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Your political hoo-ha for today Got a flier in the mail the other day touting the virtues of a local political candidate, and, I know, I know. No intelligent person takes ...

An election year, and fear and loathing in the mail. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/your...

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Draftbots The NFL Draft begins Thursday evening, and I for one can't wait to see which team picks Dr. Miguelito Loveless, ace running back out of (ch...

AI invades the NFL Draft. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/draf...

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On to May Someone asked me the other day who I thought was going to win the Indianapolis 500, I guess on account of they thought I knew something abo...

The Indy 500 approacheth. In all its capriciousness. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-t...

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The new Cruds The New York Mets lost their 11th straight baseball game yesterday, and while it's probably too early to say there's a new chump in town, m...

Behold the New York Mutts. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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Ageless wonder Look, I don't care what you think of LeBron James. I don't care if you think he's a flopper, a whiner, soft as single-ply or (the big one) ...

Old LeBron is still LeBron. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/agel...

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Associations It was all over the news the other day that radio giant Bob Kevoian had died after a long battle with cancer, and right away I noticed the ...

Bob, Tom and the Indy 500. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/asso...

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Deja lose all over again Time now to look in on LIV golf, which is, in fact, still going, despite rumors that it had become the sasquatch of golf tours -- i.e., occ...

LIV golf, we hardly knew ye. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/deja...

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The weight of appearances, Part Deux Dianna Russini resigned from The Athletic this week, on account of she could no longer do her job as an NFL insider without some drooling h...

Russini, Vrabel and the conseqences. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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Cruds alert!* (*Well, sort of) Baseball is a strange game. It giveth, it taketh away, and, sometimes, it rains. Think about it. "Hey, no fair stealing fr...

The weirdness of April baseball. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/crud...

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Portal, schmortal We're now officially a week into transfer portal season, and poor Scotty is busier than a one-legged Klingon in an arse-kicking contest. Gu...

Meanwhile, at Purdue ... andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/port...

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A Master(s) class Okey-dokey, Smokey. Here's your assignment for today. Imagine, if you can, that Rory McIlroy is not Rory McIlroy. Imagine, instead, that he'...

A Rory rewind. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-ma...

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The weight of appearances By now I have seen the photos, which hardly makes me special. I mean, by now, every living soul in America has seen the photos -- including...

The perils of gettin' too cozy. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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A "birdie" for the ages They're moving into the weekend down at Augusta National, and so far the defending Masters champ has everyone covered. Rory McIlroy is at 1...

Robert MacIntyre, flipping off landscaping. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-bi...

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Braggin ri- oops Those Michigan Wolverines, they've sure been walkin' tall this week. A fan base that's never been accused of thinking too little of itself ...

Denver derail Michigan Week. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/brag...

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Tinkly pines of azaleas The Masters golf tournament began this morning down in Augusta, Ga., and, no, Scottie Scheffler hasn't won it yet. Neither has Bryson DeCha...

Of green jackets, mayhem and a guy named Maverick. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/tink...

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Hearing footsteps The person you most do not want to be today is named Kim Caldwell, who coaches women's basketball at the University of Tennessee. At least,...

Volunteering to leave at Tennessee. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/hear...

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A champion for these times The Michigan Wolverines are your 2026 NCAA men's basketball champions, and, listen, no carping from Statler and Waldorf up there in the pea...

It's 2026, and Michigan's your champ. Like it or not. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-ch...

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Bragging rights of a fashion UCLA's women utterly demolished a good South Carolina team yesterday to win the national championship, and good on the Bruins. Good on Laur...

A W for the "Big Ten", asterisk. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/brag...

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A vote for Mee-chigan Ah, those clever Wolverines of Michigan. They've got me painted into a corner, the rascals. Last night in the national semifinals they disp...

A Wolverine over a Husky? If I must. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-vo...

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The Zen of the sideline Saw Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley holler at each other last night after Staley's South Carolina crew knocked Geno's UConn squad out of the...

Geno, Dawn and the inner peace of acting like jerks. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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Cruds alert!* (* -- i.e., not a normal Cruds alert.) No, this Cruds alert is to alert you to the fact that Konnor Griffin, baseball's Next Great Superstar...

And now, Konnor Griffin kometh. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/crud...

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Blast(-off) from the past Watched Artemis II rise into the heavens on a pillar of smoke and flame last night, and I was 7 years old again. Which is a nifty trick cons...

Of moonshots and memory. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/blas...

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Masters of decorum ... ... or, you know, snobbery. Depends how you look at it. This upon the news the grand poobahs who run August National, and the Masters golf ...

Jason Kelce at the gates. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/mast...

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Foolery vanisheth (In which the Blob once again escapes the Sportsball corral. You know the drill.) Today is April 1, which used to be a day for gags, practi...

Reality 1, April Fool's 0. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/04/fool...

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Robot wars We're not a week into the wrapper-fresh season yet, and the Blob already thinks baseball -- the most over-stat-ted game in the world of gam...

Baseball's brave new world. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/robo...

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When the joy is gone Max Verstappen isn't the first driver to decide he doesn't like his new car. But he is the first one who's won four Formula One driving tit...

Max Verstappen, sore loser. Or not. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/when...

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Finally, Four Well, alrighty then: Arizona, Michigan, Duke-Er-UConn, Illinois. There's your Final Four, America. "Wait, who is Duke-Er-UConn?" you're say...

'Zona, Mee-chigan, Illinois and ... UConn? andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/fina...

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The prodigal sleaze I don't know what kind of hooch they're selling down there in the bayou, but the folks in the LSU athletic department need to lay off it. I...

At LSU, the porch light's on but nobody's home. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

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End of a lovely line For awhile there, the long hallowed run looked extendable. Purdue, and the Braden/Fletcher/TKR triumvirate, led by seven at the break. They...

Purdue's grand threesome bows out. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/end-...

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Return to Bogeyville Tiger Woods rolled his Land Rover the other day down in Florida, got clipped for misdemeanor DUI and sat in a jail cell for eight hours, an...

Why Tigers shouldn't drive. andonethingmore.blogspot.com/2026/03/retu...

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