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The trail he blazed wasn't as much about ushering in black guys at the anchor desk, it was about making the highlights almost a performance. In other words, he pushed the the envelop on making the broadcast more about the anchor than about the sports being covered. So, that's about as far as I can g...

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It's always a weird Catch 22 on that... I mean, you almost want them just to stick to a plausible, yet highly suspect, explanation where they don't come out and admit incompetence.

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Louie Anderson is a pretty good "clean" comic. I wholeheartedly agree on Regan... that's who popped into my head first. I took my kids to see him last year and it was cool to see the mix of adults and kids in the crowd. One way to find lots of clean comics is to look at Regan's tour schedu...

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Luck is high on my list. There was an article out his year that noted that he is really complimentary of everyone on the field, including guys that just sacked him... telling them it was a good hit and weird shit like that. He's either a genuinely nice guy, or he's an evil genius. Either way, LIKABLE.

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I'm in the camp of not having really liked Stu's schtick, at one time really actively disliking him, but I've mellowed since. I thought his catch phrases were cheesy and forced, but under it all I do think that he was a talented presenter. I can appreciate him more in retrospect, seeing how narrati...

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We've had this discussion in the past (UM fans.) Was it DC or brian that did the awesome breakdown? I left, so my memories are frozen in the 70s-80s era... and I had very little interaction with the current Wal*Mart crowd back then... Shit, I honestly don't think they had Wal*Marts in MI when I live...

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Harbaugh supposedly recruits like an mf-er though. One of the reasons the turn around at Stanford bodes well for Michigan is the fact that he started from a place of ZERO 4 and 5 stars and by the time he left the program was pulling in around 6 or 7 four stars and the year after he left even landed...

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Part 2 of that interview will be very interesting. I've always believed Jay even with all the inconsistencies. What a fucked up situation to suddenly be in. Someone you know suddenly killed his ex-gf and you're part of it after the fact. Adnan knew he could blackmail Jay, that's why he chose him. I...

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Part 2 of that interview will be very interesting. I've always believed Jay even with all the inconsistencies. What a fucked up situation to suddenly be in. Someone you know suddenly killed his ex-gf and you're part of it after the fact. Adnan knew he could blackmail Jay, that's why he chose him. I...

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NLFC, I hope I'm not stealing your thunder, here. I'm not even a Michigan fan, but after reading this piece by Mcgoblog, I was all fired up for the Wolverines. It was posted by Nonlinear in FB. Me: Reads that, headbutts the wall, passes out... rinse / repeat. =-=-=-=-=-= I had a really sappy post q...

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Part 2 of that interview will be very interesting. I've always believed Jay even with all the inconsistencies. What a fucked up situation to suddenly be in. Someone you know suddenly killed his ex-gf and you're part of it after the fact. Adnan knew he could blackmail Jay, that's why he chose him. I...

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Thing 1: I will NEVER believe an NFL reporter who quotes sources "close to the situation" ever again, from Shefter to Rapoport to... ALL OF THEM got this story 1000 percent wrong. And not just WRT to was MI a viable option (which they ALL shat on 3 weeks ago) to the details around Harbaugh...

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AB_skin_test wrote:That's a firable offense for happening once....twice...you're a fucknugget who SHOULD pay your own way home.

Yeah, Deadspin has another clip of him forearm/shouldering into a guy on another play.

WTF.

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As was mentioned over in the Harbaugh thread, I think people tend to forget or discount how many hours and how incredibly stressful it is to be an NFL head coach.

(Edit: Sorry, this was in reference to Gruden and others not going back after getting TV gigs.)

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I have a LOT to say on this, but for now, I'll just say that a move like this is vital for a program (and a conference) in real danger of slipping off of the relevance chart.

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When you think about it, Michigan does not really have a well-defined geographic center. Not if you include the UP. But I don't know any Michiganders who would do that. The UP is its own empire. Especially in the winter. The UP was considered another country when I lived in Anne's Arbor. I'm a litt...

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(incoming wall of text) 7. So this is a spin-off of This American Life, right? I'd heard of TAL a lot, but I guess the name made me assume the series was composed of ultra-quaint Garrison Keillor bullshit stories about a family business that made apple butter or something. Might need to give it a l...

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The other thing I want to say is that Serial fucks up the cell tower "evidence." Where and how a cell phone pings a tower has been proven to be completely unreliable in pinpointing location. The fact that they continued to use the state's faulty logic all the way to the end was extremely f...

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Without point-by-pointing this thing: Follow the lawyer/money. You kind of skipped over that, but it's a very big deal. In fact, I'm kind of annoyed with Serial/Koenig over how they dealt with this woman. She was stealing money from clients. She did an absolutely fucking TERRIBLE job defending Adnan...

