Matt Brown
@mattbrown.bsky.social
I write Extra Points, a newsletter about off-the-field stories in college sports. I also (badly) make computer games, woodworking projects, and jokes.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Playing a game with my kids, thought the TL might have some good answers for this
(My oldest said spaghetti Os)
(My oldest said spaghetti Os)
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Playing a game with my kids, thought the TL might have some good answers for this
(My oldest said spaghetti Os)
(My oldest said spaghetti Os)
I have no idea! Every time it’s come up over the last decade I mentally said “that’s none of my business” and moved along. And now I guess somebody involved is the new AD at Monroe?
Whatever happened with that court case?
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I have no idea! Every time it’s come up over the last decade I mentally said “that’s none of my business” and moved along. And now I guess somebody involved is the new AD at Monroe?
Wait do I actually need to see the blind side now? Like, for work?!?
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Wait do I actually need to see the blind side now? Like, for work?!?
Wait that doesn’t sound like Vox
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wait that doesn’t sound like Vox
I wish everybody who sent me concession sales report could give me stuff this detailed:
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I wish everybody who sent me concession sales report could give me stuff this detailed:
@brianmfloyd.bsky.social I’m sure you already knew this BUT JUST IN CASE, Cal Poly fired Paul Wulff
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@brianmfloyd.bsky.social I’m sure you already knew this BUT JUST IN CASE, Cal Poly fired Paul Wulff
bom dia
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
bom dia
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love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi
This lede managed to do what years of high control religious programming never could: make sex sound terrible and unappealing
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This lede managed to do what years of high control religious programming never could: make sex sound terrible and unappealing
He's right, but I don't think this is just because of a flood of ex-athletes wanting to get into the DEBATE ME YOU COWARD content mines. Readers SAY they want investigative work, or at least "new shit", but their actions don't always back that up.
Its why ESPN turns the Cowboys dial to 11
Its why ESPN turns the Cowboys dial to 11
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
He's right, but I don't think this is just because of a flood of ex-athletes wanting to get into the DEBATE ME YOU COWARD content mines. Readers SAY they want investigative work, or at least "new shit", but their actions don't always back that up.
Its why ESPN turns the Cowboys dial to 11
Its why ESPN turns the Cowboys dial to 11
Going to the hardware store. You guys need anything?
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Going to the hardware store. You guys need anything?
this reminds me...I gotta call Oberlin before I go on Thanksgiving break
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SP+ TOP 766, WEEK 14
UMass -0.5 Friends (NAIA) 😳😬
Lehigh -2.5 Purdue
Harding: 9th in the MAC
North Central: 8th in the MVFC
Michigan -120.5 Madonna (Mich.)
Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
UMass -0.5 Friends (NAIA) 😳😬
Lehigh -2.5 Purdue
Harding: 9th in the MAC
North Central: 8th in the MVFC
Michigan -120.5 Madonna (Mich.)
Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
this reminds me...I gotta call Oberlin before I go on Thanksgiving break
Told you guys that Wisconsin was trending towards a re-up with UA. Under Armour still wants to be a player in college athletics.
Under Armour has generally been shedding deals so a notable 10 year extension with Wisconsin, which includes an NIL component like other recent deals.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Told you guys that Wisconsin was trending towards a re-up with UA. Under Armour still wants to be a player in college athletics.
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People, including Nick Saban, say Jordan-Hare Stadium is haunted
So, of course, I called experts, spent hours in the Auburn library researching past land use, bought ghost-hunting gear, used the ghost-hunting gear and tried to find out the truth
The results:
www.al.com/auburnfootba...
So, of course, I called experts, spent hours in the Auburn library researching past land use, bought ghost-hunting gear, used the ghost-hunting gear and tried to find out the truth
The results:
www.al.com/auburnfootba...
Is Jordan-Hare Stadium haunted? An AL.com investigation
Is there really a paranormal presence inside Auburn football's stadium? We tried to find out.
www.al.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
People, including Nick Saban, say Jordan-Hare Stadium is haunted
So, of course, I called experts, spent hours in the Auburn library researching past land use, bought ghost-hunting gear, used the ghost-hunting gear and tried to find out the truth
The results:
www.al.com/auburnfootba...
