Michelle Martinelli
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Michelle Martinelli
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sports things for For The Win and USA TODAY Sports.
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"It’s the most fantastic ending that you’d never predict."

"An explosion of probability."

"One of the greatest endings in the history of college football."

"It’s just pure shock."

"Sean McDonough lives rent-free in my head."

"It still gives me goosebumps."

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Trouble with the Snap: An oral history of the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game
For The Win spoke with more than a dozen players, coaches, broadcasters, officials and fans to revisit the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game.
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the Trouble with the Snap game actually was the first of two games that season where Michigan State won but didn't have the lead until 00:00.
some interesting (10yo) game notes: punter Blake O'Neill's game started with a huge 80-yard punt before ending with trouble with the snap, the botched punt was the game's only turnover, and the game's final TD was the only time Michigan State had the lead. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Trouble with the Snap: An oral history of the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game
For The Win spoke with more than a dozen players, coaches, broadcasters, officials and fans to revisit the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game.
ftw.usatoday.com
learned a lot reporting this, but two injury things i didn't know:

-Jalen Watts-Jackson dislocated his shoulder two days before the game and almost didn't travel to Ann Arbor
-long snapper Scott Sypniewski broke his thumb on the last play ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
today is the 10th anniversary of the Trouble with the Snap game between Michigan and Michigan State with one of the wildest endings in college football history. here's my story:

Trouble with the Snap: An oral history of the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
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how disgusting and unnecessary. begging men to be normal just once.
Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...
Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles
Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."
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Verlander. Je verlande, tu verlandes, il verlande, nous verlandons, vous verlandez, ils verlandent
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Emperor Augustus and the Sybil of Tibur, by Konrad Witz, 1435, 📸 by @branndannart
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Curt Cignetti is in this video for like one second and he’s TERRIFYING
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I don't know what the TV crew was doing on this play but I am CACKLING
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Actors, by Carlos Almaraz, 1987, 📸 by Robert Deutsch
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still don't understand how SJSU's official name is "San Jose State" and SDSU is "San Diego State" but Fresno State is actually "Cal State Fresno" & Sac State is actually "Cal State Sacramento" and Cal States Fullerton & Bernardino have to use their government names
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College Football Week 1 Watchability Rankings: Trio of top-10 matchups to begin the season bit.ly/4g36Twi