The Failure
These days, we keep thinking back to this Discord server quarantine rant that a friend went off on a couple weeks ago. "This is like watching a comedian bomb on stage, but that's us up there," he wrote. "We had our whole lives to prepare for this show but we still blew it. Now we've been booed off the stage. We should be spending this time in QT reflecting on how badly we all suck."

Take Me to the Riot
VANCOUVER — The history of protest at the Olympics is a century-long strand. Ever since the modern Games’ beginning, people and groups and countries have used the world’s biggest sporting stage to communicate displeasure or refusal. At the 1908 London Games, the United States team wouldn’t dip their flag to King Edward VII. “No earthly king,” they said.

Game 7-005 - SIU Edwardsville at Eastern Kentucky
There is what happened on the court: a current Ohio Valley Conference team, EKU, handily beat a SIUe program that will start play in the league next year. The road team played well in the first half, and then the shots stopped falling, and the superior athleticism of an established Division I program, playing in front of a home crowd, took over.

Dribblings 1/28/2005 (Shakedown Edition)
Big West: Pacific 66, Cal State Northridge 62 (story) - The Tigers (15-2, 10-0 BWC) proved last night that they are not only Mad, but Beyond Matadome as well. They marched into Northridge and held off a late run by the perennial upstart Matadors (9-9, 7-3 BWC), who sunk further into second place.

The State Of The Other 22, Week 11
The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 341 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four in a simulation of last season.