Sports
You can have your NFL… Nothing… Nothing beats college football. I left a game watch party in Columbus, Ohio at half-time when everyone else was thinking “it’s over, Buckeyes got it”, but in my head thinking “IDK, man… Longhorns looked better than folks are sayin.”
What a comeback. Damn.
When it’s game day and you have degrees from both teams…
🎥 Surfing with Orcas, YouTube
💔 Grandmaster, Popular Commentator Daniel Naroditsky Tragically Passes Away At 29, via Chess Dot Com
I’m gutted. He was a delight to watch. Momento Mori.
The 9yo is teaching his little sister (4.5), “Take me out to the ball game.” My heart is full. ⚾️
🗞️ Why Ohio State is the most recession-proof program in college football, The Athletic
“Ohio State made its 1,000th appearance in the AP poll this week, 72 more than any other team dating to 1936. Since Woody Hayes took over in 1951, it has had just four losing seasons out of 74, the fewest in the FBS. And after some modest lulls by Ohio State standards in the 1980s and ’90s, the consistent winning has been taken to another level in the 21st century with national championships won by three consecutive head coaches.”
Go Buckeyes!
🗞️ Hulk Hogan, shirt-shredding Superstar of Pro Wrestling, Dies at 71, New York Times Obit.
Hogan was the face of pro wrestling for decades, with his blond hair and horseshoe mustache, colorful bandannas and massive biceps, which he referred to as “24-inch pythons.”
RIP.
🗞️🏈 One more, then forever, by Jack Sawer
“We have our whole careers to play at the next level — and our whole lives to be Buckeyes. But we only have one more shot to be national champs … and being national champs is forever.”
🛬 and back. San Juan was fun, edifying. Made new friends among my profession, so that’s a win. And I trolled, and was trolled, about college football. Good times for a work trip.
Jack Sawer. 🏈
Magnus Carlsen knows the rules regarding dress code. To pout over a longstanding rule shows how classless he really is. He had a bad game and responded by doing something that made him look like the victim. What a baby. (At least he didn’t falsely accuse another player of cheating again.)
Yesterady was The Game. And while the Buckeyes didn’t win, we had a good time out with the kids
🎥 If my baby girl looks at me with half the glee that Rana looks at her dad, shit, a third, then I’m a success.
Terrible news about Lazar Dukic, who drowned at the CrossFit Games today. The reporting suggests insufficient lifeguards and preparation for such a possibility and that maybe one or two spectators tried to save him but were prevented from doing so.
Sunday vibes.
“It’s hard to answer that right now,” Stroud said, … “I know where I come from in college, if you don’t win it all, then it’s kind of a fail. So that’s kind of the mindset I have.”
CJ Stroud not ready to call the season a success Go Buckeyes.
Nick Saban. 🏈
(That’s it. That’s the post.)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asks for $1 million for Florida State to sue CFP committee over snub
Strong endorse. I was hoping FSU would sue, and this increases the likelihood. 🏈
Forgot to wear my “game of the century” (2006 throwback) t shirt this morning. But the kids were behaving, so we had to take the photo before the moment was gone.
O-H-I-O
Ohio State v. Notre Dame is one of the most bananas games I’ve seen in regular season in a long time. We’re in USC-ND 2005 territory.