Hopefully his elbow can hold together, it’s a beautiful pitch. Maddux’s circle-change didn’t break quite as much (same direction), but seeing him backdoor it for strike three was like seeing the angels.

“Meh. I’m still done with him.”

Gonna go out on a limb and guess that this isn’t acting.

RIP Mike Hall.

Then put a bike lane on every road.

I’m guessing that the athletic department was having trouble understanding them. It’s very important that everyone at Coastal Carolina be chanting clear(ly).

You’re not bringing Pinkham back, are you?

I’d watch the hell out of that. Also, that Aussie team lost in the octafinals in ‘06 to the eventual Italian winners on a bullshit 90th-minute penalty call, if I remember correctly.

Australia moved to the Asian Confederation right before the 2010 qualification process for precisely this reason. Of course, they’re in danger of not qualifying at the moment.

Absolutely. The last time a CONMEBOL team lost in the intercontinental playoff was for the ‘06 World Cup, when Australia beat Uruguay on penalties (why do I remember this I have no idea).

Sorry to be this dude, Billy, but the top 4 CONMEBOL teams get in, with 5th place playing the Oceania champ, presumably New Zealand...

This is more a response to yesterday’s excellent Dramarama pick. The Buzzcocks with arguably their best tune:

Great ? from the kid; simple premise that allowed the subject to expound on his coaching philosophy eloquently. Secondly, Frank Martin seems like a pretty solid dude, too.

Let this NU alum tell you that you don’t need to go to Evanston to become an asshole.

If the USA loses tonight they’re not gonna make the World Cup, right?

The ad I received just below the comments of this post is a horri-awful bit of synergy:

Idiot, +1.

Emma, I wanted to ask, since you seem like a good source: How’s the weather in Nashville this time of year?

When I applied to NU in 1999, all that anyone I spoke to in my hometown of Columbus could talk about was how they forgot the school existed until the Rose Bowl run of 1995. Then again, it was Columbus.

One of my all-time favorite bands, Emma. They also did my favorite song about sullying one’s sheets.