The state of Connecticut has made an enemy for life Those Husky bastards have done it again. After winning the 2023 national championship in one of the most dominant tournament performances ever (which you can read about here), they decided to just go ahead and do the same thing again in 2024. Except this time, they did it in even more dominant fashion. Disgusting. I am, as you can probably tell, mad about it....
🎶 I’m in love with the shape of OU 🎶. Except that bit at the end. Intro I was thinking about the AP Top 25 poll recently (as one does in early August) and I wondered what it might look like if we visualized the poll results of a given team over the course of multiple years, to create a sort of visual representation of their program’s story arc over time....
Ugh. Shoulda been literally anyone else in the final four. I’m NOT mad. Unfortunately, the incredibly fun and chaotic 2023 Men’s College Basketball tournament had a real stinker of an ending, as UConn went berserk en route to their fifth championship and third since 2010. And not only did they beat everyone, they absolutely demolished the hell out of everyone, notching double-digit victories in all six games of their run....
I like the manga / anime One Piece. In the world of One Piece, notorious pirates and outlaws are given bounties by the sinister World Government. A number of characters went up in value in the most recent chapter (ch. 1058), so I decided to make a little chart showing each character’s most recent bounty. I didn’t feel like manually searching through every chapter for the bounties, so I figuerd it would be easier to scrape them from a fan wiki, thereby profiting by the work of some nerd who has already done so....