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I've been trying to write this since January 2nd. There's never going to a "right" time, so here it is.

In 2025, sports opened my world in deeply meaningful ways. If you're reading this, you were a part of that. I'm grateful.

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Hey you!

The #GAA County season starts tomorrow with the National Hurling League and National Football League!

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We’ve been pretty quiet lately due to work, personal lives, and the unwanted occupation of our state by militant federal idiots.

But we’re popping in to say fuck the Welsh Rugby Union. Yet another group abdicating its responsibility at the expense of those it’s supposed to represent.

One of us beardos wrote a moving and thoughtful reflection on what it’s like to exist in unintelligible times.

Take a few moments of your Sunday to give it a read, won’t you? www.stillgothope.com/2026/01/fiel...

Folks we’ve got college-style commitment vids in the URC this is fantastic

Always fun to join Steve Thomson on @wccoradio.bsky.social to talk Frost hockey:

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Say it louder for the people in the back 👀

Introducing December’s Starting Six!
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Listen the term “hero” gets thrown around a lot.

What this video supposes is, what if it’s not thrown around enough?

SICKOS GIVE BACK UPDATE!!

WE’VE RAISED $10,000.00 FOR THE STATE COLLEGE FOOD BANK!! THE BYU CRUMBL GOAL IS IN SIGHT!!

KEEP IT GOING Y’ALL!!

INSTRUCTIONS BELOW ⬇️

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When we were doing Minnesota-Nebraska game retrospectives leading up to The Chair game this year, we read a lot of old sports writing.

It was compelling, artistic writing that sometimes genuinely could be counted as literature! We’ve lost something by the demise of this style.

A vintage black-and-white group photograph of a early hockey team, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century. Eleven men are posed in three rows: five standing in the back, four seated in the middle row, and two seated on the floor in front. Most players wear dark long-sleeved jerseys with a prominent white "V" emblem on the chest, knee-length pants, and skates or boots. They hold long wooden hockey sticks across their laps or shoulders. In the center front, a man in a formal suit and tie sits holding a pocket watch, flanked by two large silver trophies on pedestals and a smaller cup on the floor. The overall style is a formal team portrait with serious expressions.

On this day in 1896, the Montreal Victorias defeated the Winnipeg Victorias 6-5 to win the Stanley Cup. Played at the Granite Rink in Winnipeg, it was the first Stanley Cup challenge game played outside of Montreal. Ernie McLea recorded the first hat trick in Stanley Cup play.

Even Burger King is running up the score on Newcastle Red Bulls

Fluminense player in vertical deep red and green stripes with narrow white bands

Fluminense team with vertical deep red and green bands and red shorts/socks

Classic Fluminense team phot demonstrating the durability of the deep red and green vertical stripe kit design

Fluminense FC
-Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
-Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Founded 1902
-4 Série A titles (2012 most recent), 1 Copa do Brasil (2007), 1 Copa Libertadores (2023)

Cork City FC players in green kit with red highlights celebrating their 2022 promotion to the Premier Division

Historical picture of Cork City players in a variety of kits

Cork City players circa 2014 model green kits with significant red highlights

Cork City FC
-League of Ireland First Division
-Cork, County Cork, Ireland
-Founded 1984
-3 League of Ireland Premier Division Championships (2017 most recent), 4 FAI Cups (2017 most recent)

Frölunda players celebrating in red jerseys with green shoulders

Frölunda women’s team players in red jerseys with green shoulder and upper arm bands

Frölunda players in red jerseys with green shoulders/arm bands

Frölunda HC
-Swedish Hockey League
-Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden
-Founded 1938
-5 Le Mat Trophies (SHL Championship), most recent in 2019

Also they play at the exquisitely named “Scandinavium”

Juarez players posing in green shirts and red shorts/socks

Juarez players celebrating wearing a bright green kit with a red X on the front

Juarez player carries the ball past a defender in bright green shirt and red shorts/socks

FC Juárez
-Liga MX
-Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
-Founded 2015
-Highest achievement: Ascenso MX (2015)

Augsburg players in red kit with horizontal green and white stripes

Augsburg players in white kit with vertical red and green stripes down the center

Augsburg players in green kit

Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V. aka FC Augsburg
-Bundesliga
-Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
-Founded 1907
-Highest achievement: Regionalliga Süd Tier IV Champions (2006)

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Updating database

Leicester player running onto the field with kids and a green and red Leicester flag

Leicester men’s and women’s players modeling the green and red horizontal striped kits

Players in older Leicester uniform with dark forest green, red, and white diagonal stripes

Leicester Tigers Rugby
-Gallagher Premiership
-Leicester, East Midlands, England
-Founded 1880
-11 Premiership Championships (most recent 2022), 2 European Champion Cups (most recent 2002), 1 Premiership Cup (2024)

Representatives of the men’s and ladies football teams, hurling, and camogie modeling the green jersey with horizontal red chest stripe Mayo no longer sponsors a County-level Camogie team

Men’s Gaelic football team breaks huddle

Alternate uniform design, red in the lower left corner and green above, separated by a diagonal white stripe

County Mayo
-Gaelic Athletic Association (men’s), Ladies Gaelic Football Association
-Castlebar, Mayo, Ireland
-7 All-Ireland Championships (most recent 2003) and 16 League Championships (most recent 2021) across mens and ladies, all in football

NEC Nijmegen celebrates in red kit with a horizontal green strip across the chest after winning their 5th KNVB Cup in April, 2024

And older NEC Nijmegen kit with with a red stripe on the right and green on the left.

Older NEC Nijmegen kit featuring collared uniforms with red and green square pattern.

Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie aka NEC Nijmegen
-Eredivisie (top level of the Netherlands pro football pyramid)
-Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
-Founded in 1900
-5 KNVB Cups, most recent 2023-2024

South Sydney players huddling with their mascot (or coach?)

South Sydney players looking jolly

Action shot of a South Sydney player preparing to pass the ball

South Sydney Rabbitohs
-National Rugby League
-Marouba (suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia
-Founded 1908
-21 Premierships, the most recent in 2014

Most rugby league Premierships of any team and one of only 2 original 1908 teams still in the NRL.

Quinn Hughes celebrating his first goal with the Wild, 2025

Matt Boldy demonstrating Wild 25th Anniversary throwback jersey, 2025

Mikko Koivu in red alternate jersey, 2015

Comin’ out of our cage and we’re posting teams who’ve worn green and red jerseys because ‘tis the season!

Minnesota Wild #MNWild
-National Hockey League
-St. Paul, Minnesota
-Founded 2000
-Highest finish: Northwest Division Champions, 2007-2008

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There is no room for bigotry on our turf.

SICKOS ADVENT CALENDAR - A monkey and someone named Pole Assassin

YES!!! We talked about this in the #CFL episode. Without McGill’s visit to Harvard to face the team playing “The Boston Game” there is no American Football as we know it. Well done.

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Fantastic. Buck O’Neil was such a treasure.