Germanshepherd

On 3/29/2024 at 8:30 PM, Germanshepherd said:

NC State is having the best day ever. 
 

Men’s team knocks out Marquette to get to the elite eight as an 11-seed. 
 

Women’s team knocks out powerhouse Stanford to get to the elite eight. 

And now they’re both in the Final Four!

Zach Edey vs. DJ Burns is going to be incredible television. 
 

UConn will likely roll the Tide. 

R.I.P IUPUI, Hello IU-Indianapolis 

NC State is having the best day ever. 
 

Men’s team knocks out Marquette to get to the elite eight as an 11-seed. 
 

Women’s team knocks out powerhouse Stanford to get to the elite eight. 

Seeing them in action today I absolutely loved them.  Looks so classic and clean.

NFL doubling down on paywall football

Report: NBA investigating Toronto Raptors' Jontay Porter for prop betting irregularities
 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39808900/nba-eyes-raptors-jontay-porter-betting-issues
 

Welp. It was only a matter of time. 

2 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Turns out the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament means less for the SEC

Leave it to Nebraska to change that 

God what an embarrassing performance. At least five of our six best players graduate so we’ll have to start all over just to hope to get back to a place where Hoiberg gets mercilessly outcoached. 
 

Now I’m grumpy lmao. The tournament is more fun when your team’s not in it. 

I am breaking my “never blame the officials” spell for this one. Apologies to anyone complaining about refs I have yelled at before, I get it now. 
 

Yes, Samford should have played better throughout the game. They had some really dumb possessions, bricked some huge free throws, and still had a chance to take it to OT after the call, but oh my god that’s egregious. 
 

The ref was clearly gonna call a foul no matter what happened on that play, it was a pure anticipation call with no way to correct it if it went wrong. He didn’t even touch the guy. 
 

Why I’m really mad about this is Samford may never get this chance again. They hadn’t made it in 24 years before this year, and had a blue blood on the absolute ropes. 
 

Add in the powers that be desperately wanting to weed these teams out of the big dance sooner rather than later and there’s a chance this may be it for this team and fanbase.

Yet this is how it ends. A ref not playing who’s not even paying attention to what’s in front of his eyes letting a Kansas team who wants to flush this season ASAP move on for nothing. 
 

Wooh that was cathartic. And I don’t even have a connection to Samford other than them being a team with a high number next to their name in March. 

Jack Gohlke is such a perfect March Madness character. 

On 3/17/2024 at 10:06 PM, schlim said:

It's a real surprise Dick didn't choose 69 as his number .

IIRC Rodman tried but the NBA wouldn’t allow it. 
 

I think that makes the NBA the only league with a number banned, not retired, leaguewide. 

Definitely a downgrade but not by as much as I was fearing. Will need to see all angles and the full set obviously but I think I can live with this. 
 

White sox on the road (will likely be worn on home too but let’s ignore that for now) is an upgrade over blue, but not as much as red would be. 

Texas A&M Round 1 right after they poached our athletic director. Ooh wee.

We're playing our best ball of the year and so are they.  I'm conditioned to expect heartbreak but I think we can take em.

AND THE WOMEN ARE PLAYING A&M TOO AHAHAHAHA

2 hours ago, BottomlessPitt said:

The last few minutes of this Lakers-Warriors game is bizzaro. 

Didn't watch, but saw on Twitter that there was a five second stretch of game action that took 11 minutes because of the reviews.

All 10 seeds until eternity now have hope.

Five games in five days, taking down Duke, Virginia and UNC in the process.

On 3/9/2024 at 7:46 PM, Burmy said:

There are a thousand reasons why I despise the NIT's selection change for this season.

 

But right now, the biggest three are Eastern Kentucky, High Point and Central Connecticut.

Add Quinnipiac to that list

Atlanta takes the top spot in the league after downing Omaha 3-1. Pretty good match until we fell apart in the fourth set. 

4 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

what a goddamn game, dude.

 

Was hoping for Stony Brook to make its second tourney appearance ever, but what a performance it was even if it was a shot short.  That Tyler Stephenson-Moore kid is a pure stud.

Hopefully Charleston can pull some upset juice in the tourney.  This year's squad is worse than last year's who couldn't get it done, but that team ran into the eventual runner-ups round one and gave them hell so I'm not counting them out.

On 3/4/2024 at 3:33 PM, 4_tattoos said:

@The_Admiral With light blue already being Orlando's primary color, one could argue making pink the accent color paired with purple and white on the uniforms, while all the colors could remain in the logo. Would give them a nice middle range color in the unis, since the Supernovas shade of pink is closer to being red than a powdery pink.

I will say navy and pink are the most prominent at the arena, so I think that's the way to go.

Choosing light blue and pink would make every crowd look like they got lost to a gender reveal party.

The Suns do it right

Maybe the Nike switch threw things off, but there have been <5 year NBA sets recently. 
 

The new Clippers 1.0 lasted just two years until the Nike switch. 
 

The Orange/Black Suns faux starbursts lasted four years, also deaded by the Nike switch. 
 

The Nuggets had a weird phase with a two year font change on the Melo era jerseys than a one year color swap to navy before the new set rolled in. 
 

The Rockets’ shortened shoulder loops only lasted two years, and the no-panel chevron Raptors only lasted three. 

UMass back to MACtion

I do largely like this a lot.

The old logo package wasn't insurmountable by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm happy the new one clears it and finally puts nauticalness back in the forefront.

Twins comparisons are absolutely warranted, but given that they wear it better than the Twins, who shouldn't be wearing that at all, I'll allow it.

Some yays

- Nice to see a Clippers wordmark that's not an anchor on the uniform quality

- They look very professional, if they win a championship in these it'd look way more right than their last few sets.

- Nice to see Los Angeles repped in full after the team basically officially became LA.

- They absolutely nailed the waistband designs on all three

Some gripes

- The compass shouldn't be in the main logo, it looks like a scope.

- The ship isn't very Clippery

- The no-outline color-on-color scripts will likely get lost (but thankfully they behaved themselves with the numbers)

- NOB on the white jersey should be navy not red

- Would rather see the nautical flag side panels on navy/white than the thin line

- Would rather it be powder than navy

Second set ended 27-25 and the other two sets were 25-23.  Great game.

Didn’t get a screenshot, but Columbus’ mop people don fedoras and wear shirts that say “The Mopsters”.  Solid gag. 

I liked Orlando’s jersey. It’s gimmicky, but fake armor is a gimmick that works for me when you’re called the Valkyries.
 

 It does always amuse me in volleyball when there’s one team in sleeveless jerseys and the other team in long sleeves. Can’t think of a single other sport that has that happen.