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Michael B. Grant

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🇯🇲 🇺🇸 Sports/pop culture writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. Marathons in Honolulu, Iceland, New Zealand, Portugal, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy. I'm always running from something. He/him

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Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

06.03.2026 21:27 👍 1125 🔁 138 💬 31 📌 16

Damn

06.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When the Lights Go Low

Good night everyone. Enjoy Chamberlain.

06.03.2026 03:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The most interesting twosome in The Bride is Penélope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard as detectives.

06.03.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Really wanted to love Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride. However, it didn’t work for me. At times, it seems like a painfully unfunny sketch.

06.03.2026 02:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Here is a list of everybody Miami (OH) TRIED to schedule in men's basketball this season Don't blame the Redhawks for not having enough big names on their schedule. They tried to add plenty of them...and I've got the proof.

Today’s @mattbrown.bsky.social newsletter might be the clearest, most useful demonstration of the power dynamics in college basketball (and college sports in general) that I’ve ever seen.

Schools in power conferences exclude everybody else, and then blame them for their own exclusion

05.03.2026 13:59 👍 274 🔁 77 💬 7 📌 17

Damn

05.03.2026 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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California school hired a coach, but police say he moonlighted as a pimp Multiple dismissals have occurred at Cal State Bakersfield as an investigation probes who knew what and when.

Former Cal State Bakersfield assistant basketball coach allegedly operated as a pimp in four states.

05.03.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wore the most insane fur coat to postgame presser Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is not just the reigning NBA MVP, Finals MVP, and NBA champion. He is also a budding superstar in the fashion world. And after the Oklahoma City Thunder went to New York and beat the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, he was clearly looking to make a point on and off the floor. Read more... The post Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wore the most insane fur coat to postgame presser appeared first on Awful Announcing.
05.03.2026 14:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This looks like something from @theonion.com

05.03.2026 14:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AA Podcast: Kenny Mayne on Augusta ‘ban,’ NFL tryout, hosting ‘SportsCenter,’ and more On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews former SportsCenter anchor and co-host of the We Need a Fourth podcast, Kenny Mayne. Brandon and Kenny discuss a wide range of topics including his ban from Augusta National, trying out for the Seattle Seahawks, working at ESPN and replacing Keith Olbermann at Read more... The post AA Podcast: Kenny Mayne on Augusta ‘ban,’ NFL tryout, hosting ‘SportsCenter,’ and more appeared first on Awful Announcing.
05.03.2026 11:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NHL Network’s Pat Maroon shares trade deadline experience as player and analyst The NHL trade deadline is Friday, and no one knows what hockey players are going through this time of year better than Pat Maroon. Maroon played forward for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, Minnesota Wild, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks. He was traded four times during Read more... The post NHL Network’s Pat Maroon shares trade deadline experience as player and analyst appeared first on Awful Announcing.
05.03.2026 13:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Over & Over

Good night everyone. Enjoy Smallpools.

05.03.2026 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Holy Shuffle (feat. Billy Porter)

Good night everyone. Enjoy Big Freedia.

04.03.2026 03:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Joe Lunardi shades Bruce Pearl: Leave Bracketology ‘to the professionals’ Bruce Pearl stirred up a hornet’s nest last weekend when he said the currently undefeated Miami (Ohio) RedHawks didn’t deserve an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament if they didn’t end up winning their conference. “Miami (Ohio), here’s the deal,” Pearl said during a Big East college basketball studio show for TNT Sports. “Are we Read more... The post Joe Lunardi shades Bruce Pearl: Leave Bracketology ‘to the professionals’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.
04.03.2026 02:34 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2
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Wanda Sykes as a trainer in a boxing film?!?

Undercard means well, but it's not a good sports movie. It could have been a good drama. The best scenes include Bentley Green, who looks like a rising star.

