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Utah Jazz Tickets - All That Jazz: The Jazz Are All That!
December 12th, 2008. Published under Sports. No Comments.
I was watching Britney Spears: For the Record last night when it struck me that Americans have been focused on all the wrong things. While the prospect of watching Brit explain herself to the world was immediately too fascinating to pass up, I began to wonder about the people and events I was missing out […]
Utah Jazz Tickets - All That Jazz: The Jazz Are All That!
December 12th, 2008. Published under Sports. No Comments.
I was watching Britney Spears: For the Record last night when it struck me that Americans have been focused on all the wrong things. While the prospect of watching Brit explain herself to the world was immediately too fascinating to pass up, I began to wonder about the people and events I was missing out […]
2008 Top Ten Teams in the NBA
December 12th, 2008. Published under Basketball. No Comments.
Here is my list of the top ten teams in the NBA 2008-09. season.
1. Boston Celtics: The returning championship team, these guys now know what it takes to get to the finals and come out victorious. Their record so far is just as impressive, they are 20-2. They could break the Chicago Bulls record of […]
San Francisco 49ers Tickets - How Are The 49ers Like The Dawn Of The Roman Empire? Part II
December 12th, 2008. Published under Football. No Comments.
In the first part of this discussion, we equated the 49ers’ auspicious legacy in the 1980s and ’90s with the legacy of Ancient Greece and the Early Roman Republic. We also discussed how Mike Nolan (and to some extent Steve Mariucci and Dennis Erickson) represent a change in political/tactical leadership from passing-oriented to running-oriented offense. […]
Baseball: Teaching the Figure-4 or Bent-Leg Slide
December 11th, 2008. Published under Baseball. No Comments.
The easiest and safest sliding technique is the Bent-Leg or Figure-Four slide. It involves sliding to the base feet-first with arms up and one leg bent inwards beneath the other.
The first step in teaching this technique is to determine which leg should be tucked beneath the other. This bent leg is also the take-off leg […]
NCAA Football Tickets - Entourage Characters and their Corresponding Football Teams
December 11th, 2008. Published under Football. No Comments.
In the life of the 20-something adult, Saturday morning is spent watching college football on a cable sports network, and Sunday night is spent watching the latest TiVo’d episode of HBO’s Entourage. These two things- college football and Entourage- book-end the weekend of many a young adult, so it seems only necessary that we explore […]
NCAA Football Tickets - Entourage Characters and their Corresponding Football Teams
December 11th, 2008. Published under Football. No Comments.
In the life of the 20-something adult, Saturday morning is spent watching college football on a cable sports network, and Sunday night is spent watching the latest TiVo’d episode of HBO’s Entourage. These two things- college football and Entourage- book-end the weekend of many a young adult, so it seems only necessary that we explore […]