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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Dublin Thursday night the sky wept, sometimes with stand-under-cover-and-wait ferocity, and a male singer at The Stapleton pub sang a worthy "Jolene," audible on the sidewalk, and the first drag performer at The George sashayed out to "Here You Come Again," perhaps audible in the clouds. #Dolly

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

As #CaboVerde -- #CapeVerde -- begins World Cup play today, TV rooms in New England will fill with nervousness, pride, wonder, singing, food -- all from a people I visited lately at various celebrations and homes, a people with stirring stories of life on this Earth. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

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The joy and wonder of Cabo Verde's unlikely World Cup journey

Searching for a lovable underdog to cheer for this World Cup? Look no further than Cabo Verde.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just past midnight in time zone UTC/GMT +530, so #HappyNewYear2026 to the colossal Mumbai, with thanks for some of the most captivating, most illuminating, most energizing, best days in all of life.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +545, so while it's always important to keep a little list in one's head of places one longs to go, #HappyNewYear2026 to one of my dreams still out there, to Kathmandu.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just past midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +6, so #HappyNewYear2026 to the 36 million or so people who navigate, each day, through all the cars and the rickshaws and all else, the gigantic, jaw-dropping marvel known as Dhaka.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in time zone UTC/GMT +630, so #HappyNewYear2026 to both the 600 or so people in the Cocos Islands and the thousand or so people in the Coco Islands . . .

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +7, so #HappyNewYear2026 to Bangkok and to Phnom Penh and to Siem Reap, those places so wondrous that by far the hardest part is departing.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +8, so #HappyNewYear2026 to all the people who bring the goodness and the life and the energy to Manila, and to Taipei, and to Kuala Lumpur, and to Singapore . . .

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the funky time zone UTC/GMT +845, so #HappyNewYear2026 to those souls along the Eyre Highway in Australia, to the 53 or so in Eucla, to the 23 or so in Mundrabilla, to the 15 or so in Cocklebiddy . . .

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just past midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +9, so #HappyNewYear2026 to Seoul and to Tokyo, two of the most marvelous giants for which a planet could hope . . .

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Half past midnight in the time zone UTC +1030, and midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +10, so #HappyNewYear to the beautiful Adelaide and the brilliant Brisbane.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the extraordinary time zone UTC/GMT +11, so #HappyNewYear to the great, great Sydney and the great, great Melbourne.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in time zone UTC/GMT +12, so #HappyNewYear to Suva, to Funafuti, to Tarawa, to Yaren and to all those nearby.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Past midnight in time zone UTC/GMT +13, so #HappyNewYear to the great New Zealand and to the people of Apia, Samoa, so close to the International Date Line that here's an annual reminder of a favorite thought: If New Year's Eve clunked and you can cross the line to Pago Pago, you can try it again.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +1345, so #HappyNewYear to the 660-plus residents of the Chatham Islands.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Just past midnight in the time zone UTC/GMT +14, the first to see every new day, so #HappyNewYear to the village of Tabwakea on the Kirimati atoll, as well as to Caroline Island and its great frigatebirds, lesser frigatebirds, sooty terns, Pacific bottlenose dolphins and Azure-tailed skinks.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Murray State! It's an epitome of the era of fast roster-building, and just look at the humongous list of community colleges in the player bios. It's also an epitome of why we bother watching sports. #CollegeWorldSeries #CWS www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

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Murray State reaches College World Series as underdog and emblem

The Racers open play in Omaha on Saturday against UCLA, and their unlikely journey embodies the wonder of sports.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Road teams are 6-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals of the #NBAPlayoffs, meaning that to help out their teams, all home fans should sell their tickets to road fans

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I just never would have imagined Roger Goodell would become such an accomplished, extraordinary hugger. #NFLDraft

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I found myself hoping for a #Thunder stop at 131-80 because winning by fewer than 50 would have been so inappropriate.

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

He's a good lad.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Has any contestant an any sporting event ever showed so many turns of big guts and so many turns of human frailty, both things, back and forth, in the same competition? #TheMasters

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The best place to watch this #MastersSunday and #Rory would be aboard a jet because airsickness bags are readily available

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Large bonus to Nicklaus 1975 footage on CBS: Vin!

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If they had a #Masters prop bet that Rory McIlroy would have a two-shot lead, a one-shot deficit, a tie and a three-shot lead, all within the first four holes, that would have been a sound bet for those who bet.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

With the eight seedings adding up to a puny 13, only one more than the minimum possible, is this the chalkiest #EliteEight since the seeding system began in 1985? No! It ties #MarchMadness 2007 with four No. 1s, three No. 2s and one No. 3.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As #Alabama sets the record for most threes in a #MarchMadness game (22), raise a glass to the fact the Loyola Marymount record stood for 35 Marches

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

With 15:59 left, Marc Sears has 7 threes and #RollTide has 14, too soon to talk about Madness men’s records except that talking about them involves maybe the most remarkable Madness score ever (from 1990): Loyola Marymount 149, Michigan 115 (21 LMU threes, Jeff Fryer 11)

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The first foul of the Alabama-BYU game arrives with 12:40 left in the first half. We’ll pause now for a brief ceremony on which the refs get medals and cookies. #MarchMadness

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

To absorb the zeitgeist of college sports in 2025, visit and listen to athletes in . . . . . . the McNeese locker room. Yeah. Their coach is leaving at a tricky time. Why are they pretty much the opposite of distracted? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

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McNeese State’s coach is leaving. His players might love him more than ever.

Will Wade’s Cowboys are the upset darling of the NCAA tournament so far, even after Wade made clear he is taking a different job.

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Dog-walking, stroller-parking, jet-gazing and palm-dwelling at the darlingest of American airports, in the park adjacent the Sonny Bono Concourse, Palm Springs, California, United States, Earth, 18 March 2025

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Chuck Culpepper @chuckculpepper.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A pre-#Oscars top 10 after seeing all 10 Best Picture nominees: 10. DUNE: PART TWO. A desert planet full of action-movie predictability — explosions, storytelling cliches, cool visuals, narrow evasions of death — and sand, so much sand, so very much sand that you might start hoping . . .

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