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Special Event: Special Event: March Madness! NCAA basketball tournaments 2024

March, March, it's March again, how does this keep happening. LSU is the defending Women's D1 Winner, and UConn is the defending men's champion (and UConn has quite possibly the cutest mascot in basketball in Jonathan the Husky). [more inside]
posted by joycehealy on Mar 17, 2024 - 3 comments

Special Event: March Madness! NCAA basketball tournaments 2023

Are we ready to dance? Kansas is the defending men's champ, and South Carolina is the defending women's champion. [more inside]
posted by joycehealy on Mar 13, 2023 - 84 comments

Stranger Things: Chapter 1: The Hellfire Club  Season 4, Ep 1

El is bullied at school. Joyce opens a mysterious package. A scrappy player shakes up a D&D night. Warning: Contains graphic violence involving children.
posted by Navelgazer on May 27, 2022 - 34 comments

Special Event: NCAA basketball tournament 2022

It's time to put on your dancing shoes! Schedules and such are pretty much back to pre-Rona organization. Baylor is the 2021 defending men's champion, and Arizona is the defending women's champion. [more inside]
posted by joycehealy on Mar 15, 2022 - 31 comments

Special Event: NCAA basketball tournament 2021

The schedules are a little unusual this year, with all the games in central locations and being played later in the week. Schedule is subject to change if needed. Teams need 5 healthy players to be able to play in the tournament. (They don't even need coaches.) In case you've forgotten, Virginia (men) and Baylor (women) are your defending national champions. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Mar 18, 2021 - 25 comments

Taskmaster: Series 5  Season 5, Ep 0

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster. Little Alex Horne is the Taskmaster's assistant. Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar and Sally Phillips are the contestants. Episodes are available in the USA on the Taskmaster YouTube channel, and in the UK on the Channel 4 website. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy on Mar 16, 2021 - 21 comments

Taskmaster: Series 4  Season 4, Ep 0

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster. "Little" Alex Horne is the Taskmaster's assistant. Contestants are Hugh Dennis, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc and Noel Fielding. THAT'S RIGHT IT'S A BAKE-OFF SHOWDOWN. Also, the seasons are longer now: behold, 8 glorious episodes! Episodes are available in the USA on the Taskmaster YouTube channel (whole season playlist), and in the UK on the Channel 4 website. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy on Mar 3, 2021 - 22 comments

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Basketball  Season 20, Ep 4

Suzie McConnell stops by and shows Mister Rogers some drills she uses to improve her basketball skills. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the team is being outfitted for their first game. Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely watch a tape of Dance Alloy rolling around on large green balls to music. [more inside]
posted by kristi on Jan 28, 2021 - 3 comments

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Different kinds of baskets  Season 20, Ep 3

Mister Rogers says that the basket he has brought in with him was made by a Native American of the Apache tribe. Mister Rogers shows other baskets of different sizes, shapes, and uses and talks about individual differences. He then goes to watch some children practicing for the Special Olympics. Mister Rogers talks about his not being chosen for basketball, but how good he felt when he was finally given a chance and made a basket. [more inside]
posted by kristi on Jan 26, 2021 - 3 comments

The NBA on TNT: Raptors vs Warriors, Game 1   Season 1, Ep 1

Do we do sports here? because that was a great sports game.
posted by sixswitch on May 30, 2019 - 7 comments

Special Event: NCAA Basketball tournaments 2019

It begins! Come in here to root on your fave college basketball team, even if you're wrongheaded in your life choices.
posted by LobsterMitten on Mar 21, 2019 - 45 comments

Cloak & Dagger: Princeton Offense  Season 1, Ep 5

Tandy pours herself into the Roxxon investigation. Ty's basketball team plays the State Championship. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Jun 29, 2018 - 2 comments

Movie: Hoosiers

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 2, 2018 - 6 comments

Special Event: NCAA Basketball Tournament 2018

Discuss the NCAA Tournament here! If you want to get in on the action, a brackets post is up on MetaTalk.
posted by restless_nomad on Mar 14, 2018 - 65 comments

Podcast: Reply All: #106 Is That You, KD?

This week, we help Alex Blumberg understand why a Google engineer ended up complimenting the KKK, and then Yes Yes No turns bizarro. [more inside]
posted by DoctorFedora on Oct 2, 2017 - 6 comments

Special Event: March Madness: NCAA basketball tournament 2017

The US college basketball tournament is on! Men's and women's, let's try having both in here. There's also a MeTa for brackets if you're into that.
posted by LobsterMitten on Mar 16, 2017 - 81 comments

NBA Offseason Kickoff / Draft Talk

With Cleveland taking the championship, the offseason is now in full-swing! [more inside]
posted by lkc on Jun 23, 2016 - 20 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Finals: CLE vs GSW  Season 27, Ep 6

