The 20 million people in the tristate area is about the same as the combined populations of Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska (six Big Ten schools). More people will watch a Rutgers vs Indiana game more or less by accident than will watch Minnesota vs Wisconsin.

BTN is based on subscriber fees, but the actual popularity of sports has continued increasing for decades, despite changing technology. As long as there’s some kind of paywall around college sports, Big Ten sports rights will be very valuable, however they’re delivered. The only question is how much money they’ll be…

I miss when Albert did these.

How many issues do you want? Pence would even have a hard time being reelected governor in a state that went for Romney in 2012. Aside from not being an unhinged vulgarian, and having a more realistic perspective on the law and foreign affairs, Trump and Pence are pretty compatible in their policies.

“1PM Saturday: Indiana @ Rutgers (ESPN8)“

The tiny percentage of Rutgers football fans in the tri-state is a larger fanbase than Purdue or Indiana football.

Yeah, it would be great, because the rest of us couldn’t enjoy the city of Detroit taking one more punch in the gut. I’m okay with taunting the city of Cleveland.

AJ Foyt’s grandson married Bob Irsay’s granddaughter. It’s speculated that one of their children may turn out to be history’s biggest asshole.

“Lawton Lanier Nalley is the Author-in-Residence of the Shelby Foote School of Literature at Mississippi State University-Tupelo, and the recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction for Old Crow and Jim Crow, a memoir of adolescence in the South.”

Yep, being drunk in public, including licensed facilities, is a misdemeanor in Arkansas if you’re a danger to yourself or others, or if you become unreasonably annoying to another person. The guy can argue that he wasn’t drunk enough to make him a jerk (I don’t know whether there’s an absolute standard) or that his…

Nascar race moved to NBC this afternoon.

And what’s left of their fan base. Don’t forget them.

“You say Les Miles is crazy. I say he’s crazy like a fox. A stupid, stupid fox.”

“Because God answers every prayer. Sometimes, the answer is no.”

Thiel may be delusional about social issues, like lots of libertarians.

Toblerone is just one step from communism. Take away the triangular chocolate and replace it with a hammer and sickle, and there you are.

I would have assumed Lewis was more of an LA Guns man.

The only difference between Hillary’s rep and any other Democratic politician is that she’s been a right-wing target for 25 years, instead of eight or ten. Barack Obama is as close as you can come to being a generic Democratic candidate, and it’s been taken as gospel that he literally isn’t an American or a…

“If being gay is legal, my kids won’t believe me when I tell them it’s bad!”

That is not the prize I want for winning COTD.