A handful of sports items of interest to me: 1) My Giants defied expectations, and pulled out a 21-16 win over the Bears on two late touchdown drives, after sucking for most of the game. Well, OK, the defense was good throughout, though they were aided by the Bears not having a quarterback better than… Continue reading Weekend Sports Round-Up
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Hateful Talk Radio Update
I generally listen to ESPN radio in my office in the morning, because I like the Mike & Mike show. Unfortunately, they’re followed by Colin Cowherd, who is a world-class pinhead. He’s currently holding forth on the death of Sean Taylor, with his basic position being that Taylor had it coming because he had a… Continue reading Hateful Talk Radio Update
The Easterbrook Idiocy Supercollider
I generally like Gregg Easterbrook’s writing about football (though he’s kind of gone off the deep end regarding the Patriots this year), but everything else he turns his hand to is a disaster. In particular, he tends to pad his columns out with references to science and technology issues. I’m not quite sure what the… Continue reading The Easterbrook Idiocy Supercollider
Alex Rodriguez and the Death of American Labor
The inescapable sports story of the week has been Alex Rodriguez’s decision to opt out of his contract with the Yankees and pursue more money on the free-agent market. While it amuses me to see an off-season story about the Yankees eclipsing the Red Sox winning the World Series, I find this incredibly tedious. It’s… Continue reading Alex Rodriguez and the Death of American Labor
DonorsChoose Payoff: Sporting Superiority
As part of the “Buy This Blog” incentive for the DonorsChoose fundraiser, Ewan McNay asks for a post on the superiority of Commonwealth sports (cricket, football) over the US-favoured kind (baseball, american football) ;-). Oh, OK, then; I’ll setle for cricket. Cricket? You want me to talk up cricket? The best I can do is… Continue reading DonorsChoose Payoff: Sporting Superiority
Gingerbread Haka
Via a mailing list, the Gingerbread Haka: If you don’t get the joke, there’s a video of the original below the fold, with bonus shirtless ruggers:
Good Sports Weekend
I had a long post about Norman Spinrad all typed up when Firefox crashed, so you’ll have to wait for train-wrecky SF goodness. So here’s some sports commentary to pass the time. It was a good sports weekend in Chateau Steelypips: 1) I don’t really follow college football, but I do have a certain affection… Continue reading Good Sports Weekend
Football: That Was Quick
I don’t normally pay much attention to preseason or off-season sports, and my isolation has been better than usual this year with regard to the NFL, what with being in Japan for the past three weeks. As a result, I vaguely expected my Giants to suck this year, but I was not prepared for the… Continue reading Football: That Was Quick
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Because my team, the Forty Niners, aren’t. Neither apparently is Michigan. On the other hand, my co-guest blogger is surely happy.
O’Reilly, Reali, What’s the Difference?
A couple of days ago, Brad DeLong hoisted a proposal from comments (originally suggested by Bernard Yomtov): A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball. Kevin Drum isn’t sold on the idea: Man, does… Continue reading O’Reilly, Reali, What’s the Difference?