You should always read what Joe Posnanski has to say… I think he’s the greatest sportswriter covering sports today, and is a fantastic writer on his own merits. His post on the 32 greatest Sports Illustrated covers is fantastic, and I’d encourage any sports fans to read it.
An actual dump of links!
Enjoy!
A great article on why Elizabeth Warren has become the people’s choice to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A great piece on the sheer idiocy that is the opposition to the Muslim Community center a few blocks away from Ground Zero.
I’ve been pretty remiss in updating this blog, so I’m going to try something new… to force myself to post something at least once a week, if not more often. We’ll see how well I do. I’d like to start at least by having a “Daily Dump” of links, things that caught my attention that day, and then if I have time, to explore things and topics that interest me. Maybe that’s being too agressive at this stage, but let’s try.
In fact, I would have said it much worse.
I recently was wondering why Amazon doesn’t sell hardcopy/ebook bundles… That is, why not add in a Kindle version of a book along with the hardcover version for an incremental cost.
And then I found someone who had already had my idea, and expressed it better than I could. Even better, some of the comments seem to explain why it hasn’t happened yet (and the gist is that the publishing companies are likely preventing it, for reasons you would be hard-pressed to conceive of in any logical universe). So read the comments as well.
This weekend, the California Golden Bears Men’s basketball team accomplished something that had not been done at Cal in FIFTY(!) years. They became the first team to win at least a share of the conference title since 1960 (The great Pete Newell’s last year as Cal’s head coach). The Golden Bears dominated the second half of the game vs. Arizona State, who came in essentially tied with Cal for the conference lead. ASU still has a chance to tie for the regular-season title, if Cal can’t beat hated rival Stanfurd next week, but Cal swept ASU so they will have the top-seed in the upcoming conference tournament. The Pac-10 doesn’t use tie-breakers to determine the regular season champion; if teams tie, they are co-champions, so Cal and ASU could be co-champions next week. However, in terms of historical significance, that is iirrelevant. Even if you count sharing the title, it’s been FIFTY years, and a great burden has been removed from the program with this accomplishment.
Congratulations to the team, the coaches, and everyone associated with the program on this outstanding achievement!
As a footnote, I was at the game, and took the above picture with my iPhone… Go Bears!
ESPN‘s TrueHoop blog has a great article about the plus/minus statistic in basketball, and it’s statistically enhanced adjusted versions. Well worth a read if you are on the fence about it.
Isn’t it awesome how those who scream the loudest about protecting “traditional” marriage (i.e. fighting against giving gays the right to marry) love getting divorced?
No one ever seems to ask those people how their divorce (or multiple divorces, in many cases) fits in with their love of “traditional” marriage, however. Pity.
