hey duders i have beeen AWOL lately befcause i have been so insanely busy gathering the album art for every one of my albums. it took weeks but it was worth it:

amazing, right?> omg i know. keep an eye out for posts with the best and worst of those covers. anyway, on to business:

what a dick.• fantasy football, omfg i hate you so bad :( romo out for 4 weeks and my backup is kitna. the best available option on the waivers is griese. i am fucked season over. that said, thank you jason elam, tampa bay defense, thomas jones, and matt schaub, for helping me win in a few leagues this week with a bunch of my top playres on byes. ilu

• i really havent had that much time to scope out new albums as i have been so busy with my album art project, but there have been a few: margot & the nuclear so & so’s released two new ones, animal and not animal, (one chosen by their new label, epic, and the other chosen by the band). both are
good though. so get them. also, dungen has a new one (4). i havent had a chance to listen to much of it, but it’s more or less what you’d expect from them at this point. pretty good so far. and i just discovered that you should go ahead (who made an appearance in my top 25 albums of 2006 list) has released a new album, which i am downloading now. also, the dodos new album visiter (with its hilarious cover art that alan hates but i thinks is awesome) is A-FUCKING-MAZING. please get it now. omg so good. and, the main event:

• possibly my favorite band on the planet, pidgeon finally (FINALLY AFTER FOUR LONG LONG LONG YEARS) have released a new album, which is titled might as well go eat worms. and it is everything i was hoping for and more. please if there is any album you download this year and you like the pixies and early sonic youth, DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM RIGHT FUCKING NOW OR I WILL KILL YOU. i have no idea why pidgeon isn’t huge, because both of their albums are ridiculously amazing. i love you pidgeon i love you i love you i love you i love you <33333333

• just recently watched the devil and daniel johnston, omg that movie is awesome. i never really got into johnston before, mostly bcuz i always thought he was some freak weirdo like devendra banhart, but seeing who he really is actually made me like his music and genius like, 898700000 times more.

• if you havent been watching this season of it’s always sunny in philadelphia, ummm wtf is wrong with you? stop reading my blog. the poop episode is the greatest episode of anything ever in the history of ever. seriously, i am not even kidding.

• also why does firefox suck so much balls to use wordpress on?? ugh lame. oh, and NEW MACBOOK PROS TOMORROW!!!! i will be getting one.

• bbq soon with more awesome things to tell you.

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j/k.

okay so it’s been awhile, so here are some random pieces of poop and shit:

• new chad van gaalen is quite excellent. it is called soft airplane.. and so far i like it more than any of his other stuff. but i have never really listened to his other stuff all that much, so you be the judge on that call.

• i am addicted to pinball. my favorite games are addams family and the twilight zone. i also quite like terminator 2, batman, jurassic park and tales of the arabian nights. but, can someone please teach me how to do an effing bangback??? omg i can’t get them to work :(

• the new kings of muh-fuxxin leon is soooooo amazingly exceptional i don’t even know how to describe it. the opener, “closer” and final song, “cold desert” are like the greatest songs of the year i swear. by the way the album is called only by the night. and if you steal buy less than 10 albums this year, this should be one of them.

boring.• tv on the radio still bores me. aside from their amazing first ep and “wolf like me” they have always just bored the shit out of me and every album lets me down. the new one is the same. i listened to it twice in a row and still barely remember a thing about it except there was a weird rapping song and another song that was kind of good.

RIP :(• MITCH HEDBERG‘S NEW ALBUM HAS LEAKED!!@!@!! omg it is hilarious as usual. listen to it asap whilst drinking delicious booze. it is called do you believe in gosh RIP

• tonight i will be listening to the new: mogwai, damien jurado and mount eerie (with julie doiron and fred squire, omg!). i am hoping they are all amazing. read this blog for updates !!!! :)

• me and alan have started an all-defense fantasy football league. week 1 was a success, i do believe. the point system rewards big plays and all-around awesome defensive dudes. check it out:

Tackle Solo (1)
Sack (10)
Interception (15)
Fumble Force (11.5)
Fumble Recovery (11.5)
Touchdown (20)
Safety (17.5)
Pass Defended (1.25)
Block Kick (10)

we are starting 4 DBs, 5 DLs and 1 DB/DL flex. this is like my favorite fantasy football league ever so far. week 1 saw kyle vanden bosch (who grew up less than 30 minutes from me, btw!) and demarcus ware, and lance briggs and james harrison (48 points!!!!) load up on the destruction. i lost my inaugural game thanks to benching all the players that played well (including vanden bosch, dammit).

