I don’t know the Wisconsin team. I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I’d like to see Wisconsin win, Duke has a bunch of championship games already, but the announcers seem to have a Duke bias when they announce. though it could just be my imagination.
eta, My old man loved those teams. It was really hard for us because I hated Lute so much. Of course this is the 10 year anniversary of the great Ilini comeback against the Cats.
48.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
If my mother were still with us, she’d have a new favorite player. Allen is her kind of player.
49.
Suzanne
@raven: He had a fabulous ‘fro back in the day. And I never had classes with him, but he was apparently just a great dude.
50.
Corner Stone
What do you mean, “my car”?
Did you buy it? Pay for it? Pay insurance on it?
Then s t f u spoiledy.
Am I missing someone, or does Duke not have an easily identifiable and utterly hateable player on this year’s team?
53.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cacti: There’s a first time for everything, I’ve heard.
And, what have the aliens done with the Wiscy team?
54.
raven
@Suzanne: It’s funny, there is a guy here that I know who went to high school with him in New Orleans. They were really good buddies and he couldn’t believe it when he learned I had hung with him.
So maybe Wiscy has decided to try shooting the ball with both hands wrapped around their neck for the last 10 minutes.
It’s innovative, to say the least.
I’ve been a Browns fan since the Brian Sipe days. Manziel…came close to breaking that.
84.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: I’d prefer to think they got worn out.
85.
Corner Stone
I wonder how much tape these WI kids are gonna watch over the next few months. They completely handed this one away on a platter. The refs helped them toss their cookies but WI could have finished this one off and they didn’t.
Yep. So much for this sport. I think I liked it better when Making the NIT was a milestone for the Badgers and Plattville had the best team in the state.
87.
Heliopause
Let’s give the team full of white jump shooters credit. They got as far as a team full of white jump shooters has any reason to expect. Ultimately, though, the game has progressed out of the 1960s.
88.
jibeaux
@Cacti: You could go with Justise Winslow, who kicked his defender in the junk and was not, of course, called for a flagrant foul.
89.
Corner Stone
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Okafor didn’t play 14 minutes in the second half. Frank should have dominated this game and made them put Okafor in until he fouled out.
This was an epic collapse.
90.
Mike E
@raven: Can’t say it was fixed when one team wilted when it counted most. 3/4ths of a great game.
91.
jibeaux
@Cacti: Also, Grayson Allen looks like a young Ted Cruz.
If you need a reason to hate a Dookie, I’m here for you, bro.
@Corner Stone: yep. You can’t say they got tired. They stopped playing when they were up nine points. If they got tired with 12 minutes to go, they need to lay off the cigarettes and brats.
He doesn’t look like him, IMO, but he does present the same most punchable face I have seen in some time.
96.
Cacti
I didn’t have a rooting interest in this game. I have a grudging respect for the level of success Coach K has been able to sustain for such a long time.
I feel bad for the Badgers though. Knocking off the undefeated juggernaut just makes for a nice historical footnote if you don’t go on to win the big prize.
I feel bad for the Badgers though. Knocking off the undefeated juggernaut just makes for a nice historical footnote if you don’t go on to win the big prize.
Nothing to feel bad about. They choked this one away bad enough to let the refs be a force down the stretch.
Didn’t have to end this way.
I feel bad for the Badgers though. Knocking off the undefeated juggernaut just makes for a nice historical footnote if you don’t go on to win the big prize.
I don’t know the Badgers, but I’ve gotten the impression throughout the tournament that they’ll have a lot more class than Kentucky did after their loss.
Debating whether to stay up to watch the local news drones cry.
104.
Cacti
Was checking the box score…
Okafor only played 22 minutes because of foul trouble.
The game was there for the taking. Wisconsin just couldn’t close the deal.
105.
Corner Stone
Wiscy was the best team in this tourny, until they weren’t.
Duke just did what they had to do and WI collapsed and didn’t.
ok, so now a bunch of entitled assholes, who couldn’t play basketball if their lives depended on it, will be crowing as though THEY earned this victory, and more insufferable than usual, for the foreseeable future. #burns
Frank should have dominated this game and made them put Okafor in until he fouled out.
Kaminsky was too busy trying to get the crowd pumped up (after putting Wisco up by 9) to be bothered with such things. Fan noise is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than actually playing the fucking game, or acting as if you’ve been there before.
Moron. You don’t fucking showboat/celebrate until AFTER you win. And Ryan is a moron for not telling his kiddies that before the game (assuming he didn’t).