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So do I really need to listen to serial? People at work are raving over it, too. These types of stories drive me nuts, when you really don't know what happened and you feel like you are either hearing about a horrible injustice and empathize with a man wrongly convicted and imprisoned, which is the...

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Also pretty awesome: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6ab2d45a77/the-last-episode-of-serial" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I finished it up and don't know what to think. Due to lack of evidence, the bungling of not following up with other evidence, and that Jay guy, Adnan ...

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Ok, as for the speculation side of things, is Adnan guilty or not: Who the fuck knows? If people out there are certain, one way or the other, they must know something the rest of us don't. Because as much as I wanted to believe this likeable guy didn't do this, as the asst. producer stated, there ar...

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I have so (too) much to say, but have to go into a training session. The show ended about where I expected, not necessarily from my initial hopes, but from about episode 7 or so on... You knew she didn't have enough info or enough time to crack the case. So, what the show turned into, at least IMO, ...

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Yeah, like, how long do we need to wait on spoilers? We probably should've just cleaved this off into another thread. I think I've moved myself into a place where I've been analyzing two things: 1) merits of the case and 2) Adnan's guilt or innocence. I have stuff to say (shocking, I know) but I'll ...

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Literally just a few minutes in to the first episode of Serial right now. Quick question: is that plinking piano theme a constant thing? Because that might be a deal-breaker. It's always the intro and the ending. They don't use it as much after Episode 1. They use other music to set the mood of the...

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Yeah, the Rand University one was awesome. To this day, Randy Moss is the best college football player I've ever seen in person. And I've seen some pretty damn good players over the years. (Anthony Carter is probably #2. I'm going solely by their play/accomplishments/awesomeness in college.) ETA: A...

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(Coaches drive me CRAZY when they don't recognize a bunker and take advantage of it... You start in a 442 and they are bunkering in 451... Thank you, I'll just switch to a 352 or a 343, overload one of their flanks or push guys up into the box.) That's what a counter-attacking team wants though. I ...

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For the state title with less than a minute to go before PKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pC8Pk4pGuM Ok, fine, I'll be that guy. That is absolutely horrible goalkeeping. Dude had ALL DAY to slide over there and just slap the ball over the cross bar. I mean, good on the Ohoa kid for putting it t...

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Obvious point alert! Bunker is extremely effective in high pressure games. The other team is already super-amped, which runs against the ability to move the ball short crisp passing (amped up soccer teams play route 1, even if that's not their style, for the first 10 minutes of a game.) OR, they do ...

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Love Actually is like the one non-shitty rom-com. Can't believe Pruitt singled it out rather than just using [insert Julia Roberts movie here]. Look, it's not the worst - but it's like a compilation of RomCom cliches... a greatest hits package if you will. I'm old and have ben married for almost 19...

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Joe K wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:Silence of the Lambs (Goodbye Horses)
I don't think anyone will be able to top this answer. I don't think it's possible to hear that song without thinking of Buffalo Bill. It's basically become a shorthand for creepiness at this point.

"SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!"

*stomps platform shoes twice*

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Jerloma wrote:Of course there's Moving in Stereo for Fast Times although Somebody's Baby even more so but I think that was written for the soundtrack.

See, to me the song of that movie is whatever the name of the Cars song is when Phoebe Cates is getting out of the pool.

Edit: Shit, sorry, missed J-lo's post.

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(picks up mic)

I Believe That Children Are the Future - Coming to America

(drops mic, double barrel point, side shuffle off the stage)

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Hip to be Square - American Psycho

(mic drop)

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Thinking of starting up Serial based on the buzz, but want to keep myself as unspoiled as possible so I haven't read the comments above too closely. Just the one question I have: is this a case that was definitively solved, with the episodes leading to a clear ending, or is it something that is goi...

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UMBC hasn't let in a goal in regulation for some insane amount of games. I watched them beat MD at Ludwig and they are very organized in the back, and go forward with low numbers, hoping for a counter... Pretty amazing story, with a bunch of in-state kids that played at good clubs but didn't stand o...

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mister d wrote:Man do I love these things, even when I don't know anything about them. A roster being created in an hour is just awesome.

It definitely has a lot of the fun aspects of EA Sports video games and fantasy sports.

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How's that "big win" looking for you know, NJIT??!! Huh? Not so great in hindsight, amirite?

(WTF is going on?)

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Whether he likes it or not, I'm co-signing the sex machine's contribution here.

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Thinking of starting up Serial based on the buzz, but want to keep myself as unspoiled as possible so I haven't read the comments above too closely. Just the one question I have: is this a case that was definitively solved, with the episodes leading to a clear ending, or is it something that is goi...

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