They’ve actually been pouring money into the football program, including an amazing practice facility. The problems with the football team are more about there being no natural recruiting base (a lot of New England schools don’t even have football), no real local enthusiasm for the sport (even most Pats fans…

No, you should be proud of yourself for not agreeing to accept the shitty treatment women at most other programs get.

I have a niece who was recruited for two sports, and one college told her they were relieved that neither sport she played was basketball or soccer, because that meant her ACLs should be fine. I wonder how much the women’s knee issue adds to the basketball problem...I suspect a number of girls (or parents) are afraid…

You can call delayed flagrants in the women’s game, so having it happen well past the possession wasn’t the issue. The question is whether it really rose to requiring the call. There are some non-TV angles circulating already that look pretty convincing, but I don’t know what the refs were working with. I agree that…

I went to school with his kids. He’s surprisingly quiet and very nice in normal life. I routinely want to strangle the media version of him, however.

It’s allowable for flagrants in in the women’s game. It’s a bullshit rule, but the refs were within their rights to make the delayed call even if it was a flop. Here’s hoping a rule change comes out of this.

One thing UConn does that doesn’t get enough attention is their conditioning. They have luxuries that literally no other women’s team — including pros and Team USA — even dreams of, including the world’s best training facility, a stable of world-class physicians and nutritionists, on-demand all-hours massage and…

As someone who has followed the UConn women since the late ‘80s, this honestly didn’t stun me. They’ve played their closest matches in years this season (I think five games with single-digit margins?), they’re relatively young, the bench isn’t as deep as usual, and they play scared at times — all season, not just…

Yes.

Anyone else a fan of Orange Street News? In brief, a 9-year-old put together a local newspaper so good that everyone from Marty Baron to the Columbia Journalism Review has praised it. She has deeper sourcing in the local PD and town government than the “real” journalists. Said journalists keep complaining that…

Oh come on, the Irish never spin yarns...

It’s not in the top ten in the North, but in the Republic it’s #1 with a (figurative, non-Armalite) bullet. Cork’s basically one big Murphy family reunion.

Kumail Nanjiani’s monologue joke when he co-hosted the Independent Spirit Awards with Kate McKinnon:

My family is Bahamian, so we get the accent requests plus all kinds of Jamaican stereotypes. You would not believe how hard it is for Americans to grasp that the West Indies is more than one country, and no, we are not all Rasta.

Safe spaces*

I feel like that’s part of the attraction for people who are into these videos. They get a thrill out of kicking someone who’s already down.

I flew cross-country recently with a stop in Chicago, barely made my second flight, and was forced to choose between paying $9 for a “cheese platter” or eating the Mormon missionary next to me.

His wife sells her own line of caviar lotion and puts it on their son every night. She clearly is not willing to do it for that lump she married.

As a bonus: Trump’s pantyline.

I went from the 7" to the 8" on my last upgrade and honestly don’t think it’s a big difference. I could go back to the 7" if I had to and not miss anything.

I went from the 7" to the 8" on my last upgrade and honestly don’t think it’s a big difference. I could go back to…