112.
Mike J
@Violet: I’ve played in a charity scramble or two, but never watched other people play.
Which is exactly when I knew they were going to blow it. (See my comment @ 108 regarding Kaminsky’s antics.)
I hate being right about that shit.
115.
Violet
@Mike J: A guy I used to date was seriously into golf. We went to a golf tournament once. It was more fun than I expected. Weather was nice. Got some exercise walking around. He used to watch a lot of golf on TV so I ended up watching some as well, kind of by default. It’s good if you want to snooze on the couch. Puts you right to sleep.
I do like The Masters because the course is so beautiful.
Grand Prairie, TX — A hard-working Texas man was thrown in jail after a warrant was issued for his arrest for an overgrown lawn.
Rick Yoes is the campus electrician for Tarrant County College and usually works from before sun-up to after sun-down.
In September of last year, he and his daughter had been hard at work and were unable to cut the lawn on their Grand Prairie home. The local government then claimed that because Yoes could not mow his lawn, he now owed them $1,700 for his grass that achieved a height of over six inches.
A warrant was subsequently issued for his arrest and police were dispatched to keep us safe from the dangers of this man’s lawn. Yoes turned himself in on Saturday.
Unable to pay the fine, Yoes was forced to use up all of his vacation days and find a replacement for his position as he serves out his 17 day sentence in the county jail — to pay his debt to society.
118.
Mike E
OT but what the hell is that opening tune for Late Night with Seth Meyers? Sounds damn close to Deutschland Über Alles…
Yeah, bridge and checkers are nice too, but they ALSO ARE NOT SPORTS.
Tournament level chess does require some physical conditioning, if you’re playing three games per day My best result came after picking up the bartender at the tourney hotel’s bar, going to a dance club, and returning to the site 1 hour before my next round game the next morning. Won it quickly and then got a draw against a guy 500 points higher rated than I. Didn’t finish in the (hypothetical) money and the Master I drew emailed me the winning line I missed. Still possibly my best sporting weekend.
Despite the masters course being pretty, Augusta sucks. It’s ugly and poorly laid out. But it absolutely is not brown. The weather is great right now and the grass is green. Tons and tons
of pollen, though.
The city provided a list of 59 violations dating back 19 years at his home. The condition of his yard last summer — documented by code inspectors in a series of photographs — resulted in three of the six citations.
You should join the Tea Party.
130.
Hill Dweller
I see where that POS Chuck Schumer decided to sign on to Corker’s bill that undermines the agreement with Iran. Good times.
131.
sharl
@Suzanne: I had thought about that, but worked better this way IMO, and after all, it is a pic of a guy named “Dick”. Hence, thus, and therefore, “Dick pic” is accurate.
Q.E.D.
Little did Mr. Pick know where his database project would end up leading decades later …
133.
Eric U.
if one of my siblings gets thrown in jail for not cutting the lawn at the house we inherited from my mother, I’m not going. I mowed it every time it got mowed, and none of them were at all interested in helping. Can’t go back for 3 weeks, so it’s going to be long by the time I get there
134.
Tree With Water
@srv: Well, it’s like this. The article in question didn’t mention those other warnings. But it being Texas, I just assumed the un-mown lawn was all there was to the story. Who can blame me? Texans are people who take pride in the Bush family. Who knows to what depths those people can further sink.
No big surprise; there are more than a few Dems who want to strut and flex in the Senate by having it actively involved, but who also have no intention of voting to scuttle an agreement should a vote for that come up.
The weather is great right now and the grass is green. Tons and tons of pollen, though.
I beg forgiveness. It’s a couple of months since I was there, and it was brown, and I conflated it with Atlanta, which stays brown late. Augusta as a city, though, ugh.
138.
Sherparick
I see our long national nightmare (Duke winning another NCAA title) continues.
It’s both, of course. Takes a little more physical activity than moving 16 or so pieces of wood (or whatever) weighing about an ounce, an average of an inch or two.
Of course, I’ve known some people for whom flipping baseball cards was an athletic endeavour. But not too many.
145.
MCA1
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Incorrect. Scored objectively – check. Requires full body movement – check. Fitness a plus – check, although barely. Hand eye coordination, speed or strength are important factors in success – check.
Chess, poker, whatever = games, not sports, because they fail on three of the four above counts, contrary to Mike J’s assertion (which he immediately undercuts by noting his best chess performance ever came after an all-night bender).
