I already tweeted this, but since new tweets aren’t showing up in the sidebar right now, due to the hangover from the recent blog outage… Friday’s Planet Money podcast, about Europe’s debt woes and the potential Lehman-style mega-crisis that could be in their (and our) future, was a classic in the #PANIC!!! genre. It may be their most unnerving episode… Read more »
The Mid-Majority has just published its first State of the Other 25 rankings for 2010, and Denver’s next opponent — St. Mary’s — is ranked #1. Here is TMM’s write-up:
Bruce Schneier has a modest proposal: Securing the Washington Monument from terrorism has turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job. The concrete fence around the building protects it from attacking vehicles, but there’s no visually appealing way to house the airport-level security mechanisms the National Park Service has decided are a must for visitors. It is considering several options,… Read more »
Lisa Velte, a.k.a. “The Major’s Girl,” won the second annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest, besting Brad Warbiany (a.k.a. “Old Gold & Black”) on a tiebreaker. Velte, whose identity as “The Major’s Girl” had remained a mystery until this afternoon, and Warbiany both finished with 252 points out of a maximum possible 340. The tie was broken… Read more »
This is pretty incredible: The final BCS ratings show LSU ranked 10th and Boise State 11th. But I discovered a mistake that would switch the order of those teams. The Broncos should be BCS No. 10. Wes Colley’s final rankings, as submitted to the BCS, were incorrect. The Appalachian State-Western Illinois FCS playoff game was missing from his data set…. Read more »
Idiots:
I’m at Magness Arena and live-tweeting the DU-CSUN game (among other things) over at my main blog, The Living Room Times.
Since my tweets aren’t updating the right-hand column right now, due to server issues, I’m going to set up an all-day live-tweeting window here. It’s going to be a busy day of college basketball and football: Utah State-Georgetown is at 10:00 AM MDT; the Butler-Duke rematch is at 1:15 PM MDT; Oregon-Oregon State and Auburn-South Carolina start at 1:30 and… Read more »
After almost 24 hours offline due to server problems, the Living Room Times is back. Hopefully we’ll stay that way. Stay tuned. If the site goes offline again, you can get updates at my Twitter stream. Oh, speaking of Twitter… the right-hand column showing my latest tweets will not be updating for the time being. The plugin that updates the… Read more »
Against mid-major powerhouse Utah State Wednesday night, the Denver Pioneers appeared much improved, especially on defense, and looked like a team better than their win-loss record would suggest (with apologies to Bill Parcells). Offensively, DU stayed in the game thanks in large part to 11-of-22 shooting from three-point land — and, in contrast to recent post-halftime struggles, a 16-3 second-half… Read more »