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22 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
for everyone asking "who's oral roberts?" apnews.com/article/840607…
before you ask: oral roberts lived another 22 years.
you gotta be kidding me
i just sent out one of the most hilarious stories of alllllll time and you say "what's that got to do with the athletes?" not a damn thing. that's not nearly as interesting as ppl paying to go to a school named for a man who said give me money or god will kill me AND IT WORKED.
i was unaware. whew. nytimes.com/1974/08/30/arc…

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24 Mar
what a dork Image
so lemme tell you an acura story...

in '09, my mom was getting herself a new car, and i talked her into passing her '96 ac 3.2 down to me. was gonna be better than anything i could afford, even if it was old.

one day, i took the 3.2 to the dealer for repairs. now...
they gave me a loaner while they were working on the car. brand new tl. it may as well have been the batmobile to me. i'd never driven a ride that clean ever.

for some reason, the repairs took longer than expected, but were done in a window where i couldn't pick it up that day.
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21 Mar
in other news, looks like illinois was sacrificed by the ncaa to get a good tv matchup against loyola. not that they shouldn’t have won, but still. biggest winner from having this matchup is cbs.
a game that matters in the third largest market in america is better.
yeah, but i don’t think that was for seemingly cynical reasons. now, when that undefeated wichita st team got kentucky in the round of 32? that felt like a setup for tv.
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22 Feb
i love this story but...the stories that make percy harvin legendary don't involve football games.
not even sure it's top 3.
and if it is top 3, it's no. 3. no, i will not give you my list.
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22 Feb
now *this*? yes, this is about race. i have a hard time thinking of any white quarterback tagged with "can't read defenses" coming out.
brett favre didn't know what a nickel defense was when he got to the league.
if you do your homework, *maybe* your mom will let you use her car friday night.
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22 Feb
andrew luck. stafford avoided it, too, but mostly because he had no competition as qb1 in his draft. we also didn't *really* pick leinart apart. nor eli manning. i'm talking pre-draft, to be clear.
no he wasn't. he wasn't picked apart in the nfl, either.
not really. plenty of white qb's get their games picked apart. how much of it you see in public discourse has to do with the narratives surrounding a draft. how much competition he faces. stuff like that.
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22 Feb
fwiw, someone brought this up in conversation with me a couple of weeks ago.

BUT...what that person -- who's quite informed -- said was this was a function of the ohio st offense. sticking with no. 1, waiting for the receiver to decide which option to take on the route.
the other question on something like this with fields is how well one reasonably expects a third-year college player to "scan the field" and how much that can be improved. few of those dudes are getting to their third read in college.
and someone else has documented this
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