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Post mostly about sports and board games. Love all kinds of games, from light to heavy. Root for mostly disappointing sports teams. Big Ten alum. Not my cat in the photo but I like him!
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Definitely guilty of this when teaching before. (2 hours, not 6, but still.)

I needed this.

There's a lot of stock footage of Chess and Monopoly in this piece but the convo is more about modern games youtu.be/PSR81IB2PdY?...

Happy New Year to all of you! Here’s hoping your 2025 is better than your 2024, regardless of whether you had a good or bad 2024. You all deserve it!

A classic.

The Pop-Tart Bowl Pop-Tart was enthusiastic about being consumed. The Netflix Christmas Sportscake did not give a shit

Happened to me often in my Ventura County Star days. Was frequently asked for game time, channel, and scores from that day.

Do you know how many times this offseason the CFB 25 Reddit complained about unrealistic simulated brackets that turned out to be less fantastical than “Arizona State has a bye”

So your five automatic bids to the College Football Playoff go to: The only two active coaches with a national title. Two former Pac-12 teams. One future Pac-12 team.

55 points in the first half is a Big Ten Championship record. This is what happens when you let the Pac 12 in your conference.

my annual ranking of my top 100 board games of all time is now up, with about a half-dozen new titles added from last year: bit.ly/3ZfGZ0l

As called by Doug Karsch on Michigan Wolverines radio:

ON THE MOST MEANINGFUL DRIVE OF THE SEASON CHIP KELLY GOT OHIO STATE A SINGLE YARD HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK CHIP KELLY

Chip Kelly left UCLA for this? Wacky.

I love this sport.

She’s beautiful

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Not impossible!

#BigTenAfterDark

Here be dragons: my review of Wyrmspan, a reimagining of the game Wingspan that uses dragons instead of birds and changes some rules for a little more complexity, is now up at @pastemagazine.bsky.social: klaw.me/4a4vigY