• lol @ tom brady

• ummm new dexter, it’s always sunny in philadelphia AND entourage, mtherfuckers. are you ready? omfg.

• macgyver: still the greatest show in the history of man. i have been spending like every night drinking and watching macgyver until 6am lately. the best episodes are these, btw, if you are a macgyver n00b:

NUMBER FUCKING ONE aka the most amazing macgyver episode ever ever ever is:
“Two Times Trouble”
MacGyver’s rock singer friend Roxie (Audrey Landers)

macgyver is cooler than you could ever possibly dream of being, even if you dreamt you were macgyver.thinks her twin sister Carla is trying to kill her. Terry David Mulligan as Frank Rogan, Babs Chula as Eve, Dana Still as Dr. Farrell, Max Reimer as The Devil, Kymberly Sheppard as The Victim.

number two (a very close second) is the amazing baseball card episode:
“Squeeze Play”
A baseball counterfeit memorabilia ring attempts to blackmail the daughter of a former baseball player. Kent McCord as Novus Riley, Malcolm Stewart as Bill Marsh, Tim Rossovich as Willard, Catherine Zak as Wendy Riley, Reggie Jackson as Himself, Della Reese as Mama Colton, William Samples as Eli, Brock Johnson as Store Manager.

number three is a tie between the one where macgyver is led on a scavenger hunt to track down a diamond that macgyver can only find using clues from his memories of harry when macgyver was a kid (hahaha)
“Harry’s Will”
A kooky bunch of crooks and an elderly ex-con pursue MacGyver’s inherited station wagon thought to hold treasure. Lyle Alzado as Tiny, John Anderson as Harry Jackson, Dick Butkus as Earl Dent, James Doohan as Speedy, Henry Gibson as Chicken Habit Customer, Sandra Gould as Woman at the Soup Kitchen, Rich Little as Biff Arnold, Marion Ramsey as Police Officer, Marion Ross as Sister Robin, Jesse White as Mel, Wendy O. Williams as Big Mama, Abe Vigoda as Bill Cody, Shane Meier as Young MacGyver, Henry Winkler as Wilton Newberry.

AND the amazing one where the crazy kid freaks out after a physics competition
“Hell Week”
MacGyver is picked to judge a contest at his old college, but an upset student makes a bomb which MacGyver must defuse.

also blossom was on a bunch of episodes of macgyver lol

• best album of 2002 coming soon!!!

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heyyyyyyy dude(tte)s,
some recent music stuff to check out are these:

• FINALLY ra ra riot’s first LP (rhumb line) is out. i have been waiting for this since their amazing EP came out last year. I am listening to it for the very first time right now, and so far it is damn good. 4 out of the 10 songs are originally from the EP (but sound much better here). “ghost under rocks” really is such an incredible song. highly recommend this album and/or band if you haven’t checked them out before.

• i just recently saw that a new mercury rev album had leaked, which made me realize i have for some inexplicable reason not listened to mercury rev for what, like, 2 years or something? wtf. deserter’s songs and all is dream are such amazing records, i have no idea how i could have forgotten about them for this long. that said though, this recent effort, snowflake midnight just doesn’t seem that great to me so far. i’ll probably give it a couple more listens but at the moment i can’t say i’m a fan.

• speaking of bands i haven’t listened to in quite awhile, man… or astroman? has recently popped up on my playlist. damn, every time i listen to destroy all astromen i am re-amazed all over again at just how fucking awesomely original and fucking awesome that band was.

• how are the diamondbacks in 1st place with a losing record?

• why is tony pena jr still allowed to play shortstop on the royals? he pitched such an awesome inning the other night. he needs to be made a pitcher or released from the team.

