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When Nixon Was In Nixonland
Richard Nixon looms over the twenty-first century. There is Nixon as a cultural kitsch object, with his gestures and his catchphrases and deeply unsettling television appearances and his damp...
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COLD COPY: Bill Carmody, Basketball Zealot
Bill Carmody retired on June 18. Here is a brief appreciation of that I wrote and half-heartedly and unsuccessfully attempted to get published elsewhere. Readers of this blog will note that there is...
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College Football's Impossible Task
As college football kicks off in all of its maniacal indecency, an enormous number of fans, pundits, and college students hopped up on memes are going to attempt to do one of the funniest things that...
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Here, under protest, is Body Clocks
It is a cliche to explore all of the ways that paying attention to sports has changed in the twenty-first century except to add that they have added a bevy of new and gut-wrenching ways for a...
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All Sorcery
Northwestern managed to do something it hasn't done since 2017 and win a home game against a theoretically overmatched non-conference opponent. And then they went out the next week and got grimly...
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Football Aesthetics
One of the appeals of college football is that teams are more willing to adapt to unorthodox strategies because in a sport where a handful of teams have their pick of the players who hilariously vanish...
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Nebraska and Northwestern are in a Codependent Emotional Death Spiral
Someone has decided that every year Northwestern and Nebraska have to slog at each other for four hours before one group of fans has its insides explode. I don’t know what sort of strange alchemy...
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This blog is now about fraudulent bowl games
Yes, Ohio State came lumbering into Evanston and chortled ho ho ho and knocked everyone around for awhile and yes Northwestern is 1-5 and not moving the ball well and no one on TV wants to talk about...
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The Clobberings
It is not fun to watch Northwestern football right now. It is not that the Wildcats are struggling at 1-6; even Northwestern fans who have come on in this opulent golden age of winning seasons and...
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On Getting Insanely Mad
Good grief.Northwestern has struggled to move the ball. As of this writing, just before kickoff of the Purdue game, it has been 35 days since they have scored a touchdown, or approximately 1.5 Tours...
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The One Where Northwestern Scores a Touchdown
During the mid-1980s, as Northwestern football crested into its just being complete ass zenith, someone decided that a good gimmick would be to lock Willie the Wildcat up in a cage until Northwestern...
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The Spread
UMASS, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. U-MASS. The lips taking two steps to bleat out and hiss on the second syllable U MASS.Imagine Orson Welles saying the word UMASS in the...
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Watch Me Make This Hat Disappear
Even as we speak, the Hat Caravan is heading down I-57 from Big Ten Headquarters with the Hat Courier handcuffed to the Hat Trophy in a briefcase that is also shaped like a Hat.Let's get things out of...
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I Hear You Blog Blog Posts
One thing you will see mentioned in every review of the Irishman is Martin Scorcese’s use of de-aging technology to make his stars appear several decades younger as part of the film’s meditation on...
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The Wonderful Mayhem of College Football Coaching Searches
For the better part of a weekend, I decided to do a profoundly stupid Online Bit-- I changed my twitter handle to College Football Coach Search Insider and lept into the mentions of whatever coaching...
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Once Again the Bulls Have Disappointed Fans By Not Signing a Weird Guy
It is All Star Weekend in Chicago, the entire NBA has come here to shiver and to network and to watch some profoundly bad basketball exhibitions, and the Chicago Bulls don’t exist. They do not have an...
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One of the most jarring and strange things about consuming the news this week is the way that the endless, cacophonous buzzing of stories about a million different important and odd and interesting and...
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There are No Sports Other Than 25 Year Old Videos of Iron Chef
Chairman Kaga, resplendent in an outfit that simultaneously brings to mind a matador, a figure skater, and late-period Michael Jackson, has summoned the Iron Chefs, he has bellowed out the theme...
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BYCTOM 100*: Jose Valentin
The Major Leagues will not be generating any new baseball for some time, which makes this an appropriate time to dip into Important Baseball Lore. The most indispensable baseball writing this...
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BYCTOM 100*: Jared Hughes
The Major Leagues will not be generating any new baseball for some time, which makes this an appropriate time to dip into Important Baseball Lore. The most indispensable baseball writing this...
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