Starbucks confirmed Jonathan Richman fans

Good to see Zohran Mamdani is an original Championship Manager player.

My goofiest basketball opinion: the starters should be announced in order of height. I want the tallest guy always going last. Doesn't have to be the star.

An offseason labor of love for Basket Under Review: if Wins Above Bubble existed for the entirety of the 68-team era, would the Tournament be better? 2 major takeaways: WAB *really* helped mid-majors, and it would make most 2011-2024 (pre-WAB) fields better. www.basketunderreview.com/revisionist-...

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An offseason labor of love for Basket Under Review: if Wins Above Bubble existed for the entirety of the 68-team era, would the Tournament be better? 2 major takeaways: WAB *really* helped mid-majors, and it would make most 2011-2024 (pre-WAB) fields better. www.basketunderreview.com/revisionist-...

If any Republicans want to have an obscure wide receiver-off I will wipe the floor with them.

Everyone is laughing at Milli Vanilli, correctly so, but C+C Music Factory is the wilder choice to me. Does anyone under 50 who isn’t really into music history (that’s me) know them at all? Their last new song was in **1995**!

Ran by a Chicago landmark. The cafe where pitchfork came up with the Jet review of a monkey peeing in his own mouth.

Serious Citation Needed™ on them describing Nate Bargatze as the #1 comedian

Every week on here you guys have a discourse about if blue sky is good or bad. Not my problem. I’m gonna get these posts off.

Guys like me? We just call it Northwoods Inn.

Just got one of the greatest gag gifts imaginable from my friend and I must share it.

you lived your life as an athlete correctly if people curated highlight reels of you screaming curses at your competitors

After a few years in mid-2010s of struggling to stay a NASCAR fan this race locked me back in for good. KB forever a legend of the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xp...

incredibly based minnesota

Always smile when I remember the Business Mindset of EPMD’s discography.

Great season for the Pistons. Awful ending but 60 wins and 1 seed is ahead of schedule. Now to see how you get to the next level.

Think they just aired the most useless stat ever during Game 7, that the Cavaliers are undefeated when they lead by 20+ points in a game this year. Christ, fellas, I hope they'd be undefeated when they're up by 20+ points.

DCL

Every single fan shot during Hearts/Celtic is of someone developing a stomach ulcer in real time.

i mostly love the way they're playing and i'm also losing my goddamn mind

Ausar Thompson is the answer to a question I’ve always wondered: what if Andre Roberson but better *and* worse?

Caris LeVert only being 31 years old is somehow offensive to me. How is he that young. He has been in my basketballing life since Clinton was in office.

Every time my cat Mira walks across a keyboard, I learn a few new Mac and PC keyboard shortcuts I never knew about. www.wired.com/story/keyboa...

Had a thought the other day. The Willboard Hot 100. My 100 favorite songs released in my lifetime (1993 to now). Haven’t developed any guidelines at all, just a vibes-based arrangement. Might have to write it up when I’ve got a dead day in the future.

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

Let’s up the vibes around here a bit. Look at this big lad.

DUNCAN ROBINSON: NOT JUST A SHOOTER

I'll go down as a fan for life because he is such an oddity but James Harden losing *another* do-or-die Game 7 would be incredible content.

All time 48 hours of my sporting life. Thank you

1:39 and a PR by three full minutes in beautiful Cincinnati. To quote Alysa Liu…

I have a new recommendation: the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. $20, visually entertaining beyond belief, well worth 90 minutes.

That is the single craziest thing I think I've ever seen happen *for* one of the teams I support????

JB Bicketstaff is *probably* a good coach but this is the second time all playoffs he's remembered Paul Reed, who is statistically a top-six player on the entire team, exists.

A nice, tidy, and thoroughly disgraceful exit by this Pistons team I let into my heart

By expanding the Tournament to 76 teams, the NCAA enters its Twilight Zone Era www.basketunderreview.com/the-tipping-...

A lot of this guy’s stuff is Not For Me but this song is the goods: youtu.be/3lWSXWWy3_w?...

A Sand County Almanac (Leopold, 1949) The Path to Power (Caro, 1982) The Shock Doctrine (Klein, 2007) The Book of Basketball (Simmons, 2009) Now I Sit Me Down (Rybczynski, 2016)

This Weeks Onion Magazine: You’re Not Wrong, Babies Are Getting Worse: Enshittification Comes For A Once-Beloved Classic

The most annoying part about the NCAAT expanding is also the biggest reason why it's going to happen: the ever-lurking threat that, if the power conferences didn't get their way, they may just up and leave and start their own bracket. But that's bullshit and was never going to happen. Column:

Live to fight another day

@norlander.bsky.social the Enshittification nod on EOCBB 🤘 You nailed it.

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

I’ve assumed this was coming for so long that I just want to fast forward to whatever the end stage of this is. This sucks, I’m not a fan, just get it over with. At least make the western First Four location The Pit or Utah State’s arena if you’re gonna do it.