Archive for November, 2011
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Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Alex Oriakhi, Black Friday, david foster wallace, David Frum, Jonah Keri, miami heat, NBA lockout, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, pbs, thanksgiving, the fading of the Republican Party, Tim Grierson, will leitch, Woody Allen. Leave a Comment
What we read while being thankful for the stuff we bought on Black Friday… Our long national nightmare is over: Players and owners have reached a deal and the NBA will resume again on Christmas, probably! Players were so excited they took to Twitter. It should be no surprise, though, that the deal benefits the [...]
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24
Nov
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: AL MVP, are we really still writing about baseball on Thanksgiving?, baseball, Curtis Granderson, Felix Hernandez, Jacoby Ellsbury, jose bautista, Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera, MLB, Zack Greinke. Leave a Comment
First off, I should say that I am not against starting pitchers winning the MVP award. In fact, I think Pedro Martinez’s loss in the 1999 race is one of the award’s greatest tragedies. With that said, I would very rarely vote for a starting pitcher to win the award, and I would not have [...]
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21
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Alex Trebek, Alison Brie, Arrested Development, Bob Costas, bobby knight, Coach K, Community, gay talese, Jeopardy, jerry sandusky, Life, Michael Bloomberg, NBC, new york times magazine, Nielsen, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Penn State, pepper spray, Roger Craig, ronald reagan, Sex Education, the darkest timeline, UC-Davis. 1 Comment
What we read while Reagan’s ghost cleaned up the mess at UC-Davis… In the real darkest timeline, Community was left off of NBC’s mid-season schedule, though NBC insists the show isn’t actually cancelled. Fans of the show are panicking and taking to the Internet to express their outrage. Alison Brie even showed up on The [...]
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14
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: college basketball names, espnw, fortress of solitude, Grantland, happy valley, harrisburg patriot-news, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, James Wood, jane leavy, jerry sandusky, joe frazier, joe paterno, Joe Posnanski, Jonathan Lethem, luke cyphers, Malcolm Gladwell, mark kram, mark kram is a palindrome, michael weinreb, Rolling Stone, sara ganim, Sports Illustrated, state college, Steve Jobs, the awl, william nack. Leave a Comment
What we read while rioting in Happy Valley, resigning in Italy, and, um, what’s the third one? The story coming out of Penn State is one of the worst we’ve seen in sports in a long time. We’ve read a multitude of takes on former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky’s abuse and the University’s oversight. Sara [...]
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12
Nov
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: bcs, Boise State, college football, college football playoff, endless debates, fluke champions, snake eating its own tail, Stanford's 2011 season, unfairness. Leave a Comment
Like a snake eating its own tail, of course I have to respond to Tim’s response to my response to Dan Wolken’s response to the standard defense of the BCS. In his reply, Tim accused me of conflating his argument with “poorly conceived” arguments from “low-hanging fruit.” This time, therefore, I’ve decided to confine my [...]
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11
Nov
Posted by NPI in College Basketball Preview Palooza!, NPI Comes Alive!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: Austin Rivers, Brandon Triche, college basketball, college basketball preview, duke, harrison barnes, jared sullinger, Jeremy Lamb, Kemba Walker, Kendall Marshall, kentucky, Kris Joseph, NPI Comes Alive!, player of the year, podcasts, robbie hummel, Scoop Jardine, syracuse, Terrence Jones, the 2011-12 season, The Double Bonus, UNC. 1 Comment
The Double Bonus returns! With college basketball season officially underway–and Monday’s 24-hour marathon on ESPN being a reminder of how awesome college basketball is–John S and Tim return for their first ever in-person podcast! Together they break down their picks for each of the major conferences, discuss sleepers and POY candidates, and fondly reminisce about [...]
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7
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Chuck Klosterman, Bill Simmons, Tyler Cowen, Vanity Fair, Mike Bloomberg, washington redskins, Hannibal Buress, ben cohen, jay bilas, Entertainment Weekly, snl, libya, Jon Huntsman, NBA lockout, Eddie Murphy, Tower Heist, top 50 college basketball players ever, Muammar Qaddafi, Daniel Kahneman, William Easterly, tablet, new york review of books, orion magazine, why we should all fear the octopus. 1 Comment
What we read while sexually harassing Herman Cain back… Two economists, including NPI-favorite Tyler Cowen, explain the NBA lockout. In better basketball news, Chuck Klosterman came up with a somewhat controversial list of the 50 greatest college basketball players ever. Friend of the blog Ben Cohen profiles previous subject of the blog (and we wish [...]
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5
Nov
Posted by Tim in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: alternative mechanisms of devising a college football champion, Boise State, dan wetzel, Dan Wolken, every game counts, i cut out the tim tebow joke, lsu alabama, playoff suggestions, the bcs, the human centipede. 1 Comment
Man, John…could you be more John? Way to seize upon the first regular-season game in five years to make the BCS look like a good idea and promote the hell out of your “let’s-take-it-to-absurdist-realms-and-then-see-how-you-like-it” point that the BCS is good because it’s different.* Once again, people dislike the BCS not because it’s different, but because [...]
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3
Nov
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Sports. Tagged: alabama, bcs, college football, Dan Wolken, defending the BCS, defending the supposedly indefensible, every game counts, LSU, LSU/Alabama, ncaa, NCAA football, SEC. 1 Comment
I don’t mean to rehash old debates (who am I kidding? Of course I do. This is a blog after all), but another college football season means another post where I attempt to defend the BCS. And, of course, this weekend’s LSU-Alabama game presents a great opportunity for such a defense. Saturday’s highly anticipated SEC showdown would [...]
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