Posts Tagged ‘sports’
Duke takes its fourth
I’ve got some blurry iPhone pics from Satisfaction in downtown Durham, taken after Duke sealed its win over Butler for its fourth men’s basketball championship. What a game! No, Psi Upsilon brethren, I did not go to campus to help defend the bench. I once kicked [Read More]
Just five dollars and a dream
Despite a hiatus in 2007, I’m still calling my NCAA pool “Toastie’s 15th Annual NCAA Pool”. $5 per entry. Hosted by CBS Sports this year. Here’s the website to sign up and get more info. (The secret password is ’1996′.) I generally [Read More]
Golf blogging!
If you have nothing to do tomorrow morning, I suggest watching The Open (formerly known as The British Open) on ABC. I used to watch golf all the time growing up, and for whatever reason, Tom Watson was my favorite golfer. I know it wasn’t because of an impeccable [Read More]
List of 343 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Teams
Why is this is a blog post? Because I’m working on a project and needed to obtain this information. It was not necessarily readily available in easy-to-digest form. Now that I’ve got it, I’m putting it in up on a web document to share my newfound knowledge [Read More]
fractions of a second
I implied the other day that watching Michael Phelps was getting a little old. But winning by 1/100 of a second just a few minutes ago in the 100m butterfly to win his record-tying 7th gold medal? Pretty cool. I once lost something by hundredths of a second…well, [Read More]
you’ve gotta have something to say about the other 203 countries
I made a point of watching the telecast of the Olympics tonight. I watched the whole darn thing, including the entire procession of the 204 countries. (I’ll need to research someday why it is that Puerto Rico, Guam, the Marshall Islands, and other territories compete [Read More]
Why I Like Where I Live #11: Da Bulls
This was a no-brainer. I’d have cited the Durham Bulls if I had made a list four years ago or ten years ago. For this “list”, I’ve only been naming things within a certain radius of where I live. Right now, that radius is probably around two miles. [Read More]
My Michelle Obama moment (or Lee Greenwood moment, if you will)
(when I was proudest to be an American) One of the biggest chills down my spine watching live television: 6:08 mark [Read More]
