College football is essentially just a final 4. im thankful we have a playoff of sorts now, and football is my favorite sport, but i wouldnt put it above march madness. Where else does the entire country fall in love for a weekend with a scrappy little team 99.9% of the country has never heard of as they knock off Big…

As a meteorologist who works for a company that actually does provide meteorological consultation for various MLB teams (clearly the Marlins isn’t one of them), I find this whole story hysterical. :)

it's slow for some of us, who have finished marathons in under 9 minute/mile pace and did a 4:43 mile in high school. Many of my coworkers however, would probably struggle to beat that

i made that very same joke during the great #ThingsTimHowardSaved trending topic this past summer lol

I would have actually gone with the Alex Gonzalez play 2 batters after the Bartman incident. Who knows if Alou would have actually made the catch, perhaps it bounces off his glove or something? if Alex Gonzalez, who lead all NL shortstops in Fielding Percentage that season, doesn’t biff that grounder and turns…

Come on, Eileen!

(She DOES have Kentucky advancing to the Sweet 16 at least)

I went during opening weekend 2 years ago as a"bucket list trip" (even though i visit every year; i wanted to experience the insanity of this weekend). Totally lived up to expectations. Never seen a group so angry at Indiana dribbling out the clock while winning by 31, pushing the spread. I got -30.5 the night…

Keep in mind that the UCLA player who got the rebound was shoving Moreira in the back when he jumped for the ball. Easy to get a rebound when you're pushing your lone opponent in the immediate area out of the way to get it.

You quote a rule where the ball touches the backboard. Is there a different part of the rule where the ball is just shot normally without deference to the backboard?

I ran in the Twin Cities marathon in 2007, same day as the Chicago Marathon shutdown. We were THIS close to shutting down as well, but the numbers stayed juuuust under the threshold to do so. That was my 1st marathon. I went from having a optimistic time goal... to a generic time goal... to just thinking "I just want…

Since I work almost exclusively a 2-10pm shift, which is on a rotating 6on-3off pattern, about 95% of movies I see are by myself. It's pretty awesome, because I don't have to worry about that whole "oh what do you want to see?!" conversation with somebody, so I always get to see what Im in the mood for that day. Also,…

agreed. Today's been a rather unpleasant day at Real Job Inc., reading through this gave me 15min of happiness. At least today is my Friday, and i have 6 days off after this. Huzzah!

it looks like Plumlee had stopped in time to avoid the alcohol carnage... but that damn basketball bounced up at just the wrong time and pushed the back of the waitress's leg, forcing her to topple over. DAMN YOU BASKETBALL!!

I read an article Super Bowl Afternoon saying that the Natl Anthem Prop was being taken off the board after a slew of max bets (i guess there's an upper limit to what you can bet on prop bets) started pouring in on the OVER for the Natl Anthem, and they were able to trace a bunch of them back to Nevada. I think Menzel…

it's a scene from Billy Madison

it's a scene from Billy Madison. We have this clip at the ready at work whenever somebody says something stupid haha

when I read that, that was the 1st thing I thought of too, b/c 3rd Rock from the Sun remains my favorite sitcom of all time (oh my GOD! I'm GORGEOUS!!). And I agree, as part of a sitcom, where the "tipper" is an alien and has zero idea of how this custom works for normal people, it's hysterical. In practice, it's…

The putting $ down, taking $ away on a table for tips is an exact plot point from an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun. (my fave sitcom of all-time, that's why i was able to recall this "practice" so quickly)

Judging from what many of the people they had call in to share their stories about him this morning shared, most of them said they knew it was coming and coming very soon. I imagine they had been working on it for the last couple of weeks since they knew the end wasn't very far off at all.