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out of time (almost).
Folks, it’s crunch time. If you’re entering the Fourteenth Kind Of Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Piper’s Pub*), you’ve got just a little while — noon today,...
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FKOAUCNFFC (BTYBPP*) tip off.
Sister Jean says it’s go time. And we never argue with Sister Jean. Because you never argue with a Chicago nun. But we don’t need to be afraid of Sister Jean — or of rogue yardsticks: There is...
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i wasn’t ready.
I had to come sit outside. Away from TV, my phone, music in the kitchen. Just the moon, a few stars, some wispy clouds and the soft lights of our front porch. It had been a gorgeous day, and it was...
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not that terrible.
Oh, look — someone from The Simpsons found a copy of Uncle Crappy’s bracket. Folks, I have to apologize. I normally would have had this update ready by midweek at the latest, but real life got in the...
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not so big.
As you can probably gather from the impressive on-court surrender cobra, not even everyone’s favorite #BasketballSchool could save the Big Ten this March — and from top to bottom, that’s pretty...
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a clear winner.
The best thing about this year’s Final Four? Gonzaga and Baylor both made the title game, saving me from doing a whole bunch of math I’d rather not worry about doing. The other best thing about this...
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right in front of me.
Not my ticket. I was 14 and my parents wouldn’t let me ride my moped to Colorado. A couple days ago, I needed to run to grab a thing at Ikea and some stuff at another couple places nearby. In...
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and now I know.
As my frustrations with the Cleveland Browns have waxed and waned over the years, I’ve threatened at different points just to bag my five-plus decades of support because it wasn’t worth the effort. I...
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A good bit of the meager amount of content posted to Uncle Crappy recently has been about grief, specifically about how I’ve tried to deal with the death of Juan two plus years ago. That came up again...
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oh, hell yes.
I would absolutely give this a try. Could someone in Columbus grab a pint for me?
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