Sports programs are only profitable for a handful of schools. For schools that don't have big, successful, high-profile programs, sports are an expensive vanity.

And yet, Sunday was a great race. Things are more interesting this year than they have been in a long while because they've changed so much. I'm surprised that people aren't more excited by the fact that F1 is now a series where torque exceeds grip again. It's going to be fun!

Is the new sound not deafening in person? Was it comfortable to be at Albert Park without hearing protection? The old sound was like a drill to the brain if I peeled my ear protector a tiny bit away from my ear. I'm sure it's not quite what it was, but I'd be surprised if the turbo V6 is quiet by any stretch.

I thought the rev limit was already scheduled to be raised over the next two seasons.

You are not alone. Ferrari are so arrogant I could never actually root for them.

I have been saying the same thing. It looks great in still pics, but in motion on TV it just reads as a white car with a narrow dark stripe. They need to re-do the livery and scale up those Martini stripes.

I have never understood why schools start so early. If that's meant to be preparation for life, then it's preparing kids for jobs which don't require a high school diploma (or to be a teacher to sleepy kids at an early-starting school). Pretty much everywhere I've worked for the past 22 years had most people…

Great review. I feel certain the way you focused on awesome personal gameplay anecdotes is selling a lot of copies. I just ordered one based on your enthusiasm.

The thing is, it didn't. It's much better than most of the crap that comes out of Dreamworks. The problem is that it just doesn't have the richness we all expect out of Pixar. Cars is good, but it's never great, and that universally shared disappointment is why we all hate it.

I thought Brave was pretty good, but it just felt too small. They brought us into the world, gave us the characters, then finished up a simple story very quickly. I would've preferred something a little more ambitious. I certainly wouldn't mind a sequel.

Sure, it looks great in the 3/4 shots and head-on, but in profile it still looks like Quasimodo. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing car to drive, but visually it can't hold a candle to the beauty of its competitors in the 4 door sport coupe segment.

Just because a case can be made that a market for a particular product exists doesn't mean it makes good business sense. Lexus already has a brand reputation for bland luxury vehicles. The RX is the go-to vehicle for soccer moms. Further entrenching that brand identity could actually drive potential buyers away the…

I think LEDs are going to be great once designers get beyond uses that scream "HEY LOOK HERE WE GOT LEDS!". Concept cars are already starting to appear that use well diffused LEDs to nicely sculpt previously impossible light shapes. We'll be seeing them make it into production over the next few years, but now we…

He sure showed them.

Shouldn't congress have called GM to the carpet years ago over the Chevy Cobalt creation?

The absence of headrests isn't so safe either. About 10 years ago my wife was doing ride alongs with firemen and got to hear lots of no-headrest stories. The upshot is they can keep your neck from breaking and even if you die, at least they'll keep your head from popping off and landing in the backseat. It was…

Licensing agreements between the network that makes the apps and their delivery partners (cable, satellite) require that users have an existing cable subscription. Were HBO to sell themselves directly to consumers, skipping the cable companies, they would be violating contracts they have in place. While it seems…

I was taking exception to your "you can build it cheaper at Newegg" comment.

I'm late to learn about this, but I just want to say I'll definitely miss reading your work. I remember reading your stuff when you first started, doing just weekend work, I think.

No doubt. However, for those of us who are employed with adult jobs, our time is worth more than the slight difference in cost. Once we earn enough money, we can elect to pay people to do tedious things - like build computers and vacuum the house - that we used to do in our teens and twenties. You see, outside of…