Sh*t happened 3/1/16: Tampa Bay sports summit, Chip 2.0, Thomas surprises, Trump doesn't


They say it comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, but it's looking like March is arriving sunnily and smooth through this here window. You can go out and play just as soon as we all finish making fun of yesterday's headlines.

WTVT-TV Channel 13 has named a new sports director following the departure of longtime fixture Chip Carter. Somebody named Scott Smith just signed up for a whole lot of stroll-by shoulder shots, locker onions and being sent to the wrong bar after work over the next few months — but hey, it's nothing personal, man. (Amateur hazers: contact me for more info on "locker onions.")

Donald Trump reportedly had a whole bunch of college students who, ahem, didn't resemble him in the skin-tone department removed from a rally in Valdosta, Ga. before he would take the stage. "Naw, that's a little too much obvious foreshadowing," said THE MOST CLICHED BAD FICTION WRITER IN EXISTENCE.

And finally, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question from the bench in oral arguments for the first time in ten years. And it turns out that, yes, they will do the turkey Reuben without the sauerkraut.

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