I miss real intentional walks. The crowd booing, the .01% chance something weird would happen, the batter giving off “Yeah, I knew you didn’t want any this” vibes. If you want to walk a guy you should at least have to look like pussies for 30 seconds. It was good.
Adam Silver, be a man and just rig the lottery. Enough is enough. Stop being on some Riddler shit with all this “when is a bottom 3 team not really a bottom 3 team” bullshit and get some David Stern about you. Grown ass man out here scared of the Washington Wizards. Grow up bro
Carlos Dunlap played 11 years and 155 games in Cincinnati, is 2nd in team history in Sacks, 1st in Forced Fumbles, 1st in Tackles For Loss, 6th in Pass Breakups!
Dunlap made 2 Pro Bowls, had 328 tackles, 82.5 sacks, 20 forced fumbles, 60 pass deflections and 227 QB hits.
He is one of the best to ever wear Bengals stripes.
A low-key high stakes prediction from Joe Burrow on 2026 Bengals when asked about the bigger international platform they’re on this year: “I think the number one thing is you have to go win, and we’re going to go win a lot of games this year and play great and win a Super Bowl, and everything that comes with that comes with that part of it too, is playing internationally.”
Bengals defensive offseason additions:
Dexter Lawrence
Bryan Cook
Boye Mafe
Jonathan Allen
Kyle Dugger
Ja’sir Taylor
Arguably the most aggressive offseason on one side of the ball in franchise history
The math on this collection should mass-humble every streaming service on the planet.
One guy. A Sony cassette recorder. 10,000 concerts over 40 years. 30,000 individual sets from 3,000+ artists. R.E.M., The Cure, Nirvana, Björk, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Boogie Down Productions.
His first recording of Nirvana was July 8, 1989 at a tiny club called Dreamerz. Kurt Cobain was 20 years old. The band introduced themselves by saying they were from Seattle. This was two full years before Nevermind existed. That tape is now cleaned up and streaming for free.
The digitization operation alone is wild. One volunteer drives to Jacobs' house monthly, picks up 10-20 boxes of 50-100 tapes each, runs them through 10 simultaneous cassette decks he repaired himself. 5,500 tapes digitized since late 2024. Dozens more volunteers across the US and Europe do mastering, metadata, and setlist verification. Sometimes they contact the actual artists to confirm what songs were played.
The collection went from 171 recordings in January 2025 to over 2,300 by April 2026. At this rate it'll take years to upload everything.
Spotify has 100 million tracks. Apple Music has 100 million. Neither has a recording of Nirvana's first Chicago show. A guy with a tape recorder in his pocket does.
Kyle Shanahan on coaching Joe Burrow in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic:
"I grabbed him one time and I'm like 'dude, just chill out, man.'"
"I remember in our first practice, Logan Paul ran full speed to try and grab his flag and he made a move, and they kinda collided. I'm just sitting there like 'oh my god, we got YouTubers running into quarterbacks.'"
(via @ProFootballTalk)
@Fazzy_03@gefiltefishy @chi_no_usagi @at1nytown@satosuluu If the analogy used to make your point is that ignorant to reality to think it would ever be acceptable for a surgeon to rely on ChatGPT while doing an active surgery then you should probably shut the fuck up until you formulate a more pragmatic way to make your point
My take on Ken Anderson not in the Hall of Fame is that there are too many people who don’t know football and don’t know what they’re watching. Beyond his Hall-worthy statistics, Anderson literally helped redefine offensive football. The late Bill Walsh would tell you as much. He chose Anderson to run his new offense 10 years before he knew of Joe Montana. And yes, the process is a joke. We’ve learned that much over the last two weeks.
TOM BRADY ON FOX: “I can’t pick between the Seahawks and Pats. May the best team win.”
DAVID ORTIZ ON FOX: *smiling devilishly, holding up a vial* “If the Yankees win, I’m going to release this serum into the water supply.”
I'm starting to like Dylan Cardwell. Please give this a listen!
"In college I averaged 5 points per game, I rebounded the ball five times per game, I averaged like 1.6 blocks per game. No one thought I was an NBA player. I'm not supposed to be here. I'm living my childhood dream. This is a dream come true for me"
"We might not be having a great season, but this is the best locker room I've really been a part outside of my last year at Auburn. I really appreciate being on this team and being in this locker room"
On November 5, 1946 Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics becomes the first player in professional basketball to shatter a backboard, which he does during warmups.
The game was delayed over an hour.
The Celtics would lose to the Chicago Stags 57-55. Connors was one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1946–1948).
Connors was also drafted by Chicago Bears of the NFL but never played for them.
Chuck Connors would be best remembered as an actor, particularly as the lead role of Lucas McCain on the hit ABC western show, "The Rifleman".