Monday, May 28, 2012

The SEC "Community": recasting a great comedy for college football

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Community  and SEC football are both great things, and as we all know, great things are great together. Also, my mind works in mysteriou...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Tebow Christ Superstar Redux: The Manning Move

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When I wrote a total conversion of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera about Denver Broncos' quarterback ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

On The Ground: An interview with Red Bull Crashed Ice's Adam Horst

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In advance of this weekend's Red Bull Crashed Ice finale in Quebec City (televised live at 8:30 p.m. Saturday on Sportsnet), I recently...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Fantuz's Africa

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Top CFL free agent Andy Fantuz is apparently off in Africa somewhere,and hasn't signed anywhere yet. Glen Maskerine had the brilliant ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

The Lingerie Football League as a sign of the Apocalypse

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Few things enrage me more than the Lingerie Football League, an objectifying , safety-disregarding , deeply-troubling vindictive concern u...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Tebow Christ Superstar, The Complete Musical

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The following is the culmination of a project I’ve been working on for a few weeks. It started as just a Twitter joke about the applicabil...
Friday, January 13, 2012

The Four Horsemen Of The ESPNocalypse

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It's no secret that sports media as a whole are collectively losing their minds over Denver Broncos' quarterback Tim Tebow, who em...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Marchand Of Venice

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It's remarkable how insane the Vancouver Canucks - Boston Bruins rivalry has become lately following Saturday's Stanley Cup rematc...
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Saturday, November 05, 2011

Blogs Take Manhattan: The Women Talk Sports panel, and women in sports media

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Back in September, I headed to New York for another Blogs With Balls conference. The two I’d attended before, in Vegas and Chicago, were am...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Death of A (Google) Reader, and the problem with the mutable web

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They moved the curious back, the rain falling faster now, and they moved the reader over close to a pile of dead products. Brin had the halt...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

BWB4: Rising Stars/In praise of Josh Elliott

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We're going to be running plenty of panel recaps from Blogs With Balls' fourth edition (which I'm in New York City for) here thi...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Conference expansion: Mike Slive gets his Aggies for nothing

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BIRMINGHAM, AL—The world of college football is going nuts at the moment with realignment, expansion and potential superconferences that c...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rick Rypien, depression, The Toronto Star and Mike Woods

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Rick Rypien's death at 27 is a tragic story, and one that's resonated with a lot of people. Hundreds headed to Rogers Arena for an ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

On the Canucks, hatred, and why I want no part of the riots

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I'm a fan of the Vancouver Canucks. I have been for most of my 23 years on this planet. The team's had some tremendous highs in that...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Mad Libs, Tom Scocca, Tommy Craggs and why everything doesn't suck

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It's a pity Leonard B. Stern, creator of Mad Libs, died earlier this week , as he's not around to see how his invention is still bei...