The NBA Finals begin tonight, 6/2/2016, featuring a rematch of last year's match-up. But many things have changed. The Warriors are somehow way better than they were last year with the same personnel (including ye olde Del Curry Jr), and the Cavs are healthy and rested. Who will the narrative favor? The Never-beloved Old Guard, or the New Math? [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on Jun 2, 2016 - 129 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: CLE vs TOR  Season 27, Ep 5

Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals was last night (5/17/16) wherein the Cleveland Cavaliers took on the Toronto Raptors. In contrast to the Western Conference it was not exactly pretty. In contrast to a bullfight, it was a bit inhumane. Game 2 is tomorrow. Good luck, other!
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 18, 2016 - 10 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: OKC vs GSW  Season 27, Ep 4

The Western Conference Finals kicked off in Oakland last night (5/16/16). The underdog Oklahoma City Thunder took on the rolling, unstoppable, half-court draining Golden State Warriors on their way to an inevitab--WAIT WHAT? WHY DID I PASS OUT ON THE COUCH AT HALFTIME....Game 2 is on Wednesday 5/18 at 9pm. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 17, 2016 - 21 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: MIA vs TOR  Season 27, Ep 3

The Toronto Raptors, a young unproven team with a rabid fan base trying to get further than they have in recent memory, are tied with a Miami Heat team plagued by injury and age, who nevertheless have played with great guile and ferocity. The Severe North vs the Lackadaisical South. Lannisters vs Starks. And so forth. Meanwhile, Lebron is chilling in an ice bath with the dragons. Game 5 is tonight, 5/11/16.
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 11, 2016 - 5 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: POR vs GSW  Season 27, Ep 2

The Golden State Warriors are leading the Portland Trailblazers 3-1. Tonight (5/11/16) could be the final game. It looked like it be a competitive series. Lillard was cooking. The Warriors defense was sputtering. But now, Daddy's Home.
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 11, 2016 - 14 comments

The NBA on TNT: NBA Playoffs: OKC vs SAS  Season 27, Ep 1

The Oklahoma City Thunder are playing the San Antonio Spurs for the Western Conference Semi-finals. Game 5 airs 5/10/2016. As of this posting, the series is tied. The narrative so far: Hero Ball vs Death Machine. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 10, 2016 - 12 comments

Join the NBA Club

We're doing a thing! NBA Fans who want to discuss the NBA Playoffs in 2016 on Metafilter, please join this friendship Basketball Discussion Club and speak out about what format you'd like to see this discussion take place in. If we get enough members and people seem to want it, it will happen. If it don't we won't. Ball don't lie. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 9, 2016 - 2 comments

NBA Club: Playoff Discussions

RE: the new addition of SPROTS to Metafilter (Metatalk here), what is the best way to discuss the NBA Playoffs in a non-live-chat way? My vote would be: One thread per series, no updates, people discuss asynchronously. Thoughts? Feelings? [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 9, 2016 - 4 comments

We Bare Bears: Our Stuff  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

After a basketball game with human beings, the bears discover that the backpack containing their stuff has been stolen! Their efforts to track it down lead to the library and a shady guy's apartment....
posted by JHarris on Aug 22, 2015 - 4 comments

Any place for sports on FanFare?

I'd like to consider having Fanfare threads for major sporting events like the World Cup, Olympics, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, etc. [more inside]
posted by skewed on Jun 11, 2015 - 19 comments

Podcast: My Brother, My Brother And Me: MBMBaM 254: Dunkey

We had a really great run, America -- or should we say America 1: Vanilla Edition -- but it's time to spice things up. It's time to be reborn into something more beautiful, more powerful. It's time to Do the Bartman. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Jun 1, 2015 - 6 comments

Fresh Off the Boat: Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon  Season 1, Ep 12

Louis and Jessica get pressured into volunteering at the kids' schools because budget cuts have forced Principal Thomas (Maria Bamford) into enlisting parents to help out around school. Louis coaches basketball, which shows Eddie \a whole other side of his dad -- a former semi-pro basketball player back in Taiwan -- while Emery and Evan see a side of Jessica they wish they hadn't when she grudgingly takes on producing their school play, and puts her own spin on it. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 17, 2015 - 1 comment

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The NCAA  Season 2, Ep 6

ISIS gains an ally in Boko Haram. Ireland accidentally legalizes a number of psychoactive drugs for a day. Brazil prepares to investigate politicians taking bribes from oil companies. And Now: Newscasters Who Don't Know About You. Main story: NCAA is a billion dollar industry, but with many problems with how it treats its players (YouTube 21m). Last Week Tonight introduces the hashtag #soybeanwind and ends with an ad for their more realistic NCAA simulator video game.
posted by JHarris on Mar 16, 2015 - 6 comments

Movie: Hoop Dreams

Arthur Agee and Will Gates, two of Chicago's top high school basketball prospects, face pressure on and off the court in this iconic documentary about sports, family and race. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 9, 2015 - 2 comments

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