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No, I’m being an ass/snob that Pittsburgh isn’t really an ACC school. Read more

Per the ACC’s Makhtar Ndiaye rule, intra-conference transfers are only allowable if the player spends a year fucking up a Big Ten program first. Read more

The NBA playoffs are math. None but a machine-built champion are going to make it through four consecutive seven game series in basketball, especially when it concerns teams with the smallest roster in professional sports.

Since the NBA expanded to a best-of-seven format in the first round in 2003, 25 of 30 NBA finals Read more

God dammit I’m truthering here! What the fuck does fact have to do with it! Read more

Ball hit bat twice therefore out anyway #highlighttruthering Read more

Oh dear God, yes. That is so fucking stupid, I can’t believe I forgot it. Read more

I went to a Nuggets game when they were terrible and it was the night Alex English had his number retired. Most fans in other cities wouldn’t give a damn, but there was a sense of civic gratitude in the cheering for him that made it all seem worth it. Alex English might be an edge case by league standards but to the Read more

Can we crowdsource some protips for driving after drinking, or is that more for Lifehacker.

Tip No. 1 — if your face at all feels like this:

That’s a great gesture, Syracuse does this for No. 44 I think. And 10 is commonly the best player’s number in international soccer, right? Read more

As mylipstillhurts mentioned, Giants don’t on home. Red Sox don’t on home.
In the NFL, everyone does because of the league uniform policy. “We don’t have cheerleaders” (Packers, Steelers, Giants, Bears) seems to be the expression of fogey tradition there. Read more

Actually, I like the approach taken by Mitch Poole, the Dodgers’ clubhouse manager. 34 is not retired, but he will not issue it, because of Fernando Valenzuela. The difference is Fernando is an iconic player (or was).
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Disagree in principle, but agree that the practice has been abused and perverted in modern times and so maybe it should be abandoned. Read more

They should have had a companion class where girls got the egg in the basket, and then a guy, at random, was assigned to her as the egg’s co-parent. He could either take the egg every other period during the day or pay $10 a week to the Future Homemakers of America club (this originated in the home economics class, Read more

Well, it was 30 years ago. But yeah. Also note region of origin. Read more

High school in the South, 1987-1991. Girls had some kind of class where they had to carry around an egg in a small basket for a week, that was it. Guys, nothing. Read more