The borderline for me consists of things like auto racing and horse racing. There’s an objective winner, fitness/strength help, there’s clearly a lot of fine motor skill and coordination that goes into driving or riding. On the other hand, though, the factor of the vehicle/ride is so great that it almost overwhelms the human physical side of the competition. I’d go with sport for both, but I think put them in a second tier (along with golf and curling, which also share a lot of strong “game” characteristics with things like darts or billiards).
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MCA1
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Well, that impression was certainly wrong, wasn’t it? Brandon Koenig, wow. Took some lessons in classiness and dignity from his bitter old fart of a coach, it would appear.
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The Dangerman
FTFBD?
ETA: Works for me.
ETA2: If Wisconsin were any tighter they’d be snare drums.
Corner Stone
Great! Halftime Bigfoots Rock!
Corner Stone
Speaking of which, Frank the Tank may actually be Big Foot IRL.
Corner Stone
Why are there so many great college basketball players named Okafor?
Peale
0-0.
JordanRules
Grant Hill with the super fresh fade.
WI comes out with energy and force.
eemom
This, O This.
KS in MA
@Corner Stone:
FYI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/sports/more-nigerian-americans-are-reaching-highest-levels-of-sports.html
raven
bout fucking time
raven
Chokeafor? We’ll see.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@eemom: Yup; my sentiments exactly.
Elizabelle
Badgermentum.
raven
Allen is tough.
David Koch
someone get a crying towel for Burnsy
JordanRules
Nice fundies kid!
David Koch
someone get a crying towel for Burns.
Corner Stone
Somebody plug that little fire hydrant.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
So glad to see Allen stepping up.
Mike E
@Corner Stone: Kid can play!
Juju
Holy moly, the CBS announcers suck.
GregB
Footage of President Obama announcing Iran deal to Republicans emerges.
Suzanne
Duke beat my Cats in 2001, resulting in a riot in Tucson, resulting in me getting robbed, teargassed, and maaaaaaaybe topless in a large crowd.
raven
@Juju: Especially Rafterry and that verbal tic.
Corner Stone
@Suzanne:
I, for one, welcome our topless overlords.
raven
@Suzanne: Eugene Edgerson and I were on a fishing boat on Maui together.
Juju
I don’t know who they are, but it’s as if Duke invented the wheel and Wisconsin is just there.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
This tournament has featured many interesting and close games. A couple of surprises, also too.
raven
@Juju: Let’s see how they do with Oke on the bench.
Corner Stone
Bad call. Offensive foul.
Feebog
Which ever team wins it is a very entertaining game!
Corner Stone
Gotta feed Frank here.
raven
@Corner Stone: @Corner Stone: Dekk back in.
raven
@raven: With le brick.
Corner Stone
Now you call a charge?
Peale
The Badgers need to get better fast
Corner Stone
@Peale: They are in the lead?
JordanRules
Chappelle may have a comedy special coming to HBO! Yesss goodnessss!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Corner Stone: Not at the moment.
Juju
I don’t know the Wisconsin team. I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I’d like to see Wisconsin win, Duke has a bunch of championship games already, but the announcers seem to have a Duke bias when they announce. though it could just be my imagination.
Corner Stone
Nice no call on the Duke charge there.
Peale
@Corner Stone: you don’t win if you stop scoring
Corner Stone
Great ball movement!
Suzanne
@raven: I always loved watching Edgerson play. He had STYLE.
Corner Stone
@Peale: Shit happens and shit.
Juju
Ok. Maybe Duke did invent the wheel.
Peale
Ugh. It’s as if they decided that scaring Duke was enough.
raven
@Suzanne: Here he was with his skipjacks. He was really nice.
eta, My old man loved those teams. It was really hard for us because I hated Lute so much. Of course this is the 10 year anniversary of the great Ilini comeback against the Cats.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
If my mother were still with us, she’d have a new favorite player. Allen is her kind of player.
Suzanne
@raven: He had a fabulous ‘fro back in the day. And I never had classes with him, but he was apparently just a great dude.
Corner Stone
What do you mean, “my car”?
Did you buy it? Pay for it? Pay insurance on it?
Then s t f u spoiledy.
Corner Stone
@raven: Wow. Those moobs are epic.
Cacti
Am I missing someone, or does Duke not have an easily identifiable and utterly hateable player on this year’s team?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cacti: There’s a first time for everything, I’ve heard.
