Here is where things apparently are, from what I understand of what’s being reported: • From the Pac-10’s perspective, everything hinges on Texas. The Pac-12 thing (add Colorado and Utah) seems unlikely to happen; not enough upside. It’s Pac-16 or status quo, because Pac-16 is the only way to get Texas, and Texas is what the Pac-10 really wants. •… Read more »
A true legend, a fine human being, a man whose greatness and goodness transcended the bitterest of rivalries — the only Bruin who could get a standing ovation in a roomful of Trojans — has died at age 99. Rest in Peace, John Wooden. P.S. I’m sad he won’t be around to see the UConn women potentially break his team’s… Read more »
[INTRODUCTORY CAVEAT: I realize most of my readers don’t care about Newington High School sports. But, seeing as how this blog is called The Living Room Times — named after my old NHS newspaper — it seems only appropriate to post this here.] Back in 2006, on the eve of the Connecticut Class L boys volleyball state championship match between… Read more »
Researcher Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin is using the iPad as a way to communicate with our oceanic cousins.
ESPN’s Pac-10 blogger, Ted Miller, reports that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott is attempting to shoot down yesterday’s report that an en masse membership offer to the entire Big 12 South, minus the fat kid (Baylor), plus the cool hippie (Colorado), is imminent: Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott released a statement on the matter to The Sporting News: “We are aware of… Read more »
If this report is correct — and the sourcing sounds solid — we may soon be looking at a Pac-16 instead of a Pac-10: According to “multiple sources close to the situation,” the Pac-10 plans to offer conference membership to six Big 12 teams at its conference meeting in San Francisco, forming a 16-team behemoth that spans the entire Western… Read more »
Bud Selig is reportedly “considering the unusual move of overturning the call at first base on Wednesday in Detroit that cost Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.” The New York Times‘s Tyler Kepner invokes an interesting analogy to make the case that Selig shouldn’t do it: It was not a perfect game. The game continued after Joyce awarded Jason… Read more »
"Smug liberal?" HAHAHA.
Baseball almost had its third perfect game in a month tonight. Correction: baseball did have its third perfect game in a month tonight, but the record books won’t reflect that fact, because an umpire blew the call on (what should have been) the game’s final play: Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game Wednesday… Read more »
This is a near-verbatim transcript of a conversation between me and my 2-year-old daughter one day last week. Background: she is obsessed with asking, and being asked, the question “how was your day?” She sometimes asks it when it makes no sense, like at 7:30 AM, or when we’ve been together all day. And even when it’s a logical question,… Read more »