I’m buying one of these things in preparation for Thursday’s NLCS Game 7:
I’m sending the invoice to Billy Wagner.
Let’s go Mets!
18 October 2006, Wednesday
I am Third
As Couric Stays in Third, CBS Stresses the Positive
I know this has to do with ratings and advertising dollars and the economy and network egos and keeping the public informed and important grown-up stuff like that.
But once upon a time it was OK to not run around crowing about being Number One, even if you were:
God is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Players Gone Wild
OK. You’ve seen the video replays and heard DP and KO talk about it on The Big Show. You’ve heard Michael Irvin tell you that “the boys” from Miami were just frustrated, and it wasn’t anything that a little winning wouldn’t fix. Perhaps you heard Donna Shalala on Mike and Mike this morning explain The U’s tough new stance on the conduct of their student-athletes. Just like in the Clinton administration post-Monica: The All-New “The President Will Not Have ‘Sex’ With Interns” Zero Tolerance Policy.
There’s a game later on this season that will be broadcast by CBS. It probably won’t get any highlights on SportsCenter, nor will it generate much discussion on sports talk shows. But it has what is probably the best moment in college sports, something worth remembering in light of the FIU-Miami fiasco:
At the end of the game the alma maters of the losing team and then the winning team are played and sung. The winning team stands alongside the losing team and faces the losing academy students; then the losing team accompanies the winning team, facing their students. This is done in a show of mutual respect and solidarity.
Army-Navy Game
I admit it: I’m a sentimentalist. I’m like Bill Mazeroski; I cry at sad commercials.
I like Army-Navy. Even if the game is not competitive (and they haven’t been these past few years), there is a lot to appreciate. You have to admire athletes in any sport who play for the sheer love of the game. Not many NFL draftees will come out of West Point or Annapolis. The rivalry is fierce; this is like Michigan-Ohio State. And when you watch Army-Navy these days it’s hard not to remember that the seniors will graduate next summer and then head off to war.
A war being run by politicians with an eye towards the next election.
So if you get really sick hearing about college and pro athletes behaving like thugs, tune into CBS on Saturday, 2 December 2006. Even if you don’t watch the whole game, try to catch the end. It’s worth it.
(A pro-Navy clip. Sorry, Army. Kind of corny with the music, but nicely done with some great old footage.)
How for Talk English
Cristiane contributes to this post:
One of the reasons I love living in Astoria (in Queens) is the collection of accents that you hear every day. Within my 6-apartment building we have American, Indian, Polish, Greek and Irish. I’m fascinated by accents.
Dang, it’s like you’re living at the U.N.
I lived in Washington Heights, and the building’s owner had the residents “segregated.” I hadn’t noticed this, but a friend of mine who lived in the building pointed it out. Hispanics on the lower floors, Jews on the middle floors, and Miscellaneous on the upper floors. I was Miscellaneous.
A lot of Russian immigrants were on my floor, and I was the Американско that they got to practice their English on as we rode the elevator. It was great. I loved it.
Where I live now, everyone sounds like Tom Brokaw. It’s not bad, but it’s just not as interesting.
This is a great site, and it looks like he has some new surveys up.
