The company that the Big Ten hired to help them determine whether or not to expand and who to look at has come back and said, "Yep. Expand."Interesting piece by Teddy Greenstein in the Chicago Tribune today with his thoughts about who would be the best fit for the conference.Teddy cites the following factors as... Continue Reading →
Guess What? Maybe Your Team Isn’t That Good
So March Madness is upon us with the flipping of the calendar page yesterday, and with the change of the month comes the annual rites of Spring:1) Conference Tournaments2) The CBS Selection Show3) The Filling Out Of The Brackets and Entering Of The Pools4) The Bitchfest Of SnubbingActually, the bitching usually starts well before the... Continue Reading →
Celebrate good times…or not
Canada loves hockey.Okay, that actually might be a bit of an understatement.Hockey is to Canada what football is to America.That might be a better analogy.Of course, American football is not in the Olympics. But hockey is.Last night, the Canadian women's ice hockey team beat the United States, 2-0 to win the gold medal at the... Continue Reading →
Someone in the NBA offices in New York must have been bored
With a lockout impending, it's good to see that the NBA front office is addressing the issues that are critical to on-court performance.No, they're not looking at hiring better officials.Apparently, they are too focused on Caron Butler's straw chewing habit.The NBA has ordered Butler, now with the Dallas Mavericks, to stop chewing on straws during... Continue Reading →
Big Ten Expansion Round 3: C.R.E.A.M.
(For previous installments on Big Ten Expansion, visit here and here).One thing that I found interesting about the Pac-10 analysis was how few of the athletic departments ran overall surpluses. Football made money and was in the black, but the departments were balanced.In the Big Ten? Not so much.Big Ten Financial AnalysisI would say that... Continue Reading →
Pac-10 Expansion Round 3: C.R.E.A.M.
(For previous installments on Pac-10 Expansion, visit here and here.)Round three of Pac-10 expansion talk has us looking at some financial information about the current membership of the conference and the contenders.The information looked at in this exercise is taken from reports that the colleges and universities across this land submitted to the U.S. Department... Continue Reading →
Big Ten Expansion Round 2: Television Market Share
In the first round of Pac-10 expansion talks, I posted the reputational academic bonafides of the current Big Ten Schools and their potential new brethern.In this round, we will look at the television markets that are currently being utilized and what a newcomer would have to offer.Now, when talking markets, we are going to refer... Continue Reading →
Pac-10 Expansion Round 2: Television Market Share
In the first round of Pac-10 expansion talks, I posted the reputational academic bonafides of the current Pac-10 Schools and their potential new brethern.In this round, we will look at the television markets that are currently being utilized and what a newcomer would have to offer.Now, when talking markets, we are going to refer to... Continue Reading →
Sports Aren’t Perfect, but They Do Offer Escape
Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for providing the link to this Newsweek screed by Christopher Hitchens.In his rant, Hitchens derides international sports for (apparently) breeding conflict and contempt around the world. Hitchens also rails against how sports dumbs down contemporary society and political discourse:Our own political discourse, already emaciated enough, has been further degraded by... Continue Reading →
Figure Skating is not a sport.
Another Winter Olympics.Another skating controversy.This year, it was recently unretired Yevgeny Plushenko complaining that American Evan Lysacek is not the true 2010 Olympic champion because Lysacek did not attempt the difficult "quad" jump during the free skate last night.Plushenko lost the gold medal to Lysacek by 1.31 points in the labyrinthine figure skating judging formula.Lysacek,... Continue Reading →
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