My dad turned 80 this year. He met my mom while he was a PhD student at Duke and she was living in graduate housing as a mid-20s nursing student
Not sure how many of these basketball he has left, but I've had a good time rekindling my childhood Duke fandom with him
Except when they play State 🐺
Always said West Ham were class
Drink to the foam!
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
I loved the old rubber band balls
Because you could put them in a small fire and they'd cook until the outer core cracked and then the rubber band ball would shoot sky high
My dad thought my brother and I were sniffing airplane glue when we were using it as an accelerant for golf ball bonfires
Tired of making room for mediocre P4 teams. Give me 26-win Navy. Who cares if they lose? None of these 9th place teams are going to do anything either.
You’ll always remember this
Dowman with a hockey assist and a goal
At 16
Some people are that guy
Got home from a U13 soccer game in Delaware and sat down on the couch about 90 seconds before the first Arsenal goal
What a good 10 mins to watch
Max Dowman becomes the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history.
Taps the sign
COME ON YOU GUNNERS
Max fucking Dowman
BIG
VIK
ENERGY
From one data guy to another I really appreciate @ryanburge.bsky.social keeping the scale on all the charts the same. Would have been so easy to tweak them to make GenX more pronounced
Haha I'm embarrassed for them
My dad was a college professor and I don't recall him ever using the letters outside of a pure academic setting
And with a nurse wife he steered clear of calling himself doctor
Ahahah the ACC website includes the PhD on his alphabetized name so it's:
J. Phillips, Ph.D, James
What a hot mess
But at least they don't call him "Dr."
I know the Patriot League isn't a 2-bid league, but Navy won 26 games, the 2nd most games in program history tying David Robinson's 2nd best seasons, and lost by 1 on a half court heave in the league semis and have to settle for the NIT.
But get the nepo baby of a real piece of garbage to Dayton!
Were you born without shame or did someone pay you enough that it doesn't hurt?
@joeovies.bsky.social y'all might want to call up gus johnson and set him straight. Just claimed on the Georgetown-Uconn broadcast that Silas Demary Jr wasn't recruited by NC State and "he took that personally"
Massive result
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
DOYLE MAKES IT TWO!
🔴⚪ #WxmAFC
Watching @wrexhamafc.co.uk go up 2-0 on Swansea with Ryan and Rob and a whole host of folks in the Wrexham dropping by has been a treat
I hope they do more of these in the future
Navy dominated the Patriot League this year
Then Boston University hit 11 3's in the semis including a half court at the buzzer to beat Navy by 1
BU managed to hit just one 3 in the Patriot League title game and lost by 14 to a Lehigh team Navy beat by 23 on Feb 18th
Shitty luck for Navy
Maybe a going-forward kinda thing that can bear fruit in a few years!
Stat that might only be interesting to me.
Instead of returning production, what % of prior year production is at other schools. A transfer-only metric that isn't impacted by graduation/nfl draft.
That and a set of friends who will root ruthlessly and relentlessly against whatever you bet on in the hopes that you will lose and they can laugh at you.
Not that that ever happened to me.
Definitely not during the 2003 FSU vs uga sugar bowl when we were definitely not in Vegas for NYE.
