Not to be pedantic, but the $31.7 million payout (not $34.7 million) to the conference is from Cablevision alone (this is pointed out in the AdAge piece). The conference gets much more from the BTN network overall, something like $12 million per school per year.

That’s an all-time let’s remember some guy doing some thing.

Pinnacles is a national park now! https://www.nps.gov/pinn/index.htm

I loved Joshua Tree, but I made the mistake of visiting the week of Coachella, so a hearty +1 to this sentiment.

“So many front offices are staffed by guys like me, who didn’t play the game, who didn’t come in through the coaching ranks … Don’t tell me that there are no black people who are good at math. There are black people who expert at qualitative analysis,” Elhassan said.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I’ll second Will’s endorsement of the Aviation and Corpse Reviver #2, and throw in The Last Word: Equal parts gin, chartreuse, lime juice, and maraschino liqueur.

Ah, Noah Feldman, forever trying to push the Iraqi Constitution down the list of the stupidest things he’s ever written.

Luther Head’s corner 3 in the 2005 title game against UNC.

Yahoo trades Gwyneth Paltrow Blog-to-Be-Named-Later to the New York Times for Andrew Ross Sorkin; Yahoo waives Kelly Dwyer

Let me tell you about the SEC. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born in the parking lot of a Krystal, it is very difficult to understand.