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Mid-Major Madness @mid-majormadness.bsky.social · 17h

Per Pete Thamel, Denver is joining the West Coast Conference as of next year. Denver (never made ncaa tournament) has played in the summit league (aka the arch rival of @nmtchoops.bsky.social.)

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Woodward Elon Musk’s rockets
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Separating unexpectedly in Louisiana

An ESPN alert that Scott Woodward and LSU were “to separate in the near future”

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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 1d

With federal food assistance running dry on Nov. 1, Phoenix neighbors are handing out more than candy.

With 'scary' SNAP cuts coming, Halloween becomes time to share food

With federal food assistance running dry on Nov. 1, Phoenix neighbors are handing out more than candy.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 1d

With news this week that WNBA front office leaders have pushed an extension on CBA talks to players, it's time to revisit whether the league will have a lockout this offseason.

Here's the latest from me for @bookiesbetting.bsky.social on that topic:

bookies.com/news/wnba-lo...

WNBA Lockout Odds: Will The 2026 WNBA Regular Season Start On Time?

Players are looking to drastically overhaul the league’s revenue sharing and baseline pay structure ahead of the next round of expansion.

bookies.com

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 1d

All hail our Canadian baseball overlords, who are now one win away from a title.

For @rotowire.bsky.social I broke down how important Game 6s are to deciding the World Series & where the Blue Jays and Dodgers stand ahead of tomorrow's Game 6:

www.rotowire.com/baseball/art...

Game 6 Trends & MLB Betting: How World Series Winners Are Decided

Study the impact of what happens when a team trailing the series 3-2 wins Game 6 to force a seventh game. See odds, momentum and trends for Blue Jays vs. Dodgers.

www.rotowire.com

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 4d

The Toronto Blue Jays watching Clayton Kershaw enter the game:

The men’s where the pastor dude says “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.”

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 4d

45 people on our Southwest flight home this evening. Best way to fly imo…

Yours truly throwing the horns while enjoying an entire bulkhead row to myself on a SW airlines flight from Albuquerque to Phoenix

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 4d

As restaurants serving Indian cuisines continue to become some of the hottest reservations across the country, I wrote for @slate.com about their uneasy relationship to butter chicken. Or really, their uneasy relationship to what butter chicken has come to represent. slate.com/life/2025/10...

Many Indian Chefs Want to Banish One Beloved Dish From Their Menus. Getting Rid of It Isn’t So Easy.

How did such a “basic” stew become so controversial?

slate.com

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 4d

Brian Kelly's out at LSU. Here's my list of candidates to replace him in Baton Rouge for @bookiesbetting.bsky.social:

bookies.com/news/next-ls...

Next LSU Coach Odds: Kiffin In Line To Replace Kelly?

Lane Kiffin and Jeff Brohm will be in the mix to replace Brian Kelly at LSU after this college football season.

bookies.com

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 10d

Last week was ... well, let's just say I'm glad it's over.

This week's picks, which will hopefully get me back over .500 (I'm at 23-27 this year):

NM ST +1.5
Cal +4.5
UCLA +25.5
UNC +10.5
Memphis +4.5
KState +2.5
UNM -2.5
FAU +15.5
Wyoming -6.5 (😓)
Texas A&M -2.5

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

I played one game against a real person and hated it so much I swore to never do it again...

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

Join me in the "That Boy Nice" camp (by which I mean playing offline dynasty mode on All-American and running the same five plays over and over/letting the CPU run the defense

The two guys on a bus meme, but with the sad dude having "plays CFB26 against actual people" and "plays CFB26 against man's original enemy ... the CPU" over the happy guy

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

Holy shit that Ontario Canada anti-tariff ad was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life…

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Velodus 🦃🍂 @velodus.bsky.social · 11d

An artistic depiction of the Discover feed blocking the flow of positive interactions on Bluesky

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

Hell yeah, man. That's the dream when you're covering preps, for sure.

Best coaches I covered were guys like Dustin Peace, who coached Ka'Deem Carey & a bunch of the Pac-10/12 guys that came from Tucson. Even those dudes faced insane pressure from parents though (Dustin bailed a few years back)

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely unhinged, man. I ... do not miss working in the lily white suburbs of Tucson...

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 11d

When I covered HS FB a parent called me unprompted doing an "audit" of one of that town's football coaches to see if they should continue to be employed (even though the school itself determines that, not parents).

I told the person to find someone else to do their dirty work and hung up on them.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 11d

the whole skyline high school football coaching staff said “nope, we’re out” last night (via gino simone’s ig) www.instagram.com/p/DQAX3zuEpNA/

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Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 14d

The picks are trending in the wrong direction after a 5-5 week, but we roll on nonetheless.

So far I'm 21-19 for the year, god help me...

Cal -8.5 (lol)
Arizona -1.5 (gulp)
CSU -2.5
IU -27.5
Ole Miss +7.5
UNLV +12.5
JMU -2.5
Texas Tech -6.5
Miss St +9.5
UCLA -3/5

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 14d

The NBA regular season is about to tip off, which got us at @rotowire.bsky.social thinking about which teams in the league have been the most one-dimensional over the last decade.

Here's my story on that topic and more:

www.rotowire.com/basketball/a...

NBA's Most One-Dimensional Teams of the Decade

Discover the NBA's most one-dimensional teams of the last decade, with the Chicago Bulls leading the list. Explore the rankings and insights now!

www.rotowire.com

Christopher Boan @cgboan.bsky.social · 16d

The glory that is Wednesday night In-state WACtion between Sam Houston State & UTEP reminds me that the Miners home campus is damn near as close to Los Angeles as it is to Huntsville, Texas…