and here I thought Fernando Rodney on the Hamilton Cardinals was wild.

pretty much haven't watched a TFC game since the Apple deal started. I wasn't the hugest fan, but was invested in the Giovinco-Altidore-Bradley era. Now I'm not sure I could name a single player on the team.

My favourite in this genre is Mark Carney apparently having the time to coach Kent State football.

Not a lot of respect for the Angels' OF arms there.

The Ascension, by Paolo Veronese, 1585, 📸 by @gwephoto

a cartoon baseball player is swinging a bat at a ball . ALT: a cartoon baseball player is swinging a bat at a ball .

We've replaced the 2026 Toronto Blue Jays with these guys. Let's see if anyone notices

surprised this didn't lead to a mutiny

My favourite in that genre was when Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski said that "Kevin Pillar" sounded like the name Kevin Millar would have come up with if confronted by cops

Madden name generator is glitching again, I see

Calvin and Hobbes cartoon

A student actually went with pretty much this strategy on one of my exams this week

Coincidenally, NPR is now giving the famously loquacious Kawhi Leonard 50 million to host a podcast that will never record a single episode.

On the religion beat, I keep waiting for Kate Shellnutt, Kaitlyn Schiess, and Katelyn Beatty to co-author something.

Either that, or have their own podcast just to hear how they would differentiate themselves.

Also, the premise of an entire Good Place episode

First Wednesday without curling :( 🥌

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I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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though on second read, "create a backbone of what is considered a well-ordered society" does sound to me like an undergrad being overly wordy and trying to hedge their statements. A more confident writer would go with "backbone of a well-ordered society" without equivocation

That sounds likely to me. Your selections don't scream AI, but seem more sophisticated than you'd expect for an undergrad.

nice to see Norman Powell still killing it out there

for a while in the early pandemic, my kids could not handle any stakes/conflict/drama in movies, so all we could manage to get them to watch were the Buddies movies.

Best part was seeing what C-list actors got dragooned into them.

photos taken of her holding hands with and hugging Mike Vrabel at an adults only resort in Arizona. Neither of their spouses were present. It's uh, rather suggestive.

She has now resigned from the Athletic

much appreciated, from this Baptist :)

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Ever since I read stories about rumours that the Masters pipes in bird sounds...I can't stop hearing every chirp and cheep with suspicion

Even if I don't know the teams, I can get into it if there are clear stakes.

I watched so many games from the Sask Scotties on youtube because, well, the stakes are obvious. I don't know many of the players but I know they're right on the edge of achieving a dream. That's more than enough.

right, and mixing up the teams further diminishes stakes. Viewers have years of equity built up in Team Edin, Homan, Einarson, etc. Going to be hard to care about Team Typhoon, by contrast.

This is how I find out that Drew Timme made the NBA

I'm a curling sicko. I've watched more hours than is healthy of lower tier events on curlingzone youtube, but I can't bring myself to care about this probably because of the lack of stakes.

I'm currently a 5 min walk away from where it's being held. Clicked on ticketmaster just out of curiosity, and uh, plenty of good seats available for today anyway

Yeah, it's amazing to see an elite team do the one thing you absolutely could not do. I get the idea behind "same shot," but someone needed to communicate "tolerance light" somewhere in there.

Anywhere on the draw path from, like the LGT logo in pushes Dunstone to a circus shot

Okay, hadn't seen the sheep shearing one or the ice fishing one.

So corny. So perfect