All season long I have kept an eye on this year’s rookie hitters, wondering which one would match the incredible achievements of Albert Pujols in his inaugural year at the plate. I have used Pujols as the standard, with 1000 points as his dedicated number. With my modification of Similarity Scores, I have [...]
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Albert Pujols=Rookie of the Century
Posted in Baseball, Best Of, Smells Like Pujols on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Checking in with Cooper Brannan
Posted in Baseball, Best Of, Smells Like Pujols, Sports/Real Life on July 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Holy crap! Who’s that guy, staring out from his baseball card with an expression that says “I can handle anything, including the accidental misspelling of my name on this cheap bit of cardboard”? He’s positively badass!
That’s Padres farmhand Cooper Brannan, and if he looks like he’s ready to handle anything the world can [...]
At Least You Like College Basketball More than Billy Packer Does
Posted in Best Of, Blogrollin', Sports/Real Life on July 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I am just way too excited about this guest post. I have been reading Michael Litos’ blog The CAA: Life as a Mid-Major for some time. I also bought and reviewed his book Cinderella: Inside the Rise of Mid-Major College Basketball as soon as it came out, and I’m one of those [...]
Did You Know that Basketball is Jazz?
Posted in Best Of, tagged Music, NBA Basketball on June 28, 2007 | 23 Comments »
Check this out:
The man on the left is my favorite musician of all time, John Coltrane. The man on the right is Kevin Durant, who is about to find out which city in the Pacific Northwest he will set on fire for the next few years.
The thing that has always appealed to me about Coltrane [...]
Justin Verlander: Eye of the Tiger
Posted in Baseball, Best Of, Sports/Real Life on June 13, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I know everyone’s writing about Justin Verlander today, and that is as it should be. He’s done one of the most difficult things in sports, especially in an era where managers are terrified to let the pitch count get too high on a young stud. Even though the subject will be covered ad [...]
Dan and Dave, Still Hangin’ Out
Posted in Best Of, Celebrities on June 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In 1992, Reebok set out to bolster interest in their Track and Field shoes by televising short advertisements capitalizing on a friendly rivalry between two decathletes bound for the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. They ran frequent ads touting the Dan and Dave phenomenon, hyping up the inevitable matchup of two American greats.
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University of Second Chances
Posted in Best Of, College Basketball on March 20, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Quite a few college basketball fans were surprised to see that USC ousted likely Naismith Award winner Kevin Durant and his Texas Longhorns in the second round of the NCAA tournament this past weekend. I admit that I was one of them, blinded by the incredible scoring and defense I had watched the freshman deploy [...]
Tom Brady: I’m the Father of Anna Nicole’s Baby
Posted in Best Of, Celebrities, NFL Football on March 10, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Two top internet search terms came together into one glorious story of rampant fertility today when New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady confessed that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby.
“I was never formally introduced to Anna Nicole” said the NFL superstar “but she did stay at the same hotel as Bridget and [...]
Chargers Shoot Schottenheimer, Selves in Bizarre Murder-Suicide
Posted in Best Of, NFL Football on February 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
San Diego – A tense situation turned tragic Monday night, when the San Diego Chargers fired several shots into the body of Marty Schottenheimer, killing him. The tearful franchise then turned the gun on itself, committing suicide.
Friends of the family characterized the relationship between the Chargers and Schottenheimer as strained, and speculated that the [...]
Featured Article on Helium
Posted in Best Of, Blogrollin' on February 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A year or so ago I wrote a piece for my Rhetoric class at Old Dominion that I was pretty proud of. It was one of the first times I really felt like I had put together research, writing, and editing to cover a serious topic well. I aced the paper and the class, and [...]
