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Lauren Theisen
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For the Oilers Red Wings to stick with someone as lackluster as Chiarelli Holland just smacks of the same lazy leadership that turned Edmonton’s Detroit’s last decade into a blank void of tanking without payoff. 
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As I said last time the mystery of his first name came up, I think his folks were committed Commies who named him “Engels Stalin”, but aiming at the German spelling “Engelß”. Read more

Both have a striking resemblance to Babe Ruth circa. 1918. Read more

Andy Reid: This is really nice.
Assistant Coach: Yeah, check out the formation.
Reid: What’s this?
Assistant: The... clock in the corner?
Reid: Yeah, it keeps counting down.
Assistant: That’s the game clock.
Reid: How do we stop it?
Assistant: [stares]
Reid: [stares]
Assistant: ...you call timeout.
Reid: [looks for pause button]
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I would note that Notre Dame held a 6 point lead at the end of the 3rd quarter in their first matchup this year. ND ran out of gas and got smoked in the 4th quarter, but a week off here will give the shorthanded Irish a chance to catch their breath and be fully rested for this matchup.

I obviously wouldn’t bet against Read more

hustle. that’s what i like to see. id like to see some more of that from my team at the y. get a goddam rebound. stop shooting threes. DROP STEP. maybe take a charge. Read more

Millennials. They just don’t get it. Their sole function in life is to please older folks, no matter what. I don’t understand what is so hard to understand about that. Just do your job. Be on time. Read more

There’s the obvious hypocrisy of how coaches leave all the time for a better situation, and then there’s the subtler hypocrisy of expecting scholarship athletes to live up to a commitment that the universities don’t reciprocate (since scholarships have to be renewed each year). Read more

His solo stuff is good but I really prefer when he teams up with Keegan-Michael Koy. They just work so well together. Read more

I also have no idea what the hell Aron Baynes means when he just says “Vikings.”

A black person being on Friends is even crazier than the Earth being flat. Read more

Teeeeechnically, Monica and Ross are siblings, and Monica married Chandler, and Ross did have that baby with Rachel— look, what I’m saying is that technically only Pheobe and Joey aren’t related. Read more

It’s actually die Eismaschine! In the context of the sentence “die Eismaschine” is in the dative so it becomes “der Eismaschine”. But on its own it’s “die”. As in, die Bart die. Read more

Can’t wait to see what prospects he’ll bring in when the Marlins inevitably trade him a in a few years! Read more

To be fair - MCW couldn’t take the shots, so Scott Brooks actually chose Dwight Howard to come back to the court and shoot them. I hate defending this dude, but the big balls may have been warranted - if for pettiness alone. Read more

Fundamental Defense. I love it. I look at a score like this and smile. Not like those glory boy millenials out there on the Football Field running and gunning not giving one hot hoot about anything but spiking the turkey. I’m showing this to my team at the Y, and bookmarking it for my unborn son. Read more

What if I told you that the Cincinnati football team gave up 51 points in a game that didn’t make it to the 4th quarter. Read more