Today, the NCAA announced Ohio State’s sanctions for Tresselgate. They are, of course, far less severe than USC’s sanctions, despite the misconduct having been indisputably more widespread, with higher university officials (like, I don’t know, THE HEAD COACH) having been undeniably more directly responsible for what occurred. Asked to comment, USC athletic director Pat Haden demurred: “My job is to… Read more »
As noted in my post announcing Jacob Sommer as the winner of the LRT college football regular season Pick ’em Contest, it’s bowl season, and that means it’s time for the 7th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ‘em Contest! The contest is now underway. Instructions for entering after the jump.
Jacob Sommer (@jasommer) of Washington, D.C., a.k.a. “The Commodore” a.k.a. “Irish DC,” won the 3rd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest, finishing with a 298-87 prediction record (.774) and defeating Christopher Enger (@fuegote) of Harriman, UT, who went 296-89 (.769). Enger missed just two games this past weekend, the Conference USA and ACC title games. If he… Read more »
UCLA sucks. That is all. P.S. Enjoy your Pac-12 South “championship”! Have fun at Autzen! HAHAHAHAHA
Last night, while most sports fans in Denver were watching some guy named Tebow lead his team to another improbable comeback, I was at Magness Arena, watching the DU Pioneers knock off Conference USA’s Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles, 59-52. Here’s my full 800 Games Project write-up of the game, over at the Mid-Majority. Excerpt: Denver’s offense…showed flashes of brilliance that… Read more »
Here’s Amelia Hamilton (@AmeliaHammy), the queen of 11:11 tweets. I made sure to be sitting near her at BlogCon for the big moment — 11:11:11 on 11/11/11. 🙂 Screenshot:
If anyone else in Denver feels a disturbance in the Force this evening, it’s probably caused by the arrival of a bunch of conservative bloggers and tweeters from around the nation, descending on our fair city for BlogCon 2011, a two-day conference sponsored by the Tea Party-supporting political group FreedomWorks. A bunch of long-time online friends and acquaintances who I’ve… Read more »
Wow, it’s been more than two weeks since I blogged anything?!? Not counting my November 2008-June 2009 hiatus, that has to be a record dating back to 2002, no? Anyway, sorry, I’ve been really busy, and what free time I’ve had for the Interwebs has been going toward Twitter instead. But look! A pretty picture of Notre Dame Stadium at… Read more »
Last night, inspired by the generally unsatisfying, incomplete, and often vacuous nature of the tweets I keep seeing from both Left and Right about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the ongoing economic calamity — and also by this National Review article, among other big-picture economic pieces I’ve read recently — I went on another one of my extended Twitter… Read more »
Apple co-founder, chairman and (until very recently) CEO Steve Jobs, whose inventions repeatedly changed the world as we know it, died today of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 56. His death prompted massive news coverage (totally overshadowing Sarah Palin’s decision not to run for president) and an overwhelming outpouring of public grief more typical of a head of state’s… Read more »