2025 Conference Championship Sabado

Welcome and ahoy, despite 90% of the playoff drama being all settled, we still have a few matchups to highlight.  Plus, two MOAR this evening!  We'll miss this slop when it's gone... Original Recipe Big Love (+12.5) v. Guns Up!! at JerralWorld (Noon, ABC) Now THIS is the real chaos fixture.  Should

Instant Hippo Thoughts – Week 13, 2025 Season

Welcome to The Shield's food coma weekend, where we all groan in sweatpants-clad regret.  A good portion of the competent (and even cromulent) squadrons played on Thursday or Friday.  Here's the poo-poo platter of what is left over. Black Panthers show promise, Black Panthers shit themselves, we all give up on them

Last Jam-Packed Sportsball Sabado del 2025

Yes, I am already maudlin in advance.  But let's keep a stiff upper lip and whatnot, There is no early bird special, and I'd recommend Black Cats/Cherries (Peacock) over Bees/White Lives Matter (USA) at 10.  You then gets a reasonable afternoon USA doubleheader, with Toffees/Geordie Arabia (12:30), followed by Mighty Whitey

An Appreciation of The Revolution and JV NFL Pseudo-Bye Week

Before we get to the footy, I just want to highly, HIGHLY recommend Ken Burns' The Revolution (streaming free on PBS).  It doesn't pay short shrift to the moral shortcomings of 18th century America, but it also (maybe especially so, since it doesn't come off as hagiography - FFS, they even