Brendan Doyle

W&M 2020. I’m just here for the sports. | he/him

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

@demetriosns @PearlJam @TheOhanaFest Josh K

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Hooooooooooooooo boy let’s go

[Pearl Jam @PearlJam]

Ohana Fest is back this September! 🌴 Celebrating 10 years of music at Doheny State Beach, the band will perform alongside Eddie & Friends, Tyler Childers, Maná, Alabama Shakes and many more.



Presale begins Thursday, 5/14 at 10am PT. Sign up for a presale passcode at https://t.co/hrvaEQJNs5 for your best chance to get tickets at the lowest possible price! A Public On-Sale will follow at 12pm PT only if tickets remain.

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

@TJCoachMark Tend to agree with that, though it’s at least a consolation that the winners of those 15s and 16s games are going to get a unit now

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Man this sucks

[Jeff Borzello @jeffborzello]

Here is what the 76-team bracket will look like:

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

I’d put 9/11/22 over 9/4/24, having been to both. Both great shows (PJ always turns it up at MSG) but the 22 show was electric. A bit shorter like the rest of those 22 shows, but an awesome Present Tense, early set Porch (!), and one of the best Sonic Reducers in recent memory

[truant finds home @pj_history]

Pearl Jam @TheGarden shows ranked:
1. 9/11/98
2. 7/8/03
3. 7/9/03
4. 5/21/10
5. 6/25/08
6. 5/1/16 (10 years ago today!)
7. 5/20/10
8. 5/2/16
9. 9/4/24
10. 9/10/98
11. 6/24/08
12. 9/3/24
13. 9/11/22
#tfh

"Takin It To The Streets -> Whipping," May 1, 2016: https://t.co/Aak9gyVgCA

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

The watering down of the tournament with mediocre power conference teams and removing opportunities for conference champions in the main bracket, it’s the codification of where this sport has been heading. At least you could point to the tourney still. Now that’s tainted too.

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Man, this really really sucks

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Sources: The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams. The expansion is on track to be formalized in the upcoming weeks, with mid-May as the target. The 76-team tournaments begin next year. https://t.co/2ZGUjZR0uJ

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Let’s go

[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

Without further ado...

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

As always, awesome stuff from @peterhassett in the recap of (maybe, probably) Ovi’s last game. He might be out, but Pete and the RMNB crew are still around, and for that I’m thankful

[RMNB @rmnb]

The Washington Capitals win. Is this it? https://t.co/xzpvR30AAc

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

And a quick intro post about how I’ve grown as a writer and a person the last half-decade or so https://t.co/BAlJAz4Qgg

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Starting a newsletter for me to write about music, food, travel… and maybe a little bit of sports. Publishing schedule will be “when I feel like it.” Like most of my writing endeavors, this’ll be a labor of love.

Subscribe here if ya feel: https://t.co/wyGve9PUEk

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

@grantpaulsen Don’t have specific numbers on it, but pretty well established that goalies’ perform significantly worse in the second half of back-to-back starts

[Pearl Jam @PearlJam]

Happy Birthday, Mike! 🎉

📸: Geoff Whitman

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Sounds electric at Lucas Oil.

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Old Valley Road by Bruce Hornsby playing as I walk into the RIC terminal, seems like the perfect song for the Richmond, VA airport

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

Jason you're not gonna believe this

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

Awesome stuff.

[Ben Portnoy @bportnoy15]

Really cool moment tonight postgame after VCU upset UNC. VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. made a point to shoutout the student reporters that made the trip.

Lots of great stuff this time of year, but this was a really awesome, genuine exchange.

[Will Warren @statsbywill]

Jim and I pointed it out on STATS a few times this year, but one thing I wish would've gathered more steam this year was Miami's performance against top-150 competition. Pre-NCAAT, they had played like a top-40 group in their few opportunities against quality teams. (SMU 51st.)

[Brendan Doyle @bdoyle45]

REDHAWKS!

[Will Warren @statsbywill]

Once more declaring my love for this show, the best there is. I need a full offseason breakdown of the mandatory CBS harassment course Gary Parrish is traumatized by