Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

By attending Cal gymnastics at Sac St, my wife and I have helped the Hornets by paying down .0000016% of their MAC entry fee.

Now that Cal has competent people in charge and the basketball program is on stable footing, I'll try to move on from complaining about what the prior regime did. But I will not forget what Mike Williams, Jim Knowlton, and their enablers did to Cal athletics.

The idea that there will someday be a magical internet place where nobody is a dick to anybody else strikes me as deeply, deeply naive

I generally get cranky between November and February when it’s below 50 in Sacramento in the mornings and evenings, so it’s nice to get a reminder that I don’t live in a place with weather that would murder me

Arsenal have built their entire set piece strategy on the idea that those kinds of pushes aren’t ever called

Dare to be Stupid, an opinion that I hold fiercely and could expound on at mind numbing length

MAC in Sacramento means: Replacing "raccoon" with "river otter." Replacing "blizzard" with "balmy fall evening." Replacing "triple-reverse flea flicker" with "insane, money-laundering athletics funding plan."

I’m confident in saying, as a Sacramento resident, that Sac State athletics is being run by the stupidest people in college athletics

Really enchanted with this Cal WBB team. I had really low expectations this year, but it’s a team full of players who have taken huge strides both individually and as a group, and they’re peaking in a fun way

Saw two Clemson fans having a conversation with a dude wearing a shirt that said “white man for racial equality,” gotta love a little ACC cross country cultural exchange

Hanging at Headlands before Cal/Clemson if you’re in the area

1. For the first time in eight friggin' years, I've watched a non-Cal regular season college basketball game because the Bears are actually relevant in March and other games can impact them. 2. A particularly hateable Stanford team just lost to Clemson Boy is it good to be back.

Banger after banger, the Hieronymus Bosch of photoshop

Where were you for the DHIAUKUEI MANYIEL DUT game!!!

Pretty good day

Go Bears

Best enjoy retirement while you can, loser, because the trials are coming. Also, I wouldn't suggest you ever go to a restaurant again in El Centro, unless you want a special ingredient.

My recap of Cal's victory today over Stanford. To quote Coach Smith, "’m just glad that we were able to have a moment to smile and feel good with a win today.” writeforcalifornia.com/p/womens-bas...

A particularly succinct, horrifying reminder of the errors Democrats have made that helped get us to today:

TARA’S NOT AROUND TO SAVE YOU ANY MORE STANFORD

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Yes - they all know this could happen and they do it anyway. The reason it’s so unambiguous what happened is that the call had gone out and many people instantly rushed to the scene. Running towards danger. Heroes

They murdered a completely normal guy with absolutely no post-event made-up justification. Every action they take is the most extreme combination of evil and incompetent. Fill up the Hague.

I see the vision

I've never really thought of myself has somebody who needs therapy, but I might need professional help to process my feelings over watching Fernando Mendoza lead Indiana to a natty while Indiana fans sing the Abba song while the nation fawns over his post-game quotes.

Still on the table here . . .

The transfer portal is a weird thing, because the other school gets not just the player, but also his memes, as my timeline again fills up with the Simpsons McBain gif

Boy got those crazy legs

The refs are, at some point in this game, going to actually call PI, and it’s going to *technically* be the correct call but will be utterly inconsistent with the rest of the game, and one of these fan bases will create conspiracy theories wilder than you can possibly imagine.

Indiana makes the natty and their band goes with “how to train your dragon” as their halftime show? I dunno

You could feel that missed kick coming from miles away. You know a game is close to getting out of hand when coaches start making bad decisions because they’re not confident in their own players to execute against the opponent.

Indiana fans should be thanking Cal for providing him with lots of experiencing getting absolutely crushed and having to get back up and play again.

The year is 2049. Society has collapsed and been rebuilt. Bobby Hurley coaches Arizona State to a 15-18 record again. He receives a contract extension through 2062.

Well, the @splitzoneduo.com Championship game preview episode was excellent as expected, but very disappointed there was no home dog pick of the week.

If you've ever wanted to hear what the Cal Drinking Song sounds like at the @writeforcal.com tailgate, here's your opportunity, after KALW swung by this season to interview our crew:

Could Cal possibly concoct a way to beat North Carolina in a fashion that would leave me annoyed? No, that isn’t possible. But BOY did they try

ANOTHER THREE FOR MILOS

::heavy sigh:: ::rubs temple:: ::grimaces:: . . . You’re welcome

Gonna be cool when Tottenham finish 17th but win Champions League

Go Bears

Cal WBB ACC record: 1-5 Cal WBB ACC moral victory record: 5-1

Odd scenario right now for Cal WBB. The bears have been a little sloppy to start offensively, they only have 24 points late in the first half . . . and also they’re tripling up Wake Forest

In the first three playoff games, NFL teams have scored 87 combined points in quarters 1 through 3, and 87 combined points in the 4th quarter alone.

"Come to Cal: We'll pay you enough NIL so that you can get a care if you want, but your income taxes fund a wonderful transit system so you can get to the city without the headache of needing a car anyway!"

This kind of stuff needs to be elevated just as much as the horror stuff. Good to get a reminder that these people are incompetent losers. They're losing battles now, and they'll lose the war in the end.

Just found out two things: 1. this playoff game is on Prime Video and not network TV] 2. I no longer care enough about the NFL to figure out how to watch that, let alone pay for it.