Great take on the Cal Rose Bowl whining
These aren't my words, but it's the best thing I've read on the whole Cal deserves to go to the Rose Bowl and Texas doesn't topic. From SynTex on Hornfans (via D-smoo on Orangebloods): The Pac 10 commish, the Cal coach, and many others are harping on some of the voting patterns that may have tainted the BCS. Let's talk about it. Let me take item by item some of the problems that have been... Continue reading
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Halo 2 and MS Excel
I could've swore I mentioned it already, but apparently not. I did at least mention Halo 2's RSS stat feed. Well some dude came up with an Excel workbook to integrate the XML feed Bungie provides and create some sweet charts of the data. Now the info has actually found it's way into a good old fashioned paper newspaper article.... Continue reading
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Texas is going to the Rose Bowl!!!
Texas has passed Cal in the BCS Standings and are headed to the Rose Bowl! Woohoo! It sucks for Cal that they're not going and a crappy team like Pitt is, but I'm about to go nuts with all these morons claiming this is some sort of travesty or conspiracy. Both teams deserve to go, the difference between Texas and Cal is negligible. Both teams won 10 and lost 1. Cal lost to the number... Continue reading
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Barry Bonds is a cheater
Update: I found this hilarious. Despite not mentioning steroids anywhere in this article, these ads popped up. Someone selling legal steroids must have bought the keywords for Barry Bonds.... Continue reading
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Sony, Ken Jennings, and Kottke
This is a freaking travesty. Jason Kottke didn't do anything differently than the Washington Post did, but Sony is suing him because they can. He's not even the one who leaked the information or who made the audio tape, he just reported it. Read more backstory here. Anil said everything much better than I could here and especially here. I posted a link to it too, Sony want to sue me too?... Continue reading
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Jason Giambi admits to injecting steroids
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Jason Giambi admitted to a federal grand jury he took steroids and human growth hormone in 2003, according to transcripts of (grand jury) testimony... And... ...the former American League MVP told the grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids case he used steroids obtained from Greg Anderson, the personal trainer for San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds. They need to do something about this before Bonds breaks Hank... Continue reading
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