Best thing about tonight’s game: Chargers lost.
Second best thing: Chargers kept shooting themselves in the foot by penalties incurred after the play was over. Being a jerk sometimes doesn’t pay, it turns out.
Third best thing: Mark Sanchez, who was possibly the most badmouthed player in last summer’s draft, is now standing tall among three potential [...]
Yes, that is a boy with a baseball. And yes, it was a game ball.? After dozens of minor league baseball games, most of them in Indianapolis, I finally caught a foul ball.? And I did so over a UGA Ph.D in political science sitting in front of me.? Small world.
The Roar of the Crowd – ChronicleReview.com.
I would normally start out a reflection on an article like this with an admission that I’m just as avid a sports fan as the next guy, but then I have to remember that, save a couple times when I’ve been up in Indiana with my brother or my [...]
Well, my mostly-neglected Fantasy Football team failed to make the real playoffs.? I suppose it’s not entirely bad to be seeded well in the consolation playoffs.
Perhaps next season I’ll have a bit more time to fiddle with such things.
Griese, Pennington Embrace the Present
Am I still a bit sore at the Pats and Bears?? Yes.
Do I think that the refs handed yesterday’s game to the Jags on a bogus interference call?? Yes.
Did I enjoy reading this story about two discarded quarterbacks thumping Pats and Bears? Yes.
That will be all for my football post.
Zambrano Pitches First Cubs No-Hitter since 1972
Colts Defeat Vikings 18-15
The Cubs play Houston in Milwaukee and make history, and the Colts barely pull one out.? I think they’re both good signs.? The last time the Colts had an ugly, ugly regular season, they came alive in the playoffs (and won Indy’s only Superbowl), and Zambrano [...]
That’s it.? I just watched him set another world record and leave the world’s best swimmers in his wake.? There’s just nothing like it.
Oh, and watching Misty May and Kerri Walsh beat everyone up is fun, too.
I know I’m not going to watch very many hours of the Olympics, but tonight I’ve had a chance, [...]
I actually started this reflection after I had finished paper 26, partly because a busier schedule has spread out my reading (and I don’t trust my memory) and partly because papers 24 through 29 are in their own rights so interesting.
Before I get to those, some of the earlier material was interesting, not least because [...]
I’ve finished my first genuine leisure read of the summer.? (Al Gore was fun in his own way, but this one has nothing to do with college teaching, so I’m claiming it as a true leisure read.)? Hample has all the charm of a good sports writer–he’s intelligible without seeming dumb and witty without trying [...]
I read this morning that the opening week of sales on Grand Theft Auto 4 outgrossed opening weekend for Iron Man, which is now the runner-up for biggest non-sequel opening movie for a weekend, by one hundred fifty percent.
When we were grabbing a bite for supper, I saw ESPN anchors interviewing Donald Trump on why [...]
$800,000 per annum raise for UGA head football coach
Yeah, that’s his raise. I could teach 57 years at UGA at my current pay rate and not match his raise. (I’d have to teach 200 years to match a year of his salary now.)
And people wonder why we TA’s don’t care about our [...]
On one hand, it’s great that I now have a hard drive four times the size of my old one, twice the RAM that I did before, and DVD/DVD-R drive.
On the other, it rather stinks that those events came alongside a hard drive crash that wiped out a few hundred of Micah’s pictures. GC [...]
I know Heath Ledger has already bumped the chess giant as the celebrity death of the week, but I’m just now getting my head around the fact that the greatest American chess player of all time is dead.? I’m conflicted about Fischer the way I am about Mike Tyson.? I know.? Weird comparison.? Stick with [...]
I just looked at the score from last night’s minor league football game, and it looks like Ohio State was once again overmatched.? Perhaps instead of choosing the last two teams the way high schools choose their homecoming queens, the NCAA should choose them the way that every other organized sport chooses them.? Then perhaps [...]
I’ll admit that I didn’t do my best teaching today.? For whatever reason, I had trouble getting the discussion going in meaningful directions in either class, and although my students were saying good things, I didn’t do a very good job moving those comments into conversation with one another.? I don’t know whether I was [...]
Colts vs. Pats: Good vs. Evil
I really enjoyed this little article.
Patriots at Colts on Nov. 4 is shaping up to be one of the most attractive and exciting NFL regular-season games ever staged. The pairing is fabulous; the teams are the league’s best; and there is a chance both will take the field undefeated. Plus, [...]
I haven’t watched either game in the Arizona series, and I don’t plan to watch tonight.? If they go deeper than this round, I might consider talking Mary into taking Micah for a few innings, but so far, reading about their impotence in the paper has been much better for my health.
GO COLTS!
Well, two playoff games and zero touchdowns given up…
And half a dozen (I think) Manning interceptions with one touchdown thrown.
I suppose the playoff season is a strange place to live.
Lord help our Colts!
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