• watch this amazing movie trailer. it is so beautiful:

• oh. there is a new okkervil river album out as well. i haven’t really listened to it much so far, but i must admit it was kind of underwhelming at the time.

• lastly, i watched bloodsport again for the first time in like fifteen or twenty years last night, and HOLY SHIT that movie is still one of the greatest movies ever. i am going to watch it again tonight absolutely

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my beloved dudes and dudettes: i am so sorry for failing to update this blog for like the past forever of time. i have been so busy drinking booze and hanging out with my babe i have ttly not even had time to write anything, ever.

also, i just bought rock band and omfg if i have not been playing that game and drinking tons of booze like non-stop for the past 3 days.

so here are some newsworthy things:

item #1: alan made me listen to the new beck album, modern guilt, and even though i don’t ever really listen to beck (like, ever), and have never really listened to beck, and never really got into any of his seminal work (even though i don’t hate him), this is a pretty good damn record i’m not going to lie. you should probably listen to it. thanks, alan. i love you (but you already know that)

item #2: the new albert hammond, jr. record is so atrociously fucking bad i am not even going to write more than this single sentence about it.

item #3: finally! new cansei de ser sexy (css). omfg i have been waiting for so long. unfortunately, the new album (called donkey aka a giant wtf @ that for a record title) is like 10x more boring than their last, but still it’s pretty good and i can’t say i’m not going to be listening to it a bunch.

item #4: new fucking walkmen, bitches. O.M.F.G. yes. it’s called you & me and it’s ttly good, and also, it gets better with each listen (it was like 100000million times better today than it was yesterday, which was still good). track #3, “on the water” is pretty much completely amazing.

item #5: fantasy baseball, i hate you. i hate you. why is my team so amazing when it doesn’t have to be, but when i just need like basically nothing to beat the worst team in the whole fucking league i can’t even manage 1 hr and 3 rbi’s for the entire week.

item #6: i can’t believe i just recently discovered tourette’s guy on youtube. best videos i have ever seen, ever. why has no one showed me these like 4 years ago!!! where are you people !??!

item #7: oh yeah. i made this new mix, for my new babe, which is pretty cool. you ttly might like it if you like chillaxed kite-flying sunday-afternoon type mixes with acoustic guitars and shit like that. you can download them, if you want.

1. this will destroy you – leather wings
2. mazarin – another one goes by
3. why? – the hollows
4. islands – creeper
5. yeasayer – wait for the summer
6. portugal. the man – shade
7. margot & the nuclear so-so’s – quiet as a mouse
8. voxtrot – kid gloves
9. murder by death – ash
10. meredith bragg – turns out you won
11. sparklehorse – hundreds of sparrows
12. okay – natural
13. beach house – d.a.r.l.i.n.g.
14. folksongs for the afterlife – dark room
15. mazzy star – halah
16. rocky votolato – silver trees
17. n.lannon – spy
18. wilco – impossible germany
19. modest mouse – willful suspension of disbelief
20. band of horses – lamb on the lam (in the city)

[download (73.7mb)] single file mp3
[download (73.6mb)] .zip with individual tracks

item #8: re-reading that tracklist, i realized i have never written about how AMAAZINGFLY AWESOME that new murder by death album (red of tooth and claw) is. so so good. go listen to it right now.

——i promise i will try to update you, dear readers, more often than this. i am a bastard. i am a douche.

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zomg hello my lovelies. here are some recent happenings that you should know about:

• the new against me! album (new wave) is leaked. it is pretty good.. so far i don’t think i like it as well as the eternal cowboy but it is still good nonetheless. also, it is produced by butch vig. also, there is (OMFG!@!@!!) a track featuring tegan quin (“borne on the fm waves of the heart”).

• eagle vs. shark is completely hilarious. don’t listen to the reviews saying it ripped napoleon dynamite (it didn’t). the only similarities they share are awkward characters and lots of neo-retro products. watch this movie.

• the blogz0r is celebrating its 1-year anniversary this week!!! hoorah~! honestly i am somewhat surprised i managed to keep posting for an entire year. but you, the reader(s?), have provided the support i needed to continue writing. yes, it’s been sporadic at times (like a nice case of herpes, with breakouts and dormancies, i know). BUT, i have found my stride, and the blogz0r will continue to roll on. the blogz0r’s very first article (on how much pitchfork sucks) can be found right here.

