• Game finished after midnight ET
• On the West Coast
• On an unexpected lead change at the end of the game
• In a game that ultimately had no impact on the fate of either team
Heck of a way to welcome back #Pac12AfterDark after 2 years off!
Paraguay v Australia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match between a country with no coastline and a country with no land borders.
Paraguay is landlocked in the middle of South America. Australia is surrounded by ocean.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.
Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Grand Moff Tarkin: "I think Palpatine's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Alderaan happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story."
The Dunedin Blue Jays will wear these "Rain Delay Jerseys" on July 18 to commemorate their 24 weather delays, six cancellations and 10 postponements from last season
(via @DunedinBlueJays)
The 1977 CBS NFL Today intro is fucking spectacular. The plays get progressively more illegal and fucked up to the point I was half expecting some guy to get eaten by a lion on the field. It’s like a Naked Gun bit. Do yourself a favor and watch this.
🚨ODD SCORING ALERT🚨
This is a weird play from tonight's @Cubs at @Mets game, and there is a weird scoring rule with it.
On a 3-2 count with one out, Michael Busch takes ball four, but Pete Crow-Armstrong was off running with the pitch. Despite it being ball four, the catcher threw down. Even though PCA is entitled to second base without penalty due to the walk, he touches the base, and then is off the base when tagged.
Because he touched the base and then left the safety of the base on the slide, he is liable to be put out. This goes down as a 2-6 "out advancing" at second base, and this is NOT a caught stealing.
The reason this is not a caught stealing is because of the walk, it is impossible to be credited with a stolen base of second, because PCA was forced. Since he cannot by rule be credited with a stolen base, he cannot be credited with a caught stealing either.
#Cubs #LGM
REPOST @fallontonight: Robert Smigel showcases his best Lorne Michaels impersonation while breaking down how the @nbcsnl Five Timers Club came to be! @tomhanks
England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian
England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Walk-off triples when trailing by 2 runs, divisional era (1969):
6/22/26 Jake McCarthy
8/11/06 Grady Sizemore
9/26/87 Juan Beniquez
4/14/80 Dave Collins
9/3/71 Manny Mota
5/29/71 Joe Torre