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Well, Ryan Day is not of Asian descent, so that's probably why no one ever mentions it. Marcus Freeman, however, is of Asian descent, and it would've been nice for him to be acknowledged in equal measure as the first black and the first Asian head coach to play for a national championship. I rooted intensely against both Ohio State and Notre Dame, so I both won and lost. And I hated all of it. However, in that perfect state of rage equilibrium, I achieved nirvana. So, that's nice.

What a devastating loss for the Ravens. I could not be more delighted!

That's exactly what it feels like. I'm in the flats of North Hollywood and am OK at the moment, too, but there is that feeling of "where's the next one going to be?" in the back of the mind. The wind dying down (finally) is the most important first step to starting to get control over these blazes, but it's been just terrifying and insane in its suddenness, unpredictability, and speed. I also want to say that while it's been a very scary day-plus and will probably be scary for another few days, it's vital to remember that the fires will eventually be extinguished, and we will get through this and rebuild/recover. Together.

If Zac Taylor can't figure out a way to coach the Bengals so that they don't start every season 0-2 or 0-3, it might be time to find a new head coach. The Bengals could've been a sleeper team in the playoffs, but if you start off the season with a loss to a terrible Patriots team, you deserve to miss the playoffs. I'm rooting for one of two teams to win the Super Bowl, but I won't say which two for fear of jinxing them. BECAUSE I AM OBVIOUSLY THAT POWERFUL. And because it can't be said enough, fuck the Chiefs.

This final four?

I hate Texas, but if Arizona State was dumb enough to blitz and leave a receiver WIDE FUCKING OPEN in the end zone on 4th and 13, then they deserved to lose this game. What a waste of a great comeback.

I'm not trying to provoke an argument, but victims of sexual assault AREN'T believed as a rule, and statements like this are a big part of the problem because they absolutely do brush sexual assault aside and, in cases like this, cast it as more of a mistake on the part of these poor athletes who were just trying to get laid. For every college woman who makes things up to ruin a young athlete's life, which is a very specific scenario, there are thousands of unreported rapes. I feel like this should be common knowledge, but just in case: the conviction rate of sexual assault crimes is under 1%, and only around 6% of all allegations even result in an arrest. Meanwhile, close to 90% of sexual assault victims suffer physical and emotional consequences because of the assaults committed on them. Moreover, with the specific rape allegation against Winston in 2012, the woman who accused him of raping her didn't even know who he was at the time because he was a redshirt freshman and hadn't even played a game at FSU. She could only identify him a month after the fact when she happened to be in the same class as he the next semester and learned his name when the professor called roll, and the police naturally mishandled the investigation into Winston. She was not some honeytrap looking to make a buck off of the poor star football player, although that narrative (of course) endures twelve years later because Winston has quite a few incredibly powerful men and institutions behind him invested in crafting a specific narrative around him.

Sure, but there was no mention of best-case scenario in your post, and a potentially 5-7 team with an awful defense still isn't making the playoffs. I guess I'm confused as to why you'd even focus on the Bengals' path to the SB when their chances of making the playoffs, before, during, and after today's game, are so slim and when so many other teams from the AFC are likelier to make the SB, including the Steelers. I guess it doesn't matter, though, because the powers-that-be will do everything they can to make sure the Chiefs represent the AFC.

What are you talking about? Cincinnati is 4-8, and their defense sucks (or to be more exact, Cincinnati is 4-8 because their defense sucks). They're not making the playoffs.

I would express my overwhelming delight at the outcome of today's installment of "Rivalries Are Puerile, Especially This One" because Ohio State sucks the very most, but I won't say anything because, after all, discretion is the better part of valor.

I immediately thought you were right about this, but this isn't actually the case. There have been thirteen different World Series winners and thirteen different Super Bowl winners in the last twenty years. If you look at the last fifteen years, there have been ten different World Series winners and eleven different Super Bowl winners. That really surprised me, but there have been more baseball teams that have repeated (the Red Sox, the Giants, the Cheaters, the Dodgers, the Cardinals) in both time periods than there have been football teams that have repeated (the Patriots, the Chiefs, the Giants, the Steelers).

Well, the commentators' focus the entire World Series was on the Yankees as a whole; the Dodgers were just the other team, and it was really noticeable. Everything was framed through the lens of the Yankees, so of course Judge got a lot more attention for his shittiness than World Series winner Ohtani did. And not one commentator called Judge the worst player every in the history of sport (come on now), but he did make one of the worst errors I've ever seen. To @ProudMary's point, though, Altuve's MVP should 1567945823% be rescinded.

Satan has a new minion.

Oh, is it a day ending in -y? *checks calendar Yes, yes, it is.

This is just one more example of infinite recent examples of why we can't have nice things. They're soccer fans, so they're used to it.