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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 [...]

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February 28, 2010 by Cyrus Patell

The Athletic Sublime

I watch professional sports for the narratives they produce. In the pilot for the series Friday Night Lights, which is about big-time football in a small Texas town, the coach’s daughter, who is reading Moby-Dick in her English class, tells her father: “Moby-Dick is actually the perfect metaphor for this town. The cold black sea [...]

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February 8, 2010 by Cyrus Patell

Sure as Heck

“Now that my focus has been enlarged, I sure as heck better be more astute on these current events, national issues.” Who made this statement in an interview on national television yesterday? a) Ben Bernanke b) Scott Brown c) Barack Obama d) Sarah Palin Click on the continuation link to find out the answer.

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January 5, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

The Knee, One Year Later

Tomorrow  is the one-year anniversary of the rebuilding of my right knee by Dr. Andrew J. Feldman. The surgery involved a high tibial osteotomy, an ACL recision, and a microfracture. When I saw Dr. Feldman three months ago, he was very pleased with the result. The tibia, into which a wedge of cadaver tissue had [...]

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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 [...]

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January 7, 2008 by Cyrus Patell

Annals of Technology: High Tibial Osteotomy

I have an abiding interest in technology and technological change. For quite a few years, I’ve been working on a project that I called “Technophobia,” which has subsequently metamorphosed into a number of other things. The closest thing I have to a hobby these days is building and upgrading computers: I’ve built several computers over [...]