So, of course, I called experts, spent hours in the Auburn library researching past land use, bought ghost-hunting gear, used the ghost-hunting gear and tried to find out the truth
The results:
www.al.com/auburnfootba...
what playing pacific drive for 18 minutes taught me about america's problematic relationship with cars
tonight, for bluesky:
tonight, for bluesky:
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
what playing pacific drive for 18 minutes taught me about america's problematic relationship with cars
tonight, for bluesky:
tonight, for bluesky:
okay thats enough sober church skeets for now. im going to go be an involved parent. Future church skeets will require at least one (1) beverage
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
okay thats enough sober church skeets for now. im going to go be an involved parent. Future church skeets will require at least one (1) beverage
same tbh
(Mormon, singular. My wife was the only LDS woman I ever had a second date with. I think I ended up dating more jewish ladies than I did LDS ones)
(Mormon, singular. My wife was the only LDS woman I ever had a second date with. I think I ended up dating more jewish ladies than I did LDS ones)
I dated a Mormon.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
same tbh
(Mormon, singular. My wife was the only LDS woman I ever had a second date with. I think I ended up dating more jewish ladies than I did LDS ones)
(Mormon, singular. My wife was the only LDS woman I ever had a second date with. I think I ended up dating more jewish ladies than I did LDS ones)
Like this skeet if I was one of the first Mormons you ever met/meaningfully interacted with. I suspect we’re going to get at least five likes.
I think you were the second Mormon I met in my life when we first linked up!
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Like this skeet if I was one of the first Mormons you ever met/meaningfully interacted with. I suspect we’re going to get at least five likes.
my suspicion is that the "fuck the mormons" chants at football games are less about evangelical hatred (although thats real) than it is about mormonism having absolutely zero juice in american culture, and there is nobody in any student's life to tell them "hey dont do that". Also, alcohol.
(part infinity of my ongoing amazement that mormons try to be part of the evangelical in groups of the world instead of showing solidarity with other minority groups)
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
my suspicion is that the "fuck the mormons" chants at football games are less about evangelical hatred (although thats real) than it is about mormonism having absolutely zero juice in american culture, and there is nobody in any student's life to tell them "hey dont do that". Also, alcohol.
unironically, this is the worst thing about a Cincinnati crowd chanting FUCK THE MORMONS. There's SO MUCH HISTORY THERE, so many opportunities for better trolling. Just chanting Fuck is boring. Bring signs about the Kirtland Safety Society Failure. Talk shit about J.S. being a bad banker!
Mormons getting harassed in Ohio? What is this, 1838?
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
unironically, this is the worst thing about a Cincinnati crowd chanting FUCK THE MORMONS. There's SO MUCH HISTORY THERE, so many opportunities for better trolling. Just chanting Fuck is boring. Bring signs about the Kirtland Safety Society Failure. Talk shit about J.S. being a bad banker!
this does seem to happen an awful lot, doesn't it
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this does seem to happen an awful lot, doesn't it
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good morning
we sponsored a D-III Bowl Game again this season
here's what we learned from the experience
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-we-le...
we sponsored a D-III Bowl Game again this season
here's what we learned from the experience
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-we-le...
What we learned from Year 2 of the Extra Points Bowl
It looks like we have the makings of a Division III bowl dynasty on our hands!
www.extrapointsmb.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
good morning
we sponsored a D-III Bowl Game again this season
here's what we learned from the experience
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-we-le...
we sponsored a D-III Bowl Game again this season
here's what we learned from the experience
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-we-le...
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
how have not yet had the "right wing influencer money from latvia NIL scandal" story yet
when you become a right wing online influencer do you just wake up one day with a bunch of money from Latvia or whatever sitting in your bank account. how does this work.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
how have not yet had the "right wing influencer money from latvia NIL scandal" story yet