Our calendars and body clocks are off, I know. Shit, I believe I had an afternoon nap every day this workweek. Scion of the law-talkin-guy profession, me. Thus, the Round of 16 is two days late.
But this is one of the bestest gifts #NuAIDS done gave us…because the round is slotted perfectly for TV. Yes, I love flipping around in the early, Bacchanalian rounds. But it will be nice to be able to watch every one of these games today, in their entirety (book and Football Manager for halftime or in case of blowouts). Plus, we are on shit-ass International Break (again), so the sportsball appetite will be immense by tip-off.
These are all very compelling matchups, too. We got us some Best Coasters, Jesuits, even random-ass private evangelical schools (and not complaining about that last bit, Oral (Deffo Counts) Roberts has been delightful to watch).
Quite ready for the Premiership to return next weekend, though. Even if that means Everton wrecking my pill-addled mind even further.
Aprapos of nothing, here is a great song, before we look at the first two hoopsball tilts:
12MW Oregon State (+7) v. 8MW Loyola-Chi**** (2:40, CBS)
Oh man, this is probably the coolest matchup of the lot. Niiiiiiice Beaver is historically terrible at all things revenue sport, and has caught the hottest wave of their modern existence. They needed to win the Pac-Twaaaalve torneo, and did it. They’ve been a Mack truck in the first two rounds, as have their Jesuit opponents. Betting against Sister Jean (magical nun/witch) seems a fool’s errand, but these teams are dead equals in my mind.
5S Villanova (+7.5) v. 1S Baylor (5:15, CBS)
Sweet, sweet entropy. In the Year of Our Diamond Joe 2021, Nova and Bay-Bay are what passes for “chalk” and/or “blue bloods.” And only one can advance to the Flacco Eght. Baylor. It will be Baylor. Reminds me of a True Hippo Story, I worked as an engineering tech (summers during undergrad) with a guy we called Baby Koresh. He had been in a cult for like 5 years, but left after he got caught banging the leader’s wife. That guy could tell a story over a spliff (we almost always toked up doing end-of-day paperwork), lemme tell ya.
Yesterday I watched an episode of Disenchantment that had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt. It was a sequence inside a house of mirrors. It’s been a long time since that happened, and it was great.
Brewing up a pot of gumbo. And since I need to go to the liquor store to get banana liqueur for the Bananas Foster, I really had no choice but to grab some other items while I was there. Finally added Cherry Heering to the bar, so I’m thinking a Singapore Sling is in my near future.
Strongly recommend making Remember the Maines and Blood and Sands with that Cherry Heering
Yep, those are on my “to do” list as well!
Has someone recently checked on the hamster that’s powering the wheel that powers the website? Because I’m thinking it may’ve sprained an ankle or something.
We’ve put in a call to corporate. Fingers crossed we can get it resolved in the near future.
Baylor #11: “I’m going to jump ten feet over two benches and save the ball from going out of bounds. I’m going to be a hero!”
Reality: “Its a one-point game midway though the first half and you’re going to land on that tractionless rug on the slick floor while wearing gym shoes. I’m going to ensue!”
Masked Allie The Force. Oh my.
h/t to the corpse of Dick Enberg
yeah yeah, tornado warning. I get it. Put my goddamned hoopsball back on.
I am having to watch a stream, like a goddamned Millenial. This is the South, we get severe weather like 100x per year. FUCK OFF.
Hippo is indifferent to life on the best of times. No need for a warning.
THIS GUY gets it!
There are a million billion vids of “Under The Pressure” out there. This is the best one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrKdwQMGYc&ab_channel=MUSTARD
Best song by a great band.
Congrats to nobody that picked Oregon State to get to the Elite 8.
My leading-office-pool entry had ’em Sweet 16. But nae further.
Tactical foul, that
If Loyola didn’t have a 14 year old point guard, the score might be different.
If this site were acting any more like a c*nt today I’d think Megan McCain was our matron saint.
Took me an hour to get on. Logged me off yesterday for no apparent reason. I still have to go into my history to get posts, they used to show up in my email. I’m not technical at all, so I fear I could lose you guys forever if it crashes hard.
The only problem I keep having is that when I hit “post comment,” my screen doesn’t refresh. The comment goes through, but in order to see it I have to click to another page and then come back.
That’s happening to me too.
Just refresh the page and it shows up for me
Gotta say, I’m not a fan of this much refreshment.
“Loyola-Chicago’s Hopes Stuffed By Beavers”
Keep your tabs open to this site for more great headlines like that one, folks.
Beavs’ #5 is a freaking monster defender. As good as I’ve seen in awhile. Well-coached team, too.
[puts big money on Orgone State]
-Wilhelm Reich
YAAAAASSSS, lead got big enough to jinx/cover bet a Rambler comeback.
(Walks into The Drunk Tank, the DFO equivalent of Shark Tank)
Yes hello, I’m pleased to bring you this exciting opportunity today. What’s the one thing that’s never been done to the humble granola? That’s right, cheese. Cheese Granola. I’ll take your offers now.
(Hippo pukes)
(Scotchy is asleep because it’s after 4pm)
(Three empty chairs say nothing)
Hey, I brought one of those empty chairs. The one without ketchup stains.
Yeah. It’s ketchup. – Scotch N., Wilds of Ontario
If Krutwig isn’t slapping the roof of a used car 5 years from now, I will truly, finally know, for certain, that there is no organizing principle governing this universe.
I always assumed he’d become a handyman of some sort, like Teddy on Bob’s Burgers.
Beavers played great defense that half, a nice way to honor Sister Jean.
