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happy.
Yes. I’m aware that it’s only Nov. 17. Yes. I’m aware that Thanksgiving isn’t for another week. Here’s the thing. This year has been so miserable that I think we should all be looking for the things...
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good morning.
Ahhhh. It’s time to wake up. And start getting ready. Because there is basketball coming.
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we pretty much gotta, right?
Wanna know what age can do to a person? A couple weeks ago I mentioned to Mrs. Crappy that I was considering the resurrection of AUCNFFC this year. As we chatted about this, we tried to remember what...
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let’s get started.
My Bobcats are dancing. My Buckeyes — who are at this moment erasing a 17-point deficit against Illinois in the B1G title game — will be dancing as well. I don’t know what will happen with that game,...
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glory days.
Fun NCAA tournament fact: The last time a 13 seed advanced to the tournament’s Sweet 16 was 2012 — when the Ohio Bobcats shocked Michigan in the first round and continued to advance. The Bobcats’ seed...
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one year later.
Home away from home. One year ago today, I sat down at my desk in the newsroom, to start work for the day and to assess what I might need from my cube to make working at home a little more...
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with or without you.
An NCAA tournament without Coach K and Dook? Eh. We’ll manage. The Fourteenth Kind Of Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Piper’s Pub*) without you? That would be a shame....
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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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