Constraints a Good Thing?
Aside from the endorsement income aspect covered in several posts in TSE, the Tiger Woods story has generated Internet buzz about a variety of tangent …
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Chizik "A Good Buy Right Now"?
Lately, the hiring of Gene Chizik for the head football coaching job at Auburn generated a ton of (mostly negative) buzz. Charles Barkley’s comments about …
No Country for Old Men: The Bowden Saga
Due to travels, I missed writing about the Bobby Bowden affair during the height of the storm. The dismay among FSU fans is strong. In …
Dodger Stadium: 50 More
While Dodger Stadium benefited from a generous land grant from the city and infrastructure subsidies detailed in Dodgers Move West (also, see Stadiums and Eminent …
From Gimmick to Mainstream
During the Colts-Dolphins Monday night telecast, the TV crew’s conversation turned to Miami’s “Wildcat” formation — the direct snap to a running back playing QB. …
Less is More
In his most recent post, Bill Simmons from ESPN Page 2 confesses Boredom with the Red Sox , laying the bulk of the blame on …
League Geography Differences
The recent NHL Stanley Cup Finals made me ponder the question of league geographic choices. Detroit (Western Conference) and Pittsburgh (Eastern Conference) are only a …
The Palmeiro Files
An interesting angle coming out of the Palmeiro case is the question of the internal politics at work. The AP’s Tim Dahlberg writes, You have …
4th Downs and Beyond: Coaches as Optimizers
Ran across a recent piece on the evolution of Jason Garrett’s playing calling by Jonathan Bales of DC Times (an analytics based blog on the …
More Reasons to Dislike the Irish
With a Southern California birth and a youth spent in North Texas, I grew up pulling for USC and Southwest Conference teams. To a kid …