Chuck Culpepper
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Dan Monson, who lost his job at Long Beach State before the Big West tournament but got to finish out, then won that tournament, opens his NCAA remarks in Salt Lake City: “Okay, I don’t have to answer anything I don’t want to because I’m working for free today.”
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2007 -- Federer 12, Nadal 3, Djokovic 0
2010 -- Federer 16, Nadal 9, Djokovic 1
2013 -- Federer 17, Nadal 13, Djokovic 6
2016 -- Federer 17, Nadal 14, Djokovic 12
2019 -- Federer 20, Nadal 19, Djokovic 16
2021 -- Djokovic 20, Federer 20, Nadal 20
#Wimbledon
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Diego Schwartzman just won the first set against Rafael Nadal, and anybody who wins any set under any circumstances against Nadal here in Paris should receive a smallish trophy in a brief mid-match ceremony
#RG18
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Roger Federer is so beloved that he transcends an ancient sports principle about people appreciating underdogs. At his early-round matches, crowds treat the semi-anonymous opponents basically as inconveniences to be flicked aside so the beauty can continue.
#USOpen
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Victoria Azarenka just said on ESPN, "You can be the most beautiful peach in the world, and somebody will still be allergic to peaches." This should be the official slogan of Twitter.
#USOpen2020
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If you saw this game 25 years ago, it might have stuck in your head as singularly excruciating, so that now you might check on the 42-year-olds who lost it, and guess that thousands of Americans cringe now and then over a bygone high school football game
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Augusta, Georgia, United States, Earth, 9 April 2022
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Wandered down I-35 from Oklahoma-Baylor to Kansas-Texas. Wandered into the stadium. Lucked out.
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If you can't feel happy for
@UKFootball
fans for the three hours they just spent after so many of their three-hour chunks of Tennessee-related life beforehand (including the excruciation I heard on the car radio from Alabama last year), then you deserve no friends or pets
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Hear Summerall and
#JohnMadden
, and you knew without a clock it was late Sunday afternoon. You knew without a glance that the leaves were falling. You knew without a window that the darkness was coming. You knew without a doubt that the game was big.
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It’s possible the long-sensible
@CFBPlayoff
committee has made its most senseless ranking to date with Florida (9-3) at No. 9 with Kentucky (9-3 with win at Florida) at No. 15, and the chairman’s “body of work” argument fizzles when one checks body of work. Body of brand name?
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Tara VanDerveer's remarkable 29-year gap between her second and third titles matches Meryl Streep's remarkable 29-year gap between her second and third Oscars. Both gaps seemed wrong, but we can always blame the refs.
#WFinalFour
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Read this because if you don't, your life won't be as good as if you had.
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In Southern California on Saturday, there was a bottomlessly sad memorial for a college quarterback who committed suicide.
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Once-full student section at South Carolina. I counted 289 across six sections several minutes ago, but the second section from the right suffered a severe 16-person exit when
@GeorgiaFootball
got to 45-0, proving some people can handle 38-0 but will not stand for 45-0
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There have been 23
#CFBPlayoff
rankings so far in world history. Appearances in top four:
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@AlabamaFTBL
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@ClemsonFB
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3.
@OhioStateFB
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@FSUFootball
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@OU_Football
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@HailStateFB
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Here in Nashville with Florida State up on Missouri by two touchdowns late, Florida State band just played “Rocky Top.” Yeah.
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Atop the surrealism heap, Kansas is 3-0 and thrilling. Kansas is 3-0 and thrilling. Kansas is 3-0 and thrilling. Sometimes repeating the truth can help with believing it.
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I visited a racehorse retirement farm in Kentucky. It was a respite disguised as a workday.
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I’ve been to drag shows at which the queens were less melodramatic than college football coaches
“It’s a shame we have to do this. It’s despicable.” -- Jimbo Fisher begins.
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There was a time in history when people condemned end zone celebrations. It was a duller, dumber time.
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Flew home for vaccine dose. Returned to Indy. Noticed the giant bracket on the JW Marriott is visible from the sky. Wonder if it’s visible from other planets. Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, Earth, 2 April 2021.
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The 7 pm applause at New York’s windows for health-care workers is getting louder each night, and tonight along 10th Avenue I took this, then clapped, then sobbed. New York, New York, United States, Earth, 4 April 2020
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If I saw
@Toheeb_Jimoh1
walk to award podiums repeatedly across coming years as a reflection of his unmistakable heart, his ability to improve the day of a stranger and what looks from here like surpassing talent (and the work to fulfill it), yeah, that'd be nice.
@TedLasso
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12:01 a.m., and this was the birthday of
@AschoffESPN
(12/24/85-12/24/19), who was beautiful in every way a human being could be beautiful, whose company was a privilege every time one got the luck to encounter it, and whose death last Dec. 24 remains a searing outrage.
