A look at how some of this morning’s California newspapers covered last night’s massive San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire: More after the jump — including a bunch using the very same photo as the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Daily News, and a few others with a very similar photo of the fireball. That’s interesting to me, because… Read more »
I didn’t get my act together in time to launch this for Week 1, but no matter… it’s time for the 2nd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest! We’ll start with Week 2, so for those of you would totally would have picked Jacksonville State over Ole Miss and North Dakota State over Kansas… sorry! Anyway, to… Read more »
I’ve been too busy this week to pay as much attention as I normally would to a major breaking-news story so nearby, but as I’m sure you know, a devastating wildfire is raging near Boulder, destroying at least 135 homes — making it the most destructive fire in Colorado state history, in terms of homes burned — with no end… Read more »
If Boise State stays undefeated, I’ll undoubtedly be doing a lot of blog posts as the season progresses about the teams with a chance of eventually leapfrogging the Broncos (i.e., pretty much any unbeaten from a big-five conference), the potential one-loss teams who pose the biggest threat (the most obvious scenario is Florida losing at Alabama, then winning out, beating… Read more »
Ole Miss really should have gone with Admiral Ackbar as its new mascot. He could have warned them that paying Jacksonville State $300,000 for a guarantee game in Oxford was… A TRAP!!!!!
My Twitter sidebar is once again not importing tweets properly because of FriendFeed issues, so my tweets during the Boise-VaTech game may not appear on the blog. You can read them at http://www.twitter.com/brendanloy, of course. Anyway, if anyone wants to comment on the game, you can do so here. GO BRONCOS!!! UPDATE: Tweets seem to be importing again, but who… Read more »
No longer a “MONSTER,” and leaving behind a trail of inconvenience rather than destruction, Hurricane Earl is now a weakening Category 1 storm traversing ever-colder waters en route to a second U.S. “sideswipe” tonight, landfall as a tropical storm in Canada, and then, extratropical oblivion. Here’s a look at both Earl and the trough of low pressure (i.e., cold front)… Read more »
Before I post the latest track forecast, it’s important to emphasize that Hurricane Earl is not a point on the map, but a broad storm system with a geographically large wind field. The exact course of the eye is important, especially for storm surge purposes, because the strongest winds and most damaging surge — especially when it reaches New England,… Read more »
It looks like Jim Cantore may have picked the wrong Cape. The official NHC forecast now calls for Hurricane Earl to pass closer to Cape Cod and the Islands than to Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks, thanks to a gradual leftward shift over the last several advisories, and most recently, an overnight lurch in the computer models: AFTER 48… Read more »
