02/11/26 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
A Super Bowl loss that doesn’t involve Mike Ditka, Buddy Ryan, Fridge Perry, the Foxboro Stadium WATS line, good ole Brett Favre, Desmond Howard, any and all New York Football Giants, or Beta testing legal formation, possession and scoring rules? I’m okay with that.
Lindsey Vonn thinks Will Campbell shouldn’t have been out there if he was less than 100%.
Scal found Cooper Flagg in an abandoned potato field in Aroostook County.
How far along has cloning technology come and if far enough can Dante Scarnecchia donate some DNA?
If Drake Maye and New England’s offense looked like that all season, maybe Sam Monson would have voted him MVP.
It’s the Olympics for Mediviac flight helicopter crews, too. Probably.
Tatum cleared to practice? How exciting!
Bad Bunny is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Adam Vinatieri getting into Canton is well deserved. There: I said it.
So when pitchers and catchers report, is there a set location at the Spring Training facilities, or does it vary team-to-team?
Curling is just less greasy bocce.
Cakes are cooking for Tina Louise, Lynn Goldsmith, Vangelis Kordompoulis, Jeb Bush, David Uosikkinen, Richard Mastracchio, Becky LeBeau, Carey Lowell, Sheryl Crow, Ken Shamrock, Sarah Palin, Mo Willems, Jennifer Aniston, Damian Lewis, Alex Jones, Jaroslav Špaček, Andy Lally, Brice Beckham, Peter Hayes, Brandy Norwood, Matthew Lawrence, Natasha Bobo, Kelly Rowland, Natalie Dormer, Aubrey O’Day, Mike Richards, Beat Feuz, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Rosé, and Khaled.
Czechia is the Czech Republic’s snappy nickname, like calling Tom Caron ‘TC.’
Blue Line Update: Delays of about 30 minutes while personnel address a track problem at Suffolk Downs. Riders can use Rt SL3 bus for alternate service between Airport and South Station.
Never could understand the lack of personal hygiene among the Fourth Estate.
I just watched Ron Harper Jr thoroughly out play Kevin Durant. They might have to ban Brad Stevens, man.
Charlie Puth? what is that, Comanche Indian?
Kraft setting up a war room at Gillette to track antisemitism is hilarious. Meanwhile the team is forced to choke down powdered eggs in the cafeteria.
Hey gang of AP stringers! this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Your new name is Irridium Shafafa.”
Bad Bunny’s Halftime performance? I loved it. it was much better than ‘Cats.’ I’m going to see it again and again.
Jamie Jaquez looks like an extra in Black Sails.
The irony of a guy named Walker winning Super Bowl MVP – because he’s good at running.
Boston College’s decade-long regional Beanpot drought nightmare is finally over.
If you’re a woman who’s never taken a self-defense class, now would be a good time to start.
Mike Reiss Mailbag – “That’s a very thoughtful question BigDogSaladTosser69.”
The Maine Red Claws changing their name to the Maine Celtics is like reverse of all the minor league baseball teams that went from being the ‘Podunk (MLB affiliate name)’, to, say, The ‘Cobalt City Electric Armadillos,’
Hey Peacock, can you get us Olympic feeds without announcers? This curling pair knows less about curling than a stray dog knows about The Kuiper Belt.
I’m nails
I’m a knife
I’m a preacher with a gun
I’m a one man lie
I’m a king
I’m a ruse
I’m born again with no life to lose
Cause it don’t mean all that much, does it?
But we never really had a choice
No, it don’t mean all that much to us
But we never really had a choice
We’re conscience killers
Don’t want no conscience at all.
I asked a normie what they thought about lobster-adjacent AI programs that soon will be frame mogging and jestergooning at greater than moid levels and they had no idea what I was talking about. I thought I would cry.
Green Day gets better with time. Great set.
I hope Drake Maye at least gets the benefit of the bargain that comes with the Kendall Jenner curse. If you know what I mean.
Honk if you remember Toots Shor.
The last Monday game Kansas basketball lost in their own building came on Feb. 5, 2001: 79-77 against Iowa State.
I really should have eaten an early lunch today when I had the chance.
Guyanese sounds like some men’s rights thing.
A: Benny the Ball, Choo-Choo, Brain, Spook, and Fancy-Fancy.
Finally saw Sinners and really liked it. I made a conscious effort to not learn anything about it beforehand. It was nice having no expectations.
Woodward, Bernstein, Farinella.
Tom Brady doesn’t have a dog in the fight for the Super Bowl but he does have a dog in a cloning facility which is objectively way worse.
The Globe is bringing everyone back they sent to Santa Clara? Why?
My suggestion for the Super Bowl halftime next year: Oasis. They’re the biggest band in the world again, and they’re perfect for it. Liam Gallagher would be a bit of a wild card, but oh well.
Any other ex-Celtics that can’t play more than 15 minutes a week available? Asking for a friend.
Mike Tirico went from covering a sporting event, to then covering a sporting event. He didn’t cure polio.
Pspspsps. PSPSPSPS!
Best bet for the weekend: Olympics, or Spring Training batting practice. Pick em.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Joe Giza, Dakota Randall, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. I beat the Devil’s tattoo.
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