Archive | May, 2009

Lame Excuses Don’t Fix Baseball Steroids Woes

8 May 2009

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 From yesterday’s Wall St. Journal,  a tidbit from their panel on “The Future of Sports,” Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball, on steroid use in baseball (bold for emphasis is mine): I’ve had one writer after another come to me and say over the past decade, “I don’t know how they expected you to know. I was [...]

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Metric to Measure Lameness

8 May 2009

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Put any variation of the word lame in a headline and I can’t pass it up:  ‘Tumblarity’ A Metric to Measure Lameness on Tumblr Microblogging platform and lazy book deal factory Tumblr introduced a “feature” yesterday called Tumblarity, a single convenient number that lets users know exactly how many terrible blogs are better than theirs. Alas, my [...]

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Too Bad: No Clothes, No Ultimate Frisbee

4 May 2009

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Five players on the University of Oregon Ultimate Frisbee team played without pants and underwear. Now their season has been cancelled by a five-member student board. Team co-captain was only slightly apologetic: Speeding, drinking, nudity — they’re not bad things. They’re things a big portion of the community doesn’t think are wrong. To run around [...]

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