And, what have the aliens done with the Wiscy team?
raven
@Suzanne: It’s funny, there is a guy here that I know who went to high school with him in New Orleans. They were really good buddies and he couldn’t believe it when he learned I had hung with him.
Corner Stone
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Reminds me of Johnny Manziel.
raven
@Corner Stone: Yea I don’ think that was his playing weight.
Corner Stone
That’s WI ball.
Mike E
Duke ball. They weathered the storm and are winning the marathon.
raven
@Corner Stone: yup
Corner Stone
So maybe Wiscy has decided to try shooting the ball with both hands wrapped around their neck for the last 10 minutes.
It’s innovative, to say the least.
raven
Oh boy.
Corner Stone
@Mike E: Bullshit. That is WI ball.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Corner Stone: I was thinking Bobby Hurley, actually.
Manziel is slimy.
Mike E
@Corner Stone: Nope. Duke ball. Championship.
Corner Stone
Jeebus Cracker. All hail Betty’s less well known brother.
raven
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Hurley was a joik too.
Corner Stone
@Mike E: They ruled Duke ball but they fucked that call. It was obvious in real time. Video confirmed.
They fucked that possession call.
Rex Tremendae
Jones is terrific.
The Dangerman
Fuck; even with replay, refs are biased for Duke. Horseshit call.
ETA: I must be ill; I and CS agree. Ref’s fucked that one bigtime.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Suzanne:
Can’t buy memories like that!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
No one can say it hasn’t been an exciting game.
Mike E
@Corner Stone: Really don’t know why WI didn’t stick with their game plan from the previous game…Frank passing up his shots makes no sense IMO.
Corner Stone
Shoot the fucking ball!
Corner Stone
I’d hate myself if I were a WI player.
ETA, that’s a little too much. They just got outclassed down the stretch.
Juju
Sigh.
Violet
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
He’s been in rehab for months.
The Dangerman
Duke in Double Bonus; WI not even 1 and 1 yet.
Sick.
Suzanne
Duck Fuke.
raven
Ok , now 6 fucking months of baseball.
Rex Tremendae
I would not have expected Duke to win with such big man foul trouble. I thought they had to grind Kaminsky down (although he did look tired).
raven
@The Dangerman: Wisky had 2 fouls in the 1st half.
jibeaux
Rage, rage, and beer.
Bring on the baseball, she said halfheartedly.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@raven: Jerk =/= slimy.
Hurley was willing to do the work to be at the top of his game. Manziel isn’t; he’s a rich kid who coasted on the talents of the guys around him.
@Violet:
Yeah, I know.
I’ve been a Browns fan since the Brian Sipe days. Manziel…came close to breaking that.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: I’d prefer to think they got worn out.
Corner Stone
I wonder how much tape these WI kids are gonna watch over the next few months. They completely handed this one away on a platter. The refs helped them toss their cookies but WI could have finished this one off and they didn’t.
Peale
Yep. So much for this sport. I think I liked it better when Making the NIT was a milestone for the Badgers and Plattville had the best team in the state.
Heliopause
Let’s give the team full of white jump shooters credit. They got as far as a team full of white jump shooters has any reason to expect. Ultimately, though, the game has progressed out of the 1960s.
jibeaux
@Cacti: You could go with Justise Winslow, who kicked his defender in the junk and was not, of course, called for a flagrant foul.
Corner Stone
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Okafor didn’t play 14 minutes in the second half. Frank should have dominated this game and made them put Okafor in until he fouled out.
This was an epic collapse.
Mike E
@raven: Can’t say it was fixed when one team wilted when it counted most. 3/4ths of a great game.
jibeaux
@Cacti: Also, Grayson Allen looks like a young Ted Cruz.
If you need a reason to hate a Dookie, I’m here for you, bro.
Suzanne
@raven: I hate baseball so much.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: Epic collapse is an apt description. I had high hopes, though.
Peale
@Corner Stone: yep. You can’t say they got tired. They stopped playing when they were up nine points. If they got tired with 12 minutes to go, they need to lay off the cigarettes and brats.
Corner Stone
@jibeaux:
He doesn’t look like him, IMO, but he does present the same most punchable face I have seen in some time.
Cacti
I didn’t have a rooting interest in this game. I have a grudging respect for the level of success Coach K has been able to sustain for such a long time.
I feel bad for the Badgers though. Knocking off the undefeated juggernaut just makes for a nice historical footnote if you don’t go on to win the big prize.
