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Weak NBA, part II

I found this blog, which doesn’t allow comments, so I can’t comment there.  I’ll comment here.  It’s a women’s sports blog, and the writer makes the argument that even if women suck at a sport, it’s okay.
In the debates over women’s suffrage, some proponents argued that women should vote because they would provide an ethical […]

WNBA? Weak NBA?

I ran across this page after seeing that Nancy Lieberman was, at the age of 50, rejoining the WNBA team, the Detroit Shock.
The game begins and suddenly my faculties are barraged with scene after scene of flailing ponytails and basketballs careening dangerously in every direction. At one point, Terry and Doris commented on the great […]

Well, duh. Really duh.

If JMan were here, I would get him to say “Well, duh.” to me a few times just so I could hear the dripping incredulity that an eight year old can bring to those two words.  I would do it so I could have some sound effects to go with this story.
In Duluth, MN, a […]

Ahem

Some dweeb at MSNBC is writing about the football games today and says that
The conference championship games are of interest in four cities all smaller than Milwaukee.
Ahem.
Nielsen tells a different story. The national rankings for the
four media markets are

Seattle, 13
Denver, 18
Pittsburgh, 22
Charlotte, 27

Milwaukee is 33.