[Originally posted April 12, 2006 - updated for 2011 with final 2010 stats]


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Yesterday kicked off a momentous fortnight in New Orleans, with a mayoral election, the Saints' participation in the Super Bowl, and Mardi Gras all taking place in a span of eleven days.

Saturday's election of Mitch Landrieu ushered in the city's first new mayor since Hurricane Katrina. (Ray Nagin was term-limited - and surely would have been voted ( Read more... )

An article in today's Times about Jack Kerouac's fixation on fantasy baseball caught my eye. (The term "fantasy," in this case, refers to a sort of role-playing baseball, rather than the rotisserie-type "fantasy" baseball that is so popular nowadays.) Seems most of his life Kerouac was obsessed with a baseball simulation game of his own creation, ( Read more... )

Who says Japan has produced the best basketball comic? Steve Morrison's fumetti-style strip gives Slam Dunk a run for its money. The newest chapter features Adam Morrison trying to pick up new Charlotte coach Larry Brown at JFK airport; and co-stars Michael Jordan, Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, Yao Ming, the entire roster of the New York Knicks, ( Read more... )

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The National Basketball Association has hit New Orleans this weekend for the annual All Star Game, which tips off tonight at 8 p.m. Television coverage of the event has been... interesting... as it simultaneously celebrates the glitz of the French Quarter and bemoans the sad state of the rest of the city. Shots of commentators and tourists ( Read more... )

The murder of Washington Redskins' safety Sean Taylor reminded me of an illo about him I did a couple of years back for the Washington City Paper. Seems Taylor was a bit of a troublemaker on the field, and had made headlines for spitting in another player's face. The City Paper piece about him was called "Dishonorable Discharge" - clever, don'tcha ( Read more... )

Ex-Yankees player and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto passed away today. I listened to The Scooter during my prime baseball-fan days, as an adolescent, and he shaped my feeling for the game. I loved the way he combined a passion for baseball with a clear awareness that it was just a game, not to be taken too seriously ( Read more... )

In the last week, I've gotten two one-day illustration assignments. Other than when you're working for a daily paper, this is extraordinarily rare. Like, usually when an art director gives me a "quick turnaround" project, they may have "only" two weeks before the deadline. Not usually a problem ( Read more... )

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