Heeeere we go again. My tweets, and any comments thereon, will appear in the first window below. Tweets from everyone on my college basketball list will appear in the second window below. You can join the dialogue either by clicking “Make a comment” on the top window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 13909@scribblelive.com. GOOO BUTLER!!! BEEEEAT KANSAS… Read more »
In 2005, basketball writer extraordinare Kyle Whelliston (seen at left with yours truly at the 2007 BracketBusters game at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse) caught ESPN’s eye with his 100 Games Project on his blog, The Mid-Majority. Impressed, the Worldwide Leader hired Kyle to be a freelance mid-major correspondent. Truth be told, it was always an odd pairing: Kyle is both an… Read more »
Yet again, instead of letting tweets take over my blog, I’m going to temporarily confine them here. But I’m doing it a little bit differently this time. My tweets, and any comments thereon, will appear in the first window below. Tweets from everyone on my college basketball list will appear in the second window below.
Who knows what the reality is — Fog of War and all — but if initial reports are accurate, this seems like, er, a big f***ing deal: SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo… Read more »
Again, instead of letting tweets take over my blog, I’m going to temporarily confine them to the window below — and not just my tweets, but tweets from everyone on my college basketball list. Go Mid-Majors! Beat Other Guys! Also — with apologies to La Rev and the gang, and a shout-out to David K. — Go Washington! Beat ‘Eers!… Read more »
With apologies to major-conference Cinderella Washington and mid-major non-Cinderellas Butler and Xavier, all of whom try tonight to pull off an upset and move within a game of an unlikely Final Four appearance (at home in Indy, in Butler’s case), this evening’s most fascinating Sweet 16 matchup has got to be Kentucky vs. Cornell. I say this not just because… Read more »
You’ve probably already seen this, but I hadn’t until this evening. Courtesy of Jim Kelly on the LRT Facebook Fan Page, a glorious adaption of Schoolhouse Rock for the Biden Era, after the jump because of profanity (but you really should click and see)…
Heading into the NIT Final Four, Josh Rubin still leads the Living Room Times NIT Pool — but he is mathematically eliminated from winning it. Regardless of what happens at Madison Square Garden next week, someone will pass Rubin in the pool standings. Rubin, Greg Kagan and Dan Port were knocked out of contention Wednesday when Rhode Island beat Virginia… Read more »
Mitt Romney in 2006, in the WSJ, on universal health care in Massachusetts: 40% of the uninsured were earning enough to buy insurance but had chosen not to do so. Why? Because it is expensive, and because they know that if they become seriously ill, they will get free or subsidized treatment at the hospital. By law, emergency care cannot… Read more »
Two of the biggest, if not the two biggest, snowstorms we’ve gotten this winter in Denver, didn’t happen during the winter at all. The first was just before Halloween. The second was last night and this morning, during many local schools’ spring break, several days after the vernal equinox. Go figure. Anyway, here are a couple of photos from this… Read more »