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By H.C. Johns (Cross-posted at The Other Right) As disturbing as cadaver-sex exhibitions may be, sometimes it strikes me that the most insidious ways we reject self-limitation are those that seem most innocuous. Unlike intentionally offensive activities, taking normal behavior and pressing it to the absolute boundaries of physical impossibility doesn’t shock. Indeed, it awes. And the [...]
Filed under: conservatism, sports
I’ll be here listening to the game on the radio, but in the meantime … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUuQxaAZ7HU]
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You know it: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sDhYO1D4s]
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Predictably, Bill Simmons doesn’t think that Rajan Rondo’s shot to the head of Brad Miller in the closing seconds of yesterday’s Game 5 – “about the most blatantly obvious flagrant foul you could commit”, John Hollinger calls it – was worthy of being tagged a flagrant. “That play shouldn’t have decided the game,” Simmons writes. [...]
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Let me second Bill Simmons: the Game 3 blowout notwithstanding, this Bulls-Celtics series is already a classic, and not even the shoddy officiating and the horror that is Jeff Van Gundy with a microphone could keep this from being one of the most enjoyable Sunday afternoon Bulls games I can recall watching. (And there have [...]
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Veteran sportswriter John Walters has recently taken up a gig guest-blogging at Notre Dame football über-blog The Blue Gray Sky. His latest post discusses the democratizing effects of the rise of online sports journalism, and along the way serves up some utterly infuriating anecdotes – including one in which an editor at Sports Illustrated changed [...]
Filed under: media/culture, sports
The Times has viewer-controllable, all-around panoramic views of the new Yankees and Mets stadiums, both of which look gorgeous even while, as George Vescey rightly notes, they can’t help striking one as strangely anachronistic monuments to the triumph of a consumeristic excess that suddenly seems a distant memory. (The new Yankee Stadium is apparently damned [...]
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This one had me going until they quoted Coach Weis saying that a day of practice should be enough preparation for USC. I can’t believe I bought the line about increasing the number of NBC’s television timeouts … I’ve actually been pretty on the ball with sniffing out the jokesters today. Nice job, BGS.
Filed under: miscellany, sports
Apparently the Jets have expressed interest in acquiring Jay “Don’t Hurt My Feelings or I’ll Demand a Trade” Cutler from the Broncos. Because, you know, going after an interception-prone gunslinger with an outsized ego and a near-guarantee for clubhouse unpleasantness just worked out great last time … Questions: Can’t we just get Chad Pennington back? [...]
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I’ve got Oklahoma over UConn in the championship game, with Pitt and Louisville as the other semifinalists and Kansas, Marquette, VCU, and North Carolina rounding out the Elite Eight. Western Kentucky over Illinois is my obligatory 12-5 upset, and I’ve got every #10 seed except for Minnesota winning in the first round and WKU upsetting [...]
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