Ben McKeown

I know it’s old news but I’m just pointing out how insane it is that it’s 12:22am and the first half of an ACC football game just ended. Duke/GA Tech will probably kick kick off less than 10 hours after the end of this game.

North Carolina is really bad at football this year it seems.

That definitely counts. 😂

Impressive, but need to know what game you were playing 😀

Incredible piece by my friend Mitch, including this spectacular paragraph:

Hang on. Bill Belichick’s star quarterback is injured on a big hit, backup comes in and looks great… then?

I think he meant 33rd place.

He meant 33rd place right?

I want a Jumbotron shot of the board of trustees.

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

Basically what I’m saying is that this frightening to me because the fascia holding our society together seems to be stretched almost to its tearing point already. I have a habit of jumping to worst case scenarios, but today even a short walk down the possible scenario path looks awfully bleak.

I don’t think the vast majority of people in this country understand there is no law of physics that requires war to only happen overseas. When you hear “this is awful because people will die,” remember that you in fact are also a person and the unraveling of this ball of twine is not predictable.

I remember how long the lead up to the Iraq war seemed to be. W’s admin still had some semblance of respect for public/political support, because they worked hard to swindle/manipulate it before attacking! Today it just happened without a smidge of concern for any consequence whatsoever. This sucks.

Remember SignalGate?

(One of Trump's superpowers is being involved in so many scandals all the time that very few of them end up having staying power beyond a news cycle or two.)

The halftime crew on cbs seems hungover. And based on my experience covering the final four in San Antonio in 2008, I’m pretty confident in this diagnosis.

Broadcast saying Duke hasn’t been tested the last 6 weeks. They have. They’ve answered. Guess all they’re seeing is the final score.

I’d like a team to help me develop a Triangle media 101 course so that we don’t end up with graphics that say “Cameron Indoor Arena”

Everything is so stupid.

After Duke’s win tonight, there has been a team from the Triangle in N.C. in the final four 13 out of the last 25 years. We don’t just love basketball around here. We are in charge of it.

Caleb Love def. Duke, 2022/Duke def. Caleb Love, 2025

A game of inches

@tinsnow12.bsky.social photos

Also.

Literally the tournament is created by a committee of people whose job it is to craft a media spectacle. Thats the gig. It’s not a sanctioned election or a mathematical merit-based formula. It’s show business.

I’m gonna use this as precedent to start suing all my other favorite tv writers rooms for casting decisions I disagree with.

The ncaa tournament is a television show. This is like pursuing legal action against a show director because you disagreed with a casting decision on one season of the series.

West Virginia ranked last or next-to-last in critical state indicators, including a poverty rate that is one of the highest in the US. But hey, think of the Twitter engagement!

Duke is really fucking good.

Cooper Flagg is great, but Jon Scheyer just proved he’s an absolutely elite coach by winning the ACC tournament without the best college player in decades.

ACC tournament officiating = not great.

Basketball is the best.