Corner Stone
Eight is enough for what, asshole?
Corner Stone
@Cacti:
Nothing to feel bad about. They choked this one away bad enough to let the refs be a force down the stretch.
Didn’t have to end this way.
Corner Stone
@Peale:
They missed something like 10 of 11 shots in over 6 minutes in the second half.
You just can’t give the refs that kind of huge opening.
Mike E
@Peale: Well, WI Gov Dumbass will be shipping cheese, sausage and rootbeer to NC Gov Fuckface, so no smokes will change hands…
Cacti
@Corner Stone:
Dekker would get my goat horns for this game. 6-15 shooting, and 0-6 from 3.
The Dangerman
Last 10 minutes of this game reminded me of the last 7 tenths of a second of the Duke-Utah game. Sad, sad, sad.
Ohio State. New England. Duke. Not a good start to this year.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Cacti:
I don’t know the Badgers, but I’ve gotten the impression throughout the tournament that they’ll have a lot more class than Kentucky did after their loss.
Debating whether to stay up to watch the local news drones cry.
Cacti
Was checking the box score…
Okafor only played 22 minutes because of foul trouble.
The game was there for the taking. Wisconsin just couldn’t close the deal.
Corner Stone
Wiscy was the best team in this tourny, until they weren’t.
Duke just did what they had to do and WI collapsed and didn’t.
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: Then don’t watch it.
eemom
ok, so now a bunch of entitled assholes, who couldn’t play basketball if their lives depended on it, will be crowing as though THEY earned this victory, and more insufferable than usual, for the foreseeable future. #burns
Whatever. Least of my worries.
Mike J
@raven:
Thank god. That and the women’s world cup means we have real sports for the summer.
My preferred sports are yacht racing and chess, but neither one gets enough TV time.
Violet
@Mike J: Well, there’s golf. The Masters is this week.
Keith G
@The Dangerman:
Go Bucks!!
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
Kaminsky was too busy trying to get the crowd pumped up (after putting Wisco up by 9) to be bothered with such things. Fan noise is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than actually playing the fucking game, or acting as if you’ve been there before.
Moron. You don’t fucking showboat/celebrate until AFTER you win. And Ryan is a moron for not telling his kiddies that before the game (assuming he didn’t).
Mike J
@Violet: I’ve played in a charity scramble or two, but never watched other people play.
SFAW
@Mike J:
Yeah, bridge and checkers are nice too, but they ALSO ARE NOT SPORTS.
SFAW
@Peale:
Which is exactly when I knew they were going to blow it. (See my comment @ 108 regarding Kaminsky’s antics.)
I hate being right about that shit.
Violet
@Mike J: A guy I used to date was seriously into golf. We went to a golf tournament once. It was more fun than I expected. Weather was nice. Got some exercise walking around. He used to watch a lot of golf on TV so I ended up watching some as well, kind of by default. It’s good if you want to snooze on the couch. Puts you right to sleep.
I do like The Masters because the course is so beautiful.
Corner Stone
@Violet:
You and T-Dawg?
Hoocoodanode?!
Tree With Water
Texas Freedom, Texas Style (alternet.com reports):
Grand Prairie, TX — A hard-working Texas man was thrown in jail after a warrant was issued for his arrest for an overgrown lawn.
Rick Yoes is the campus electrician for Tarrant County College and usually works from before sun-up to after sun-down.
In September of last year, he and his daughter had been hard at work and were unable to cut the lawn on their Grand Prairie home. The local government then claimed that because Yoes could not mow his lawn, he now owed them $1,700 for his grass that achieved a height of over six inches.
A warrant was subsequently issued for his arrest and police were dispatched to keep us safe from the dangers of this man’s lawn. Yoes turned himself in on Saturday.
Unable to pay the fine, Yoes was forced to use up all of his vacation days and find a replacement for his position as he serves out his 17 day sentence in the county jail — to pay his debt to society.
Mike E
OT but what the hell is that opening tune for Late Night with Seth Meyers? Sounds damn close to Deutschland Über Alles…
Mike J
@SFAW:
Tournament level chess does require some physical conditioning, if you’re playing three games per day My best result came after picking up the bartender at the tourney hotel’s bar, going to a dance club, and returning to the site 1 hour before my next round game the next morning. Won it quickly and then got a draw against a guy 500 points higher rated than I. Didn’t finish in the (hypothetical) money and the Master I drew emailed me the winning line I missed. Still possibly my best sporting weekend.
