It would start sometime around now. This week would normally be when the first posts about my annual college hoops contest — this year would have been the Twelfth Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) — would start showing up on the blog. For several years now, that last… Read More Hoops ain’t happening.
A couple nights ago, I was flipping channels and came across Urban Meyer’s B1G kickoff luncheon news conference from Chicago last week. After watching Urban’s far-too-brief presentation, I started feeling the familiar twitch that i seem to come up with at around this time every year. I type the schedule into our calendar. I start… Read More 2. one.
I have a perfectly good reason to show up on Western Avenue at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Just like some of you guys will have a perfectly good reason run down Western Avenue a few hours later. Yep. Mrs. Crappy and I are working the Pittsburgh Marathon water station on Western Avenue —… Read More water slinging.
It took a last-second three-pointer for Villanova to get past the Tar Heels and win college basketball’s 2015-16 national championship. AJ didn’t need any last second histrionics to win the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown). And he didn’t actually need anything in particular to happen in Monday’s championship… Read More dagger.
It seems that I write at least one post every year explaining just how ugly that season’s AUCNFFC (BTYBB) has turned out. But this year, the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) seems to be, uh, extra special. How special? Only one of us — one, of the… Read More blutarskies, with distinction.
The hoopage — and the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) — resumes tonight, so this is a good time to take a quick look at how we’re all doing. And how are we doing? Overall, not as bad as it probably felt last weekend, as we watched… Read More crashed and burned.
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