Friday night MACtion basketball delivers. Redhawks keep their unbeaten record alive in OT at Ohio, in perhaps the best college basketball game of the year. You’re beautiful, March.
Blue Hose!
100-100 going to OT with an unbeaten record on the line! This Miami-Ohio game is glorious, as is the wood grain on this court in Athens.
“It’s one of life’s great privileges to become a part of something much bigger than you. I’m not certain the men’s gold medalists have grasped the enormity of their accomplishments or the responsibility that accompanies them. But perhaps, given enough time and space, they can move the puck ahead.”
Theee out of four games go to overtime. Canadians and Americans survive (barely) and advance. What a thrilling, exhausting, exhilarating quarterfinal day of Olympic hockey.
Given that the schedule on the official Olympic site is impossible to navigate on mobile, these have become essential. Thanks for doing them, Mitch.
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We’re gonna win they’re gonna lose
Italy’s dearth of bankable rock acts so evident in this underwhelming Milan opening ceremony. Would settle for some Maneskin? … Afterhours? … Georgio Moroder?… to shake a little life into this thing.
“Shuttering” sports. Jesus.
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Oh no
“ICE is not welcome in Milan,” the city’s mayor Giuseppe Sala said. “The Olympics are a moment of peace and fraternity, but then we let this militia, [which] has been killing people in the US, in? It’s a contradiction I cannot accept.”
#AntiquesRoadshow was trending and I wanted to see why and discovered a guy had a Dream Team signed basketball from the Tournament of the Americas
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
Best-ever use of a football analogy:
“There will be no quick way to score against this defense. There is no path to a quick, decisive electoral or judicial defeat that stops them and their private, unaccountable army. The defense we face is going to make damn sure we earn it, one yard at a time.”
Seething. Just seething.
“When it presents you with the touchscreen version of an ill-fitting, bug-ridden, ugly sweater and says, ‘I saw this and thought of you,’ it creates revulsion and frustration. People don’t enjoy forking over data and dollars in exchange for annoyance.”
The World Cup is going to be an absolute *mess*
“School officials say Tuesday afternoon 5-year-old preschool student, Liam Ramos, was detained by federal agents alongside his father as they were driving home from school. ‘Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.’”
WTF
The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
Helllllll yes
Indiana just won the college football national championship.
Welcome to the new era.
ANYBODY can do it. What a beautiful thing.
Go Hoosiers.
Here we go. Last chance for the U. That six-point margin for Indiana suddenly feels uncomfortable.
Excellent
Goodness Becker is NAILS
Baby Jesus decrees the game is not yet over.
Props to whichever band that is playing Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia.”
An instantly iconic image.
They'll have murals of this painted around Indiana by the end of the week.
