Connolly Rizley

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

For those who might have missed it, like Charles Barkley. Enjoy.

[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

One other takeaway from this poll …

For as long as I’ve been covering CFB, back to the dawn of the BCS, people always wanted the field to get bigger. This is the first time ever that a majority like it the way it is.

Bur we’re going to blow it up after just 3 years?

[Lord Zito @VivalaZito]

The Bears can’t leave Chicago.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

MORE BASEBALL TO COME.

[Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN]

Within a couple minutes of each other, the Chicago Cubs and White Sox both clinched a berth in the postseason. It's just the 3rd time they've both made the playoffs in the same year. 2008 and 1906 were the other two instances.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Saban should be president in 2028 and I’m not remotely joking

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

I certainly hope all of you that buried Coach Whittingham, his staff, and Bryce Underwood, have the class to admit how wrong and unjust you were. Here’s my advice to all social media users- disagree if you want. Totally fine, give your reasons. But your personal attacks are an embarrassment to your parents and your family. Go Blue

[Biff poggi @BiffPoggi]

Michigan wins outright ! Go Blue

[Connolly Rizley @connollyrizley]

@JoshPateCFB @TaylorLewan77 You want feedback? If Bussin & Pate are looking for a guest on the show friday who grew up in Oklahoma going to Sooners games but went to school at Michigan, look no further...

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

I thought Tuesday #MACtion started in November.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

The 1993 Notre Dame vs. Florida State intro with Bob Costas makes me want to run through a wall. College football is almost back.

[Connolly Rizley @connollyrizley]

@BarstoolBigCat Hey Dan, on behalf of Connollys and Connellys everywhere (all 2 dozen of us), what the hell man!?

[College Football Classics @ClassicsCFB]

“I’m a man! I’m 40!” (2007)

[amar 💍🥷✌️ @okcamars]

calculate the fall% on this @tomhaberstroh

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

this series is going to bring cigarettes back.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Zero out taxes for the bottom half of earners. A nurse in Queens shouldn’t be sending money to Washington. Washington should be sending her an apology.

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

PCA - you’re hired, please come in for a 20 minute shift, your apron and grill tongs await you, the first amendment is alive at Wiener Circle

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

I see we have some new players in the NBA jersey arena. Its ethos, and our fight, has been centered around one key principle: home basketball teams wear white at every level of the game, in every league in the world. It is quite simply a basketball tradition, without it being a written requirement.

What Nike has done has not only oversaturated the market with mostly unpopular designs, but uniforms that get left behind after just one season. The constant turnover has one goal: sell as many jerseys as possible, at any cost, even at the expense of the franchise’s brand equity. It is a statistical fact and focus group tested/proven that children like new jerseys, and their parents buy them.

Non-white City Edition/Classic uniforms are often worn at home, it has a minimum appearance mandate because of the NBA’s partnership with Nike, forcing the away opponent to have to wear their home whites when they’re chosen.

Every NBA game that’s played where the home team is not wearing white is a papercut to the sport’s tradition. Not the NBA’s, but basketball’s. It won’t be a tradition that’s destroyed overnight, but as children grow up and it becomes more-and-more accepted because it was never something they cared about or understood, the home whites will eventually be perceived to be just another option.

You will rarely, if ever, see an NHL home team in their away white sweaters. Even though it’s the opposite of basketball, NHL/hockey have always maintained the tradition of the home team’s fashion look.

I like to think they do this because it is something their paying customers appreciate and continue to support with their wallets.

What the NBA doesn’t understand is the sales spreadsheet may suggest that this new jersey strategy is working because so many people are buying them, but what they are sacrificing to achieve these short-term results is the legacy of the sport that made them so cool in the first place.

This business strategy, undoubtedly, will lead to apathetic fashion, market dilution, and diminishing returns with no ability to revert back — because that culture, both literally and figuratively, will be dead.

[Royce Young @royceyoung]

This is the Thunder’s sixth appearance in the Western Conference finals in just 18 seasons, meaning OKC has been in the conference finals a third of their seasons. Remarkable.