• walking six blocks to work in 115-degree heat really, really sucks :’(

• my fantasy baseball team is destroying so far this season. which rules, since yahoo! screwed me over in the first round by autopicking jimmy rollins as the #3 overall pick (wtf).

• i hate 4th of July

• superbad apparently still exists. awesome.

• kanye west’s new song “stronger” is so effing good omfg. kanye + daft punk ftw!!

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omg it’s been like a totally long time duderZ. this post is dedicated to ema who left me a comment and reminded me that 2 or 3 of you read this thing! omg!

ok so let’s begin.

crap i forgot the ascii code for a bullet point.

• ok i found it.

• ok. first order of business: the national’s new album, boxer is effing brilliant. i dug alligator kindof but i didn’t really listen to it that much. this is way better. like way better. it’s really really good.

• i’ve been totally listening to silver jews a lot lately. especially american water; you know, that one with stephen malkmus

• the new modest mouse keeps growing on me more and more and i keep loving it more and more every time i listen to it. i am definitely a fan of johnny marr being in the band.

• i got a dui on sunday morning about 5 minutes after i had woken up :( apparently i blew over from the beers i had the night before. had to spend the morning in jail and i didnt have my phone and didn’t know anyone’s number so i had to walk 15 miles home in flip flops :( it was a bummer of a day.

• i’m really pissed that ohio state made the finals. i hate greg oden so much. they should have lost to xavier

• curb your enthusiasm is pretty much the greatest show ever.

• the prestige is one of the best movies i’ve seen in a long long time. i totally thought it was going to be retarded when i saw previews for it but people told me i had to watch it so i did. and BAM, it was good. also i love christian bale <3

• the new black rebel motorcycle club has leaked.. although i haven’t seen a version that isn’t a transcode. it’s totally good though. a little harder than the last one, a little bit back to the neo-jesus-and-mary-chain-style they used to be.

• there’s a new chevelle. it’s kinda boring. they’ll probably never top wonder what’s next

• i heard this wicked cover of tv on the radio’s staring at the sun by the subways. check it out.

• oh and some bad news. the dude i get free hosting from said i’m using too much bandwidth.. so i had to take down the mp3s :’( i’m sorries

til next time!!
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• I downloaded Civilization IV the other day. I love sim games and back in the day I was all about the Warcraft and Age of Empires. Anyway I had read a lot of good things about the Civilization series and I was pretty excited to play it and build my empire. Well, this game BLOWS!@!!!@@ WTF there’s like “turns” ?? You actually have to hit [return] like every 3 seconds to tell the game your turn is over. Ugh I wanted to kill myself after playing just the tutorial for all of 5 minutes. Not to mention there were all kinds of horrible animated scenes with ugly cgi characters getting all up in my grizzle about diplomatic relations. I don’t think anything will ever come close to the original Warcraft or Age of Empires. I downloaded Age of Empires III as well and will give that a try tonight. Otherwise I suppose I’ll play some Sim City 4, which isn’t nearly as great as I’d hoped it would be. Why do games always have to ruin themselves?

• Orange Fanta is really good until you drink more than 8oz., at which point it makes your intentines shrivel up and you will feel like gutwrenching death.

• I was bummed to hear about the James Kim saga ending in death. After actively following the story on Digg for a week, I felt so invested in the story. And the fact that it could have happened to anybody just made it so relatable and tragic :’(

• After a month of playing the horribly slowpaced, text-only online strategy game Inselkampf, I have finally amassed 80 points. I will soon be destroying all the weaklings surrounding my island.

• Am I completely retarded or is it impossible to post comments on Gawker-Media blogs such as Gawker and Deadspin?? I wanted to post a comment on Deadspin the other night to tell everyone how to stick it to the NFL Network by streaming the games on their PCs, but apparently it’s just simply not possible to register and post a comment?? WTF? Am I missing something?

• Every time I see a Scion xB business vehicle (about every 3-5 minutes if I’m driving somewhere), a shiver of rage traverses down my spine.

