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18-1

Paul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:06:33 +0000

Great link from Daring Fireball for the book ’19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots’. I particularly like the user-added tag of ”dewey defeats truman” (go and vote for it now) and the apparently unhacked fact that users who looked at this also bought “Lost: Season 3″

I’ve tagged this as Sport, but perhaps I should add Hubris.

Update: 5 minutes after I post the page has already gone. But it was a legit Amazon page, honest!

Superbowl

Paul — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:42:35 +0000

Just finished watching the game (no, I didn’t stay up, I recorded it) and without wanting to sound like Greg Easterbrook, trying to trademark the character sequence (it’s hardly even a phrase) “19-0″ is an insult to the footbaling gods, who clearly responded.

Bigby

Paul — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:10:22 +0000

Just watching the Packers-Broncos game and noticed a player called Atari Bigby. Atari is a Japanese word meaning attack, but clearly that’s not its most prominent use. Perhaps in another decade or so we’ll have a Nintendo Morris in the league. I’m guessing XBox 360 Jones may not make it past college.

Lateral

Paul — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:31:39 +0000

This clip is entertaining enough, but the commentary is great – I can only assume that the commentator had bet heavily on the result.

(HT: Daring Fireball)

Gone Wolves

Paul — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:44:05 +0000

In a slightly disorientating experience yesterday, I watched the Timberwolves lose to the Celtics last night on British TV. Not only was I watching it when none of the many Minnesotans I work with able to (they were at work), but KG, the player synonymous with the Wolves for the last decade, was playing for the Celtics.

The oddness of the situation was mitigated by my indifference to basketball; it’s the only major sport we didn’t watch while in the US, and I don’t regret missing the squeaking and the tallness and the back and forth and the squeaking.

Gymnastics

Paul — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:30:15 +0000

Do not click this link until you’ve read the following:

Don’t watch it at work. Seriously.
Take a look at the end of the address, and you should understand why I say don’t watch it at work.
No, I wasn’t looking specifically for this, or even this kind of thing.
I’ve never been to any form of establishment hosting ladies of negotiable virtue, and would be far too embarrassed ever to do so. So for the more adventurous of my readers this may be old news.
Having said all that, you should watch it because, frankly, damn. In theory it’s mildly indecent, but in practice I was watching the athleticism so intently I didn’t notice, um, anything else. That’s why I’ve tagged it as ‘Sport’.
Really, don’t watch it at work. Or in public.

Easterbrooked

Paul — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:45:45 +0000

Gregg Easterbrook is a… well, journalist is a bit strong, so let’s go with writer. His main topics seem to be religion, football (the sort played with Americans, not feet) and popular culture/economics/politics. His sports column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, appears each week at ESPN (I’ll let you work out what day it’s published on). It’s quite amusing, if a little repetitive and way too long, but worth a read every now and then. Except that now you don’t need to, because Kissing Suzy Kolber has a parody so awesome it renders the column itself superfluous. I’d quote from it, but really you should just struggle through one of his columns and then read the whole thing.

(HT: Pharyngula)