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jwhouk:
And all this to announce:

2017 NHL Western Conference Champions, baby. :D

Ignominious:
Nairo Quintana has just pulled an impressive jump into the lead of the GC of the Giro d'Italia ahead of Tom Dumoulin with Vincenzo Nibali closing the gap in 3rd position.

Having three riders of that calibre within such a small time gap at the top of the standings is pretty rare. Quintana is very tenacious and difficult to unseat once he's in the lead. Both he and Nibali are consummate climbers and capable of fighting hard on tomorrow's mountain stage as is 4th place Thibaut Pinot. Quite likely they'll be able to put more time in to Dumoulin. However, the final stage is a time trial. 29k of long rolling descent. Dumoulin is far better at TT's than any other podium contender and if they can't given themselves enough of a buffer tomorrow, he's guaranteed to take the win at the last minute.The tricky question now is, just how much faster can he go and how much time do they need?

Ignominious:
The racing was keen today. However, after the hard work was over, 53s was all that separated 1st from 4th place, the same as the end of yesterday, they're just in a slightly different order. Looking at the roadbook for tomorrow's stage leaves the question unanswered and literally any combination of order of those 4 riders could be the result in the classification.

A Grand Tour GC hasn't been this close for this many riders in a long time. All that can be said with any certainty is that when the clock stops tomorrow for the final time, one rider will have caused upset and one rider will have missed out on a podium place by a shockingly narrow margin. I doubt a TT has been this exciting since Lemond vs Fignon.

LeeC:
Congrats to the Patriots, but did anyone else watch and just not feel entertained? The game was pretty much a gridlock until the final few minutes, there were no stand out commercials let alone many  good ones, the halftime show was lackluster, and the internet is upset that they rickrolled a famous spongebob moment from a beloved episode where they played the super (bubble) bowl halftime show (song is sweet victory). I kind of felt like this super bowl wasn't very super.

It was just kind of meh.

 :venonat:

jwhouk:
I have sat down and watched parts, if not all, of 42 of the 53 Super Bowl games that have been played.

That was likely the worst that I've seen of the 42.

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