It's never been confirmed or even floated all that much, but I suspect Lopez either had been told or assumed he would be canceled if he stayed at 11 anyway, and Conan bumping him was a chance to keep his show going.

I could have listened to 20 minutes of Doug Judy making up silly cop lines.

It was actually Sunday, which was very strange

Penn State didn't miss the playoff because it lost to Pitt. It missed because it got obliterated by Michigan. Conversely, Ohio State got in because it went on the road and beat Oklahoma.

I like the playoff quite a bit, but in large part because it's made scheduling more interesting. You'd never have seen a weekend like Week 1 this year under the BCS.

I adore it. People who want the regular season to mean little to nothing have literally every other sport in America if they want that. In college football, the regular season is everything. And the move from 2 to 4 struck the perfect balance of encouraging better regular-season scheduling while mostly keeping the…

Schools who receive a bowl bid due to a conference tie-in, though, can't decline it. Not that schools would do it anyway, but I'm guessing the fact that it almost literally never happens anymore is tied to that.

The confetti death always upset me. The whole freaking point of Voldemort's death was that in the end he was just another human corpse, despite all his insane efforts not to become one. The unnecessary effect job there undermined that point a lot.

I really miss Wikibear. Too bad his voice (Stack, I believe) left the show for Colbert.

Verizon just within the last month started providing "HD sound" on their calls, whatever that means, and all my calls since that move have been crystal clear. It was so jarring the first time I heard it.

Three guys named Cliff Politte, Dustin Hermanson and Neal Cotts combined to give the White Sox essentially a peak Pedro Martinez season out of the bullpen that year. 2 of them were out of baseball by 2008, and Cotts was never even remotely as good again (including when he was shitty for the Cubs a while later).

I'm a Bulls fan (not a big hockey fan), but honestly, the fact that their dynasty ended when I was 11 is almost worse than being a Cubs fan. It's the same thing with Notre Dame (also a team of mine) - all this winning that happened before I was old enough to see it or realize how special it was, and yet everyone talks…

The Sox are one of the single least successful franchises in history. That 05 title seems to have bought them a lot of forgetfulness by less-than-devoted sports fans to that fact.

It's almost like people can be funny, engaging people without voting for Hillary Clinton

Steve Zahn slays in that movie.

And that, friends, is why my application to be a fashion correspondent was denied.

It looked to me like she had Botoxed her face to hell, to be honest. I'm sure that isn't true, but whatever was different was distracting.

Given that Michael Schur, who tees off politically on Twitter a fair bit, is the co-creator of the show, it's not at all surprising, though.

I liked Nichols too. She seemed to be trying a bit too hard to 'fit in' with Tony the first day but that's true of almost any first-timer on the show and she was otherwise good.

I'm sure the imitation is a poor one, but whenever he comes up in a discussion with friends I always bust out the "but let me talk about how this affects the NOO YAWK KNICKS" impression. Lord he's annoying.