Obama Ties Bush on Golf

Interesting-if-true fact from Patrick Gavin:  President Obama has already played as many rounds of golf after nine months in office as President George W. Bush did in eight years. President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. CBS' Mark Knoller — ...

Is Barack Obama Too Manly?

Mark Liebowitz had a piece for NYT over the weekend titled "Man’s World at White House? No Harm, No Foul, Aides Say." At first blush, it reads like some feminists are genuinely concerned about a male-dominated culture in the West Wing. After awhile, however, one begins to suspect it's a PR exercise to make President Obama seem more ...

College Sports Scandal Blame Games

Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying.  But she makes a good point here about the fact that those who enable cheating never seem to get much attention: Everybody notices the crooked defiant coach, the hapless sputtering president, the anonymous guys on the academic support staff who sit next ...

Limbaugh, Obama, and the NFL

Joseph Ashby argues that something fishy is being ignored in the matter of Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to buy the Rams. NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team. [...] Despite the fact that Smith’s opposition was based on Limbaugh’s political commentary, the report failed to mention ...

Punt the NFL

Glenn Reynolds links some poor sap who is angry at the NFL because Rush Limbaugh has been dumped from the group bidding for the Rams and is going to start a one-man boycott under the banner "Punt the NFL." I have cancelled my DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket package (including the Supercast). I will not watch ONE MINUTE of NFL games or ...

Rush Limbaugh Dropped from Rams Bid Team

Missouri native Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from membership in a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams and keep them in the city.  This speeds up the inevitable conclusion fo the NFL's owners refusing to let the controversial pundit join their ranks. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a group headed by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave ...

Wizard of Oz Turns 70

Glenn Reynolds' post noting "The Wizard of Oz turns 70 years old" was the latest of what is becoming for me an all-too-frequent occurrence: reading a completely different context and being momentarily confused.   My immediate reaction was "There's no way in hell Ozzie Smith is 70."   (He turns 55 the day after Christmas, making him older than I'd have guessed.) Of ...

I Got Nothin’

The combination of a busy day at the office and a slow news day on the domestic policy front have rather limited my blogging today.   Norman Geras knows the feeling: If you're a blogger and you're honest, then you'll admit to the fact that you're often looking for connections. 'Connections?' you ask. Connections. On a day - like many days, after ...

Dallas Cowboys ‘Party Pass’ Fiasco

In addition to embarrassing themselves with a shoddy performance in their first real game at their new stadium, the Dallas Cowboys vastly oversold standing-room-only "Party Pass" tickets in order to set the NFL attendance record. Arlington officials and the Dallas Cowboys are discussing the possibility of reducing the number of standing-room-only tickets by two-thirds after crowds became unruly Sunday night when ...

Football 1959

In an otherwise rather lackluster attempt at a "throwback" football column designed to offer a humorous take on the 50th anniversary of the American Football League, Gregg Easterbrook captures beautifully how much our choices have expanded: In vacuum-tube news, have you heard the big story? ABC will televise the new upstart American Football League. With one NFL game on NBC each ...

Clinton and Jordan: Great Jerks

Bill Clinton is joining Gavin Newsom's campaign for governor of California in what Michael Finnegan argues is payback for Jerry Brown's snub way back in 1992. Seventeen years after fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed in the 1992 race for the White House, the former president made clear today that bygones will not be bygones in the 2010 campaign ...

Google Sports Calendars

When checking my Google calendar this morning, I noticed a tab at the top highlighting "New: Sports Calendars."   Apparently, they actually rolled this out a couple weeks ago: Now, when you look under "Other Calendars," click "Add," then "Browse Interesting Calendars" (or use this link to the Calendar directory), you'll find calendars for hundreds of teams in dozens of sports ...

Quote of the Day – Abstinence Education Works Edition

"I don't think anyone on this team knows what 'schism' is, let alone could use it in a sentence. I thought it was an STD when I first heard it and I was like 'whoa, we preach abstinence in these parts.'" -- Minnesota Vikings DE Jared Allen

Fantasy Football Guide

Are you ready for some fantasy football? Manzine's first annual Fantasy Football Guide provides tips on preparing for and conducting the draft, managing your gameday rosters, successfully negotiating trades, and best positioning yourself to win your league championship. And Brett Favre's name isn't mentioned. Not even once.

Quote of the Day – Money Editions

"Just because Usain Bolt sets a world record every time he runs doesn’t make the other runners slow." - Mark Cuban, explaining why income disparity isn't a problem. While it's a great line, it's actually a poor illustration.  Races and records are zero sum games.  Bolt's winning the Olympics and setting a new record deprives other runners of gold medals and records. Conversely, ...