I have watched exactly one college his game this season. It was the Ivy League final. And I said at that very moment that Princeton is my team this year. Good start to the tournament for my teamemote:free_emotes_pack:joy

I get my dose of 'BLM every morning at 7:20 on Maine Public Radio. Still great to hear Altitude Lou. I was more of a 'TOS/'FNX type, myself, but the Blimp was the soundtrack to pretty much every hour long bus ride from Farmington to Weld, and vice-versa, from 1982-1986.

And some have dirt roads.

That sounds right. They both were anyway, I just don’t know Caitlin definitively. But I think you’re right.

She was so good I could appreciate her greatness, but it was boring when every race was a race for silver.

Half joking. Hoping an option like this is available when it’s my time—maybe I should buy a plot—but it would be even better if I could be planted in my own property. Our hang ups about death and dying are so bizarre.

Then there’s his golden retriever-sized (relatively speaking) blue ox, Babe…

Cupo? Is that you?

So many of the top racers are easy to root for. Jessie will always be my favorite, but on any given day it's usually easy to be happy for whoever is on the podium...though I can't say I miss Johaug that much...

Great way to overcome Seasonal Affect Disorder. Fresh air and sunshine in the doldrums of winter do wonders for mental and physical health.

They're coming back. My kid coaches Mariel Pulles and Chris Kalev at Fairbanks and got to coach them at World Uni Games. Mariel, in particular, is a good one. She'll start making some noise on the World Cup tour soon.

Jessie is an indisputably great person, and an amazing ambassador for the sport. In 2011(?) she raced nationals in Rumford, ME, and wrote a glowing letter thanking everybody--volunteers, the town, the spectators. Next year they returned to Rumford, so I somehow contacted her and asked her if she'd visit our school to speak. She declined that, with busy schedule, and wanting to reduce exposure to the cesspool of germs in a school, but offered to ski with the middle school team I coached. She brought along Jennie Bender, who was also a pretty big-deal racer. My son was in 8th grade at the time, and has gone on to ski collegiately and now coaches at Alaska-Fairbanks, in no small part because of Jessie and Jennie.

She's a hero.

CBC Olympic coverage back in the early 2000's was the ONLY way to watch the Olympics. So much better than NBC was at the time. Streaming has changed everything.

My ears never recovered from a Bill Chinook show I saw sometime in the early 80’s. and I swear I saw a cheerleader get thrown all the way up to the mid court scoreboard during the state cheering meet one year.

I’m just worried it’s gonna fill up before I get a chance to use it.

There are reportedly some decent climbs in the Sumner/Peru area, according to my BiL, who is into that kind of thing.

Midnight Oil- "Minutes to Midnight"

Only Bob Kraft has happy endings.

Bill Belichick is rolling in his grave.

The burden of proof is on the accuser. You've stated they are objectively not a a reliable source of information. That is your assertion to make, but you don't get to just tell others "oh, go look it up", and expect that to be taken as proof of your assertion.

Baritone sax (a la Morphine-Cure for Pain, especially "Candy", at 11:43).