MJ = great player, not a nice guy. Sadly, people just go along with it. “Jordan’s night to remember turns petty” – Yahoo! http://bit.ly/EhbbJ # Incredible show – more thoughts later. “U2 Reinvent the Stadium Show as 360 Tour Launches in Chicago” – Rolling Stone – http://bit.ly/qKlL7 # It’s the beginning of the third week [...]
Also tagged academia, music that matters, racism, Swine fluWeird headline (Inside Higher Ed): “Gay Football Players Exist.” Of course. 70% of PAC-10 players know gay teammate. http://bit.ly/uWAxS # WTF?RT @digg_2000: “McDonald’s Has a Website for Black People” – http://digg.com/d211gcp?t1 # Everyone should own this. RT @largeheartedboy: On sale at Amazon MP3: The Faces’ classic 1973 album, Ooh La La for $2.99 http://bit.ly/EmxoJ # [...]
Also tagged bureaucracy, cycling, music, sexualityInteresting blog entry. The Science of Sport: Caster Semenya: Male or female? http://bit.ly/12HTRh # US News & World Report school rankings are crap. Reputation Without Rigor – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/jcZre #academic # Friends laughed when I interviewed in Scranton. I thought it had potential. RT @Richard_Florida: Creative Scranton http://bit.ly/hKj2K # 7,000 attend “tea party” [...]
Also tagged academia, gender, Scranton, wingnuts* Was in the jury pool for a high-profile trial, but got excused because I can’t be here for all of it. Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/pp7eyx * Good Atlantic article on evaluating the performance of CEOs. A handful of sociological studies are cited. http://tinyurl.com/qtgz9u * Shane McGowan has new teeth! http://tinyurl.com/pghzhb (Via Erin P.) * [...]
Also tagged corporations, Gladwell, jury duty, music, race, twitterA few reads on a Sunday morning when a foot of snowfall kept our Beacon-Journal and NYT from being delivered: * Five Things Google Could Do For Newspapers – Wired – While the New York Times was given an early death sentence this week by The Atlantic, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked by Fortune [...]
Also tagged basketball, culture, Google, journalism, music, newspapersLance McAlister is the most popular sports radio talk show host in Cincinnati. We’re similar in many ways. We’re both white guys from the Cincinnati area who grew up cheering for the Reds and Bengals; we both called Bob Trumpy’s radio show as kids. I considered going into journalism, Lance had made a career of [...]
Also tagged Cincinnati, colorblind racism, Lance McAlister, raceOnce again, I wasn’t sure if I’d clicked on a mainstream media outlet or The Onion. From ESPN: The NFL has hired experts to study game footage to determine whether players are displaying street-gang hand signals as part of their on-field celebrations, the Los Angeles Times reports. “There have been some suspected things we’ve seen,” [...]
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