Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Instead of sticking out your elbow and clipping the coach as you go by, line them up straight and take them out with a full body block. Put them flat on their ass, or face: the absolute best is to get them from behind when they're watching the ball on the other side of the court.

Also it's important to cut them off from the sideline -- don't allow them the escape route of backing off the court as they see you coming. Put em down on the floor a good couple steps inbounds so all the photo evidence shows them heaped on the court clearly inbounds.

 

“Starman’s therapist” would make an amazing SNL sketch.

 

It kinda seems unseemly to be devoting this much thought into roughing up a 61-year-old lady, but ya know what, if the 61-year-old lady would just keep her ass on the sidelines where the rules specify she should be, she'd be safer than a cathedral.

 

Just post up behind her, between her and the sideline, and then have a teammate pass you the ball.

 

I shouldn’t feel bad for Notre Dame, but fuck…

 

Having been through both recently, it's not. Both are the pits that no one would want to relocate to, even for a couple of years for education. Scranton gets love because of The Office.

 

Reading…

Shit City

 

Inner-city Reading? You bet. Some nice suburbs, though.

 

I had an overnight stop in Scranton last summer, and while we didn't explore the city much at all, I was surprised by how nice it seemed. Granted, most of what I was reacting to was the pretty mountains, but I expected a complete shithole and it didn't seem like that was the case.

 

Alabama are the champions of Close But No Cigar this season.