Rethinking Fandom
Posted on 03/13/2022 in misc • Tagged with Books, Sports, Baseball
Baseball belongs on the radio
I'm Over College Sports
Posted on 01/24/2021 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Sports, Purdue
Sunderland Till I Die
Posted on 12/24/2018 in misc • Tagged with TV, Sports, Soccer
Sunderland Till I Die is a Netflix original series that in 8 episodes follows the Sunderland Football Club through the 2017-2018 season. It was their first season in The Championship after being relegated out of the Premier League. The club's goal was to document their triumphant return to the Premier …
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Closing the book on the Red Sox
Posted on 05/19/2016 in misc • Tagged with Sports, Baseball, Soccer
Baseball has been one of my passions since I was about 5 or 6 years old. I clearly remember anxiously awaiting my Dad to bring home the Stars and Stripes from the base in Spain so that I could read the box scores and keep up with the Red Sox …
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Picking an English Premier League Team
Back before Christmas I realized that I was regularly spending my weekend mornings watching the Premier League. Yep, without trying or even noticing, I had became a soccer fan. So of course at some point I need to pick a team to follow. I have, of course, read Bill Simmons …
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The Non-Designer’s Design Book
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
I learned more in the first 20 pages of this book than in entire textbooks for various subjects back in my school days. Now that I have a basic understand of design though, I’m haunted by all the bad design I …
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Adventures in the CBA
Posted on 06/01/2015 in misc • Tagged with Books, Sports, Purdue
Underbelly Hoops: Adventures in the CBA - A.K.A. The Crazy Basketball Association by Carson Cunningham
Amusing journal of Carson’s last year in professional basketball, in the CBA. I’m sold.
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Don't Put Me In Coach
Don’t Put Me In Coach by Mark Titus
If Mark could shoot like he could write he might have seen more than 40 odd minutes of playing time over a 4 year career at Ohio State. A laugh-out-loud, R rated, insiders look at life as a Big 10 walk-on …
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It's Just A Game Guys
Spring Training Thoughts
I exited the office early today and took in a couple of hours of sun and baseball with the Red Sox and Nationals. The Red Sox won, not that it matters in a Spring Training game. I left in the bottom of the 7th when both teams on the field …
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Winning and losing in youth sports
Posted on 04/24/2007 in misc • Tagged with Parenting, Sports
Have fun, and get better after every practice and game are the only goals youth sports teams need
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Bobby Knight is bad stuff
Posted on 01/01/2002 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Sports, Purdue