The Swamp

Nike made an awesome video for themselves and the University of Oregon. They recreated the toga party scene from Animal House with famous Oregon alumni.

OK, this helps heal the pain of today's football loss. UVA just signed another top-100 basketball recruit, DeAndre Hunter (just sounds good with a name like that). ESPN has him at #79, which is actually the lowest ranking of their top 4 guys. Earlier, you may recall that I wrote that Bennett would n...

Dammit, this is not going to end well. I knew it. But of course, the football gods had to tempt me first. When Virginia scored with just under 2 minutes and ND only needed a FG to win, I was very worried. ND had moved the ball all game, but they were playing their backup who hadn't looked that good...

Dammit, this is not going to end well.

UVA with the lead!

I love this Harlem lacrosse commercial.

I really feel like I should be all up in this thread with anecdotes and important info considering where I live, but I'm being ignorant with the rapidly approaching timeframe of when I'm leaving. I can tell you that Germans are completely opposite of Americans when it comes to people from other cou...

Virginia got their asses completely kicked by Notre Dame in the first quarter today, but something clicked after that and they are giving the Domers all they want in this game. Note 1 - a kid from my high school (CJ Prosise) who had never played RB before this season looks like an All-American. Not ...

It let me in now. Weird.

I've never gotten used to the idea that Jim Caldwell was able to land an NFL coaching job. Twice. He was a thoroughly shitty coach at Wake Forest for years. When you're a shitty coach at a shitty football school and you get fired, you kind of assume the career isn't heading up from there. In fairnes...

It's telling me the password is wrong for the survivor league. I tried 1202 / frog.

Friend just sold his house for 75k more than he paid for it. Granted, that was 10 years ago, but still, nice little chunk of cash. Obviously it depends on what he bought the place for, but that's not exactly great appreciation for a house. It was about a 40% increase in value. Seems pretty good to ...

A_B wrote:Friend just sold his house for 75k more than he paid for it. Granted, that was 10 years ago, but still, nice little chunk of cash.

Obviously it depends on what he bought the place for, but that's not exactly great appreciation for a house.

I went with Dallas as well. It seems like in the NFL, about a third of the teams are either way better or way worse than expected, so Week 1 is always scary. Add in that this week, a lot of the stronger teams are on the road and there's gonna be chaos in survivor pools this week.

howard wrote:
Shirley wrote:
sancarlos wrote:Pay them their goddamn money.
That's a fantastic piece. I don't read writing that good very often.
What about the AFC Championship thread?

I read that thread sparingly and with only one eye.

I don't know the players enough to say who was placed in the wrong spot, but holy shit was that effort awful. That's the most inept I've seen a USA team look in years. Maybe decades. We are (or I thought we were) past the point as a national team where any team, Brazil or anyone, should make us look...

sancarlos wrote:Pay them their goddamn money.

That's a fantastic piece. I don't read writing that good very often.

Think Huckabee's people bought that guy those overalls and straw hat? I mean, come fucking on.

I'd do it.

howard wrote:So, do you lay down for your sister to win the Grand Slam, or do you go balls out to spoil it for her?

She's human. I don't see how she wouldn't feel awful for Serena if she beat her. That has to be a factor. There is no way Venus beats Serena. None.

I'm not a huge College Football fan, but I did watch UCLA play last week. Liked the QB, and have since seen a number of stories in the Jewish press hyping this kid. And while he is clearly not very observant, one day he could be part of a very exclusive tribe... ...Jewish QBs in the NFL: Though Ben...

So what is your take on Mall Rats? This was supposed to be the big Kevin Smith commercial success, but bombed in the theaters. However, if you go in for sophomoric humor it is enjoyable. I've never seen Mall Rats. With Clerks, I didn't really like it too much when I first saw it. I liked how it was...

I don't think you'd need coaches to coordinate that. Apparently two JJ players had been ejected just a few minutes earlier. Those guys could easily have set that up in the defensive huddle. I have a much easier time believing two pissed off, stupid high-school kids thought that was a good idea than ...

As one who hates all things Kevin Smith (an antipathy that began when I saw this film - before, he was merely a curio of which I had no real knowledge), I was happy to find this evisceration of Chasing Amy http://www.stereogum.com/1770227/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time-chasing-amy/vg-loc/...

I've been in the Seattle area for about two weeks now. On the two weekends, I've driven around quite a bit, checking out the areas and a few houses. I've been listening to a number of the very good local stations. In all of that time, among the hundreds of songs, I've only heard two Nirvana songs.

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed. So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accomp...

His act wears thin pretty quickly. He's a good coach, but he completely rubs people the wrong way. I'm thinking the AD only cares about W/L. The players are their 4 years max. 3 if he's got Michigan where the AD (and 65%?) of Michigan wants the team. Very, very few college football players leave af...

Time for a little trip through Dave's week alone in Bellevue, WA with Amazon Prime: 1. Chasing Amy - I rarely do this, but I gave up on this one about 20-30 minutes in. Too much stilted dialog. I was bored. 2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - This was actually better than the first one, I thought. ...

It's very rare for a play to happen in sports that I think is legitimate legal assault. That's clearly one right there. Those kids need to be charged. And both of them should be analyzed to see if they need professional help, because that's some fucked up behavior right there.

Wow, that's some heavy stuff, Rerun. Are you going to ever bring it up to her? To be honest, I'd kind of forgotten about it until this thread. Haven't thought about it in a long time. There's no way what she said was true, so bringing it up isn't really productive. Either she remembers and is embar...

Her voice was incredible, but holy crap is that song awful. I couldn't make it past about halfway.

Years ago, I got a phone call from my sister. She ended up going on some long, crazy-sounding rant accusing our parents of being extremely shitty. She told me a story about how she was sexually abused by a friend or coworker of my dad's. Apparently when she told my parents, they blamed her and conti...

A_B wrote:I'd say Justin Verlander.

Very nice. I had to look it up to get it.

(Wlu_lax, Olden was a joke)

"She's like the Pele of anal." - Sterling Archer

Wash U is in the UAA, which doesn't quite make the list. So (obviously) I'll go with ACC. I have no official ties to UVA, but I'm a fan, but I DO have a degree from Duke, so it counts. America East Conference: (1): Ryan, Rush American Athletic Conference: Atlantic 10 Conference (2): Mister D; J-Lo, ...

Ryan wrote:Super Sloppy Double Dierdorf

That's probably an awesome sandwich.

brian wrote:D'Brickashaw Ferguson is an easy #1, right?

Over Majestic Mapp?

BJ and the Pope

I like bruschetta, but I can't stand sliced tomatoes.

Olden Polynice now assumes the honorific of Greatest Living Cavalier.

(he is still living, right?)

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