Sunday, September 12, 2010

Nine Years

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Nine years ago yesterday Islamic terrorists struck and destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City with two commercial airliners. Another pl...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Freakish win -- does it break the Yanks' slumber?

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The Yanks have been sonambulating since the injury to Andy Pettitte on July 18. After running off a 7-3 stretch against the Angels, Royals ...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Boss: resurgence, failure, scandal, renaissance

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Based upon the various obituaries of George M. Steinbrenner III, and my recent reading of William Manchester's brilliant Winston Spencer...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Defending Goldman

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Tuesday's spectacle in Congress with Senator Carl Levin's (D-Mi) committee grilling executives of Goldman, Sachs over their and the ...
Monday, April 05, 2010

The Monk's big a-- theory of basketball success

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Nineteen years ago, The Monk formulated his big a-- theory of college basketball. The theory is basically, if a skinny forward/center match...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Wishful predicting? It's baseball season.

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Last year, before the baseball season started, Buster Olney picked the Rays and Sawx to go to the playoffs and the Yanks to sit in 3rd in th...

Political blogging -- where's ours?

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There have been few political posts of note here recently for various reasons. First, Wongdoer has taken to earning every cent I pay him in...

NCAA Tourney notes

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Some quick Tournament notes as we go to the Final Four. First, as bad as the Big East did this year, with Syracuse, Villanova, Pitt, Georget...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Calculating an impact

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The teacher whose minor miracle was documented in the movie Stand and Deliver died yesterday. Jaime Escalante came to the US as an emigre fr...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Keep this handy - Obama promises broken

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This is a brilliant web resource by National Review's Jim Geraghty: the complete list of Obama statement expiration dates. Every declar...

NCAA Tournament -- 2010 is an aberrant year

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Checking the data reveals one conclusion -- the 2010 Tournament is nearly as much of an outlier as the 2006 Tourney. As I noted , in five o...
Monday, March 29, 2010

NCAA Tournament Weekend 2 review -- Monk picks suck

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The Monk had his worst Tournament since 2006. Next year, I will suck less. Promise. That said, I did give Wongdoer one good piece of advic...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Requiem for a 30-win team

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I've lived and died with Syracuse basketball since I was 11 and last night's bonk is one of the tougher losses to handle. In the ear...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sweet 16 Preview -- a second chance for sageness

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First off: Congratulations to Jim Boeheim. For the first time, Boeheim has been named the winner of the Henry Iba Award by the United State...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Quick personal bits and milestones

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In reverse chronological order: (1) MonkSis had surgery today -- partial vivisection of some sort. MonkBroinlaw says all is well and she...
Monday, March 22, 2010

All you need to know about ObamaCare . . .

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. . . and its political meaning. Fact 1 = 59%+ of the American people oppose the bill that passed the House yesterday and the Senate in Dece...

NCAA Tournament: Weekend 1 review

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The Monk had some big hits this weekend, so I can toot my own horn a bit. First, I had Kansas bonking against Northern Iowa. Just look for...
Friday, March 19, 2010

NCAA Tourney day one: the Big Least

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Boy does that Big East stink. Or at least the four reps who played yesterday sure do, right? Mostly. Georgetown's loss to Ohio was sim...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Upon Further Review: NCAA Tourney preview part 2

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I don't agree with everything they set out, but I tend to agree with the brackets by SI's Seth Davis and Tim Layden . George Dohrma...
Monday, March 15, 2010

You heard it here first, The Monk's annual NCAA predictions

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This is the easiest NCAA Tournament to pick that I've ever seen. One team will win all six of its games by at least 15 points, probably...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Belated Happy Birthday MaMonk

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I'm a day late for a birthday I cannot forget, the one I share with my momma. (She can blame her husband, who infected half of the Metr...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Happy Birthday Monk

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Wishing my dear cantankerous friend a happy day on yet another anniversary of his debut and the score and eighth anniversary of our acquaint...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Mazel Tov

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Congratulations to Monk and Monkette on the happy and healthy debut of their second child. "A son is a son until he takes a wife but a ...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Another good Super Bowl

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That's three good ones in a row: all-time best, top 5 and a top 12, respectively, Peter King's foolishness notwithstanding (he's...