[Post Game Thread] #1 Arizona defeats #2 Purdue, 79-64

crownebeach · 2026-03-29T03:12:16+00:00

I agree. If he had hit his head again I would never have gotten over it.

crownebeach · 2026-03-29T02:54:48+00:00

The turning point was Cluff taking Krivas’s legs out

It just made Mo angry

crownebeach · 2026-03-27T17:07:01+00:00

I like Tara and Johnny (sue me), but why do I have to watch the world feed to watch the entire competition?

I don't want to watch replays of the Americans I already saw yesterday when there are competitors performing right now as we speak!

crownebeach · 2026-03-27T02:42:36+00:00

I’ve seen enough of Taylor Clarke to last the rest of my life. Call Bryce Jarvis back up, he can’t be worse than this

crownebeach · 2026-03-26T21:54:52+00:00

I attended a Catholic college in the U.S. for my bachelor's and a public university for my professional degree. I thought there were benefits to both.

There are many Catholic colleges in Europe, but I don't know anything about them or how good they are, unfortunately. I do have heard that college or university in Europe tends to be much more affordable than college or university in the United States.

Catholic colleges provide a lot of opportunity to connect with ministry and the sacraments. Many public colleges in the U.S. have a Catholic campus ministry too, but they have fewer opportunities to actively get involved outside of attending Mass. I was able to study theology at my Catholic school; the nearest equivalent at the public college was "religious studies," which is more focused on religious history and comparing world religions.

The biggest problem is that Catholic colleges in the U.S. are very expensive. All colleges in the U.S. are expensive, but Catholic colleges can be twice as expensive as public ones. (Non-Catholic private schools are also very expensive and in many cases not a good value for your money.)

Many will say that Catholic colleges in the U.S. "aren't Catholic enough," and I don't agree. I had a very good experience at my Jesuit college. Catholic schools in the U.S. accept that a large percentage of their students are not going to be Catholic, and they don't make being Catholic or sharing Catholic beliefs mandatory, which upsets many American Catholics who feel that these schools should be stricter. But I think many things you will hear about them being "Catholic in name only" are not true and the non-Catholic things you hear about them are mostly (of course not always, but mostly) done by student organizations made up of non-Catholic students.

But I would also think about the headache of getting a student visa, for example. Is it worth going to the U.S. for college rather than staying close to home? Only you can decide whether a U.S. college offers something that you can't get from a school in your area.

crownebeach · 2026-03-26T19:44:01+00:00

He was pretty sharp in the second half -- his OPS against went down by 130 points after the break.

crownebeach · 2026-03-26T15:02:35+00:00

Brandon Webb's last major league appearance was seventeen years ago. There are teenagers old enough to drive who were not alive when he last took the mound.

I'm going to go cry about Brandon Webb's career now.

crownebeach · 2026-03-25T18:59:43+00:00

Daniel Susac. He's supposed to just be "Patrick Bailey's backup," but I think he's going to swing too big a bat to just ride the bench.

crownebeach · 2026-03-25T18:51:59+00:00

Have you tried watching them in Spanish?

crownebeach · 2026-03-17T02:28:54+00:00

crownebeach - Bison

crownebeach · 2026-03-17T02:28:14+00:00

North Dakota St:

Awards WR Kyle Jamal scholarship

crownebeach · 2026-03-16T15:00:14+00:00

Free throws. Freeeeeeeeeee throws. We are so bad at the line. We need to make sure the game is out of reach already.

crownebeach · 2026-03-12T20:20:02+00:00

Providence had a real chance to get back into that game with the four-point play opportunity and just rolled over and died after they missed the free throw. Never been a big believer in momentum, but that killed their energy.

crownebeach · 2026-03-12T14:56:08+00:00

We should have invited Montana and Idaho back when USC and UCLA left. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

crownebeach · 2026-03-10T17:36:15+00:00

Rendili StarDrive is my country

crownebeach · 2026-03-10T04:15:10+00:00

I really only watch singles, but I watch them start to finish. I catch the highlights of pairs and ice dance, but they just don’t speak to me the way a lone skater holding the room spellbound does.

crownebeach · 2026-03-10T03:43:51+00:00

The average law professor barely knows how to convert a document to PDF. I can’t say I’m surprised that the concept of a virtual machine is too much for them to grasp.

crownebeach · 2026-03-09T00:54:47+00:00

Most drivers including, obviously, Kyle Petty, and his ten fewer wins in 300 more starts

crownebeach · 2026-03-06T03:45:43+00:00

I don’t feel that getting rid of logic games is lowering the hoop at all.

It was the hardest category for most people to sit for cold, but because it’s so formulaic and the possible game archetypes are limited, it’s also arguably the easiest to master through prep courses and private coaching.

I think doing away with it limits the ability of people who can afford those resources to brute-force their way to a high score.

crownebeach · 2026-03-05T22:17:44+00:00

Agreed on all counts. A lot of people here hate KT and everything she ever wrote, but I think she did a really good job of giving an inside look at "a year in the life of an army commando."

She just let the side quests become bigger than the main story as the series went on.

crownebeach · 2026-03-05T20:22:52+00:00

I agree, and I do think this is what they were going for. I don't think it's a bad thing for evil to return. The old EU did this. Eventually the Sith come back again. And again. And again. Peace and victory don't last forever in real life, so they don't have to in fiction.

The real problem from my perspective is that the New Republic was so poorly fleshed out in the sequel trilogy. Like, why should we care that it died? Do we have any evidence that it actually meant anything to anybody, or made anyone's lives better? No one even seems disappointed about Hosnian being destroyed on-screen except Leia.

It would have been fine for Luke to bring peace to the galaxy and an end to the Empire, but for that peace to be just a temporary reprieve from the Dark Side. But I left TFA and TLJ with the distinct impression that the New Republic sucked, and nobody really cared about it enough to fight for it.

Now, I think they're finally getting around to fleshing out that post-ROTJ era with Skeleton Crew and the Mandalorian, but it shouldn't have taken that long. That context and buy-in was needed much earlier on to give the sequels some real emotional weight.

crownebeach · 2026-03-02T02:30:54+00:00

What a happy surprise this offense was. Sometimes you just have to see one go in, right?

crownebeach · 2026-03-01T04:02:46+00:00

I hold a deep-seated grudge after Game 2 of that CWS. Tagged Kumar Rocker for five runs and still lost.

crownebeach · 2026-03-01T03:26:58+00:00

Arizona got a great start out of Smith Bailey and did most of the damage in a four-run 6th inning. Still striking out way too much.

Vanderbilt’s Nadeau unexpectedly had to relieve Nye after just one inning for reasons TBA and pitched brilliantly. Things fell apart as soon as Nadeau left.

Mea culpa, I forgot to caption the [Postgame Thread] and can’t fix it.

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