found the problem...looks like a dozen or so DII schools are pulling the wrong tag from ESPN. Give me 20 minutes?
05.12.2025 23:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@mattbrown.bsky.social
I write Extra Points, a newsletter about off-the-field stories in college sports. I also (badly) make computer games, woodworking projects, and jokes. Chicago.
found the problem...looks like a dozen or so DII schools are pulling the wrong tag from ESPN. Give me 20 minutes?
05.12.2025 23:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hahaha man
05.12.2025 22:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0okay who is dethroning me because right now Ohio State fans are dominating Who's That Football Team
(it me, I'm the Ohio State fan)
Brazilian soccer in Boston or Miami is gonna be such a dang home field advantage. Love to see it.
05.12.2025 19:50 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0That also sounds like an eleven year old boyβs google search history
05.12.2025 19:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Okay this is the game I gotta find a way to get to right now
05.12.2025 18:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0whew! gonna tell our team to try and limit our behind the scenes tinkering during working hours haha. sorry about that!
im looking into a better solution for the logos of small schools. struggling with that one a bit.
How about now? I was in the middle of a deployment
05.12.2025 17:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0blogged about Big Cookie
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Many people are now saying the Oregon Ducks are poor. Sad!
05.12.2025 17:24 β π 33 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0MAN is this story sad
(and very American)
www.wsj.com/us-news/foot...
You know, it's funny, A&M is one of the examples I think of where the reality DOESN'T match the meme. I've had development officers there tell me their fundraising (athletic and otherwise) is way more diverse than just oil. Other schools (like Tulsa) are way more tied to that industry, I'm told
05.12.2025 14:53 β π 22 π 0 π¬ 6 π 2That sounds like it would be a very fun shitpost that I should work on instead of making phone calls today tbh
05.12.2025 14:14 β π 37 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0blogged about Big Cookie
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thanks! This fix is live, and I'll have a few other fixes (plus four or five updates) within the hour
05.12.2025 14:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yeah max the meat guy lol
NOW I WANNA EAT ZEBRA TOO
Honestly, I'd think ProPublica would have a better AI use case than almost any other publisher!
05.12.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know what its time for? A bunch of Caseys Pizzas executives to start donating enough cash to detail this coaching hire.
FOILED BY BIG COOKIE, THEN BIG GAS STATION BREAKFAST PIZZA
have you guys played the Daily Challenge in Who's That Football Team yet? This one is pretty tricky, I think. Unless you're @nikolaidenmark.bsky.social or something
whosthat.extrapointsmb.com
I would do this for everybody, of course, but 80% of the schools we request this from deny it on FERPA (lmao) or trade secret grounds.
I just wrote a check for $140 bucks to get the info from Oregon State. YOUR SUBSCRIPTION DOLLARS AT WORK
I need to be so much meaner on LinkedIn lol
04.12.2025 22:09 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Updated this post with new data I just got back from Western Michigan:
(they've spent Β $87,500.00 on House rev-share payments to men's hockey so far, in case you were wondering)
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-how...
got this one fixed, working on the others
04.12.2025 20:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I liked this story on public school chaplains, from our sister publication, NIL-Wire:
www.nil-wire.com/p/college-ch...
thanks! i just pushed a fix that hopefully addresses that. should be live in about 5 min
04.12.2025 15:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0thats the 5th clue
04.12.2025 15:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0have you guys played the Daily Challenge in Who's That Football Team yet? This one is pretty tricky, I think. Unless you're @nikolaidenmark.bsky.social or something
whosthat.extrapointsmb.com
anyway I gotta get on the phone for a while but we wrote a story about tortilla emails
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/guest-post...
I believe it was βRoll Tideβ
04.12.2025 14:45 β π 43 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0well, I'm afraid I have some bad news about Portnoy then
04.12.2025 14:39 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0