You take the American League championship with a grand slam home run in the final game? I've read a pre-teen baseball novel that ended that way, but in real life ( Read more... )

The Sonification of Stanley Cup Goals.


Stanley Cup Summed Up from Bard Edlund on Vimeo.

Poll Winter Olympic Sports

Note: variations based on gender or track length or other differences have been ignored. Speed skating is speed skating no matter who does it or how long the stretch.

Poll What's The Super Bowl For?

Important cliche-busting news: Nineteen-year-old chess geniuses do not have to channel Fischer.

This came via guardian_chess, which I normally read from the feed directly. This time I happened to click on the link (the article wasn't written by the regular columnists), and found something I'd never seen before, a "ChessFlash" object, which runs through the ( Read more... )

Wait, why isn't the universe conspiring against me?

1. Mucca Pazza is a frighteningly awesome band, and I must go hear them whenever I can.

2. I admit it was my friends on the team who got me going, but I've come to enjoy the Windy City Rollers roller derby team (and, as a side-effect, roller derby) and I must go whenever they are in town ( Read more... )

The Path Of Frequent Resistance.

If I can nudge her a little bit, perhaps she'll write a bit about doing parkour here.

[Nudge]

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig actually has tests done to determine whether maple bats are truly inferior to ash bats.

It turns out the answer is probably "no", although they're going to keep looking over the 2009 season.

"One thing about facts is they become indisputable."

Disclaimer: Baseball terms may not apply to cricket

In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, it is revealed that the Indian team has held onto this secret for at least four years.

My information is blatantly stolen from dmmaus article here, and to me one of the interesting points is that cricket players and fans watch the game differently from ( Read more... )

Cardinals 4, Tigers 2 (yes, Friday, but I haven't turned on the computer since then). Cardinals take the Series.
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