12/17/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
They used to have cool pregame montages before big games on TV.
Biff Poggi is a tremendous Star Wars name.
Imagine how sore Phil Rivers is this morning. Damn. And there’ll be somebody reminding him, “it’s always worse the second day!”
Bummed the NBA cup is over, I really enjoyed not having games to watch.
I know America is back because I’m watching a white linebacker named “Jack.”
If Buddy Cianci was still Mayor, this guy would have been caught within a couple hours. Figure it out.
Holy cow. What a tragedy. Pray for Mahomes.
Do you think Donnie Wahlberg has a red phone that TV producers call when they need a Boston-themed gameday promo?
Ann Michael Maye make your husband as many peppermint chocolate cookies as he WANTS.
Cakes are cooking for Chris Matthews, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Levy, Wes Studi, James Alexander, Paul Rodgers, Ken Hitchcock, Barry Livingston, Bill Pullman, Peter Farrelly, Mike Mills, Tammie Green, Michele Tafoya, Craig Berube, Vincent Damphousse, Curtis Pride, Chuck Liddell, DJ Homicide, Claire Forlani, Tony Richardson, Laurie Holden, Rian Johnson, Giovonni Ribisi, Duff Goldman, Sarah Paulson, Milla Jovovich, Takeo Spikes, Arnaud Clement, Alex Cintrón, Chase Utley, Manny Pacquiao, Neil Sanderson, Jaimee Foxworth, Ryan Hunter-Reay, David Longstreth, and Nat Wolff.
Yeah, bro. Just add 3 MPH to your fastball.
Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Let’s not disparage big floppy tits.”
Coach Drip should take the ‘72 Lombardi out and drag it out around the parking lot from a rope tied to his car.
Nick Wright looks like he’d challenge Indiana Jones to a scimitar duel.
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while a maintenance train inspects the overhead wires between Airport and Wonderland. Trains may stand by at stations.
An ACL tear is a sprained knee as a stroke is a headache.
This part of the calendar is hysterical. Half the days I’m using up my PTO and the other ones, my calendar is so empty that I’m sitting around diagramming new drills to run in my practices.
Carlton Davis III has returned to the game (fourth quarter, 9:55).
Congratulations to the New York Knicks for winning the NBA Emirates Cup. As far as made-up awards from an ethically dubious outfit, it’s no FIFA Peace Prize.
Had no idea there was a Utah NHL team. Been living under a rock I guess.
Honk if you remember where they serve meat in Melrose.
Just heard a radio commercial for a water filtration system. The woman doing the V/O says “it’s echo friendly” as in An echo that goes hello, hello…..isnt it pronounced eeeeeco(eco)? these are the things that keep me up these days……ugh.
Mentho-Lyptus!
Carlton Davis reminds me so much of Browner. Hope he doesn’t try to kill his girlfriend in a few years.
Decide yourself if radio’s gonna stay
Reason it could polish up the gray
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn’t country at all
Radio station decide yourself
Keep me out of country and the word
Wheel of fortune’s leading us absurd
Push that, push that, push that to the floor
That this isn’t nothing at all
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe (Radio)
Weather app tells me it feels like Drake Maye’s uniform number outside right now. I wish it felt like his completion percentage.
Families allow you to spend time with people you would otherwise never associate with.
How does Adam Jones not get punched every day?
Perhaps a boost the Bearcats need as Jizzle James returns to the basketball roster.
I swear Cena is having his 5th “last match” in a 3-month span.
Ann Michael Maye likes baking, and terrariums, and firetrucks, and hugs.
For seasonal home decorations, The Nightmare Before Christmas is really the way to go. Put them up early October when it’s still nice out and let it ride all the way through New Year’s.
Chloe the German Shepherd a suspect yet in that Hollywood double murder?
Fun Fact: Winning the NBA Cup qualifies the Knicks for the 2026 CONCACAF Champions League.
Eh, Patriots just got the Michael Gee Memorial pre-playoff loss out of the way.
Selling the Pittsburgh Penguins means FSG can focus of the Red Sox again. Right?
Best bet for the weekend: throwing all the records out the window when JMU takes on Oregon.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Rock and Roll fantasy.
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