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Who's going to introduce America to the new Dodge now?

College football's version would be the 1916 Cumberland-Georgia Tech game: Cumberland had disbanded their football team prior to the season, but Tech refused to cancel their scheduled matchup because Cumberland's baseball team had won a lopsided game against them the previous spring. Tech won, 223-0.

I did some quick research on college football history, and here's what I can flesh out:

My favorite hoax is the Plainfield Teacher's College hoax, where a couple of bored stockbrokers (because it's the 1930s, and the market isn't exactly bustling) called in football scores for a non-existent team to a bunch of east coast newspapers, and it somehow took months for anyone to research that Plainfield

It's like the sound of a man who is desperately trying to keep his internal organs from exploding out his nostrils.

I was listening to the lastest episode of Superego on a road trip this weekend, and I stopped at a gas station that had a television service running on the pump's touchscreen. The first thing to play after I started filling was one of Matt Gourley's Volkswagen commercials.

The show has a very high degree of difficulty in that every episode needs a fully-formed concept for it to fire on all cylinders. That was lacking in the Betsy Sodaro episode, but episode three showed improvement.

Bill Hicks still probably smells better.

#HellNo

The McElroy brothers were in the New York Times?

This guest filling in for Cake Boss sounds an awful lot like Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber doing a Don Dimello impression.

"Graft."

I somehow missed hearing about Lauren's new podcast, and only found out about it in the most roundabout way possible. I was watching "@midnight" on Thursday night, and then a "Key and Peele" repeat came on afterwards. I was transfixed on their aerobics sketch, and went online Friday to look for the clip. That led to

I picked up that book at a Borders going-out-of-business sale a few years ago. I immediately knew the answer, and then figured that only one of the players would get it right.

The Democrats had more seats to defend, and it appears that they underperformed in comparison to polling estimates. The GOP largely avoided falling into indefensible social-conservative traps like they did in 2012, but if what happened in states that went Republican in 2010 is any indication, I have little confidence

I don't like that this was the third docket clearing in five episodes, but the cases this week were oddball enough (and ripe material for Judge-Bailiff riffing) that I found it more entertaining than the MaxFun Week special of a few weeks ago. In Chambers episodes shouldn't be more than a monthly feature.

In his major-league debut, Game 1 of the World Series, no less, with the Yankees not using a designated hitter, and Ozzie Smith batting ninth in the Cardinals' order.

Tell that to the Mara family: The New York Football Giants is still the team's official name.

Apparently, the rule that forbids major league owners from managing their own teams stems from the Chicago White Sox's owner installing his 11-year-old son as skipper for a day in the 1930s, so there's no way the commissioner would have granted Billy Haywood a waiver.

But you did at one time, and it was big enough that Derby County's stadium was called the Baseball Ground into the new millennium.