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    'Threads' thread: A Zucker is born every minute

    I have put Threads, Spill, Discord, Snapchat, and Mastodon on my phone and playing around with them a little bit to see if they are easy enough to update and/or connect with my WordPress blog. I kind of like the design of Spill.
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    Former Lincoln Sportswriter Gets 15 Years

    Goalmouth, you do have a point. But we writers are supposed to have a bit of distance. Observe, report, quote. And don't do something you wouldn't want your grandma to see on the front page of the Washington Post. My observational innocence was broken in the mid-2000s when a colleague of mine...
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    LeBatard out at ESPN

    Le Batard may have been a good print journalist, BUT .... 1. He didn't bring much in terms of Actual Journalism on his shows. Just blather. 2. His papa was freaking funny, especially in mimicking European accents. But his presence on Highly Questionable was, regrettably, reinforcing...
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    Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

    Same. My list of guest hosts (or guess hosts): Ken Jennings Anderson Cooper Tamron Hall Soledad O'Brien Wink Martindale Brooke Burns Bob Ley (who would be fantastic) Jeff Probst Cheech Marin Faith Salie The person who is chosen needs to be able to read 305 clues per day of taping, without...
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    Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

    Said Rolf Benirschke and Bob Goen.
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    MLB to Small Town America: Drop Dead

    My $2.02: 1. As much as MLB has trumpeted bringing baseball back to the inner city, and having a Jackie Robinson Day, and allowing social justice messages on the backs of the pitcher's mounds, the moves that have been occurring in the minors (even in the last couple of years before this...
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    Math/Statistical question

    Thanks, everyone. Makes sense when you compare the world of math to the real world.
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    Math/Statistical question

    Thanks for pointing out the flaw regarding the accumulation of wins. I figured that would be a big reason you don't have a flurry of major coaching milestones in sports every year ...
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    Math/Statistical question

    Hi, everyone. I want to check my math/logic with a lot of you sports journalists, especially those who are good at mathematics. Because I had a raft of people in the last month reach a major milestone victory (200th, 300th, etc.), I wanted to figure out what the odds were of reaching a...
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    Trentonian giving way to donut makers (insert cop jokes here)

    Hey! Respect for the dead! (He'd grin and say, "yeah, right ...") Love ya, Perch!
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    The "under the bus" article, and future implications

    I have read numerous stories about the inner workings and inner conflicts within sports teams, whether they are amateur or professional. The conflict stories can sometimes be in the form of, "Growing sentiment in the (insert name of team here) locker room indicates that (insert implication...
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    Let's talk about "talk about"

    "Talk about" ... grates on me as much as someone who ends the sentence with the word "...so." AAAAAAUUUGGGGHHHH!!!! I always try for three questions: "What was the difference?"; "Give me a perspective on ...." ; "What did you learn about ...".
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    Tax break for Olympic medalists? 1 guy votes no - what do you think?

    Having graduated with Jim Himes in college, I support his logic and reasoning. Besides, this tax break is only for a very, very few people. It's not as though the tax break is for every single member of the Olympic team. This tax break is benefitting several multimillion-dollar athletes like...
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    Opponents refuse to play HS football powerhouse

    The problem is the VHSL itself. Every sports team that exists in each of the Conferences/Districts must play each other school in its Conference/District in every sport. It is not possible to have a pro-rel system.
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    Opponents refuse to play HS football powerhouse

    Findlay Prep? IMG Academy?
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    Opponents refuse to play HS football powerhouse

    Oh, believe me. There's been all sorts of ways that state governing bodies have tried to regulate competition in the last several decades, but there are loopholes. I have seen, in the course of a quarter-century of field hockey and lacrosse reporting, the following: 1. A family postponed a move...
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    Strange names

    Yup. Had a sister named Krystal Fogg (which, I guess, leads to frost on the roadways?).
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    RIP Jennifer Frey

    +1 on this remembrance. Wow.
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    Strange names

    I'm also surprised nobody has mentioned Rusty Kuntz. At my old newspaper, we had a basketball player named Mahogany Mingo and a distance runner named Autumn Fogg.
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    Strange names

    I know someone who goes by the name Saharah Moon. And that second H is on her legal documents.
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