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Mary Tyler Moore departed in 2017, Georgia Engel in 2019, Valerie Harper in 2019, Cloris Leachman in 2021, Gavin McLeod in 2021,
@TheOnlyEdAsner
today. They all made life so much better than it would have been without them.
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The amount that this is great is a large amount.
This is a true story. I was in San Francisco a couple years ago, and got to talking to our Uber driver. He was a friendly Romanian dude. He asked me about work and we started talking ball. He told me his daughter was going to play college basketball. “She must be good!” I said.
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This was the birthday of Edward Aschoff (12/24/85-12/24/19), one of the most beautiful souls to walk this Earth, his goodness so thorough, his absence so painful, his presence so euphoric.
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Play Stanford-South Carolina again tomorrow, as part of a best-of-three.
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A sports UFO hit Connecticut last night -- a record-breaking home loss -- and amid Sabrina Ionescu's 10-9-9 and her 4-for-12, her friend Kobe Bryant might have nodded even at some of her wilder shots, having taken a few himself
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Seriously, on the courtside TV here, they’ve got rodeo. I’ll let you know the roping results when I spot them
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Kevin Burkhardt has just recalled that there was a real lion on the field at Candlestick Park during that '83 playoff game, yet another reminder that anyone who says previous generations were saner treads in nostalgic nonsense
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In 2015, I asked a wise voice of thousands of college basketball days and nights if he thought the Bennett/Virginia construct would reach a Final Four someday. “No,” he said. “There’s no Plan B.” That second half tonight was a no-Plan-B epitome.
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I wish to apologize to
@Goony_38
. In my hurried typing Saturday, I typed your name as "Ward." It has been repaired, but this one stings especially because, in six seasons wandering the country to write about CFB, I have never seen a better game from any player, at any position
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Sport is flawed, sometimes corrupt, often shameful and also the best earthly pursuit we have.
Ukrainian footballer Roman Yaremchuk comes on as a substitute for Benfica in Lisbon. Watch what happens.
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#Norway
is the medals-per-capita Godzilla of Planet Earth. The rest of us are not.
#PyeongChang2018
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I just opened this new prescription and will not be running in the Preakness
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With 10:54 to go, Kentucky win probability at 99.9 percent (ESPN). Of course,
@UKFootball
fans of a certain vintage should be entitled to a mechanism by which they can block that stat from ever appearing on any of their various screens.
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Two Mexico fans at traffic light, because they must. No, they must. It’s the
#WorldCup
, and they have no other choice. Mexico vs Sweden, Ekaterinburg, Russia, Earth
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Loneliness, Times Square, New York, New York, United States, Earth, 19 March 2020
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A reminder that thus far in US history, the best football player at any position has been
@JerryRice
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Sitting at a rooftop bar on the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, 84 humid degrees at 9 pm, and the bar singer across the street is doing an above-average rendition of the Dolly Parton's "Jolene." The song does tell a global tale.
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Iceland vs Norway, friendly in Reykjavik. To see this small, handsome stadium with a running track around the pitch is to realize anew that
@icelandfootball
making the
#WorldCup
is one of the staggering achievements in sports on this planet. I don’t know about other planets.
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Men who have won all four
#Tennis
Grand Slams at least twice:
Roy Emerson
Rod Laver
Novak Djokovic
That's it, and if Djokovic can win one more
#frenchopenfinal
, he'll become the only man to win each at least thrice. And in this remorseless era. And it'd be even more celestial
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Having sinned against nature by beating
#Bama
in 2014 and 2015, Ole Miss has spent 2017 and 2018 atoning, by 125-10 in their last seven quarters together on the fields
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When asked by hosts on shows in 2021, I've picked Ohio State over Alabama (came within 4 TDs), S. Williams over Osaka (came within 2 sets), Illinois as national champion (came within 5 wins), USC as big threat to Gonzaga (looks good). On an unstoppable roll. Can't wait for Derby
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Sign in Louisville airport looks possibly puckish today
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Some call it the worst play call in the history of the universe, but we simply aren't aware of all other solar systems.
#SuperBowl
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People who fly with window shades up are into wonder, curiosity and possibility. People who fly with window shades down are into tedium, myopia and stagnation.
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About 15 years ago, I longed to see a game at Vermont. The years passed, and I longed to see a game at Vermont. Then this season, I longed to see a game at Vermont. Then I finally saw a game at Vermont.
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The media wifi network in Salt Lake City is JordanPushedOff. That is just so inspired and inspiring.
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In the 2019 NBA Finals, 2019 Stanley Cup Finals and
#WorldSeries2019
, home teams are 3-16. All the sad faces, trudging home . . .
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This was the birthday of Mary Gwen Knapp (11/18/61-1/20/23), whose absence will always bring both pain and a reminder that knowing her was among the foremost privileges of this lifetime.
