Archive for September 19th, 2011

Shame! Come back, shame!

Monday, September 19th, 2011

I forgot to stick this in the loser update update, but it may merit a separate post anyway.

Someone (I forget who; it may have been the bloggers at Jimbo’s old site) alerted me to Taylor Branch’s “The Shame of College Sports” in the October issue of The Atlantic.

I think this is worth your attention, even though it is long. I’m still digesting the article, but there’s quite a bit of interesting material in it about the NCAA’s past (and current) legal battles; the information Branch brings out makes me more convinced that we’ll see the end of the NCAA in the next decade.

Loser update update.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

The Monday night game is between two 0-2 0-1 teams, so look for the loser update tomorrow.

In other news, the Astros hit the 100 loss mark, but not 101, over the weekend. They’re currently at 52-100, which means 110 losses is still in play: if they lose all ten of their remaining games.

I started to blog the 100th loss over the weekend, but Reno (and some other things) had me too upset and distracted to be able to blog. Sorry.