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Five Alternative Team Names for the Indians and Braves 7/4/20

Hey baseball fans! The NFL recently opened discussions about changing the name of the Washington Redskins to something more appropriate. This has prompted the MLB to consider the Cleveland Indians, who got rid of their red-faced Native American mascot and logo, Chief Wahoo, in 2018 (on Columbus Day, of all days). The Redskins moniker is definitely worse than Cleveland's, but it still begs the question: if the Indians change their name, to what will it be changed? I'll be proposing five of thes...

From Baseball with Matt | over 5 years ago | 1 read

CHARITY DRIVE DAY 2 AFTERNOON: A NEW LEADER EMERGES

Welcome back! I’ll make this brief: you’re all doing great, with — at the time of posting this, $4,320 raised to support the efforts of Personal Counseling Services to provide mental health services to underserved communities in Southern Indiana. And we have a new leader! Some intrepid Person of Michigan has donated $403 to the campaign. The fundraising website doesn’t display cents, unfortunately, but “Brady Hoke’s Revenge! Go Blue” makes me suspect it’s a donation of $403.40, in rememb...

From Every Day Should Be Saturday | over 6 years ago | 0 reads

The tight end of the modern defense

Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports Cutting edge defensive coordinators like Brent Venables have been building their defenses around mobile hybrids that can relocate to wherever offenses try to create space and run/pass conflicts with hybrid tight ends. The defining feature of a given offense tends to be what they do at the inside receiver positions. Everyone plays skill athletes on the perimeter that are aiming to beat cornerbacks 1-on-1 in space when they get the opportunity, even if differ...

From Football Study Hall | over 6 years ago | 0 reads

Master class chess games of 2018: Moorhead vs Steele

Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports Kevin Steele broke against type and tried to utilize a few different tricks, including one borrowed from Bill Belichik, to bust up Joe Moorhead’s option offense at Mississippi State. Instead Nick Fitzgerald ran wild and the option guru came out ahead. When Joe Moorhead first arrived at Penn State in 2016 after a nice four-year run at Fordham at the FCS level, the big breakthrough he brought to the Lions was in the vertical passing game. Penn State loved going de...

Patriots

From Football Study Hall | over 6 years ago | 2 reads

Episode 183: This Time It's A Civil War

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images We talk about (and spoil) "Civil War!" And talk about the tyranny of Lyft and Uber! On this week's episode: 0:00 Reminder, change comin' 2:00 Bill went to a concert! In a Lyft! 18:15 Civil War was good! 37:30 I would also like to complain about some aspects of Civil War! 55:50 There were some trailers! You can click the Flash player below to listen immediately. Extended show notes and links are below. You can also subscribe to the show on iTunes and leav...

49ers

From Progressive Boink | over 9 years ago | 1 read