Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing?
Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s The [...]
Good Lord, the days are a blur. The academic calendar had us starting the week before Labor Day, followed by having that next Monday off for a holiday. I teach two MW sections, meaning we’re in week three and we’ve only met three times. On top of this, students can still add classes until tomorrow, [...]
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A few years ago I started tracking the champions of European soccer leagues in a database to see if I could see any definite trend in competitiveness after the introduction of major advertising revenues via television rights deals, which exploded in the early nineties. I also wanted to compare them against the major [...]
It’s the last day of 2008 and, overall, I can’t say that it was a fabulous year.
The highlights of the year were undoubtedly our trips to Spain (here) and Costa Rica (pictures forthcoming). We hadn’t planned for two international trips in one year, but our Costa Rica trip got pushed back a year due to [...]
Giving out pot shots, of course.
If I was the kind of person to burn someone in effigy, I would be constructing a dummy resembling Mike Sherman. Once again, the Packers were winning and were successfully coached into the ground. How many times did they have the game won on Monday night, only to snatch [...]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this season, it’s that I’m unwilling to watch the Badgers play god-awful football week in and week out whereas I feel it’s almost an obligation to watch my beloved Packers stumble to a losing season.
Mike McCarthy is not a good coach and unfortunately Ted Thompson, the man who [...]
I watched Chelski vs. Arsn*al today and it was a fantastic game. After thinking about it and determining that there was no way both teams could lose, I was pulling for a draw since that would harm them both almost equally. I figured if Chelski won then it would be yet another loss for [...]
This site gets severely neglected in crunch times, and it’s crunch time. I was freaking out earlier about how I was going to get everything done by the end of the semester (Dec. 12 or so) but after mapping it all out I think I’ll be good to go. I realized today that a slow, [...]
The secret to watching the United States play some good attacking soccer? Have them face a tiny Caribbean nation playing with one man down. The US whipped up on Cuba to the tune of 6-1 last night and featured some pretty decent attack play. I was really happy to see DaMarcus Beasley bang in [...]
Mad City United won again, this time 5-2. I again opened the scoring early in the first half, and again it had to be one of the most god-awful goals in league history. I shot from about 20 yards out (again, almost the same exact circumstance) but didn’t hit it all that well. The [...]