Chandler Elsbecker

All these degenerates on the timeline watching preseason NFL because they're "paid to do it" and they "need to eat" while I, a very normal person, scour YouTube for FCS games from last fall because one guy on the field is a new Gophers backup and I want to appear 5% more knowledgeable at tailgates

Finish: 5th Player of the Season: 1. Josh Sargent 2. Jakov Medić 3. Jacob Wright Young Player of the Season: Jacob Wright Top Scorer: Josh Sargent Best Summer Signing: Jakov Medić Least Impactful Summer Signing: Jeffrey Schlupp Breakthrough Player: Amankwah Forson

Top 6: 1. Sheffield United 2. Leicester City 3. Coventry City 4. Ipswich Town 5. Norwich City 6. Southampton Bottom 3: 22. Hull City 23. Sheffield Wednesday 24. Charlton Athletic

Liam Man-in or Liam Man-out: In Allan Russell "Remember Him?" Person of the Year: Daniel Grimshaw Most Talked About Moment of the Season: Josh Sargent brace to win the Championship playoff semifinals at Portman Road (but the undefeated streak in the Derby ends October 5, and we lose the playoff final at Wembley to Coventry) Personality of the Year: Kenny McLean Most-used Starting 11: Vladan Kovačević, GK Ben Chrisene, LB Jakov Medić, LCB Harry Darling, RCB Kellen Fisher, RB Mirko Topić, CDM Jacob Wright, CDM Amankwah Forson, AM Matěj Jurásek, LW Josh Sargent, ST Ante Crnac, RW

In honor of our beloved Canaries' return, I have prepared my predictions for this Norwich season, following the categories laid out the On the Ball podcast. Manning's setup today already puts my season-long lineup into doubt, but that playoff derby will be so sweet and not at all stressful. #OTBC

2025 Gophers Position Previews: Offensive Line On the other side of this interminable heat, humidity, and rain is a precious thing in Minnesota: fall. To get you ready for it,  Ski-U-Blog...

#GOPHERS POSITION PREVIEW:
OFFENSIVE LINE
-Positional flexibility abound
-Looking for progress from the incumbents
-Early looks at who might be part of the 2026 O-line
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Most of the Twins' trades I don't hate individually, but man is this a depressing day to root for this team

2025 Gophers Position Previews: Quarterbacks On the other side of this interminable heat, humidity, and rain is a precious thing in Minnesota: fall. To get you ready for it,  Ski-U-Blog...

#GOPHERS POSITION PREVIEW:
QUARTERBACKS
-Your guess is as good as mine on Drake Lindsey
-I watched four 2022 Boston College games so you didn't have to
-The looming concept of Jackson Kollock
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2025 Gophers Position Previews: Running Backs On the other side of this interminable heat, humidity, and rain is a precious thing in Minnesota: fall. To get you ready for it,  Ski-U-Blog...

#GOPHERS POSITION PREVIEW:
RUNNING BACKS
-The exciting prospect of a Taylor/Turner duo
-Maybe Minnesota finally uses a fullback? (Probably not, but I'll keep manifesting it)
-Reports on the many freshmen who might play in 2026
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2025 Gophers Position Previews: Receivers and Tight Ends On the other side of this interminable heat, humidity, and rain is a precious thing in Minnesota: fall. To get you ready for it, Ski-U-Blog ...

#GOPHERS POSITION PREVIEW:
WIDE RECEIVERS AND TIGHT ENDS
-What Minnesota is getting in Javon Tracy
-Logan Loya — soon to be Drake Lindsey's safety net
-A thin tight end group
-Checking in on the underclassmen who might feature

My Ten Favorite Gopher Football Players This year marks a decade since I arrived in Minnesota. I have loved my time here dearly, making close friends, experiencing new things, and ...

NEW POST: In the name of squeezing some light #content into the last part of the offseason, and of sentimentality, I wrote a listicle of the 10 players who have most made my first decade as a Gopher football fan worthwhile.

I've seen The Social Network on a lot of people's lists, and I must concede it would have made mine had the entire script been replaced with Lorem ipsum.

Submitted a best-movies-of-the-century ballot but really wish it could have been 30 long.

I saw Threads at the Trylon late last night and thought I could use some time outside today.

Stars-Jets has been so nondescript for five games and then is rude enough to imperil all our aortic wellbeing with an absolute classic

I once again implore ESPN to turn up the crowd microphones on their soccer broadcasts so we can actually sense the atmosphere

Mikko Rantanen what on earth lol

God, this is a dream for Eric Ramsey

The available evidence shows Messi can't do it on a balmy afternoon in St. Paul

Do we think Messi is going to go to Culvers after this or

Weird number of folks in Levante and Huddersfield Town shirts at the Loons game this afternoon.

There's helping the newcomers in your viewing audience understand a complicated game, and then there's twice assuming your viewers are too dumb to figure out where Winnipeg is

It's Sturgill time

I've thought for a while he's the best American soccer play-by-play announcer. He and Mateo Bonetti are do a solid job on Serie A (and when they've done Champions League).

A thing that consistently gives a boost to big Stars moments like this as a Stars fan is that there is not a better goal horn in the league

The Dallas Stars. THE DALLAS STARS.

The Colorado Avalanche traded Mikko Rantanen

I'm starting to think I would have enjoyed this Norwich season more if we got to play 10-man Cardiff every week

Oh man I am deeply envious of getting to hear "All Those Yesterdays" live, that rules

How do I apply for Finnish citizenship

A major advantage college hockey has over Wild games is that the games are actually affordable. (Another advantage is that you won't be watching the Wild.)

Digesting Norwich City's Precarious Moment In my time following Norwich City, it has never been dull. The Premier League era's definitional yo-yo club has changed leagues seven times ...

NEW POST: With Gopher football fully into the offseason, I did something different and wrote about the uncertain place Norwich City find themselves in at the end of a frustrating season.

Loons Loons Loons