Archive: March 2008

• March Madness / Where have you gone, Bobby Hurley? in basketball · Mar 25, 02:06

  Despite being stocked with recruiting riches, Duke is going home early and it’s not too surprising why: streaky offense, untimely turnovers, killed on the boards, nothing in the post, the list goes on. But what’s different about this team? Why isn’t Coach K’s formula working anymore?

  “Promise me you’ll never leave.” Photo: Replay photos.

  Coach K [...]

• Basketball / It’s bracket time in basketball, kansas basketball · Mar 19, 02:54

  You probably can’t tell, but I’ve been worrying over my picks for the last couple of days.

  My patented approach = tossed out the window
  I’ve filled out 20+ brackets in my life, and each year I take basically the same tack: At least one #1 seed goes down relatively early; every Big 12 team represents. This [...]

• Basketball / Jayhawks, predictions, bracketometry in basketball, kansas basketball · Mar 18, 03:36

  Man, this year is going to be good, not only because the teams are good, but because there are good stories out there. I tell myself that I don’t care about storylines, but at some point, I absorb them. I repeat them. They become part of my conversations. All the extraneous detail from those player [...]

• William F. Buckley was the Wizard of Oz in lit · Mar 15, 19:28

  Dick Cavett has a blog called Talk Show at the New York Times, and he has recently written two [1, 2] hilarious entries about his friendship with William F. Buckley. The most recent includes an excellent story about Buckley’s love of practical jokes, one of which I’ll paste in its entirety right here:
  Dick Clurman of [...]

• New Yorks, new museums, new coffees in architecture, new york, travel, urban · Mar 5, 01:33

  This is an incredible mosaic in the bathroom of the New Museum of Contemporary art in New York. It is also EASILY the most impressive thing in the whole museum.

  New York was filled with good times, as usual, but a couple of the things that totally blew my mind (and that are link-friendly) were Jamaican [...]