• Apparently The Decemberists accepted Stephen Colbert’s counter-counter challenge and will… compete in some sort of instrument challenge? I have no idea. The whole thing’s weird. And the Decemberists suck. Yeah they used to be good but they went too far with their Renaissance revival shtick and now every time I hear them I feel like I’m supposed to be dressed up as a Midieval peasant driving my friends to the Renaissance fair after our weekly Dungeons & Dragons game.

• Bob Dylan’s The Hurricane is still one of the greatest songs ever.

• Just say NO to the new NBA basketball. I vote for bringing back the cowhide. No one likes synthetic crap.

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• Is it just me, or have I been updating this thing an awful lot lately. I wonder if anyone actually reads this.

• I really hate ESPN Page2. Not only are their writers idiots and think they need to litter their columns with iPod and YouTube references to come across as hip, but they’re also huge douchebags. Oh, and calling a team by a nickname that’s close to, but not actually, its nickname (for example, calling the Ravens the Nevermores) is NOT FUNNY. Anyway, last week, Page 2’s Scoop Jackson completely ripped off a character and idea (the Orange Roundie) from the hilarious NBA blog Yaysports. The original column appeared with no credit or link to Yaysports, whatsoever. But outrage on another popular sports blog, Deadspin, managed to get ESPN to insert a crappy credit (an afterthought in parenthesis and not even linked that stated where the name Orange Roundie originated from) to Yaysports. But they refused to change the column or take out the references to Orange Roundie, which they stole. This really pisses me off. I tried submitting it to Digg in hopes of generating some community outrage that would force ESPN to pull the column, but apparently no one cares. Please Digg it if this bothers you and/or if you hate ESPN.

• It’s been quite awhile since I’ve heard a good new album (omg a week???). That’s probably one of the factors leading to the increased amount of sports content on this site. I’ve been listening to a lot of old-school Modest Mouse, Pixies, Wolf Parade, Minus the Bear, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, et al. I posted a pretty rad cover of my favorite Sonic Youth song Diamond Sea (by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs) last week. And an awesome rarity by everyone’s favorite creepily weird Scandinavian band The Knife. If you haven’t figured out by now, you can add the mp3 blogz0r RSS feed at the top of the page to your subscribed podcasts in iTunes and get each song automatically.

• If you are in a band and stuff, don’t be afraid to email me your songs. Most of your bands are crappy, but I’ve gotten some decent stuff. This band, Dead Leaf Echo recently emailed me a few mp3s and I was pretty surprised by the quality. They’re not quite there yet, but there’s definitely a hint of some promising things to come. They sort of have the whole post-Pixies, post-Joy Division vibe that a lot of indie bands are rocking these days. With a little booze and some heartbreak, this band could be awesome.

• Am I the only one who remembers Dweebs (Nerds’ less sour and more circular cousin) and will forever resent Willy Wonka for discontinuing them?

• To anyone that actually read my interview with Ray Frenden, this will be a recurring series focusing on various artists, illustrators and designers that I eKnow. Stay tuned.

• Florida is heading to the BCS championship game. It’s painfully obvious that no one wanted to see Michigan make it. There’s no reason whatsoever that Florida shouldn’t have already been ahead of Michigan if they weren’t ranked above them before this weekend. That said, I have no problem with the decision, though I don’t think they can beat Ohio State.

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Well, only three weeks to go in the regular season, and this might have been the strangest yet. A few highlights: the Bears’ offense played about as bad as humanly possible (even worse than that infamous Monday night game against the Cardinals) and won. The Raiders’ defense played about as good as humanly possible and lost. Both the Raiders and Texans had fans wishing it was Kill Yourself Day™ in Oakland. And Ladainian scored again.

• The Colts lost to a suddenly-reborn-with-Vince-Young-at-the-helm Titans team on a last second 60 yard field goal. Yes that’s two weeks in a row the Titans have come from behind to win on a field goal. 78 rushing yards for Young. Steve McWho??

• 178 rushing yards, 2 rushing TDs and 14 receiving yards for Ladainian Tomlinson. Best RB ever? Too soon?

• Trent Green threw 4 TDs and Larry Johnson had 110 rushing yards but the Chiefs still managed to lose to the Browns, on a field goal in OT.

