as I see ultimate frisbee getting bigger and bigger it frustrates me more that scrabble appears to be in a state of stagnation...here's a game between sockeye and a venezuelan team that was nationally televised. Ultimate is starting to get really big in south america - colombia and venezuela both have a lot of really good young talent. I hate ( Read more... )

Andrew Bynum after grabbing 30 rebounds in a game:

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just watch the first fifteen seconds.

As I scramble to get ready for my qualifying exam (now T-15 days...yikes) I happened to come across this:

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I bet everyone else has already heard of her, but man. She is talented. I'm kind of a sucker for Fiona Apple/Regina Spektor/people like them. I'm hooked. Keep an eye out for Delilah. I get the feeling we'll be hearing about her.

I definitely have better things to be doing right now than this, but...about Gregg Williams and the bounty scandal - I'm confused. Do people really not think this is a systematic thing throughout the entire NFL? I'm not saying that every team has a specific bounty policy, but players are out there trying to hurt each other. At the very least, the ( Read more... )

one of my two projects for my upcoming qualifying exam (the apocalypse is in 23 days) is about the history of the Nile River. I've found most of my information from scratch. After putting all this work in, I find these two wikipedia articles:

Sahara pump theory
 North African climate cycles

Where on earth did these come from? The search for "Sahara ( Read more... )

Here he is.

as of right now I'm still number 1 on google. I demand that you guys help me stay there by keeping me #1 in your hearts.

I tend not to watch much tv or too many movies, but I used my recuperation as an excuse to delve into a free month of netflix. I may just keep the subscription going. So far I watched ten movies, including a lot of greats (the graduate, the bicycle thief, reservoir dogs, memento...in fact just about everything I watched was really good). However ( Read more... )

after a lull in the NCAA action with Creighton and Norfolk getting beat pretty bad, it's picking up again so I'll leave this short.

I'll upload vegas at some point as a cross-section of a good tournament whenever I get around to looking at the games. but meanwhile I figured that I'd throw the vancouver games on livejournal. Unlike many bad ( Read more... )

This is a legitimate question that I figure someone out there knows the answer to...why is there no basketball on canadian tv? I was shocked to learn that they don't show the ncaa tournament at all after already hearing that there's very limited NBA coverage. By comparison, England, China and the Philippines all have significantly more hours of ( Read more... )

I just found my aborted blog post about vancouver. I'm just going to include what I already had, which is only for day 1. day 2 was not that interesting ( Read more... )