Violet
@Corner Stone: Who or what is T-Dawg?
pseudonymous in nc
@Violet:
It’s surrounded by… well, it’s weird. You can drive around it and have no idea that it’s there, and the rest of Augusta is brown at this time of year.
St Andrews is a public park on Sundays. You can have a picnic on the fairway. Augusta National is a private enclave.
Corner Stone
@Violet: Tommy from Lake Woebegone.
guachi
Despite the masters course being pretty, Augusta sucks. It’s ugly and poorly laid out. But it absolutely is not brown. The weather is great right now and the grass is green. Tons and tons
of pollen, though.
Suzanne
@Corner Stone: LMMFAO.
You’re horrible. So am I.
sharl
Dick pic (safe for work and anywhere else). // Via
Violet
@Corner Stone: Ah, okay. Outside of golf being involved, don’t see many similarities there.
@pseudonymous in nc: I like the hardscrabble courses in Scotland.
Violet
@sharl: That.is awesome and hilarious.
Suzanne
@sharl: Don’t you mean Dick Pick pic?
srv
@Tree With Water:
You should join the Tea Party.
Hill Dweller
I see where that POS Chuck Schumer decided to sign on to Corker’s bill that undermines the agreement with Iran. Good times.
sharl
@Suzanne: I had thought about that, but worked better this way IMO, and after all, it is a pic of a guy named “Dick”. Hence, thus, and therefore, “Dick pic” is accurate.
Q.E.D.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@sharl:
Little did Mr. Pick know where his database project would end up leading decades later …
Eric U.
if one of my siblings gets thrown in jail for not cutting the lawn at the house we inherited from my mother, I’m not going. I mowed it every time it got mowed, and none of them were at all interested in helping. Can’t go back for 3 weeks, so it’s going to be long by the time I get there
Tree With Water
@srv: Well, it’s like this. The article in question didn’t mention those other warnings. But it being Texas, I just assumed the un-mown lawn was all there was to the story. Who can blame me? Texans are people who take pride in the Bush family. Who knows to what depths those people can further sink.
NotMax
This word “March” that you use…
NotMax
@Hill Dweller
No big surprise; there are more than a few Dems who want to strut and flex in the Senate by having it actively involved, but who also have no intention of voting to scuttle an agreement should a vote for that come up.
pseudonymous in nc
@guachi:
I beg forgiveness. It’s a couple of months since I was there, and it was brown, and I conflated it with Atlanta, which stays brown late. Augusta as a city, though, ugh.
Sherparick
I see our long national nightmare (Duke winning another NCAA title) continues.
SFAW
@Mike J:
Perhaps, but it’s still NOT A SPORT.
Not all games are sports. Playing cards, checkers, mah-jongg, pocket pool, and so forth are NOT SPORTS.
Ryan
@Keith G: Careful, look what happened to Boston after the Patriots won. God came down and smited them with snow!
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@SFAW:
There is a persistent claim by some people that golf is a game, not a sport. Discuss.
burnspbesq
@David Koch:
He who laughs last …
burnspbesq
@eemom:
What a sad little person you are, Elaine.
SFAW
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
It’s a floor wax! It’s a dessert topping!
It’s both, of course. Takes a little more physical activity than moving 16 or so pieces of wood (or whatever) weighing about an ounce, an average of an inch or two.
Of course, I’ve known some people for whom flipping baseball cards was an athletic endeavour. But not too many.
MCA1
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Incorrect. Scored objectively – check. Requires full body movement – check. Fitness a plus – check, although barely. Hand eye coordination, speed or strength are important factors in success – check.
Chess, poker, whatever = games, not sports, because they fail on three of the four above counts, contrary to Mike J’s assertion (which he immediately undercuts by noting his best chess performance ever came after an all-night bender).
The borderline for me consists of things like auto racing and horse racing. There’s an objective winner, fitness/strength help, there’s clearly a lot of fine motor skill and coordination that goes into driving or riding. On the other hand, though, the factor of the vehicle/ride is so great that it almost overwhelms the human physical side of the competition. I’d go with sport for both, but I think put them in a second tier (along with golf and curling, which also share a lot of strong “game” characteristics with things like darts or billiards).
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@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Well, that impression was certainly wrong, wasn’t it? Brandon Koenig, wow. Took some lessons in classiness and dignity from his bitter old fart of a coach, it would appear.