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Let The Smadness Begin – The DFO 2025 NCAA Basketball Playoffs Preview

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Well, the Ides of March have passed, and there were no emperor stabbings. I did not vote by double-secret absentee military fake ballot for my senators to spend the Ides idly. Alas, we must find other distractions until football season starts anew. So we'll turn our attention to the hardwood and

YOUR 2025 AVN Awards Winners

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Yes, it's time to look back fondly on the butts and breasts that were fondled the best in 2024. Last time, I brought to you the nominees and offered my picks for the winners. Last year, I did a system where I gave myself partial points if I

Wednesday AM Champions League Match Day 8 Open Thread

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As many of you know, the UEFA Champions League has a new format this year. The field has been expanded to 36 with each team playing 8 games against 8 different teams in the competition with 4 at home and 4 on the road. The top 8 at the end

Thursday AM EuroFooty Open Thread

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We have several scintillating European football/soccer games on tap for your viewing pleasure today. All times Pacific: Europa League English League One Wrexham v Birmingham As Al Michaels would say, this is a YUUGE game in Wrexham's quest to secure yet another promotion, this time into the English Championship. In their way are the runaway

We’ve Only Just Begun (2025) Footy Thread

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I know I am repeating myself (Carpenter pun alert), but Hippo is very glad that a long ago New Year's Resolution (to stop ever making New Year's Resoliutions) has held for yet another year.  Everything will just fall to shit regardless, remember. So..to the JV playoffs.  5 matches, 5 "so boring

YOUR 2025 AVN Awards Nominees

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Yes, it's that time of year again! My, how time flies! I also thought today, right after Christmas, was the best day to publish this. Jesus GETS titties and asses. This year, the 2025 AVN Awards Show is set to take place January 25, 2025 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Tickets to the

Burying the 2024 Offseason – Sunday Night Open Thread

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Stop all the clocks. Cut off the cellphone ringer. Mute all family chats. Program “Out-Of-Office” emails to run at lunchtime next Thursday, graffiti your church with C U in Fe  March, and make your fat clothes accessible in your closet and drawer because the time of sloth and rage and

Almost Full Footy’s GlorioUs Return

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Oh my cats, so much to watch this weekend.  America settles into its ample couches/recliners, booze and/or drugs in hand.  Life is temporarily good. The only Friday JV fixture worth watching is a 10:30p kick...but the best Lesser match of the day is an early bird, King's Afrikan Water Pistols welcoming in

Sunday Footy Finals Open Thread

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We have TWO scintillating Championship games on tap for your viewing pleasure today. First up: Euro 2024 Spain v England All the English are banging on about Bringing It Home and all that shit but the Scots, Welsh, Irish, and pretty much every country that was conquered or harassed by the English

The DFO March College Basketball Tournament Preview

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It's that time of year again; the clocks have sprung forward, the potato-eating countries have been celebrated, and random baseball teams are heading to Southeast Asia to play our national pastime. Yep, it's definitely time for some Madness     no, not the 40+ year old ska band (but hey, they just put

Your “How the Hell Is it Mardi Gras?” Open Night Chatty-Chat

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Seriously. T-Swift can'y even stand yet after post-Owl celebrations her and Travis have been doing, and it's friggin' Lent tomorrow. On Valentine's Day! Anyway, it's Mardi Gras tonight, so NAWLINS had to have been weirder than normal this past weekend/week. I'm grew up Catholic, and now generously describe myself as "lapsed" at