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June 23, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Riveting
My friend Dick complains that he finds it to sustain interest in soccer games because there is so little scoring, but i think that sometimes it’s precisely the lack of scoring that makes soccer “the beautiful game.” Goals like the one that Landon Donovan scored today in the waning minutes of the USA’s game against [...]Archive
January 19, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Massachusetts Meatheads
The AP has just called the special Massachusetts senate election for Republcan Scott Brown. Teddy Kennedy’s seat will be occupied by a Republican who will make it his personal mission to scuttle the healthcare initiative. Today I’ve found myself thinking about my years in the Boston-Cambridge area. Back in the day, we used to go [...]Archive
November 14, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Signing Up the Team
Major League baseball’s free agent-signing season began today, with the Yankees making a monster offer to the Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher C. C. Sabathia. They’re apparently also planning big offers to free-agent pitchers Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett. The Mets are going to be more conservative with their money this off-season, but they’re still hoping to [...]Archive
November 4, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Election Day Diary
It’s election day, arguably the most important election of my voting life. I’m going to be updating this post in the course of the day. 7:05 a.m. We’re in line to vote. Lucky for us, the polling place is just in our the back of the first floor of our residence hall. Things are a [...]Archive
October 22, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
The Triple Crown
Always on the lookout for connections between baseball and politics, I was happy to see Jon Stewart mocking both the Obama and McCain campaigns for pandering to baseball fans. The most fair-weather of these fair-weather fans turns out to be . . . well, Sarah, of course. Watch and laugh (or weep): Could you tell [...]Archive
October 21, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Schama’s America
I’ve just started reading Simon Schama’s latest book, The American Future: A History, which arrived today from amazon.co.uk. I got interested in the book when a friend sent me this a link to a review of the book by Niall Ferguson in the Financial Times. The book seems to offer an argument for American exceptionalism, [...]Archive
October 11, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Making Hockey Bush-League
The owner of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, Ed Snider, a prominent supporter of John McCain’s presidential campaign, arranged for Sarah Palin to drop the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers’ home opener tonight, providing yet another reason for me to despise the Flyers. I started watching the Rangers in 1973, discovering them while flipping [...]Archive
October 5, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
Oh No, Chicago!
The polls show that the presidential election seems to be breaking in in favor of Chicago’s Barack Obama, but this year’s Chicago Cubs couldn’t catch a break when it mattered. I’m still hoping to see Obama make history on November 4, but tonight I watched the Cubs make the wrong kind of history, extending their [...]Archive
September 28, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
