SirFozzie

Big bash league 13 has begun

With Michigan winning, Hail to the Victors will be replaced with Hail to the Victims. Just.. who are the Victims? Commiteemember Foz says Washington: IN. Michigan: IN, Texas IN, Alabama IN Out: Florida State, Georgia, Why? I want to put Florida State in for Alabama over body of work, but.. A) The QB situation is too bad for FSU, and Texas beat Alabama (AT Alabama), who beat Georgia (on neutral field), and GA had some really down games this year. B) If the SEC had to go one year without a team in the college football playoffs, the SEC would start the second American Civil War.

Ok.. a bit late, but after a certain move on last week's collision, I want Samoa Joe to nope his way out of a out of ring dive. A real tope con see ya...

Group D is also no fun. Austria are no joke, and with France, Netherlands and the Playoff qualifier.. someone is going home unhappy.

England ladies with a big comeback from down 0-2 to beat the Netherlands 3-2 and keep their Olympic hopes alive. Now, it's a strange bit, where the Netherlands play Belgium and England plays scotland. England have to beat scotland by 3 more goals than Netherlands do Belgium (if they win) to qualify. How's it strange? If England make the Olympics (have to finish top 2, or top 3 if France wins, as hosts they auto-qualify), they'll play as Team Great Britain, and include Scottish players.

So.. 40% upgrade in price for NASCAR's next deal. 1.1 Billion a year over 7 years (previously was 10/8.2 Billion, so 7/7.7 is huge) https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/39007786/nascar-include-streaming-new-7-year-media-rights-deal

I will say this about the NBA in-season tournament. It's done the impossible in the first year. It made Celtics fans root for the nets (thanks to the nets win but failing to beat the Celtics Point Differential, the Celtics qualified for the IST Quarterfinals.) edit: funniest bit, The Celtics using Hack-a-Drummond up 29-ish. Next year, the teams playing Drummond should do a 50/50 contest. The winner, instead of getting a cash prize, gets to foul Drummond six times during the game and make him take free throws.

What's old is now new again. Bobby Petrino to Arkansas (this time as OC) https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39000680/bobby-petrino-arkansas-offensive-coordinator

https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2023/nov/28/david-squires-on-terry-venables-doing-it-his-way?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter read that. See if you don't get a heart in your throat moment,

Sadly, there was the Patriots Fail Mary (where they tried a throw back in field) that was returned for a TD. But the Jets, and extremely stupid plays on Thanksgiving week. Goes together like peanut butter and chocolate.

I've been watching on twitch when I can (and when I'm awake). There was a couple hardcore matches (not in the plunder sense of course), there was a rematched bout where one of the rikishi had been cut open in the original bout, and he did the rematch all patched up with the bandage practically hanging in front of his eyes.

Barnsley kicked out of the FA Cup for using an ineligible player, so the team they beat (a 7th tier side) gets a second chance in the tournament. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67486563

To be fair, that 2nd sending off could have seen the guy sent off twice over. (he committed a foul that was likely his 2nd Yellow, ref played advantage, and then that challenge later in the play which yeah, any ref would have given that as a red

Mexico advances on penalties. Of course, no one's going to mention the refs literally let them play until Mexico scored the equalizer in the 11th minute of second half stoppage time, sending off two Honduras players after that, and then forcing retakes of penalties until the third attempt was scored.

update: you get the feeling the refs were willing to play as long as necessary to make sure Mexico scored, otherwise they may have not got out of the Azteca.

Paths (mostly) set for the playoff draw Path A: Poland, Wales, Estonia Path B: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel Path C : Georgia vs. Luxembourg, Greece vs. Kazakhstan Why does Path A only have 3, Path B 2, and Path C 4? Because three teams need to be sorted to see what team will join Path A, and what two teams are in Path B. That draw will be on Thursday (Thanksgiving US) at 11 am GMT Part of me wants to quip that if Ukraine gets put in Path B, the Israel v Ukraine game will decide who gets US aid first. Meanwhile, here are the Pots for the draw (6 groups, each group will have one team from each Pot) CONFIRMED EURO 2024 DRAW POTS Pot 1: Germany, Portugal, France, Belgium, Spain, England Pot 2: Hungary, Turkey, Denmark, Albania, Romania, Austria Pot 3: Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czechia Pot 4: Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, Playoff A, Playoff B, Playoff C Group of death would be: Spain, Turkey, Netherlands, Italy.