/has been banner nominated
Pfft. Even disgraced priests sent to Beirut have scored more than Loyola.
-Loyola losing by 8 at the half
Me: “Welp, there’s goes my ‘Oregon Trails’ joke.”
In 2010, while still in 6th grade, Krutwig had his First Communion and became a fully-bonded roofer.
Damn it, I already nominated Spam FOAR banner…
Cameron Carsalesman taking a break.
“Nun Shall Pass.”
-Loyola’s new motto
Ramblers not gonna hear Sister Jean sing WAP after the game at this rate.
These players look like they’re playing as hungover as I feel.
Fun Fact! Cameron Krutwig’s a Sagittarius, born December 21, 1998 (Source: Civil Registry, Dominican Republic).
I knew he wasn’t a REAL AMERICAN!
All Buddy needed to hear was Dan Bonner’s “big bear” depiction…
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1375873401684955136?s=19
Finding Karen Carpenter’s body was also a challenge
Nice to see Pierce off the sauce, acid-ed up.
We’re gonna need a full post on the baby koresh story
Niiiiiiiice Beaver playing like I have money on ’em. Godfuckingdamnit.
“I will have my way with these Beavers.”
-Cameron Slurtoupee
So the Ever Given has been blocking the Suez Canal for four days holding up 12% of the Global Trade and everyone is okay, but I go only five miles over the speed limit on the highway and people call for my head to be displayed in Columbus and my arms and legs to be sent to Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Marietta.
What are you, soft on crime?
Like he forgot he ever wuz a Republican smh
I am a Republican, and don’t you forget that! Those Tea[bagging] Party, lust for power, Trump-seminal-fluid suckers were the ones that forgot.
We’re gonna have to start hoarding tp again, if they don’t bust it loose.
Sillycuse is testing my fanship by playing another really late (for me) game. Some of us are adults that have a rigid 6am wakeup/8pm passout schedule that we adhere to. smgdh…
The D2 champeenship has the look of a really good pick up game at the Ottawa Y.
Not all things in the world are shit! There’s Diamond Joe, and there is also…
https://theathletic.com/2480084/2021/03/27/evertons-new-stadium-what-happens-now-to-bramley-moore-after-permission-granted/?source=weeklyemail
If a week is a long time in politics, then a month is even longer in football.
And when the two collide — with an eagerly awaited decision that holds the future of a club in its hands — forgive supporters for a few jangling nerves. Such was the situation facing Everton over the fate of their new £500 million waterfront stadium plans.
Just over a month ago Liverpool council unanimously approved the club’s planning application for the proposal, with the remaining major barrier being the reaction of Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government. Such was the scale of the project he was automatically obliged to review the application, with the option either to call it in for further scrutiny or not intervene and allow it to progress.
The former would have meant a costly and alarming delay. On Friday afternoon, the news emerged that it was to be the latter. In a week when Jenrick had already announced one major intervention in the future of Liverpool, with the decision to send in commissioners to help run major parts of the crisis-hit council, he declined to make another. Everton had their go-ahead, the go-ahead to begin the most momentous phase of their existence, with the aim to move into their stadium in time for the 2024-25 season.
Morning GAMBLOR annoyed Hippo, so $250 on Colo Colo this afternoon is a perfectly reasonable response FUCK YOU you have a problem
Have no idea what Colo Colo is, but it did remind me that there’s a Mexican Coca-Cola in my fridge, so thanks for that.
ah live 2 serve
Well you know what a regular Colo is, right? It’s double that.
I prefer Yolo Colo. Which I’m just going to assume is a thing somebody is making already.
My understanding is that Philip Rivers has signed an endorsement deal with Bolo Colo, but that’s an entirely different product.
I would have thought that would have conflicted with his deal with No Homo Colo
Probably made by the same bottling company. Like Coke makes Sprite and Mr Pibb.
My wife is currently picking up $500+ worth of Ukranian kielbasa. The jokes, they write themselves.
(about 20% of that is for us; every year a local church does a fundraiser with kielbasa and pierogi, and one year a friend of ours got a taste of some and now every year when we call and ask how much he wants his answer is “all of it”)
Oh fuck yeah, hang em up so your place smellsike a smokehouse.
#GasNotWeak
Do you do the “cook with sauerkraut” thing? Or do you grill them and place them on a roll with a choice of condiments? Fuck, now I want kielbasa.
“At 8:20 in the morning? Yeah Right, I’m gonna take back some of the things I said about you. You…you’ve earned it.” – Andy Reid, handing you a Nestle Crunch bar
I can take or leave sauerkraut, and Mrs. Cornblower regards it as a crime against humanity, so they will be primarily grilled. Some will be fried with eggs and a bernaise/hollandaise sauce for breakfast.
Arteries will be closed.
Mrs. CB is SPOT FOOKIN’ ON
/will leave the ass-slapping for good hustle to Horatio
Yeah, when I was growing up, a lot of the local churches did pierogi sales, and they were excellent. I make up a batch every year or so now, but I can’t compete with Ukranian grandmas.
> but I can’t compete with Ukranian grandmas.
I’m having the same problem with my OnlyFans channel.
When I was a wee Cornblower I attended a Catholic elementary school in a Polish parish. Every summer they had a fundraiser carnival that my father referred to as “The Polack Pigout.” While less than enlightened, he wasn’t wrong; the amount of smoked sausage consumed over that weekend probably dented the populations of every pig farm in New England.
G’morning. I have a day full of errands then gunna get real drunk chuh chuh bullleee dat
found a funny:
That’s REALLY funny on a bunch of levels.