It is a bit disconcerting to get scooped on your own move, but, well, this is the world where we live. You may have heard … I am leaving Sports Illustrated for a new venture. I can’t really go into details about the venture except to say that it’s a joint thing between the new…
Month: March 2012
Happy Pi Day
Great stuff from High Heat stats — hat tip to brilliant reader Joe — on National Pi Day. High Heat Stats figured out which pitchers had seasons ERAs closest to Pi — an inspired idea on NPD Day.* So of course I had to get in on this, largely because I’m in Vegas, and if…
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My wife worried, when I worked out an Olive Garden write-off with the great Tommy Tomlinson, that I would poke fun at Marilyn Hagerty’s now famous Olive Garden review. This tells me that I did not explain the idea well enough to her. I loved that review. In case you missed it, Marilyn Hagerty is…
Missouri and Kansas and Suspense
I liked the ending of “Say Anything.” Do you remember that? What happened (obvious spoiler alert) is that the John Cusack and Ione Skye were sitting on a plane, and she was frightened, and he told her that almost all plane accidents happen in the early part of the flight, before the pilot alerts everyone…
Kucinich and the DH
You may or may not have seen this, but Dennis Kucinich was destroyed in a primary Tuesday in Ohio. Don’t worry, this is not a political column — it’s actually about the designated hitter. But it begins with Kucinich, who was the mayor of Cleveland when I was growing up there. Kucinich is universally seen…
Bounty Hunters
If you don’t care about the Saints bounty hunting story — barely even see it as as story — you might as well stop reading now. I know that includes a lot of people. I know there is a strong belief that just about every team in the NFL does this sort of thing, and…