster

As a dad of a toddler, Blitz is a game changer for enjoying college football without spending your entire Saturday in front of a TV

@hooverstreetrag.org listening to the Fullcast After Dark this morning and I have to assume you were the one who called in to celebrate the Madonna Crusaders' first victory?

The Vuelta predictions ended up being my best of the 3 grand tours, and would have been even better if I had noticed the route change on stage 18. Been a fun season playing this game!

A BTN non-conference game with Jake Butt is the closest we get to a low-budget hometown broadcast and I am here for it

Did not expect to hear a random Michigan football shoutout on the Vuelta broadcast this morning, but I like it

Been a huge fan of this kid ever since he got smoked by Tadej Pogacar on a climb at the Giro, asked for his glasses as a souvenir, and instead Tadej gave him his pink jersey. So good to finally see him get his first win

Egan Bernal said he sad a ‘95% chance’ of either becoming paralysed or dying after his horror training ride crash in 2022. Now he's not only back cycling, but has won a stage at the Vuelta a España. This is phenomenal. Congratulations, Bernal.

For the second grand tour this year, my “pick Mads as often as possible” strategy has me back in the top 100

Did Chris Fowler just say Michigan has 3 national championships? Which 9 is he not counting?

Treat your dog right. Feed them healthy, tasty Brent Venables

Cy-Hawk really needs to bring back this monstrosity of a trophy

YouTube TV multiview is an incredible invention but they really need to figure out how to normalize volume between the stations you’re watching

Today’s Vuelta profile looks like an Indiana Pacers win probability graph

I think Boone has the best team here. McDermott/Kaminsky dragging bigs out of the paint, creating room for Zion to go crazy. Only mistake was not taking Trey Burke as his backup PG to run the pick and pop with Kaminsky

You’ll find me swashbuckling my way around the Great Lakes all summer before sailing off to the Caribbean for the winter

Mechanical engineers are typically portrayed very accurately in movies: they’re the nerdy guy saying “that’s gonna break!” before no one believes him and then the thing breaks

I love that the logic of the Penn State national championship hype is basically “well the two teams they always lose to won the last two championships so maybe this year is their turn”

Did Michigan just pull out the Go-Go offense?

Did they drop the “call is confirmed” vs. “call stands” distinction this year? I’ve heard several refs use the phrase “call is upheld” this weekend

Gameday snacks have returned

I do my best not to descend into old man football takes but watching two top 5 teams completely unable to convert in short yardage is disgusting to me

Gotta get that Dixon Ticonderoga front and center for the Corso tribute

Big Ten!

This is the only time I've seen a college football play that made me think "this reminds me of Leo Messi"

Not sure if this is a @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social inside joke that I missed, but every week they have me questioning reality and looking it up to confirm that Cam Ward did not in fact win the Heisman

Cycling hot take: grand tours shouldn’t be allowed to begin in countries that also host their own grand tour. We’ve already seen enough of Italy and France!

Vuelta time! I won’t post my picks every day for this one, but here’s what I’ve got for the general classification

The MGoBlog people were nice enough to mail me a copy of their preview mag, since I wrote a sportsbiz story for it. My wife is nonchalantly flipping through it at the table right now and just said "Good God this is some nerd shit. I did not realize people liked football this much."

When Michigan State fans claim they’re Michigan’s biggest rival because “you hate losing to us more than you hate losing to Ohio State,” I argue that by that same logic, Michigan’s biggest rival is Appalachian State

Latest updates to the kegerator sticker wall, after a trip to Washington and some special deliveries from @hooverstreetrag.org

Whenever there’s an NFL preseason game happening, my college football-centric timeline just turns into a bunch of people Remembering Some Guys

Ben Healy slams the door shut on the @robynemz.bsky.social Vibes Classification competition

7 minute lead for the breakaway at the foot of Mont Ventoux. Will that actually be enough of a handicap to hold off Pogačar?

Biggest drama of the day is whether Tadej can catch Jonas who started 2 minutes ahead of him

Bike racing is incredible TV —pretty pictures of mountains —athletes pushing their bodies until they break —worlds drunkest fans

And it’s only gonna get worse over the next 2 days

Great day for a 52-man breakaway

This map is great, and the Saluki is appropriately terrifying, but I really feel like Illinois's choice should be Kaboom! the gargoyle from Bradley, the actual stuff of nightmares

Regional fast food burger rankings: 1. Culver's 2. In-N-Out 3. Whataburger 4. Dying of starvation 5. Shake Shack

Lenny Martinez is in polka dots!

Ben Healy better wear that yellow jersey all day tomorrow during the rest day. What an accomplishment

would be an incredible feat for ben healy to take the yellow jersey when he's not even the top search result for athletes named ben healy from ireland

Red Bull will have an interesting decision as the Tour goes on. Will they pivot to Florian Lipowitz as their leader? I’d argue he’s been better than Primož Roglič all season long, and the two are basically tied in the overall standings right now

Tadej Pogačar is so unfair. 1:13 up on Vingegaard after 5 stages without even a hint of mountains climbed yet. What’s his margin of victory going to be at the end of the Tour?

I have many pet peeves with the Peacock Tour de France broadcast but my biggest one (after the ads of course) is showing me the distance remaining in miles. Just stick to kilometers! We will get the hang of it

3 days in and we've already lost Ganna and now Philipsen. I don't think a lot of people realize how dangerous pro cycling is

The best engagement bait in all of college football internet are these rankings that are like 90% normal and boring with just a couple choices that aren't SO insane as to ruin the credibility, but just insane enough to get people mad

Me on July 4th vs. me on July 5th