Craig Meyer

it's pretty astonishing, thought not at all surprising, how there's a whole Twitter ecosystem dedicated to posting reels of Angel Reese missing shots and constantly making fun of her. she finished 7th in MVP voting and is arguably the best player on a WNBA Finals team. she's very good at basketball!

living in Colorado has really turned me off of the idea of direct democracy. we've got like 20 different ballot initiatives to vote on this year and the voter guide is 130 pages long. representative democracy is great. it's like hiring someone for a service. I vote for y'all to get this sorted out

wrote up on eight candidates for the Baylor job now that Dave Aranda is gone. and, yes, Dabo Swinney is on there

I joke on him for being a definitionally mediocre coach at Louisville, and for Cincinnati inexplicably paying UofL $3.5 million to hire him away, but Scott Satterfield would be a nice hire for NC State feel like he's a decent coach who's just been out of his comfort zone the past eight years

what I'd do if I ever got my hands on Liberty Biberty

was today years old when I realized the guy with Jason Statham in the Discover cupcake ad was Michael from The Wire

a second win in a week? and at Stamford Bridge? #COYS

he'll make a gaffe that'll cost his team a game, but putting Mario Cristobal at Miami feels unfair. get one of the best offensive line coaches in the sport to build along the trenches and pair it with the best South Florida skill position talent. oh, and give him a giant NIL bag to work with

as much shit as Pat McAfee understandably gets, Nick Saban's the College GameDay cast member who's had the biggest hand in that show getting demonstrably worse the past few years you've taken a show built around joy and excitement and injected it with a sourpuss who sees happiness as rat poison

Michele Tafoya really went from an all-time bag drop -- leaving one of the cushiest gigs in sports to start a YouTube channel nobody watches -- to running a competitive Senate race as a Republican in a reliably blue state during an awful cycle for the GOP. helps to have a weak opponent, but still

for the past year and change, I've made a concerted effort to be less online. the results are in: I've got no idea who Ethan and Hila Klein are and, man, is it an amazing feeling

the Monster Energy logo on the court at Allen Fieldhouse is truly grotesque. one day, Brett Yormark will have to answer for his crimes

#goacc

I understand why Penn State fired James Franklin, but if you would've told me that process would've ended with Franklin being replaced by Matt Campbell, I would've just kept Franklin. and I think Campbell's a great coach I just don't think there were that many options out there who were upgrades

as much as I hate to platform Liberty University, college football should have a Commander-in-Chief's Trophy style of setup with Notre Dame, BYU and Liberty the de-facto national universities for Catholicism, the LDS Church and Evangelical Christianity would just need a name for it

admittedly haven't heard Susan Collins speak much in my time on this earth, but after seeing clips of her debate performances, does she always talk like this? or is this just a product of being 73 years old? she sounds like she's on the verge of passing out every time she opens her mouth

had a discussion with some co-workers today about the most horseshoe-up-their-ass college football teams ever my entries: 2013 Auburn (the undisputed title-belt holder) 2002 Ohio State 2022 TCU

Haley Williams not only being on Airplanes, one of the worst songs this century, but being a big part of why that song is so bad will never cease to be confounding

can easily envision a scenario where Ossoff wins in 2028, the Republicans double down on nativist politics but just think they need someone more telegenic to be the face of it and nominate Brandon Gill in 2032 so we'd get Jon Ossoff against Wario Jon Ossoff

one of the big reasons Duke-UNC is considered the best rivalry in men's college basketball is because of the quality of their games (Louisville-Kentucky's got them beat on hate). if we're using that same metric for college football, I think it's gotta be OU-Texas, right?

don't know if I ever put it on social media, but Bob Chesney was my runaway No. 1 choice for Penn State last year. if Matt Campbell doesn't work out there (it's still early and I think highly of him as a coach, so we'll see), that search might go down as all-time mismanagement

this pro-Paxton ad with the random lady saying your children are under threat because some strangers' kids are getting gender-affirming care and it's James Talarico's fault is all kinds of gross he really must be getting desperate

after 30 years of trying, we've discovered the secret to getting Bill Belichick in a chipper mood with the media: have him be interviewed by a former All-American lacrosse player

Bentancur absolutely deserved that red card, but how does Luke Shaw not get one, too? he shoved him in the middle of play!

Mike Ditka was the first super famous person I ever interviewed. was very tempted to tell him to go get me a juice box at the end of the interview, but I was a nervous 21-year-old intern and thought better of it

he's got the goods, man

a Mississippi Valley State men's basketball player is in ICE custody over a visa issue

bang-up job, Jared Polis. you should be so proud of yourself

this column, which argues that Sophie Cunningham isn't a good enough player to justify everything that comes with having her on your team, has upset a lot of the same folks who made the same point to justify Colin Kaepernick getting blackballed from the NFL

there's about a 5% chance Poch will be around for 2030, but this is about as good as I've felt about the USMNT's future in a while. the kids are alright

the Holy Trinity of things that freaked me out as a little kid: Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit the monster from FernGully the Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp

this probably gives away that I never played football and lack the requisite toughness/pride, but unless it's a do-or-die conversion or you're close to the end zone, fighting for extra yardage is for suckers feel like you end up getting the ball punched out at least 40% of the time you do it

I doubt this will happen, but if Colorado goes 0-fer the rest of the season, Deion will have almost the exact same win percentage at CU as his predecessor, Karl Dorrell

I'll never forgive the analytics dorks and tape-eaters who tried to convince us that Justin Herbert was a top-five QB