A Tradition Unlike Any Other (Ugh) Now, Post-Plague and Sort of Updated! Without Commets from Years Ago!

WCS - April 7, 2022

Hello, friends. It's a tradition unlike any other. It's The Masters. I'm Jim Nantz, and it's my distinct pleasure to bring you one of the great events in all of sports. It's Augusta National Golf Club, the Mecca of professional golf. The pride, the heritage, the racial purity. Yes, The Masters embodies

Sundays With Litre, Now with Less Litre!

ballsofsteelandfury - March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

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Your illustrious host for the Sunday evening Open Thread is in Toronto this weekend for the Canada-Jamaica World Cup Qualifier game. This is important for two reasons: Canada needs just one point to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the 80'sLitre has been running a Twitter account

2022 Post-Plague Madness – Octavos de Final Thread Numero Dos

King Hippo - March 25, 2022March 23, 2022

Night two, and you get to scan the following bullshit before turning your eyes towards the sexy thread. 15E St. Peter's (+12.5) v. 3E Purdue (7:09, CBS) A warning for Purdue Pete - you probably think you dodged a major bullet with this matchup. That's what Murray State thought, too. And they

2022 Post-Plague Madness – Octavos de Final Thread Numero Uno

King Hippo - March 24, 2022March 23, 2022

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Thanks so much to TUDN for teaching me that descriptor for the Round of Sixteen. Because it's not goddamned SWEET with Duke and especially U*NC participating. Anyway, I might have tuned out, but I can still give the imaginarium my uneducated, semi-coherent thoughts on the matchups: 4W Arkansas (+9.5) v. 1W Gonzaga (7:09,

Saturday Night and Hoopsball Grows Tiresome

King Hippo - March 19, 2022March 19, 2022

I will not invite you to touch my monkey, though. Here are your late fixtures: 12MW Richmond (+3.5) v. 4MW Providence (6:10, TNT) Friar Tuck and his merry band just can't get no RESPEK, I says. Richmond's coach looks eerily like "Buddy" in Swimming With Sharks. I love that movie, probably because I

2022 Post-Plague Madness – Rounding Out Round One

King Hippo - March 18, 2022March 18, 2022

The early window, as quasi-predicted, was a wet bag of shit. DUE BETTER, night windows! 13S Chattanooga (+8) v. 4S Illinois (6:50, TNT) What's the fucking deal with all the schools that used to be "State-hyphen-City" who are now just "City?" I fear and reject ALL CHANGE. 15W Cal-State Fullerton (+18.5) v. 2W Duke

2022 Post-Plague Madness – Friday Primavera

King Hippo - March 18, 2022March 17, 2022

OK, I think that counts as madness yesterday. Goodbye, Kenfucky. 12 seeds run rampant, except for Indiana - who got curb-stomped by...St. Mary's?? UCLA used all nine of their lives. More games, more work avoidance, more entropy to come! 10S Loyola-Chi**** (Pick 'em) v. 7S Ohio State (12:15, CBS) Pretty cool respect

2022 Post-Plague Madness – Thursday Session el Segundo

King Hippo - March 17, 2022March 16, 2022

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You gots gots to git it! (also Happy Alcoholism Evening, if y'all happen to be Irish and not yet passed out) 12W New Mexico State (+6.5) v. 5W UConn (6:50, TNT) This is where we hope the Fightin' Horatios make their name sake happy drink instead of angry drink. Either way, there will

Madness, March Edition (or how I learned nothing about basketball from this drivel)

SonOfSpam - March 16, 2022March 15, 2022

Before we start with the preview, fill out your brackets and join us in the DFO Bracket Insanity group on ESPN.com by clicking here It's once again the time of year when, having watched about 26 minutes of college basketball all season, everyone becomes an expert on whether Butthole State can

AFL Beat! AFLW Round 8 + AFL Preview!

ballsofsteelandfury - February 28, 2022February 27, 2022

This week, we are back to a regular-ish schedule! Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! There is some normalcy and the Finals picture is getting clearer. Let's get right to it! *** Week 8 Recaps GWS Giant's 41 - 39 St. Kilda Saints The Saints were SO CLOSE to their first win but couldn't close

Sunday EPL/Owl Prediciones Thread

King Hippo - February 13, 2022

Again, I apologize for not crapping out a Saturday nighter. As partial recompense, here is a morning one. Spurs/Wolves is the best of the three 9:00 offerings (all action on Peacock), with European qualification meaning for each club. Until midweek, Wolves had been flying shit-hot. Spurs, on the other hand, have

AFL Beat! AFLW Round 5

ballsofsteelandfury - February 9, 2022February 8, 2022

This week, there was more havoc caused by COVID on the schedule as another set of games were canceled and some makeup games were played. For now, though, it seems there is some normality coming. We'll see how long it lasts. Welcome to Balls of Steel's AFL Beat! Let's get right