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In the celebrated voice of
@LSUfootball
Coach Ed Orgeron, one might hear the monster redfish leaping airborne, or feel the Spanish moss, or spot the shrimp trawlers upon the bayou
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Going to Lake Placid in 2020 and seeing the building where it happened in 1980 can mean marveling that this boxy little thing in a gumdrop town had something all the more preening arenas could never match.
#MiracleOnIce
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View it as kind of a referendum on “the country.” If Utah winds up deserving but the country doesn’t want to see it, then that country is a lousy, snooty country. If Utah winds up deserving and the country welcomes seeing it, then it’s a good country of fair, decent citizens.
"Let's be honest, the country does not want to see Utah in the College Football Playoff."
@finebaum
sparing no feelings this morning 😬
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I always love the
#FinalFour
Monday, the anticipation in the air in the host city, except that time in Charlotte in 1994 when I struggled all day because it was the ‘90s and the night before I’d had too much Zima.
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During this
#CFB
season, people in
#Alabama
and
#Mississippi
should sit around referring to the rest of us as "the lower 48"
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Trying not to overstate, but Mbappe's second goal felt like one of the greatest moments by a great athlete in the 200,000 years of human beings on Earth
#WorldCupFinal
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The fourth son of Chicagoan Pakistani immigrants grew up to call the
@ncaawbb
Final Four for ESPN, and it's as meaningful a story arc as I ever got the privilege of learning and retelling.
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Middle of the Russian night, in a car with a stranger, knowing neither a soul anywhere nearby nor the language. What splendor.
#WorldCup
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We’ve reached the generational point in American culture where a male
#CBB
player bound for a school’s hall of fame can have, as the first architect of his game, a mother who is in another school’s hall of fame. What splendor.
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Look, I tuned in to see a record. I didn't ask to see a tremendous, compelling, tight basketball game with a national No. 2 on the ropes. What an inconvenience.
#CaitlinClark
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A fair result in
#IsnerVsAnderson
. There should be a special tiebreaker at 10-10 wherein, if applicable, Federer enters the court and declares that whoever beat him in the draw advances
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Final score, April 6, 2020, Atlanta: Virginia 32, Kentucky 31. First repeat men’s champion since Florida 2007.
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On a balcony in Sochi, 3:22 am, remnants of a thunderstorm over the Black Sea, and German fans singing in the distance. Best planet I ever lived on.
#WorldCup
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So as an aviation geek, I have an app with which I can sit on the terrace and check which planes pass above, often over Biscayne Bay into MIA. It’s a thrill a minute (or three) around here. But wait! That’s a Delta, direct from Tuscaloosa! Could that . . . be . . .
@RollTide
?
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I can't know for sure yet, but I do believe that moment on Friday will prove unforgettable
#PyeongChang2018
#Olympics
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That mighty urban horseman Ed Oliver of
@UHCougarFB
got kicked by a hoof only once in his horse-frequenting life, at age 11. It was painful, but not in the obvious way.
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As I drove away from Baylor and steadily learned of Kansas 35, Texas 14 at halftime, I found myself in some sort of trance, parking and walking through the great Austin streets toward the lights, as if called by some cosmic force toward this possible historical absurdity . . .
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This excellent man once gave unforgettable advice to quell nerves when appearing as a radio guest/alleged expert. Just keep in mind and use, when in doubt, three vital words people say too infrequently: "I don't know."
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Ecstatically proud of my
@PostSports
teammate and friend,
@EmilyGiam
, as she receives the Jim O’Connell Award for great beat writing, named for someone so many of us loved. And we all love you, Emily.
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Remember,
#CFBPlayoff
committee will meet 10/27 to begin deciding which four teams from
#Alabama
and
#Mississippi
will play where
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And the refs blow whistles. Does referee jurisdiction extend into tunnels? Where does it stop? At the edge of town?
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First game of any sport I've ever covered in Iowa City, and from the shirts it looks like so many of the people are named CLARK
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Sportswriters with cruel night-game deadlines often have two or more files going, so as to be ready for various outcomes. Here, from
@jacobbogage
, are some of those files that told of an impending
#GoDawgs
victory. Bonus:
@PeteThamel
column linked.
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The under-appreciation of Novak Djokovic is irrational and rooted in the love of two others, and everyone knows love is often irrational.
#USOpen
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Karma taking one of its occasional payments for Georgia Tech’s 222-0 win over Cumberland in 1916
@ClemsonFB
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While Novak Djokovic was losing that French quarterfinal to Marco Cecchinato only 200-odd days ago, his game still looked fragile and leaky. His capacity to repair that into THREE SLAMS IN A ROW and into this
#AusOpen
marvel is among the more impressive sports sights in memory
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I can’t be the first person to tweet this, but I just landed and am freaked out that all three
#NFLPlayoffs
games this weekend ended on field goals on which the winning team lined up for the kick at 0:04.
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