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FIRST SHIFT: TELEVISED TAI-CHI

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Tai Chi students learn the value of softness, of pliability. It is a discipline focused on ordered breathing, deliberate movements, and balance. Balance not just physically but mentally and spiritually as well. Perhaps more than any other martial art, tai chi mirrors the natural balance the universe seeks out on every level. And it is this inherent balance which explains why Pitt, Kansas, Minnesota, Miami, and Auburn are all playing noontime games - but not against one another. (Connecticut-Maryland may well open up a wormhole to an alternate dimension where gravity does not exist and Mark May is president.)

This is your first open thread. Relax, and feel every sinew in your body working in perfect harmony as you progress through the OW SHIT STEPPED ON A LEGO DAMN YOU KIDS I SWEAR I'LL THROW THESE ALL AWAY