Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
You might have noticed that I wrote a basketball-related post last week, but I’m actually trying to separate my obsessing about sports from ... well, real stuff. So I posted this year’s bracket at Turrible, which is intended to be my online man cave. Of sorts. Anyway, don’t assume that I posted it elsewhere because, [...]
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Geek alert! I’m talking basketball. It’s March, and the madness of the season has overtaken me. Thus, I won’t be offended if you are about to click back to Twitter, or your RSS reader. I’ll start by not wasting anyone’s time complaining about this year’s tournament pairings. That path is well-traveled.1 And well it should [...]
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Excellent Deadspin post about the undisciplined and occasionally crooked world of NBA scorekeeping. It’s based on the story of a guy named Alex who once kept score for the Grizzlies, and it includes this gem about how Nick Van Exel (who wasn’t known for his passing, let’s say) racked up 23 assists one night: A little [...]
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Two things: (1) How awesome would it be to play on KG’s team? [Don’t ask Big Baby that question]. Still, what if KG worked in your office? He could walk the halls, pumping people up, bringing everyone into pre-meeting huddles — one-two-three-UBUNTU! — and he could remind people that it’s about the little things, remind them that things are [...]
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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 [...]
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Julian Wright is taking the opportunity of a lifetime, and who can blame him? He brought enthusiasm and energy to every game, contributed hugely in many of the big wins in the last couple of years (cf. these dunks during the Florida game and this epic 33-point performance at MU), and showed enough skill and [...]
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In a previous post, I suggested that the Kansas defense must “contain” Kevin Durant, thereby implying that Kevin Durant could, in fact, be contained. I said: “he’s going to get 10 – 15 points no matter what you do,” and anything in excess of that was a matter of the opposing team’s defense shutting him down. Against [...]
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Watching the Longhorns repeatedly (and ultimately successfully) drive a stake into the heart of Acie Law IV last night, I got to thinking about Saturday’s showdown between the Longhorns and the Hawks. (I also penciled in A&M for the Final Four. Is there any team in the nation — other than UCLA, I guess — that has such a [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
