I’m worried about Jay Bilas’s job. For those who aren’t college basketball junkies, Jay Bilas is a former Duke player who is currently the best college basketball analyst in the business. He’s smart, well-spoken, funny (listen to him banter with Bill Raftery and Sean McDonough when the three of them work games together), and extremely… Continue reading Jay Bilas Survival Pool
Category: Sports
Physics of Basketball
Well, at least, the physics of the new NBA basketball, at any rate… For those who haven’t heard the story already, the NBA is changing the style of the basketballs used in its games this season. They’re moving away from the traditional leather basketballs to a new synthetic material, which is supposed to hold up… Continue reading Physics of Basketball
Toward a Saner Sports Media Culture
About fifteen minutes from now, my Giants will take the field against the Redskins. The Giants are coming off a bye week (in which they somehow managed to trail by 10 going into the fourth quarter), so the big story leading up to the game has to do with the always-volatile Jeremy Shockey, who popped… Continue reading Toward a Saner Sports Media Culture
The Problem of Big Mike
We get the Sunday New York Times delivered every week (which accounts for the higher-than-usual number of stories from the Times that I link on Sundays…), and I read most of it, but I usually run out of steam before I get to the Magazine, unless the cover story really grabs me. This week was… Continue reading The Problem of Big Mike
Idle Question
Does including his middle name make USC quarterback John David Booty sound more or less like a porn star? (Yesterday was the inauguration for our new college president, so it was a long day, and I’m a little punchy watching SportsCenter…)
Sports Fault Lines
The Times takes up the critical question of locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north. Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it’s a near thing. Union’s… Continue reading Sports Fault Lines
They’ll Blog Anything These Days
Here’s a link for Ed Brayton, who does a fair bit of poker blogging: via Dave Sez, Brian at MGOBlog is playing the the World Series of Poker, and blogging about it. You may or may not regard the WSOP as the beginning of the end for ESPN, but the broadcasts are weirdly hypnotic. I’ve… Continue reading They’ll Blog Anything These Days
Irreconcilable Differences
Via Dave Sez, Ed at the Sports Frog wants a divorce from ESPN: I have carefully thought this through and I believe a divorce is our only resolution. I have been loyal and faithful to you and you have shit on me, cheated, lied, took 5 months to send me a check and you won’t… Continue reading Irreconcilable Differences
This Isn’t SportsCenter
Miscellaneous sports-related items (mostly soccer talk, because other than the World Cup, there are no sports going on now worth watching): Before getting to soccer, some really important sports news: Williams College won its tenth Sears Cup in the last eleven years, as the best athletic program in Division III. They also topped the US… Continue reading This Isn’t SportsCenter
Sporting Event Live-Blogging
A List of Things Thrown Five Mintues Ago is live-blogging the National Spelling Bee. The Internet is large, and contains multitudes. (Via a comment at Making Light.)