Roger Federer at the U.S. Open: Heh. Good thing Gus Johnson didn’t have the call on that one. I think his head actually would have exploded. (Hat tip: B. Minich.)
Here’s the video: I love Gus Johnson — even though, whenever I hear him call a crazy ending like this, I can’t help thinking of: “RAIVIO!!! LAST CHANCE TO DANCE!!! … HEARTBREAK CITY!!!” etc., etc. Curse you, UCLA! Curse you for (partially) ruining the Best Play-by-Play Announcer In Sports for me.
…you lose some. Ah, well, they were both great games — reminders of why I love college football so much — and my team won the more important one. With Ohio State out of the way, USC “just” needs to go undefeated in the Pac-10 and beat Notre Dame, and they’ll be back in the national title game. It’s no… Read more »
Last Saturday, we noticed that a house in our neighborhood, a couple of blocks away, had some rather conspicuous Ohio State gear in its front yard: So we resolved that, this Saturday, we’d introduce ourselves to our local neighborhood Buckeyes with a bit of friendly trash-talking. Thus, this morning, we walked over to their house with a sign in tow,… Read more »
Here is SI.com’s always helpful TV schedule for tomorrow’s college football action. Games of particular interest to me, with times converted to Mountain Daylight Time: • North Carolina at UConn, 10am, ESPNU (so, not really televised) • Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10am, no TV • Notre Dame at Michigan, 1:30pm, ABC • BYU at Tulane, 1:30pm, ESPN2 • UCLA at Tennessee,… Read more »
I remember waking up at 6:50 AM Pacific Time, eight years ago today, to the sound of Becky’s voice talking frantically into my answering machine (my phone’s ringer had been turned off), saying something about how we were under attack by terrorists. I didn’t catch all the details because I was too groggy, having gone to bed around 3:00 AM… Read more »
Space Shuttle Discovery’s scheduled landing was scrubbed Thursday afternoon, so in the evening, I was able to see the Shuttle and the International Space Station together in the sky for the third consecutive night. Well, sort of. This time, they were far enough apart that I didn’t actually see them both simultaneously (the Shuttle had “set” behind a nearby house… Read more »
In the course of a FiveThirtyEight blog post on last night’s ObamaCare speech, Tom Schaller reminds us more broadly that the policies which have left our nation in a deep fiscal hole — exacerbating (and complicating the solutions to) other crises, like health care and infrastructure and the Great Recession of 2008-09, while also growing rapidly into a crisis unto… Read more »
In an effort to assemble a viable — which necessarily means fairly simple — drinking game from bits and pieces of the rules offered by National Review, Wonkette (those were actually for Obama’s first address to Congress), and yours truly, I offer the following categorized rundown, after the jump.
Last night, as you can see in my video below, the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Discovery were very close together in the night sky, having just undocked a few hours earlier. During their pass over Denver, the ISS was trailing 13 seconds “behind” the Shuttle, meaning it would take 13 seconds for the ISS to reach a… Read more »