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Probably a much better choice than what we watched last night with my 12yo daughter: The Green Mile (1999). The botched execution of Del is horrifying, and I'm much older than 12.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 21/09/2026

If upheld, what a ridiculous ending.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 19/09/2026

Arizona State's MVP in this win over Kansas has to be punter Nick McLarty. Nine boots for 382 yards with a long of 52 (average of 42.4), with his coffin-corner before the end of the half downed at the KU 8 – setting up ASU's go-ahead TD.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 19/09/2026

Early returns through 2.25 games of ASU football: This team can't get out of its own way.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 19/09/2026

This Abner fellow's peripherals are taking a beating.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 19/09/2026

If De Paula grows into his frame, he's gonna be HUGE.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 18/09/2026

PASADENA, Calif. - 11:34 a.m. PDT Friday Sept. 18, 2026.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 18/09/2026

On a related note, in one of my first columns as a sports editor for the Arizona State school paper, I called some BS "a load of carp."

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 17/09/2026

First, he'd be surprised we're married with a kid. Then, when he hears about my career path, he's impressed before being sorely disappointed.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 17/09/2026

Tommy Edman is having a late-career renaissance of getting on base via HBP. Entering 2025, he had been hit 37 times in 730 career games: a per-162 rate of 8.2. This season, in 75-plus games, Edman has been hit by a pitch 14 times: a per-162 of 29.8. Career OBP through 2025: .312 '26 OBP: .336

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 16/09/2026

Oof, a news helo crashed while covering a fatal SUV-vs-bus crash in the Valley. Phoenix had this in 2007, when two news choppers collided over a park while covering a police pursuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix...

en.wikipedia.org

Phoenix news helicopter collision - Wikipedia

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 11/09/2026

So in Melbourne, this was a kegs-and-eggs kickoff?

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 11/09/2026

The NFL could use more eucalyptus in its pregame ceremonies.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 08/09/2026

I don't know what the question is, but Halvorsen is not the answer.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 07/09/2026

I can't express how awesome it's been to lose an entire three-day weekend to a cold.

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Ken Arneson @kenarneson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yes, the Lux drive had a very similar wind direction to tonight. We at @weatherapplied.com didn't have sensors installed at Dodger Stadium back then, but we estimated Lux's drive got pushed back 35 feet by the wind. It was over twice as windy on that night (about 24 mph) than it is tonight, though.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 07/09/2026

Indoor sports played outside fails more often then not. The Lakers and Suns had a preseason game at the Indian Wells tennis complex – and October nights out there get COLD.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 05/09/2026

Sorry, Pauline, but this take aged like milk in the sun.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 05/09/2026

One of my favorite nom de plumes on baseball sites was Strangers with Candy Maldonado.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 04/09/2026

mydialect.us/quiz-standar... I've spent most of my life in Arizona and California – so I guess the quiz decided to split the difference and put my dialect in Nevada.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 03/09/2026

Shohei is a hot fucking mess. He *has* to be hurt – and no one in the org can tell him to have a seat for 10 days.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 02/09/2026

Not to go all Saul Goodman, yet: "Tough... but fair."

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 02/09/2026

Yeah, the clumping feet of KICK-ASS MARINES.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 02/09/2026

Shohei looks as frustrated as I've ever seen him.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 01/09/2026

Remembering very well my reaction to news of the McCourt sale*, I will never begrudge a cheap team's long-suffering fans this moment of joy. * - It was, to my recollection, "O HAPPY DAYYYYYYY!"

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 01/09/2026

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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Mike Branom @mikebranom.com · 01/09/2026