Thousands of years ago, before the Internet existed (or, at least, before TCP/IP was used as its backbone), I was in high school and saw The Empire Strikes Back when it first came out. My friend Greg took perverse pride in being a dick, so as we exited the theater, walking past the huge line of people waiting to get…

Once upon a time, I would watch most of the random, low-level bowl games leading up to New Year’s Day (e.g., Holiday Bowl, Sun Bowl, AstroBlueBonnet Bowl), would hardly ever watch the games on NYE (usually the Peach Bowl or Tangerine Bowl), and then watch at least 3 of the 4 New Year’s Day games (one of either the…

I live in Palo Alto. My mother worked for the head of HP Labs and her cubicle was literally right next to Dave Packard’s and Bill Hewlett’s offices. When Fiorina and Lew Platt spun HP Labs off into Agilent, the old guard was irate and hurt; they had been the “original” HP and felt that Fiorina’s focus on printers and…

I read a story some years ago in GQ or Esquire that talked about the Bushes. It related an anecdote from 1968, when Rep. George H.W. Bush was rumored to be considering a run for president as a moderate, ran into then-former V.P. Richard Nixon and his chief aide, H.R. Haldeman, in the halls of the Capitol. Bush asked…

As an Arsenal fan, I hate Mourinho and am happy he got fired (I’m a petty, bitter man). But Chelsea’s failure this season (yes!) has got to be 90% on the players. You bring in someone new, they bring in a new game plan that doesn’t actually work with the personnel already in place, that’s on the manager. You have the…

I’m frankly surprised more fans aren’t carried out after collisions like this. NBA players are larger, faster, and more athletic than they’ve ever been, so the chances of a 250 pounder like LeBron doing what is effectively a real-life WWE pile-driver on a 150 lbs “normal” person just sitting there are pretty high.

Full disclosure: I’m a longtime Arsenal man.

Oh for God’s sake. This isn’t about censorship or the First Amendment or artists’ rights. It’s about house-bound nerds wanting to see naked or nearly-naked women/girls.

I agree. PoSOY or AOY is kind of like love: more than one person can have 100%.

It would seem to me that the recent academic scandal at UNC would be prima facie evidence that APR means nothing when it comes to educating alleged students who are athletes. Did UNC meet the APR requirements between 2003 and 2010? If so, the emperor has no clothes.

The only people with less trustworthiness than college ADs are FIFA and IOC execs. That is some truly shitty company to keep.

I’m 98% certain this was simple incompetence, compounded by the CYA mentality any authority defaults to when their competence is questioned, but I want to start this conspiracy anyway:

I went to the game last night. Its been traditional for Pac-12 teams to jingle their car keys at USC (“Rich kids let their daddy buy them a car”) and as a loyal Cal man, I whole-heartedly support that tradition. However, there is something a little off about the Stanford kids doing it to USC.

I was all prepared to dump on Clemson and Oklahoma for having shitty schedules, but when I looked up this year’s strength of schedule, it’s Mich. St. that has by far the worst of the top four; in fact, of the final top 8, the real outliers in terms of schedule strength are Michigan St., Iowa, and Ohio St. Yes, the ACC…

“Jed York” and “scapegoat” go together like “Thor” and “Mjolnir”. So I’m guessing Jed is, once again, the actual bad guy here, not Marathe.

“Sacrebleu! You said ze lightning can not strike twice in ze same place! And yet, voila! Do you have a cigarette?”

In the U.S., the prohibition on double jeopardy in the 5th Amendment applies to both bench (judge) and jury trials. It covers not only the verdict, but all legal determinations and proceedings related to the prosecution. Basically, once evidence is introduced, the state gets one shot on the charged offense (and any…

I don’t know South African law, but it seems like they just found him guilty of the same crime, but called it something different and changed the sentence. If you remove the motive to kill his girlfriend (which would have provided the intent necessary to make this murder one or second-degree murder in the U.S.), you…

Occasionally, a particularly insightful talent evaluator will recognize an unpolished stone as a true gem, take them out of the discard pile and polish them into greatness. Past evidence strongly suggests that Gabbert is not that gem or that Tomsula is that particularly insightful talent evaluator.

A couple of comments: (1) in this day and age, I take some solace that Republican propose using these funds for teeth cleaning instead of plowing them into “health” organizations that promote gun ownership (helps you stay alive) and prayer (keeps your immortal soul healthy); and (2) I hate to be a pedant, Marie, but…