Posts tagged “bowl games”
- Shrinking (Apple TV+) is probably the best show on TV right now. Jason Segal and Jessica Williams are phenomenal in it and — as impossible as it is to believe — it might be the best work Harrison Ford has ever done on screen. The show was co-created by Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent from Ted Lasso) and the theme song is Frightening Fishes by Tom Howe & Benjamin Gibbard.
- Engineers found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland. – via The Curious About Everything Newsletter from Jodi Ettenberg (threads / bluesky)
- Is there anything better than college football bowl season?
- ProPublica has an online tool that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial, which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases. – via @broingerm (threads / bluesky)
Rare baseball stats are my jam. When I was an early teen I watched Roger Clemens mow down sixteen Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park and was bored out of my mind. I wish I’d appreciated the feat as much as I did the mini batting helmet ice cream. (I still have the helmet.) It’s wild that there have been fewer 20-K games than perfect games.- On Sunday, December 8, 2024 — in a loss to the Los Angeles Rams — Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills had the best fantasy football performance ever by a QB. – via The Athletic (threads / bluesky)
- Over 21 months, Taylor Swift‘s culture-dominating Eras Tour brought in $2B, more than double the gross of its closest competitor, according to ticket sales figures confirmed for the first time. – via Crooked Media (threads / bluesky)
- Staffers at roughly 600 booksellers are receiving $500 holiday bonuses from James Patterson, the bestselling novelist who has been awarding independent store employees since 2015. – via @abcnews
- You can find something for everyone in The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide.
#FridayFive: Bowl Games
In which I list my favorite college football bowl games
2012 / 2013 iCal College Bowl Schedule
College Football Bowl Season
2009 – 2010 iCal College Bowl Schedule
It’s the most wonderful time of the year …
2008 – 2009 iCal College Bowl Schedule
In which I explain how to create an iCal version of the college football bowl season schedule
Time Again
College Football Bowl Season
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It’s the most
wonderful time
of the year …
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Stupid Bowl Names
And now … from ESPN.com’s Bowl Projections page … the list of Funny Bowl Names: The GMAC Bowl … The Visit Florida Tangerine Bowl … The Sega Sports Las Vegas Bowl … The Seattle Bowl … The Galleryfurniture.com Bowl … The Culligan Holiday Bowl … The Sylvania Alamo Bowl … The Crucial.com Humanitarian Bowl …
Rose Bowl
Florida is simply looking like the best team in the country … and ESPN.com’s Bowl Projections page is predicting a Miami / Florida match-up at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena!