Monthly Archives: February 2010

A slice of March Madness in Colorado?

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Unlike my last two home cities (South Bend and Knoxville), Denver isn’t much of a college-sports town — pro sports definitely rules the roost here. But, depending on how things play out in the Big Sky Conference, we could end up with some March Madness up in Greeley, 60 miles north of town, on the 9th and 10th of next… Read more »

Nerdiest. Rap. Ever.

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Courtesy of last Monday’s Planet Money podcast (which I just listened to this morning), here’s a gloriously dorky hip-hop video produced by EconStories.tv, featuring John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek debating about economics — in rap form. Heh. Brilliant!

Watch out, Wooden: Geno’s coming

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If the UConn women, currently 21-0 and seemingly unbeatable — they’ve beaten #2 Stanford by 12 points (in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicated), #3 Notre Dame by 24 points, #7 Duke by 33 points, and #12 North Carolina by 41 points — keep winning, they’ll tie their own record for the longest winning streak… Read more »