really is amazing how much more fun baseball can be when you unhook it from two things as joyless as MLB and american sports fandom bsky.app/profile/bmag...

Finishing a perfect regular season with wins by 2, 2, and 1 (in OT) is exquisite that game was the best college basketball can be

NOW is when you bite

Me to Paul Newman’s family at the funeral: may his memory be a dressing

absolutely incredible company being kept here

If it's on the boombox I'm outside If I'm outside the weather's nice If the weather's nice it's the Lemonheads

Story time, y'all, about the time I witnessed nearly this exact scenario play out in real time. It's 2003 or 2004. Serena, Venus, Anna Kournikova, and Brenda Shultz-McCarthy played an indoor exhibition event at Rupp Arena. Both Williams sisters had won majors at this point. 🧵/x

The meme where Juventus's managers are Moe throwing McKennie-as-Barney out the door, and McKennie just keeps reappearing behind them so many times they had to give him the bag

begging the Committee to select the field based strictly, solely, 100% on WAB and liberate us from this obsolete flimflammery

Vandy grad from Kentucky who's never played for an NBA team closer than San Antonio has thoughts about what's appropriate for Atlanta, huh

this sport rules so hard and I'm so glad more and more folks seem to recognize it

"Goin' out on top, baby" John Shuster says (probably *just* about Plys and Hufman, probably) after winning yet another national title whatta dude, can't wait for one last ride for this four at Worlds

Such a shame. CBM leaving Auburn felt like a lose-lose proposition on the day it happened--he needed some degree of stability, Auburn needed his all-around talent. Hope things get better for him

said for months that in the end this team would be fine last night was the moment from Groundhog Day where Chris Elliott thinks Phil might be OK after letting the groundhog drive a truck off a cliff, and then the truck blows up and he says "well, not now" nope. not now

we just got done with four years' worth of Harsin and Freeze, this Auburn basketball season is nothin' but I am turning it off if the Sooner lead hits 18

you see defensive plays like this one from Hall and it's real, real tough for me to put too much blame on Pearl for this team's struggle on that end how many times do you think he's been told not to help off the strong side corner? 217? 363? Somewhere in there

how many of them do you think could correctly identify whether Mondo Duplantis is a world-famous athlete or an Austin Powers villain

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A gut-punch. The only reason I've known anything that was happening in Vol-land the last 15 years was because I followed Wes Rucker. He was always funny, warm, and engaging even though he was open about how life had given him many reasons to be the opposite of those things. Awful, awful. RIP

This would be an incredible shot if it was *just* a straight hit instead of a 20-foot runback But it IS a 20-foot runback. To remove three. In the Olympic semifinal. Unbelievable

between this and Tab's draw for the win, been a damn good day of Olympicing

I like that maybe the USA women don't always win the gold medal, but when they do, they do so with the sickest move you've ever seen

OK, you can't do full-on playoff OT, sure, but ... you can't do 4-on-4 for like 10 minutes? Are we sure?

is xG a hockey thing, too? Not my sport, but this has felt like a classic soccer "Team A (USA) has all the possession but Team B (CAN) actually has all the good chances" type of game which, 😟

Back in the Olympic Qualifying Event round-robin on Dec. 7, Team Peterson lost to Czechia--the weakest team in the field--to slip to 1-2. Had to win 5 straight--including vs a good Norway team--just to go to Cortina at all Couple months later they're the 2-seed in the Olympic playoffs. Incredible

TAB WITH THE DRAW FOR 1 AND THE WIN!!! UNFORTUNATELY THAT END KILLED ME AND I AM DEAD

Team Peterson's last two 10th ends, with a win in either game clinching a medal round berth: -- Up 1 with, give up steal of 2 -- Up 3 without, give up 3 beyond brutal but still just need 1 in the extra (though first few shots of the end have not been encouraging)

credit to Josh Hubbard for the most ridiculous half of jump-shooting I've ever seen at the college level but that genuinely was some supremely craptastic D from Auburn. Maybe make the 5'8" dude finish at the rim instead of letting him take 12 threes in a half?

"Midnight City" seems too obvious but have to have something M83, let's do this youtu.be/w9HWsgMmYxw?...

the good part about Team Casper losing to Italy is at least it means infuriatingly losing to China doesn't really matter beat Mouat and you're (very likely) in, lose and you're out. Straightforward! (and would've been even if they hadn't melted down vs CHN)

not really a tantrum guy, but after 4th-and-31 I laid down on the floor and didn't move for several minutes to the point my youngest asked if I was OK

can kind of see it on the videoboard here, the moment when a 41-year-old with 3 silvers and 2 bronzes wins her first gold holy hell it was awesome

I have seen a lot of fake economic impact numbers from people in power trying to justify various sports projects claiming that joining the MAC will generate $975 million might be the fakest economic impact number I have ever seen

Beat Denmark and Team GB -- not easy, but doable -- and you're in. Lose either and you've got to beat the Swiss, and that is ... less doable

Waylp: US women curl a terrible game, lose 7-2 in 9 to previously winless Italy L there isn't terribly shocking: Italians are a decent team and weren't going to keep playing as badly as they had been (especially on home ice), US maybe due for an off-game. But that wasn't even close, unfortunately

Paul Wylie, the original "five minutes ago I'd never heard of this guy and now if he doesn't win a medal I'll never be happy again" Olympic athlete the Shib sibs Evgeni Plushenko, the greasiest man alive

Team Casper will need to play a lot better to beat teams that aren't Czechia, but holding your nerve to make the 8th-end shots to beat Czechia is a heck of a lot better than not doing that

Allowing ~1.3 points a trip to Alabama because they hit a stupid number of contested 3s and finished at >50% from deep is bad luck Allowing 1.3 points a trip to Vandy when they hit under 35% from 3 is bad defense. Bad, bad, bad

97% in a mixed doubles gold medal game are you freaking kidding me

Quintessential "team A didn't lose this, team B won it." Dropkin and Thiesse were incredible, even that last miss was only a miss by an inch or two. Bella was just too good

In mixed doubles, curlers spend the entire game throwing to the center. The trickiest part of the power play can be that very first stone, throwing a draw on a line you likely haven't seen the entire game. Exactly what we saw with Thiesse's first rock.

could Team USA's curling opponents please stop making outrageously difficult draws

Post a banger* that's not in English *badass slow-burn Acadian fiddle ballad, close enough youtu.be/9q0gehqWHEU?...

My dude wanted this so bad and it's so awesome to see him get it

Hell yeah!

Constantini has thrown two absolute monster draws or the USA would be in complete command here dammit

Update: they beat Sweden and Estonia and clinched a playoff spot They're not the gold-medal favorites, GB and Italy have been a little better. But they can do it. They've been that good

DROPKIN LIKE ITS HOT

absolutely staggering amount of Bediako discussion on this ESPN broadcast without mentioning where the judge's ruling was issued or the judge's ties to the program this shouldn't be hard, guys

Good: dominated turnovers and OREBs, limited Bama's 3PAs. Game played the way Auburn wants it to be played. Bad: Lead is only 4 b/c Auburn can't make 2s *and* couldn't get to the line. Have to create more inside the arc (box via @auburnobserver.com)