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4 min 43 sec ago He

twists their heads off.
1 day 6 hours ago How about

"Charlie Bauman Director of Pugilism?"

edit: Not to worry; he's already the punchline to a joke.
1 day 6 hours ago Are you sure

about "privet?"

I defer to your expertise as a scientist.
4 days 21 hours ago You did see

this, didn't you?
4 days 21 hours ago SI says

all your opportunistic hack journalist are belong to us.
4 days 21 hours ago I think

lawyers are that way too.

I had an acquaintance try to sue their lawyer some time back; apparently this isn't very easy to do.
4 days 22 hours ago I believe

this was tongue-in-cheek:

[Michigan fans] would never have been responsive to a Rosenberg column. Although, I suppose you could consider death threats to be, “responsive”.

As you can see, the adjective "responsive" is partnered with the subjunctive "would," referring to the counter-factual condition if MR had continued to write columns about UM after the hit piece.

The whole article is very sympathetic, after an initial profession of hostility-on-principal to UM. The author travels the same ground as Jon Chait in 2009:

The fact that Rosenberg’s column was absolute garbage is not my greatest concern. Even if it involved a legitimate story worthy of pursuing, he had no business being the one to investigate and deliver the story to the public. Why? Because he had demonstrated to colleagues and affiliates of the University of Michigan football program that he had a strong personal dislike for Rodriguez. THAT is the major issue here.

And arrives at this conclusion:

I will be rooting against Rosenberg so long as he holds the title of “journalist”. I have enough issues with Sam Bernstein making my future degree in law seem despicable. I don’t need Rosenberg staining my undergraduate degree as well.

Worthwhile retread of the territory we have all come to know, despite the misplaced comma in the quotation above (it is only an extended tweet, after all).
4 days 22 hours ago Not sure if real.

Saw "gluta-" in there twice.
5 days 6 hours ago Maybe

the lesser conferences could arrange a playoff to decide the equivalent of an "at-large" bid in order to get the pollsters out of it.

As we know, the polls aren't always right, and the transitive rule of "better" (the basis of comparison for teams that haven't played each other) in CFB is shredded on the field every Saturday.

I'm not sure about leaving a conference champion out on account of polls. What if the pollsters punish an early season loss to Alabama or Michigan in favor of an early win over Eastern Michigan or Louisiana Monroe?
5 days 7 hours ago I think

it was a rare excess; maybe Craig James rises to Rosenberg's level. I'm not a professional, and I suppose it would harm the UM brand to be the plaintiff in a libel suit, but I think the story was actionably bad.
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