• Rex Grossman, who should probably change his name to Rex Disgustingman pretty soon, completed 6 of 19 passes for 34 yards and 3 interceptions. That’s a 1.3 quarterback rating, in case you were wondering. Amazingly, that wasn’t even the low passing yard total of the day. Yet the Bears still managed to win thanks to a defensive TD and another Devin Hester punt return for a touchdown.

• WTF @ the Jets scoring 38 points. Well, I guess they did play the Packers, but Chad Pennington probably didn’t even know football scores could be this high.

Who the crap is this dude???• The Cardinals actually won a game (over the Rams, who would probably allow over 100 yards rushing to Stanford), and Edgerrin James became the first Cardinals running back to rush for 100+ yards in… over two years. But for some reason, every time they got into the red zone, out went James and in came… Marcel Shipp?? Yes, Marcel Shipp. He scored 3 TDs—the first, second and third time he’s managed to get into the endzone since scoring 3 in a game four years ago… against the Rams.

• Drew Brees threw for less than 300 yards for the first time in like, 100 years. So how did the Saints win? Well, Reggie Bush scored 4 TDs to go with 131 receiving and 37 rushing yards. That’s four times more than he had scored so far this season (not including his punt return TD).

• Kill Yourself Day™ in Oakland saw the Raiders lose another

Sebastian Janikowski sucks at life more than anyone else in the NFLgame despite only allowing 32 yards passing. That’s right, David Carr didn’t even complete a pass in the second half. The Raiders also had 5 sacks, 2 fumble recoveries and a touchdown. Luckily for them they employ the worst kicker in the history of the universe (Sebastian Janikowski) who missed 3 more field goals. And just to make sure you were paying attention, he made sure to hit the uprights on two of them.

• Chris Chambers caught 121 yards against a tough Jacksonville defense, seemingly giving the finger to all the fantasy owners who had him benched because he is averaging like 2 yards a game this year.

• The Cowboys won on a last second field goal despite releasing douchebag kicker Mike Vander Jagt earlier this week and signing Martin Gramatica, who hadn’t kicked in the NFL for two years. He nailed a 46 yarder with 1 second left. No pressure.

• The Seahawks beat the Broncos in the Sunday night game—on a last second field goal that probably kicked the Broncos out of the playoff picture. Also, Broncos linebacker Al Wilson snapped his head back going for a loose ball and laid on the field for quite awhile before getting carted off on a stretcher and taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The word is it’s just a sprained neck and he could move his extremities.

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I’m watching the USC and UCLA game right now, and I think it’s time for college football fans to rise up and say what everyone’s been thinking all year:

USC does not deserve to play in the national championship.

Michigan does. Do I need to remind you that their only loss this year came by three points, AT Ohio State???

Michigan deserves to play in the national championship, but no one likes a rematch so they’re most likely headed to the Rose Bowl.There are three teams right now that are garnering talk of playing in the BCS title game: USC, Michigan and Florida.

USC LOST to Oregon State, only won by six to Washington State, six to Washington, seven to Arizona State and very well might lose to UCLA.

Florida lost to a good, ranked Auburn team; barely beat a ranked Tennessee; and barely beat Georgia, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. They also played in one of the toughest conferences in the country (the SEC) and appear to be on their way to winning the championship.

Then there’s Michigan. Though the Big 10 isn’t the toughest of conferences, they’ve still managed quality wins over then #2 Notre Dame and Wisconsin. And, to pound you over the head with this some more: their ONLY loss was by just three points AT Ohio State.

When you have multiple teams with one loss all vying for a spot in the championship game, you go with the team with the toughest loss. That team is Michigan. The only reason people don’t want to see them is because for some reason no one likes a rematch. Michigan actually went down a spot in the BCS WITHOUT even playing.

Well I’m here to tell you: I like rematches. I like them a lot. They’re like the good kind of movie sequels (like Back to the Future). If Michigan were Back the the Future and USC were Cruel Intentions and Florida were American Pie, I don’t think we’d be disputing this. Michigan would be safely in the championship—ready and willing to defend Marty McFly’s honor.

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