Via @denverpost a few minutes ago: “According to the roof of The Denver Post building, 11.25 inches of snow fell here so far today.” And there’s more coming tomorrow. Quite a bit more. Welcome to October in Colorado: Note the Halloween decorations on the front porch of the house at right. Heh. The fake spider webs blend right in with… Read more »
Well, not just me. 🙂 The Augustana Chamber Choir, directed by Dick Larson, along with the Augustana Chancel Choir and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, will perform the Mozart Requiem this Sunday, All Saints Day. I recently joined the choir (I sing tenor), largely for the opportunity to sing this very piece of music. If you’re in the area, please… Read more »
Iowa State’s players celebrate winning at Nebraska for the first time since 1977:
Nate Silver, in a post asking how Democrats regained the momentum on health care, makes an interesting observation: [T]he tea party/town hall movement that dominated the headlines in August is at this stage somewhat immature, with a lot of sound and fury but not so much focus — sort of where liberals were at in 2002/03 before the failures of… Read more »
In an article I linked to earlier, ESPN’s Ted Miller wonders whether Saturday’s USC-Oregon clash will be “the sort of contest where two teams play so impressively that even the loser becomes a top candidate for an at-large BCS bowl berth.” Miller is really asking the wrong question. BCS at-large berths aren’t determined by one team’s “impressive” losing performance in… Read more »
Well, USC held off Oregon State, 42-36. The Trojans are now 6-1 heading into a Top 10 showdown with Oregon next week. That’s the good news. The bad news? First of all, USC’s defense has apparently vanished. Perhaps it’s floating in a balloon somewhere, or hiding in an attic. But one week after allowing ND’s Jimmy Clausen to go 24-of-43… Read more »
First things first: Charlie Weis is a complete and utter moron. His inexplicable and indefensible decision to go for it on 4th-and-goal, instead of taking the chip-shot field goal to tie the game with 11 minutes left, was the last straw. It convinced me, once and for all, that Charlie Choo-Choo should be fired. Enough is enough. (And yes, I… Read more »
As I did last week, I’ve gone through tomorrow’s college football schedule and highlighted the games with major implications for USC as the Trojans try to sneak into the BCS championship game with one loss (something the majority of SI’s panel of analysts think they will accomplish). The two biggest games, outside of the Coliseum, are at 5:00 PM Mountain… Read more »
Some tweets back and forth with Stewart Mandel the other day, as well as the comment thread on my post about Dan Wetzel’s BCS article, has gotten me thinking, once again, about a college football playoff proposal. Everyone talks about either a “plus-one” (basically a four-team playoff) or an eight-team playoff simply taking the Top 8 teams in the final… Read more »
Just a few days ago, I stumbled upon an early-August column by ESPN’s Rick Reilly titled “Remember us? We’re UCLA football.” Reilly writes about Bruin coach Rick Neuheisel’s little-brother complex, his hyperactive desire to catch up with Pete Carroll and the big bad Trojans across town. It’s almost sad, really. And yet, ultimately, more funny than sad, because it involves… Read more »
