The Knicks lost tonight, which is way more interesting than trying to explain baseball stats and regression equations. Matt: taking the easy way out since 1998 ( Read more... )

If you've made hundreds of millions off of Google stock, now might be the time to sell, before you only make tens of millions.

'The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the gold color of her neck's soft down. And her mouth damp to his kisses and ( Read more... )

It snowed last night, 8 inches of the fluffy, light, looks like the fake stuff used in movies sort of snow. It's sunny today, and if I lay on the dining room table under the skylight and hold a shell to my ear, I can almost pretend I'm laying on the beach in some tropical local. If I play bad crunk, it's almost like being there ( Read more... )

Why Puritan America Sucks

So I'm reading Google News stories about Tiger Woods at the match play championships this week, and I stumble across this quote from Roger Allenby in an Australian paper:

"I get along well with Tiger and I'll give him a bit of shit on the first tee. I know I'll have to play really well to beat him. I can only play my own ( Read more... )

Don't Let Your Sons Growup To Be Trailblazers

The NBA announced today that Sebastian Telfair of the Portland Trail Blazers has been suspended for two games without pay for violating the NBA's firearms policy ( Read more... )

Hating on the Knicks has become...passe.It's fun to see a train wreck mostly due to the "HOLY SHIT A TRAIN WRECK!" factor. These things don't happen everyday. And if they did, it would take away most of the excitement. The Knicks have become so bad and so pathetic that the novelty factor has wore off. With the trade for Steve Francis today, the ( Read more... )

The days are getting longer, the catchers' mits are popping, the pitchers are horribly out of shape, and Barry Bond is "playing psychological games with himself"--it must be spring training ( Read more... )

Hope Springs Eternal Never For TigersBy Danny Knobler ( Read more... )