NBA Notes: 2nd Month (Eastern Conference)
Overview Not much has changed in the East in the second month. It will be a two team race between the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat for the first seed and homecourt advantage in the playoffs. The East will not get dramatic until these two teams meet in the Eastern Conference Finals. Most of the Conference is mired in mediocrity. The Atlanta Hawks are 18-14 and Toronto Raptors are 15-15 as the third and fourth teams in the Conference....
Hit Record, Just Once
The Google Now feature on my phone knows me too well. Without any solicitation or searching I found an update (advertising? can it be called advertising if it’s absolutely right. Isn’t that more like curating?) telling me about a show called ‘HitRecord On TV’. Which normally when Google Now sends me info about a show, it’s one that I already watch, and I’m grateful for it reminding me that...
Angry Worm
Remember, way back in the 1990s, when the weirdest thing Dennis Rodman ever did was dye his hair purple and date Madonna? Man, those were the days… Rodman’s latest (documented) outburst of erratic behavior came Tuesday during a contentious interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in the form of an oftentimes incoherent rant defending his decision to bring a team comprised primarily of retired NBA players to North Korea to stage a few...
The Color of Interior Life
According to the writer William H. Gass (in his great On Being Blue), blue is not only the warmest color, but the color that enlivens pretty much any kind of emotional state. “Blue is most suitable as the color of interior life,” he writes. “Whether slick light sharp high bright think quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our...
New Year
I started this New Year off on a low note: I almost died. It wasn’t an adventurous death either, caused by some last minute attempt to live life to the fullest that I keep on meaning to do the other 364 days of the year. Nor was it a surprise blast from a car, or plane, or rogue bullet meant for someone more deserving, giving a tragic ‘wrong place, wrong time’ eulogy. The culprit was quite well known to me and rather boring in the...
Instant Coffee: Final BCS Championship is a Great One
(1) Florida State Seminoles 34 vs (2) Auburn Tigers 31 It is Déjà vu all over again. 8 years after the epic Championship between the USC Trojans and Texas Longhorns that only half happened as only one team was officially in the game [USC subsequently vacated all its wins in the season due to NCAA violations related to Reggie Bush], the BCS Championship returned to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. It was the best college football...