Why isn’t there an iTunes-like service where I can go online with my iPhone, find the local radio broadcast for basically any sporting event, and pay $0.99 per game to listen to it? Maybe not for sports like Major League Baseball that already have fairly advanced systems for listening/watching online, but for other sports? Like college basketball and football, say?… Read more »
With basketball over, football far away, and Becky heading into her third trimester, I’ve decided to take a break from Twitter. This eliminates, at least for the moment, the need for an extra or double-wide blog sidebar showing my latest tweets. So we’re back to the old 835-pixel-wide layout. Low-res and mobile users, rejoice! (Apropos of which, if this page… Read more »
Pat McGriff of Boone, Iowa, a secretary at Iowa State University who has been entering my free NCAA Pools since she found them over the Internet in 2009, won the 16th annual Living Room Times men’s pool, riding her unlikely pick of a UConn national title to an surprising pool victory. She rallied from 123rd place at the end of… Read more »
In addition to the general March Madness live-tweet window in the right sidebar, all of my tweets tonight — and all tweets by anyone on the TMM Folks list, the #TMMhoosiers list, and various hand-selected individuals, plus all tweets tagged #midswin or #AOUEOU — will appear below. (Note: CoverItLive’s tweet import is wonky. Most tweets will appear almost instantaneously, but… Read more »
It probably comes as little consolation on the night that her father’s team was knocked out of contention for its third straight national championship, but Jenna (Auriemma) Stigliano, daughter of Geno and wife of my high-school classmate Todd, clinched the free, moneyless 14th annual Living Room Times NCAA Women’s Pool when Texas A&M upset Stanford in tonight’s first semifinal. She… Read more »
The Loy menagerie has added a new species. Chickens. The “why” is a long story — well, no, actually it’s a short story: Becky is insane 🙂 — but the bottom line is that, for the moment, we have four chickens (the three seen above, all a month or so old, and the baby one, seen at right) living in… Read more »
When I put a Butler masthead (photo from 2007) on top of this blog before the start of the tournament, it was intended as a generic basketball thing, not a Butler-specific reference. I never, ever could have imagined the Bulldogs would be back in the national title game (!!!). Likewise, when Dane told me his wacky prediction of Butler winning… Read more »
Mike Quinn, a.k.a. “isuquinndog,” a 2001 Illinois State alum and one-time Missouri Valley Conference guestblogger on the Irish Trojan’s Blog, won the 7th annual Living Room Times NIT Pool thanks to MVC runner-up Wichita State’s 66-57 win over Alabama in the NIT championship game. Quinn, seen at right with me at the 2006 MVC tourney, actually did not predict Wichita’s… Read more »
Thomas Friedman nails it, or so it seems to me, in his analysis of what Andrew Sullivan calls the Middle East’s 1848 — starting with the line “This is really hard stuff, and it’s just the beginning.” When an entire region that has been living outside the biggest global trends of free politics and free markets for half a century… Read more »
OMG: [A]s if any Irish-Trojans confrontation required a more electrified backdrop, there was this bombshell out of South Bend on Wednesday: Notre Dame will host its first home night game in 21 years this fall, and the opponent will be USC. The Oct. 22 matchup between the teams will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CDT. It’s the first Notre Dame… Read more »