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Should Chicago’s college football team try poaching another from Chicago’s Big Ten team?

Should Chicago’s college football team try to poach another from Chicago’s Big Ten team?

Notre Dame doesn’t use the transfer portal like Lincoln Riley and USC, as the Trojans have become college football’s version of shopping on Black Friday.  The end result may be great but the process in getting there makes you want to vomit.

Notre Dame has been known to pick their spots in the portal, however.  We’ve been tracking all the quarterbacks who enter the portal for obvious reasons, but a compelling non-quarterback entered Tuesday.  It’s especially compelling for Notre Dame because it’s a program just down the road that the Irish have poached a couple of talents from in recent years.

Malik Washington was Northwestern’s leading receiver this past season and entered the portal Tuesday.  He’s listed at 5-9, 180 pounds and although nobody would describe him as a burner, he consistently makes plays on the ball.  It should also be noted that perhaps no Power Five team has had less production from their quarterbacks in the past two seasons.

Washington hauled in 65 receptions for 694 yards (10.7 avg) this year, the sixth-highest total in the entire Big Ten.  He did find the end zone just once but then again, Northwestern threw for just 10 touchdowns all year.

Notre Dame had massive receiver issues this season as a sophomore [autotag]Lorenzo Styles[/autotag] was the only one to amass 300 yards.  If it wasn’t [autotag]Michael Mayer[/autotag] chances are it wasn’t getting done in the passing game and the group of receivers would certainly use some help and experience.

Wide receivers coach [autotag]Chansi Stuckey[/autotag] has the cavalry coming but counting on several underclassmen is a risk I certainly wouldn’t prefer taking.  Growth and development will help Styles, [autotag]Deion Colzie[/autotag], [autotag]Tobias Merriweather[/autotag], and the incoming freshman group, but it would certainly be nice to have some proven veteran experience as well and Washington would accomplish that.

And heck, [autotag]Ara Parseghian[/autotag], [autotag]Ben Skowronek[/autotag], and [autotag]Brandon Joseph[/autotag] all worked out alright so why not do it again?

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The internet is absolutely enamored with Stray, a game where you play as a cat

Stray is the purrfect video game for any cat lover.

There’s nothing the internet loves more than cats. But a video game about cats? Say no more!

On Tuesday, developer BlueTwelve Studio and publisher Annapurna Interactive released a new video game Stray for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. It’s a game where you play as a cat navigating a cyberpunk world, with puzzle solving, platforming, and general feline shenanigans that’ll make your heart swell tenfold.

While I’ve only put about a half hour or so into the game, I can confirm the tomcat tomfoolery present in Stray is as wholesome as it gets. Seriously, if you’re looking for a heartwarming roleplaying experience as a cat on an epic adventure, Stray is for you.

The game even has a dedicated meow button, of all things!

How cute is that?

As expected from the internet at large, people are now completely obsessed with just how adorable Stray is. And why wouldn’t they be? Look at that cat!

Watch: Tiger takes on giant cardboard box full of zoo treats

A Malayan tiger at the Tulsa Zoo has entertained thousands of fans on social media by acting like an enormous house cat when presented with a giant cardboard box full of treats.

A Malayan tiger at the Tulsa Zoo has entertained thousands of social-media followers by acting like an enormous house cat when presented with a giant cardboard box full of treats.

The accompanying footage shows Tahan, an adult male tiger, almost fully inside the box while playfully trying to open smaller boxes to access items placed inside by keepers.

“What happens when you give a tiger a box?” the zoo asked in its Facebook description, under the title, “Tahan VS Box.”

The zoo added: “Enrichment helps to encourage natural behavior and keep animals mentally and physically healthy. It can include things like toys, smells, or in this case, boxes filled with food!”

Tahan seems to enjoy his time inside the makeshift tent-box while savoring his next moves. At one point, he rolls onto his back, paws up, and ultimately breaks out of the box, whereupon he signals the end of the game and walks past the camera.

“Super fun enrichment,” reads one comment.

“All cats love boxes,” reads another.

As of the time of this post, the video had garnered nearly 45,000 views.

A cat got loose at Coors Field in the middle of a Rockies game

This cat was everywhere.

There were a lot of runs scored in Friday night’s Rockies vs. Dodgers game. The Dodgers won 11-6, so a lot of people crossed home plate.

But no one had quite a run like the cat that somehow snuck onto Coors field.

This grey cat came out of nowhere in the middle of the 8th inning. It appeared to come from the direction of the visitor’s dugout before making its way on the diamond.

And was it ever elusive. It managed to run all the way to second base and then into the outfield before it laid down and took a breather.

What a run from the cat. Hopefully, it got out of the arena stadium and sound.

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NASCAR driver Tyler Reddick plays tough defense against cat trying to invade Zoom press conference

“Dang cat.”

NASCAR driver Tyler Reddick was just trying to talk about how he’s preparing for the massive changes in the Cup Series schedule this season. He was just trying to explain how working with a racing simulator could help him with more road courses and a dirt track race in the lineup.

