Patrick Stevens

I was surprised when I looked it up, too.

But it was a welcome surprise; the joke wouldn't have worked as well with a much wider margin.

The last time he competed in Georgia while in charge of something, he lost by seven points. An omen, perhaps?

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YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

RIP to Tom Lehrer. It is not an exaggeration that he's one of the finest (and most scaldingly scathing) satirists in American history.

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Suggestion for July 26 … The Great New York Fire Of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution (2023) by Benjamin L. Carp.

As a comparison, former Maryland athletic director Damon Evans was making $1.28M ($1M base, $280,000 supplemental) after signing an extension last summer.

Buyout if Maryland wishes to move on is 18 months base salary ($1.8M), unless there are less than 18 months left on the contract (then it's just the balance of the base salary).

*-That excludes increases due to Maryland finally getting a full share of Big Ten revenue or an increase in money from the league generated by the college football playoff.

The most interesting nugget in there, I think, is this "long-term incentive."

If still on the job, Smith gets one full year of his base salary (currently $1.2M) if Maryland's "total revenue (in inflation-adjusted dollars) of the Dept. of Athletics is $50M greater" in 2029-30 than in 2024-25*.

Per an open records request, the contract details for new Maryland athletic director James Smith.

* Five-year term (through June 2030)
* $1.5 million guaranteed annually ($1.2M base, $300K supplemental)

Suggestion for July 13 … Prisoners Of The Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison (2022) by Ben Macintyre.

Suggestion for July 10 … The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball (2025) by John W. Miller.

Suggestion for July 7 … Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie (2022) by Gary Weiss.

“You’re telling me this is the day with all those loud sounds after it gets dark? Sigh.”

Few things better than midweek afternoon baseball.

Suggestion for July 2 … A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune (2024) by Noliwe Rooks.

Atlantic 10: Loses Massachusetts (Mid-American) Coastal: Loses Delaware (Conference USA) Conference USA: Adds Delaware (Coastal) and Missouri State (Missouri Valley) Mid-American: Adds Massachusetts (Atlantic 10) Missouri Valley: Loses Missouri State (Conference USA) Northeast: Adds New Haven (Division II) West Coast: Adds Seattle (Western Athletic) Western Athletic: Loses Seattle (West Coast)

A quiet Realignment Day this year.

Just four D-I schools switching leagues and a fifth moving up from Division II.

Suggestion for June 30 … Ted Kennedy: A Life (2022) by John A. Farrell.

Suggestion for June 22 … War (2024) by Bob Woodward.

Suggestion for June 19 … When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (2024) by John Ganz.

Nationals' bat-retrieving dog Bruce laps up pregame attention, makes MLB debut The dog days of summer arrived at Nationals Park. Bruce, a 21-month-old Golden Retriever, fetched a bat during a ceremony before the Washington Nationals’ game against the Miami Marlins as part of a P...

"Cram as many dog puns into 10 paragraphs as you can" Challenge accepted.

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Suggestion for June 14 … Kingdom On Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty (2024) by Scott Howard-Cooper.

Suggestion for June 8 … McMillion$: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History (2024) by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte.

Suggestion for June 6 … Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower’s 1919 Convoy Paved the Way For the Roads We Travel (2024) by Brian C. Black.

Suggestion for June 4 … The Iron Dice Of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West (2023) by Timothy B. Smith.

I will not be there, and given that the final vote occurs after the title game, I'd guess a Carolina player wins the women's award.

Or should I say players? There's precedent for siblings on the same team sharing a Tewaaraton (Albany's Lyle and Miles Thompson in 2014).

Suggestion for May 29 … The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) by Hampton Sides.

Buczek, Kirst Help Cornell Break 48-Year Title Drought Cornell won its first national title since 1977 with a 13-10 win over Maryland on Monday.

From yesterday for USA Lacrosse Magazine, CJ Kirst and the rest of Cornell's senior class made the most of their last chance as the Big Red beat Maryland for its first national title in 48 years.

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Teams with national titles the year after missing the tournament ...

1983 Syracuse
2008 Syracuse
2012 Loyola
2023 Notre Dame
2025 Cornell

FINAL: (1) Cornell 13, (2) Maryland 10.

CJ Kirst scores six goals as the Big Red (18-1) wins its first NCAA tournament since 1977 and fourth overall.

Eric Spanos has 2 G/2 A for the Terrapins (14-4), who fall in the national title game for the second year in a row.

Kirst gets his sixth goal. This one goes into the empty net.

He's the first player to score six in a title game since Paul Rabil did it in 2008.

Cornell 13-10, 0:50 to go.