skip.sevedgeI'd like to say my kids can do whatever they want...but football will not be one of those things.
The really heartbreaking thing about today's Associated Press profile of former college linebacker Michael Keck, who died last year at age 25 from unrelated causes, is just how damned banal it is. Normal kid plays football. Normal kid suffers head injuries. Normal kid turns violent and depressed and forgetful, dies young, and researchers discover his brain shows a shockingly advanced form of CTE. How many times have we heard this story?
skip.sevedgelove this comic
skip.sevedge:: rimshot ::
I am completely kicking myself for waiting so long to fulfill my plan to actually read this book. Utterly loving it and only a few chapters in.
BONUS STW: New bonus STW up on Medium, some applied math and derivation I did for you about comedy! Please enjoy!
PATREON: Thank you for your support!
skip.sevedgealmost, *almost* wish i had ESPN again
We sometimes give MLS a hard time for being one of the few American sports leagues that doesn’t feature the best of their particular sport playing in it. However, the league has made great strides in the past decade, and is a legitimate draw in many cities. MLS won’t pick up wide swaths of viewers out of the hugely successful (on American TV, at least) World Cup, but they will have the chance to be sampled, thanks to ESPN.
Sunday night, ESPN2 will broadcast the network’s final episode of World Cup Tonight until at least 2026 at 6 p.m. ET, followed by a special two-and-a-half hour edition of ESPN FC at 7:30 p.m. ET. Following that show, the Cascadia Cup will take center stage, as Portland and Seattle will battle for the second time in a week (the rivals played a wildly entertaining U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal on Wednesday) in front of 50,000+ at CenturyLink Field at 10 p.m. ET.
Wednesday, July 16th is known as the bane of the sports fan’s existence, as it is the day following the MLB All-Star Game, and also the day of the ESPYs, which is like rubbing salt in a wound. ESPN2 is going to air an MLS match that night between Philadelphia and New York at 7 p.m. ET. Watch because you might enjoy it, watch because, hey, it’s not the ESPYs!
Sporting KC and Los Angeles Galaxy battle on Saturday, July 19th at 6 p.m. ET, and will be preceded by by the first of five MLS/EPL friendlies, as the great teams of England and the rest of Europe pour over here to begin their pre-seasons. At 4 p.m. ET, ESPN President John Skipper’s beloved Tottenham Hotspur take on Seattle.
ESPN2 will follow that up with MLS/EPL doubleheaders on Wednesday, July 23rd — Spurs/Toronto FC followed by SKC taking defending champions Manchester City — and Saturday, July 26th — New York hosting Arsenal while the Chicago Fire take on Spurs — while Fox Sports 1 begins their summer soccer series with Manchester United taking on the Galaxy at 10:30 p.m. ET on the 23rd. ESPN has made a point that five of their eight games feature U.S. men’s national team reps from the World Cup, while two more feature Roy Miller of New York, who played on the surprise Costa Rica team.
The point is, there’s plenty of soccer to get you from Sunday night up until the beginning of the Premier League season in August, so stick with it, budding casual soccer fan.
skip.sevedgeGreg Maddux is the best. Also, eww.
Tucked away in this ESPN The Magazine piece on athletes in communal locker-room showers was a Greg Maddux story, delightful even by the high standards of Greg Maddux stories:
skip.sevedgethis comic is so fantastic
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July 8th, 2014: La Marseillaise, ladies and gentlemen! I actually don't know what the anthem of the Klingon Empire is :( :( D: – Ryan | |||
skip.sevedgescience, bitches.
skip.sevedgenice.
Me: Okay, here’s the link to the mock-up of the new website. Please note that this is a temporary internal website that we use for testing purposes. Once you give your approval, I will upload the new website to your current address.
Client: Okay.
Me: Just to be clear, please do not send this link out in any correspondences, as it will no longer exist once we go live.
Client: Okay, got it! Thanks.
Two weeks after going live I get a frantic phone call from the client stating that people cannot get to his website from the address he included on the thousands of brochures he had printed up.
The URL he included in the brochures? http://localhost:8080/test/
skip.sevedgestupid politics
skip.sevedgefor all you cat people.
skip.sevedgeSometimes I want to reread my old lit papers. Fortunately, I get over that feeling pretty quickly.
skip.sevedgei really gotta start playing that someday
skip.sevedgethis expression is so dumb
skip.sevedgeU. S. A.!
Twitch plays Pokemon is fun for everyone involved, except maybe the freaked out NPCs.
By Wooden Plank Studios, sent in by Ted.
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February 18th, 2014: GUYS you know what comes out tomorrow? The Midas Flesh #3! I wrote it and Shelli and Braden drew it and if you like the Adventure Time comic (which we also create!) we think you'll like this too! You can read more about the book here, read the first few pages of the comic here, get the book at your local comic store, or get digital copies! Man look at all those links! MY advice is to probably click at least one of them!! One year ago today: pride and prejudice and printing errors – Ryan 
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skip.sevedgego italy
[Women's 500-meter short track speedskating silver medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy, right, gestures as bronze medalist Park Seung-hi of South Korea, left, and gold medalist Li Jianrou of China pose with their medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. AP Photo/David Goldman.]
    
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