04.03.2026 01:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Big 12 could sell football and basketball rights separately in next TV deals When it comes to broadcast deals for college conferences, bundling all sports together has been the customary practice. If the SEC sells its rights to ESPN, that deal includes football, basketball, soccer, swimming, and any number of other sports the conference participates in. Same for the Big Ten. Fox, CBS, and NBC all share inventory Read more... The post Big 12 could sell football and basketball rights separately in next TV deals appeared first on Awful Announcing.
03.03.2026 19:04 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Kansas judge orders Friday hearing on anti-transgender ID and bathroom law Two transgender men from Lawrence filed a lawsuit last week to stop the new Kansas law from taking effect. Hundreds of transgender residents were told their IDs are immediately invalid and must be rep...

The Kansas law contains a bounty-style provision that allows individuals who feel “aggrieved” by someone’s bathroom use to sue that person for monetary gain.

03.03.2026 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We Don’t Talk Enough About the Time Jessie Buckley Was on an Insane Reality Show The future Oscar nominee had to address Andrew Lloyd Webber as “the lord” and practice kissing scenes in front of her father, all on live TV.

Jessie Buckley, the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Actress, appeared on a reality TV show as a teenager.

03.03.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damn

03.03.2026 18:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scream (Funk My Life Up)

Good night everyone. Enjoy Paolo Nutini.

03.03.2026 03:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cori Close acknowledges packed media room at UCLA-USC WBB clash after prior criticisms As the UCLA women’s basketball program has broken through to the top of the sport over the past handful of years, head coach Cori Close has become one of the strongest advocates for media coverage in all of women’s basketball. Throughout the season, with UCLA one of the favorites to win the national championship, Close Read more... The post Cori Close acknowledges packed media room at UCLA-USC WBB clash after prior criticisms appeared first on Awful Announcing.
02.03.2026 22:04 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Tommy Hutton retiring from Marlins’ broadcast booth after 2026 season Tommy Hutton isn’t going anywhere just yet, but the end of the 2026 season will mark the last time he sits in the Marlins broadcast booth. On Monday, the organization announced that its longest-tenured television analyst would be retiring at season’s end. “Calling Marlins games and being part of this community has been one of Read more... The post Tommy Hutton retiring from Marlins’ broadcast booth after 2026 season appeared first on Awful Announcing.
02.03.2026 22:26 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Revisiting the disastrous two-hour NCAA Tournament Selection Show It’s March. We made it. In two weeks, we’ll have a bracket, and all will be right in the wonderful world of sports. The NCAA tournament is one of the few events that unites us as a country, with a smorgasbord of college basketball games to enjoy. It begins with the bracket reveal and ends Read more... The post Revisiting the disastrous two-hour NCAA Tournament Selection Show appeared first on Awful Announcing.
02.03.2026 15:01 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 4

Damn

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Always Where I Need To Be

Good night everyone. Enjoy The Kooks.

02.03.2026 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mazel tov!

02.03.2026 01:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Adam Schefter roasted for trying to rewrite Carnell Tate’s 40 time Don’t let the official laser-measured 40-yard dash times at the NFL Scouting Combine fool you. Ohio State wide receiver Carnell Tate did not run a 4.52. ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter made sure everyone knew as much on Sunday morning, taking to social media to explain that several teams had clocked Tate’s time much lower than Read more... The post Adam Schefter roasted for trying to rewrite Carnell Tate’s 40 time appeared first on Awful Announcing.
01.03.2026 20:03 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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49ers’ radio announcer Greg Papa preparing for bone marrow transplant from sister Greg Papa returned to the San Francisco 49ers radio booth on Jan. 3 for the team’s regular-season finale, less than six months after leukemia was discovered in his brain and spinal column. The speed of the 63-year-old’s recovery has been exceptional, and his cancer is in remission, but he still has a critical step ahead Read more... The post 49ers’ radio announcer Greg Papa preparing for bone marrow transplant from sister appeared first on Awful Announcing.
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