Yes, quite ironic that if the Green Party folks in MI, WI, and PA voted for Hillary instead of Jill Stein, that a) DAPL would still be on hold while environmentalists actually could have made their case to Clinton (a la Obama) to put a hold/stop to this and b) Keystone XL *definitely* would be dead.

I don’t get this.

- If the ACLU thinks this is illegal, why haven’t they sued? The school has been open for close to a year.
- If the ACLU thinks single-gender schools, in general, are illegal, why haven’t they sued to stop the Excel Academy (for girls)?
- If the justification for this all-male school is the racial…

Maybe he’s just sitting there at that light because DeMatha grad Adrian Dantley won’t let Big John cross the street.

Hey, I hear you. As a Big Ten fan, I still can’t quite believe a Rutgers-Nebraska basketball game is a league game, but here we are. We’re stuck with them.

“So, either something changed in the intervening weeks (since March 1)...”

Well, yeah, things did. You laid it out:
- Got their doors blown off, at home, in embarrassing fashion by Villanova (it made the Hoyas look the Rutgers of the Big East)
- Lost in the first round of the Big East tourney to fellow faded glory member…

Makes you want to go hide in a corner curio cabinet.

“That last bit is pretty important.”

Not really — it was only “important” because it was the legal hook Gingrich & co could grasp onto, not that it was literally important. Numerous Trump cabinet members have lied under oath during their sworn testimony in front of Congress; this is not an exaggeration (EPA Chief…

Kenpom’s not perfect, but it’s definitely better than RPI.

Oh sure...that’s why I don’t put Michigan as high as the analytics (which puts them at a #5 seed) and say they should have been a #6. But the weird thing is Michigan had a number of high-quality neutral site game wins — Marquette, SMU, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin — and that’s where the NCAA tourney is played.

Seriously? I don’t think it’s that close, especially if you take any of the analytics into account (e.g., kenpom or espn’s bpi, both of which rank Michigan over 20 spots better).

I like Kenpom (it’s obviously world’s better than RPI) but like any measure, it’s not perfect. I think giving OK State a 6 seed would be overdoing it — they were 20-12, finished 5th in the Big 12 and lost their last 3 games (two to #5 seed Iowa State). OK State didn’t really have hardly any good wins (I think WVU and…

Yes, U of M should have been a 6 seed (taking Maryland’s ridiculous overseeding) and OK State somewhere around an 8-9. Minnesota getting overseeded at a 5 seed was also bad (but MTSU was underseeded, so Minnesota didn’t get a break there).

Is there some reason the committee overutilizes RPI? Do they own stock in the…

Not yet...that comes when they’re 12-years old and we start playing each team multiple times.

Well it wouldn’t have hurt, but I think it’s low on the list of Vandy screwups, because I would hope a PG would know what has worked...it literally just worked the previous play: drive and, if necessary, kick.

If you think it’s bad with 23 year olds, try watching (or in my case, coaching) a game with 10-year olds. Warriors b-ball is all they know. They seem to have absorbed the “lesson” of the deep 3, and discarded the part where Curry has an outrageous handle and thus can also drive it to the rim.

Well...not a lot different, really.

Forget seeing Trump’s taxes (for a moment, at least). We need to see the taxes of that Vandy player to make sure he didn’t have “connections” to some sharpie who had put a big sum on the money line for Northwestern to win.

Yep, it was friendly fire for sure.

She would be excellent if we ever actually *did* get Trump’s full tax returns — she would go through all the details, schedules, supporting docs, etc and be able to construct a meaningful narrative out of all that information.

I think you’re kind of right, but that just shows how disingenuous (or stupid, take your pick) they lead up tweets/announcements were. If the first tweet was “We have 2 pages (the 1040) from Trump’s 2005 tax return” people would have been—correctly—much less excited.

Even the follow-up tweet of clarifying it was “the…

It’s not funny, because wages are only part of a person income situation. For example, would you prefer:

A) A 5% increase in wages (going from $10.00 to $10.50/hr); no health care; reduced access to housing (the ultimate wealth creator for most Americans) because of discrimination (and the govt not caring about said…