But his cat had other plans, which seemingly included attempting to commandeer Reddick’s Zoom press conference for at least the second time not even a month into the season.

Earlier this month ahead of the season-opening Daytona 500, the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet driver was doing his preseason virtual media rounds, and his cat apparently wasn’t a fan of him hogging the spotlight. So she invaded the call for an impromptu cameo.

Well, Friday when Reddick had another Zoom press conference going into Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the cat attempted to steal some more camera time. But Reddick was ready, playing some stellar defense this time to keep his cat from taking over.

Talking about working in a racing simulator, Reddick said:

“You can’t arc it in every single lap and do all these crazy things next to the bottom and be able to have any good speed, really, in your car after 10 or 15 laps. So you’ve really got to just make it as realistic as possible when you’re — sorry, dang cat. She’s trying to get in the screen again.

“You’ve just gotta make it as realistic as possible when you work on it because if you do unrealistic things, you’re going to have unrealistic expectations when you get to the race track.

“This dang cat.”

Dang cat, indeed.

While we’re impressed the cat couldn’t penetrate Reddick’s tough perimeter, we’re a little disappointed it didn’t get any face time during this press conference. So maybe the driver and his feline companion can compromise and share the camera next time.

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The Cat Lawyer has been Milkshake Ducked

This was perhaps the most predictable turn of events ever.

Yesterday you might have seen the fun story about Cat Lawyer, the lawyer who didn’t know how to turn a cat filter off his Zoom and then was forced to take part in a legal proceeding while appearing as a small kitten. Or smol kitten, I believe is the technical internet terminology.

Well, in perhaps the most predictable run of events I’ve ever witnessed, it turns out that Cat Lawyer is Bad.

Cat Lawyer has been Milkshake Ducked.

If you don’t know what Milkshake Ducked means, that means you’ve probably avoided the broken internet discourse for a long time and I tip my cap to you. But to catch you up, Milkshake Ducking relates to this tweet:

The idea being that anyone the entire internet loves at any moment will inevitably be discovered, often quickly, as being not all that lovable.

The funny thing about this instance of internet celebrity is that *in real time* people were anticipating Cat Lawyer’s eventual downfall.

What does this all mean? I have no idea what this means. It means nothing. It means we’ve been so trained by this years-long cycle of internet discourse that we know exactly what’s going to happen before it happens. We over-hype a person (or possibly duck), we make a realization about said person/duck, we flame said person/duck, then we counter-argue that it’s stupid to get mad at the person/duck, and then we wait to do it again.

I’d like to blame this on the pandemic or 2020 amirite or whatever but I honestly think this is just what we do now. This is our demented internet community’s sport of choice. Wheeee.

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Goalie cat is the breakout star of quarantine soccer

The shot-stopping ability and reflexes are simply stunning.

Sure, soccer is back in the Bundesliga and Belarus right now, but sans crowds and with players clearly going at about 85% effort to finish out the season, it’s not a perfect product.

What is a perfect soccer product is Goalie Cat, AKA Meownuel Neuer, AKA Tony Meowla, AKA Tim Meoward.

This cat is the breakout star of the quarantine soccer. The reflexes are simply staggering. The aerial leaping ability sublime. The distribution, well, it’s terrible, but honestly with shot-stopping ability like that you have to take the bad with the good.

Watch him in action here. He’s got the total package when it comes to shot stopping.

Goalie Cat. GOALIE CAT. GOALIE CAT.

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Rejoice in all these hilarious reviews bashing the movie, ‘Cats’

Multiple people used the me-ouch pun. MULTIPLE PEOPLE.

The movie Cats is coming out this weekend. Starting with the first glimpse of the trailer, which showed bizarre, nightmarish people-cats played by celebrities, prancing and singing around, it became clear that this movie was going to be something. 

Good? Bad? Who knew? But good lord it was going to be something. 

The reviews are in now, and yes, this movie SURE IS SOMETHING. It’s also apparently terrible, but in the best kind of way that has reviewers not even bother to hem and haw like they usually do, instead just rejoicing in how terrible this ridiculous movie is.

Look at these fantastic reviews of this terrible movie! Complete with cat puns!

“Oh God, my eyes,” wrote Ty Burr in the Boston Globe.

“This part-people, part-pussycat, faux-feline Hollywood hairball is a me-ouch,” wrote Neil Pond in Parade. ME-OUCH! HE SAID ME-OUCH.

“Woof,” said Adam Graham in Detroit News, in a story that also had the Me-Ouch pun!!

“Even after 110 tumbling, tail-swishing, deeply psychedelic minutes, it’s hard to know if you ever really knew anything – except that C is for Cats, C is for Crazy, and C is probably the grade this cinematic lunacy deserves,” Leah Greenblatt wrote in EW.

We also had Cat-astrophe puns, which, yes please. Look at this one!

Or this!

Anyway, I can’t wait to see Cats. Everyone go see Cats. Then we can write funny things all together.

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