I forgot that a 2.5-hour rainy Appalachian mountain drive home after a cross-country flight is draining and you should eat food and drink fluids before and during the drive. Especially after a 400-mile day driving around the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho the day before in a rented Mittsubishi.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

No disrespect to these current role players but the WNBA is going to be so much better five years from now.

Just checked my work email for the first time in a week and didn't see any obvious tire fires but I don't wanna jinx it.

I love NFL ties. The overtime format is so dumb and ties cause people to lose their minds.

Look at this walk-off Field Hockey goal in overtime for App State. Camera was having all sorts of problems in OT as just started raining heavily.

Boise State has a very good dog that gets the kicking tee after kickoffs. There were plenty of chances for me to get a video.

The hope was to keep it competitive and have a puncher's chance at the end. Despite an off week to prepare, the same issues crept up yet again, and a new issue: the OL getting mauled.

One thing that needs to be said is that I've never seen a medical/training staff mobilize and treat a player ASAP as Boise State did tonight after their kickoff gunner was knocked out cold in the 3rd quarter. Immediate recognition of a head injury and no hesitation to immobilize. Serious kudos.

I'm in

College Gameday showed a short tribute to Shawn Clark on gameday. After the Hail Mary clip, they show a coach in a white hat going through the crowd. That's not Shawn Clark. That's assistant Justin Watts.

BTW, I dont recall seeing a single cloud in the last three days here in Boise. Today is no different.

I drank at six different bars yesterday including doing an Irish Car Bomb at the last one and the worst thing that happened to me was I left in my daily contact lenses when I fell asleep.

Every Florida State player should be allowed to deck one UVA fan each.

"We have suggested blah blah blah and Disney and ABC have yet to adopt them." Yeah those are not happening. And if they do later on, it's not because of you. Sinclair remains the least effective TV corporation.

My name is Gordon Bombay and I will be your hockey coach.

Today in Boise, I rode an EBike up & down the Greenway and didn't wreck, saw the blue field, went to the Zoo and fed a giraffe ($5 per leaf!), got groceries, realized most the local Basque places close before dinner, went out, got accused of being a Montana fan and debated Riley.

Boise is a vibrant, eclectic if somewhat mildly westernly muted city that can try to be different things to different people. But it's not a college town.

The "South Georgia Catfish" stadium in the Chad Powers series looks familiar.

"You know why I'm here," I said walking in with my App State shirt on.

Y'all

Gas around Boise is hovering around $3.55 a gallon. I filled up in Erwin, Tenn, for $2.59 yesterday.

This is for Shawn Clark. He loved him some Coors and his college career ended in the 1994 I-AA Playoffs at Boise. I've heard this week how he would have loved to coach in this game.

Im in a bar called El Tejano in Boise and they're closing for good on Tuesday.

So I Lyfted to the wrong hotel, which is right next to the airport. Like a 3 minute ride. Now my next Lyft, which is going to the right hotel in downtown a few miles away, is the same exact price.

I am close to Canada, why is it 70 degrees at 10 p.m. local time?

AVL🛫DFW🛬BOI📍🫡

At the airport waiting for my connector ans there's a baby crying that sounds exactly like that Goron baby crying in Majora's Mask.

Drive to the airport and App State MBB adds a November road Ivy League game.

Ekitike just got a second yellow for taking his shirt off and doing the Messi celebration for a tap-in go-ahead goal in the Carabao Cup versus Southampton at home. And there's still time left.

In my efforts to cultivate something enjoyable on This Here Social Networking Website, I've got a lot of constant doom on my timeline. While it's important, it just depresses me and I'm in need to positive counter-balancing posters. Recommend away.

Last day of work before vacation, so of course I gave myself 3 days worth of work to finish today and tonight. Please check on me at 8:30 p.m. ET tonight to make sure I'm OK.

Another thing about Shawn Clark, he marched with his players after George Floyd's killing. "I’m not a Black man. I don’t know how they feel. But I know how to feel pain, and I understand they have a right to speak their voice. I want to be there beside them.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/184...

Days before the 2019 opener, App State assistant Shawn Clark convinced the staff to hike "The Knob." They won, so they did every game week, including when he became head coach. I did it with them once. An incredibly nice guy. He loved App so much. RIP. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Kinda forgot and I'll be gone all weekend, so I'll do a quick teaser. Starting last season (2023), App State got a new Mountaineer Talk sponsor: Goddard Family Farms, the Official Beef of App State. So I clipped all those Mountaineer Talk segments where Adam Witten and Shawn Clark talk about beef.

It's not been officially announced, but enough has been shared to all-but confirm the news. Shawn Clark, UCF OL Coach and former App State player, and head coach from 2020-2024, died Sunday in hospital, a week and a half after suffering a stroke.

96 hours from now I'll (hopefully) be touching down in Boise.

I think the Sun Belt's struggles this season are part of the violent ebb and flow of college athletics nowadays. Several current Sun Belt head coaches came up in the 2010s and saw the foundations completely change in 2021-22 with the portal, NIL and the coaching caroseul.

Since NC State chickened out of playing at App State this year, it's poetic that an App State graduate beats NC State.

We are so back. #AEWAllOut #AEWDynamite

Troy hadn't scored an offensive point in two and a half hours of gametime (since first half at Clemson), then scored 3 times in the last 11 minutes to win at Buffalo.

Tar Heel fans preparing to go from being mad at Belichick to being mad at Hubert.

Oh yeah UNLV came back and is 4-0.

Arkansas is a weird job. They're the epitome of "well, not everyone can win every week." They could theoretically win 10 games every year, but you don't know how or who could do it.

🚨New rivalry trophy🚨 @sickoscommittee.org

"Do you want a program?" "Yes please" "Please scan this QR code."