Archive for October, 2009
29 October 2009
What do you do when you’re a state faced with crippling financial problems and a populace smart enough to support legalizing recreational marijuana use? You take steps to legalize marijuana for recreational use!
From the New York Times:
Tax officials estimate the legislation could bring the struggling state about $1.4 billion a year, and though the [...]
Categories: Random commentary
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, End the War On Drugs!, Marijuana legalization
Comments: 3 Comments
28 October 2009
I’ll be liveblogging just about the entire World Series for WSJ.com.
Here’s the link for Game 1. You can also submit questions to: Sports@WSJ.com.
Categories: Wall Street Journal
Tags: MLB, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, World Series
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27 October 2009
Chock full of sports talk, stadium food debates, tackle football in the snow, plus various and sundry nonsense.
Here’s Part 1.
Here’s Part 2.
Categories: Podcast
Tags: Childhood memories, Dave Dameshek, Hot dogs, MLB, NBA, NFL, Prissypants
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27 October 2009
A friendly hello to new readers at HuffingtonPost.com, where this post is cross-posted. Thanks for riding along.
In the weeks and months leading into this fall, ESPN did a great job building buzz around its “30 for 30″ documentary series. The idea was simple enough: Make 30 documentaries covering the 30 years ESPN has been on [...]
Categories: Random commentary
Tags: 30 for 30, Baltimore Colts, Barry Levinson, Freakonomics, Michael Lewis, MLB, Montreal Expos, NFL, Tampa Bay Rays
Comments: 2 Comments
23 October 2009
In Part 1 of our NBA preview, ESPN.com podcast maven Dave Dameshek and I break down the Eastern Conference, with a little MLB playoffs talk and other shenanigans thrown in.
Click here and enjoy.
(Western Conference preview coming next week)
Categories: Podcast
Tags: Dave Dameshek, MLB, NBA, Shenanigans
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The Pedro I Know
29 October 2009When Pedro Martinez takes the mound to start tonight’s Game 2 of the World Series for the Phillies, Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and many other observers will probably take the narrow view. They’ll focus on Pedro’s history of baiting Yankee fans, of Yankee fans’ own chants of “Who’s Your Daddy,” and of Pedro’s mixed track [...]
Categories: Random commentary
Tags: MLB, Montreal Expos, New York Yankees, Pedro Martinez, Philadelphia Phillies, World Series
Comments: 10 Comments