The Red Line
It's never going to end. We might try to fight it, we may try to ignore it, but every year it's going to come back. I'm talking, of course, about the endless debate of what a "mid-major" is and what one isn't. Within the past few weeks, we've had weigh-ins here, here, here and on countless blogs.

MMBOW #8 - Peyton Stovall, Ball State
We're not worried about Dayton's Brian Roberts getting recognition anymore, so we're going to go deeper than his dominant 31-point performance in an upset win over Pitt. Much deeper. Peyton Stovall, star guard for the Ball State Cardinals, is our eighth Mid-Majority Baller of the Week.

Game 7-056 - Howard at Norfolk State
RICHMOND, Va. -- For most of recorded history, things that weren't paid for didn't happen. Take the Old West, for instance. You think saloons allowed tabs? As long as there were four-legged vehicles tied to the post out front, every customer represented a potential flight risk. Plus, there was always the chance that they'd be dragged out in the street for a duel to the death. Simpler times.

Mid-Majority D.I.Y., Part 3 - Packing
Even though I keep posting these distant dispatches, some folks are still convinced that I'm lying about all these places I go to. I'm from "the internet," and everything on the internet is a lie. Some think I'm not even a real person, that I'm a "profile" created by a 14-year-old girl who just loves older men and meeting IRL for big fun. This is my life.

6. Iba One & Sidiki Diabete - My Neggae (Remix) (2013)
In the Sahel region of Western Africa, music is passed from person to person. Not necessarily by way of any oral tradition anymore, but via modern cellphones. Songs are stored digitally, often compressed to low bitrates to save RAM space, played on tiny and tinny speakers, and then traded from one memory card to another. Other songs are simply deleted.