Spare a thought for the Tanker Bowl. Gi(aints)-Patsies in a 3-8 showdown

Sergino Dest has been sent off in the 2nd leg of USA-TNT for being a royal hothead.

Six first half sacks by the Commanders. Being the Giants QB should be uninsurable due to danger

Congrats to Australia.

There was just too many reasons that MJF would win (his ongoing storylines with the Devil, Samoa Joe's title shot, Adam Cole), etcetera. It made all the attempts to try to make people believe a title change would happen seem like Roman Reigns like bullshit.

Coach Tony sometimes needs to learn that less is more. It worked in Swerve-Hangman, but in the main, we had the following plots hanging over it. The Devil Cole at ringside, teasing throwing in the towel MJF injured The Ambulance The Gunns interfering, TWICE (including after the ref ejected them, which is complete and utter bullshit) Samoa Joe waiting. I'll say this. Coach Tony, if you do all this stuff (honestly reminds me of Hulkamania), without being 9000% sure MJF doesn't leave when his contract is up, you're making a horrible decision.

Holy shit. Mexico has hit a possible new low, losing to Honduras 2-0 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Nations League Quarterfinals. With the Away Goals rule, they'll have to score at least 3 to win it outright (there is extra time and away goals). If they got bounced in the Nations League QF, they risk missing out on Copa America (they would have one more shot in a single game), and Mexico might actually burn down.

Quick review of the new Marvel RPG campaign book "The Cataclysm of Kang" (I've tried to mark big plot points off with spoiler tags) The campaign comes with some suggested heroes for each "issue" (read: Adventure) as part of a "Graphic Novel" (read:Campaign) if your players don't want to run their own heroes through the game (although that is a default option as well), but you start at Rank 1, and each issue moves you up a rank. Personally, I would explain it like this: Imagine the Cataclysm of Kang as the next Avengers movie. The beginning of it puts your heroes right after their origin story (maybe through their first solo movie), and is the team up movie. It starts seemingly slow (your characters are asked by Nick Fury to check out why the Maggia are trying to run an Italian Restaurant out of business, only to find... HYDRA teaming with Maggia. Needless to say, things escalate from there. We have a Locked down area in New York, and then an invasion, which the characters have to figure out what the enemies are doing to keep the rest of the world from nuking them, a trip back to that other place to try to stop the Crimson Herald (and probably take back that universe from Hydra). It's revealed that the main Devouring bad guy isn't who you think it is, but a version of Kang [spoiler] who not only eats planets, but multiverses[/spoiler]. The final battle takes part at the beginning/end of time of that other place, and you have to stop Kang from I generally do like the plots. They can be a bit railroady (there is one issue that is supposed to be the "we failed" beat like Infinity War, but if players don't recognize that this is an unwinnable battle and retreat, they could get themselves in trouble (at which point you probably need to defeat the team, let them play new characters with one of their first goals being to liberate their captive teammates.) One thing I didn't like (that is going to be issues in any Marvel Campaign. It's never going to be great explaining why the Avengers/Fantastic Four/X-Men aren't helping.. that's why I suggested that it's like the first Avengers movie, where everyone has been introduced, but there's much less established history to say "Why couldn't they have helped?" You'll have to do a bit of adjusting, as one of the things that is happening is a battle where the bad guys want to retrieve an Ultimate MacGuffin from the Baxter Building, but you can't let the players get a hold of it either, as it's critical to the finale I will say two things about the ending leave me a bit cold. I'll put them in spoilers, because they deal with the denouement of the campaign.) I know I'm coming off negative, which isn't my thing here. I just think that you need to figure out how to approach things, where the heroes don't try to call in other groups to help, and that there's a couple bits of downer in the "triumphant" ending. that I would personally edit out. Otherwise, I really love the way it looks (using real comic art is great) and it does a great job in ramping up the stakes from "Neighborhood, to City, To World, To another world, to multiverse"