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missions accomplished.
Mission No. 1: ABM, or anybody but (that team up north). Mission No. 2: The successful completion of Twelve-point-five-th Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Piper’s Pub)....
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how it’s done.
Note the nearly perfect Surrender Cobra in the background. It’s hard being a basketball school. Late last week, I announced the return of the Thirteenth Practically Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four...
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*insert whistling here*
If the Harlem Globetrotters were a college basketball team, where would they be seeded in the NCAA tournament? It’s hard to say. But the record, you have to admit, is pretty solid. Fortunately, those...
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the hoopage has (sort of) begun.
First — DON’T PANIC. The NCAA has finally figured out a decent nomenclature for its play-in games, and those games — the First Four — have started. But if you’ve been doing this for a while, you’ll...
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one hour.
When the big hand AND the little hand are on 12, I need to have your entries for Thirteenth Practically Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Piper’s Pub) in hand. As I said...
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TPAUCNFFC (BTYBPP) has tipped off.
The tournament has begun, and things are … intense. Right, coach? I appreciate your patience while Mrs. Crappy and I took in a Jeff Tweedy show in Indianapolis earlier this week. Without further ado,...
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riding — and asking — again.
I shouldn’t be surprised that we’re here again. “Here” is waiting to see whether the just announced intention by the current White House to kill the Affordable Care Act is going to pick up any steam....
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we don’t suck.
At least, not yet. Thanks in part to some pretty chalky entries — and I am as guilty of this as anyone, boys and girls — most of the contestants in Thirteenth Practically Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA...
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it’s blutarsky time.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like the wreckage of Thirteenth Practically Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Piper’s Pub), in terms of how many people we’re...
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chump? not so much.
After watching Texas Tech absolutely lock down Michigan State in Saturday’s semifinal, Sports Chump — if he had been following the possible outcomes of the Thirteenth Practically Annual Uncle Crappy...
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In the late 70s, my musical world view was informed pretty much exclusively by Q-FM-96 in Columbus, and was therefore a bit limited. Rock ‘n’ roll — and the harder the better — was what I wanted to...
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hopeful cleveland sports.
Waaaaaaay back in 2007, I said I was retiring the tag “Hopeless Cleveland Sports” from Uncle Crappy. I made the decision based on a sudden rash of tolerable performance by the Cavs and the Indians and...
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all of god’s money.
Does that album cover look familiar? Yep — it does. By the first time I saw Wilco — that would be 2004, at the Three Rivers Arts Festival — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was already a classic. Hearing the...
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why not?
So. What if I tried to post every day in October? Nah. That’s dumb. Hm. While I decide, here’s a picture of our cats. No, I don’t know what they’re doing either.
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the good old days.
Fall used to be a lot busier than it is these days. For most of the last two decades, about half of our fall weekends were spent driving to Columbus, prepping a tailgate party for somewhere between 10...
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woooo, cross-promotion.
Thing you guys already know: I am a college football freak. True, my freakishness is a bit myopic, in that nearly all of it is filtered through the lens of Ohio State football and what everything might...
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it’s very real.
You don’t have to look far these days to find plenty of examples of Karens and Kens throwing their weight around in public. I’ve even seen them out in the wild, usually after someone confronts them...
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comfort. italian style.
Before. It’s been a decade or more since we’ve had a functioning oven in our house. As it turns out, finding a replacement 24-inch gas wall oven is significantly more difficult — and more expensive —...
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