Brian Fowler

I'm beginning to suspect Michigan won't be getting an at-large bid.

Russ signed a new five year deal when he was traded to Denver. That deal was tacked onto the two remaining years of his Seahawks deal. The first year of it would've started... March 13. Add that and the dead money plus everything they traded to get him, and this is near "Walker to Minnesota" level bad.

Former Michigan and various NFL teams WR Braylon Edwards apparently saved an elderly man from being beaten to death in the locker room of a gym. https://sports.yahoo.com/former-nfl-player-braylon-edwards-helped-stop-locker-room-attack-on-80-year-old-man-200114530.html

My typo made it even funnier.

Chris Mortensen has passed away

Boston's win probablity on Yahoo sports model hit 109% with 6:21 left. In the second quarter.

Hisako on the cover is the first time I've been really interested in this new Ultimate universe, instead of mild curiosity.

Statement from Johnny Manziel

My cousin Christine's college roommate at Michigan State was some sort of relation to The Sheik, and Christine told me about seeing a baby picture of her sitting in Andre's palm.

If Al Davis were still alive, you could pretty much bank on Xavier Worthy being the Raiders first round pick. Ran a combine record official 4.21 40.

Yeah since snapping the losing streak the Pistons have been just a normal shitty team, playing at a level that would put them on pace to go about 21-61 over a full season. Terrible but not historically so the way they were in November and December.

Yeah there's a difference between tall and big. When I stood basically next to Rhyno I was absolutely stunned just how fucking big he was. He's about the same height as me, give or take, but his shoulders and chest were as big as a guy wearing football shoulder pads. Not modern lightweight small shoulder pads either, but like 1990's shoulder pads. He is just wide, and I don't mean fat. Just his frame from shoulder to shoulder... (Although tall is also a thing. One of the only times in my life since late high school that I've felt legitimately short was standing next to former NBA player Tim Thomas. There was also once a wedding I attended where I met the bride's 7' older brother and that was just a real "damn" moment.)

I think it's consistent branding and all that. The funniest time was when the Big Ten had twelve and the Big 12 had ten. But none of the conferences have changed their name in several decades except the weird thing where the seven schools that left the Big East bought the name on the way out the door. (Technically even the Big 8 to Big XII wasn't a name change. Legally on paper both the SWC and the Big 8 folded and the Big XII was a brand new conference.)

Not that he should be in the documentary or anything, but shouldn't Keri be out now? He was sentenced to 21 months about 23 months ago Unless his sentence didn't start until a bit later than sentencing.

Pro-tip: don't take gambling advice from the DVDVRMB

Q: How many random non-pro athletes does it take to win a fight with Cam Newton? A: Apparently more than 4. (If you haven't seen the video, Cam appears to be attacked by four men. He tossed one of them off the platform thing they were standing on, wrapped one arm around a second, grabbed a third by the hair, and no sold multiple punches by a fourth like he was early days Undertaker, until security broke it up.)

Paul is believed to be regaining publishing rights to part of the catalogue each year, and by 2026 he'll have reclaimed all of his Beatles songs. Also, people misunderstand this a lot; Sony owns the publishing rights, but the mechanical rights and recordings still all belong to Apple Corp. They would need the Beatles permission to use the actual recordings.

Yup now they'll always be #14. Or #16.

Paul and Ringo refuse to allow Let It Be to be re-released because they don't like how it portrayed the band as not getting along, there's no chance in hell they, or Yoko, or Olivia Harrison, would sign off on it, so then you would probably not be able to get the rights to the music, and nobody wants a Beatles biopic with no Beatles music. *Looks side eyed at Nowhere Boy*

And practically will almost certainly always be 12. It seems highly unlikely a G5 champ will ever be ranked ahead of a P4 champ, and in the unlikely event that does happen, you've gotta figure it'll be a year where a conference all beats up each other and a shock mediocre team wins a tie break and pulls an upset in the conference championship game.

Wilson played a lot better this past season that the first year in Denver. Assuming the asking price isn't too steep, I could see him helping the Steelers a fair amount if the goal is to avoid a full teardown and rebuild.

Although I had read an abridged version that was probably ~400-500 pages as a kid, for the first time I read the unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo. Going out on a limb and saying it was "very good."

If the NFL is pissed, and they are facing another lawsuit... I won't be surprised if this ends up being one of those things that just stops being mentioned until it never launches and quietly goes away. Because it's a hell of a lot less valuable without the NFL content.

Yeah I love The Beatles. I've liked more of Mendes's films than not. I cannot find any enthusiasm for this idea at all. I guess at least I have three years to get hyped?

So, Disney is officially exiting the physical media business, licensing disc production to Sony https://deadline.com/2024/02/disney-sony-deal-dvd-blu-ray-home-entertainment-1235832034/amp/