Archive for November, 2009
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Nov
Posted by NPI in Sports. Tagged: Arkansas-Little Rock, ben uzoh, bill raftery, clarence jackson, derek fisher, edwin ubiles, Jay/Jason Williams, Jerome Jordan, jerry glanville, kay jewelers, matt janning, Nkem Ojougboh, Nolan Smith, northeastern, onions!, pathetic domination, portland state, Ronald Moore, Ryan Rossiter, sean mcdonough, siena, the Golden Hurricane, Tulsa, wayne burton. Leave a Comment
We’re back for our third of four parts of our college basketball marathon. Between now and noon, we’ll be live blogging Northeastern v. Siena, Arkansas-Little Rock v. Tulsa, and Temple v. Georgetown. Tim will bookend the afternoon with the first half of the opener and the second half of the closer, while John S takes [...]
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17
Nov
Posted by NPI in Sports. Tagged: adrian branch, allan houston, bilal benn, bob wischusen, bruiser flint, college basketball, colonial, dave calloway, David Potter, drexel, dutch gaitley, East Dillon, eric collins, evan gordon, friday night lights, Infinite Jest, joe mihalich, john dunne, jon sciambi, laphonso ellis, maac, monmouth, nec, niagara, nike system of dress, rider, rob garrison, ryan bacon, senator joseph mccarthy, seton hall, siena, st. peter's, tanner smith, tim welsh, travis taylor. Leave a Comment
We’re in the midst of our 22 straight hours live blogging ESPN’s College Basketball Marathon, although you probably should have inferred that from the title. If you want to catch up and take a stroll down Timmy Chang Memory Lane with John S, check out the Overnight Post. Tim will handle the 6 a.m. game [...]
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17
Nov
Posted by NPI in Sports. Tagged: 24 hour marathons, Billy White, Cal State Fullerton, Carter Blackburn, college basketball, DJ Gay, Dwain Williams, espn, Hawaii, hawaiian shirts, Hiram Thompson, Hubie Brown, Jeremy Lay, Kawhi Leonard, live blogs, Matthew Dellavedova, MIchael Roll, Mickey McConnell, MItchell Young, Nick Adams, Northern Colorado, rainbow warriors, Rece Davis, Roderick Flemings, San Diego State, St. Mary's, Stephen Bardo, Tad Boyle, the U.S. Olympic team, Timmy Chang, UCLA. 4 Comments
Tim has already announced his excitement for the start of the college basketball season. Well, he’s not the only one who’s excited: ESPN is covering college basketball throughout its family of networks on Tuesday, including 12 different games on ESPN itself. Well, if ESPN is up for 24 hours of college basketball, then so is [...]
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16
Nov
Posted by John S in Music, Ranking Bob Dylan Songs. Tagged: "Something's happening here and you don't know what it is", ballad of a thin man, Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, highway 61 revisited, Mr. Jones, music critics, one-eyed midget, Rankings, sword swallower, tastemakers. 1 Comment
I really like the lyrics to this song. I mean, I get that I probably appear to like Dylan’s lyrics all the time, but I really like them in this song. They’re caustic and clever and cogent. Just the refrain itself is a beautiful piece of simple, forceful poetry: “Something is happening here/But you don’t [...]
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16
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: a discussion of underdogs, Aziz Ansari, black musicians, college football, Comedy, david gates, Hannibal Buress, john beilein, Kumail Nanjiani, Malcolm Gladwell, Michigan Daily, New York Times, new york times book review, new york times magazine, rap, stand-up comedy, stephen pinker, the future of television, the originals of laura, wall street journal. Leave a Comment
What we read while going for it on 4th-and-2… It’s been a few weeks since we had an NY Times heavy medley, so we figured we’d catch up on old tricks all at once. Here’s Stephen Pinker’s review of Malcolm Gladwell’s newest collection of essays, which does to Gladwell kind of what South Park did [...]
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15
Nov
Posted by Tim in Literature, Sunday Book Review. Tagged: alexei ivanovich velchaninov, crime and punishment, demons, fyodor dostoevsky, notes from underground, pavel pavlovich trusotsky, the adolescent, the brothers karamazov, the double, the eternal husband, the gambler. 1 Comment
The Eternal Husband is the kind of novel I imagine Fyodor Dostoevsky came up with in a weekend. It could even work as a one-act play with its three basic steps: Take a wife who cheats on her husband, kill her off (before the start of the novel of course), and put the husband in [...]
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14
Nov
Posted by Tim in Mere Anachrony, On the Long Side, TV. Tagged: anna karenina, bart, bart the general, bart the genius, call of the simpsons, dr. marvin monroe, homer, homer's night out, homer's odyssey, jacques, krusty gets busted, leo tolstoy, life on the fast lane, lisa, local boob, maggie, marge, moaning lisa, review of the simpsons, season one of the simpsons, sideshow bob, simpsons roasting on an open fire, some enchanted evening, the crepes of wrath, The Simpsons, the telltale head, there's no disgrace like home. 3 Comments
“Sometimes I think we’re the worst family in town.” “Maybe we should move to a bigger community.” “Dad, the sad truth is all families are like this.” This short conversation among Homer, Marge, and Lisa Simpson is, in so much as the longest-running comedy series in television history has one, The Simpsons’ thesis statement. In [...]
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13
Nov
Posted by Tim in Sports. Tagged: big east, bill raftery, butler, college basketball, dick enberg, duke, gordon hayward, gus johnson, john beilein, jon scheyer, kansas, kyle singler, north carolina, sean mcdonough, verne lundquist, west virginia. 4 Comments
As we draw toward the unexciting close of what can only be described as a woeful college football season, it’s high time we shifted our sights to the only flawless sport left in America: college basketball. Oh sure, the naysayers point out a deterioration in the quality of play, the untenability of the one-and-done rule, [...]
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13
Nov
Posted by John S in Music, Ranking Bob Dylan Songs. Tagged: Bob Dylan, East Orange, Elvis Presley, Greenwich Village, Greil Marcus, hillbillies, Memphis truck drivers, midwesterners, Rankings, Talkin' New York, Woody Guthrie. Leave a Comment
Greil Marcus once remarked that it is somewhat surprising that none of the puppet masters who got their hands on Elvis Presley ever tried to fabricate or glamorize his upbringing, the way some teen idols did in those days. The simple explanation for this, according to Marcus, is that no embellishment could have improved on [...]
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Nov
Posted by John S in Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Sports, TV. Tagged: a new #1, Casey's inferiority at challenges, Cohutta, Darrell, Derrick, Evan, Evan loses the crown, good strategy, MTV, PEDs, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Stacking the Salad, Susie, the mellifluous language of Cohutta, The Ruins, throwing challenges, week 7 the ruins. 1 Comment
“Sarah won. I’m glad we have someone that motivated and excited to be here on our team. God knows the rest of us want to shoot ourselves in the face.”—Dunbar “Every time I win, I keep stacking the salad.”—Cohutta Unfortunately, Cohutta’s salad is no more.* His massive bank account of over $18,000 was targeted by [...]
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