messyjesse

Zona was up 15 with less than 5 minutes to go on that great Illini team in the Elite Eight in '05 before blowing it.

Same round same year, WVU (Pittsnogle team) was up 20 in the 2nd half against Louisville before they lost. I don't remember WVU really "blowing" it either, honestly. It's not like they went cold. UL just staged a freakish comeback.

That was also the year that Sparty/Kentucky went to 3OTs or something.

Wisconsin/UNC was the other game in that E8 and although it wasn't terribly memorable, UW did play UNC closer than anyone else in that tournament.

Best regional final weekend I ever watched.

PGA Tour 2004

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Laverne & Shirley

Gimme '00 Miami. Only loss was by 5 points, on the road, about as goddamn far from Miami as you can get in the lower 48, against a top-3 Washington team. Beat Bobby Bowden's last top-5 FSU team and smoked almost everyone else they played, including the SEC champion Gators in the Sugar Bowl.

'05 USC is a slightly harder sell for me. They get propped up because of the win streak, the talent, and the epic Rose Bowl, but they looked really shaky several times that year. Probably should've lost to ND and were down double digits to inferior ASU and Fresno State before coming back. Their '08 squad was better.

'11 LSU and '18 Bama are harder sells still. Absolutely phenomenal resumes, but they got their butts whooped so badly in those title games that it ruins everything else. '00 Miami and '05/'08 USC probably win titles if one or two things bounce their way, but I can't say the same for those LSU and Bama teams. I don't get the feeling that either of them were NC-worthy after their dogshit performances. Hurts me to say that for LSU because they really deserved better.

Wish I could speak intelligently about some of the older teams that have been mentioned here, but alas I am a young pup of 38. :cheers:

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Trickeration
It is what it is

Anyone tried the direct file tool that the IRS dropped for this year? I know it's not available in every state yet but I'm one of the lucky ones (TX).

Treasury bonds, CDs, or hell, just throw it in a HYSA. The returns on these are not negligible and they're as guaranteed as anything you're going to find. Anyone with extreme risk aversion really shouldn't be doing anything else.

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They're the best power plant in SimCity 2000. You unlock them in 2050. Two of them will power damn near the entire fricking map.

That's about the extent of my knowledge of fusion reactors.

OSU hasn't really had a "down" period of more than 2-3 seasons since the 1930s. The number of times they've gone an entire season without being ranked since polls started can be counted on one hand. I don't think any team in the entire country even comes close to that level of sustained excellence. Bama, ND, OU, USC, etc all have had stretches of half a decade or more of mediocrity. OSU being good is the closest thing to a universal constant in this crazy sport.