Category Archives: Sport

He Will Be Missed

July 15, 2010 – 9:52 am

Yogi Berra, on the death of George Steinbrenner: “George and I had our differences, but who didn’t?”

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Bob Sheppard, 1910-2010

July 11, 2010 – 4:16 pm

We note with sadness the death, at 99, of longtime Yankee announcer Bob Sheppard, and of the era he helped to define. From his New York Times obituary: From the last days of DiMaggio through the primes of Mantle, Berra, Jackson and Jeter, Sheppard’s precise, resonant, even Olympian elocution — he was sometimes called the [...]

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Call Your Bookie

July 9, 2010 – 2:44 pm

According to a graph-theory analysis of the two teams’ passing strategies, Spain will defeat Holland in the World Cup final. Here.

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Knight Game

July 8, 2010 – 10:55 pm

With all the fuss lately about LeBron whatsizname (and some soccer match that has apparently been taking place, I believe, in Africa), you may, like me, have been worrying that one of our most venerable sporting traditions was dying of popular neglect. Well, worry no more. Related content from Sphere

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Signifying Nothing

June 13, 2010 – 11:46 pm

I’ve never been much of a soccer fan, but I’ve been watching some of the World Cup games this time around. What made the biggest impression on me, however, was not the play on the field, but the unvarying, awful blare of plastic trumpets that fills the arena. It is a horrible, buzzing drone, and [...]

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Gotterdammerung

November 14, 2009 – 3:51 pm

As I write, the Wolverines are collapsing yet again, this time against Wisconsin. How I miss Lloyd Carr. Apparently I am not the only one who is upset with Rich Rodriguez, as you can see below. Related content from Sphere

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Déjà Blue

August 31, 2008 – 11:30 am

For the second year in a row, catastrophe has struck in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines have once again lost their season opener to an unranked team — in this case, Utah. Well, we knew it was going to be a tough year; the old guard — Henne, Hart, Long, Manningham and others, even including Coach [...]

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The Giants Win!

February 3, 2008 – 10:25 pm

What a game! As a New Yorker, I do hope I will be forgiven a moment of undignified exuberance. Woo-hoo!

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Hitting Machine

August 8, 2007 – 2:11 pm

The revised and enhanced Barry Bonds, as some of you may know, broke Henry Aaron’s career home-run record yesterday by knocking the ball out of the park for the 756th time. His place in history is a controversial matter, however, due to his Bruce-Banner-like transformation from the wiry and slender athlete he was in the [...]

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