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Canada had a Championship
So, while I was sleeping, Canada had a national figure skating championship. I have not had a chance to try tofind any of the performances online, but below are the top finishers. Some big news is the strength of Patrick Chan's win, about 50 points! I have to go see his skates because I wonder...
Underdogs
Interesting article in last week's New Yorker about underdogs and how and why they manage to win against seemingly unbeatable opponents. According to author Malcolm Gladwell--an author with a knack for the innovative, emminently sum-up-able observation of human behavior--underdogs win by changing...
Should the Knicks try pressing?
Much ado has been made about Malcolm Gladwell's article regarding underdogs and subsequent exchange with Bill Simmons on ESPN's Page 2. Amongst NBA folk, a lot of the talk stems from Gladwell's comments regarding the full-court press: the sling with which lowly Davids might slay Goliaths of the...
David vs. Goliath in College Football
Phil Spector Malcolm Gladwell's piece in the New Yorker this week on strategies underdogs use to win has various blogs chiming in on the subject. Gladwell's main point is it's beneficial to underdogs in basketball to use a full-court press because it's a high-risk, high-reward strategy that most...
Talking points: Lane Kiffin will Say Anything
Tennessee football Tennessee has offered Lakewood, California QB Jesse Scroggins. They offered Cincinnati, Ohio QB Andrew Hendrix last week. It might mean that Heaps ain't coming. Blake Bell has already committed elsewhere. Yeah, so Eddie Gran got kicked out of Pahokee High School on a...
Malcolm Gladwell and the Issue of Whether To Press
The fro knows basketball. Sort of. Malcom Gladwell recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker that had to do with sports. As a sports blogger, I think that means I'm obligated to write a reaction to it. It's been a while since I read the sports blogger's contract, but I'm pretty sure it's in...
Malcolm Gladwell Breaks Down The Longhorns
Malcolm Gladwell is a writer for The New Yorker and the best-selling author of Blink, Tipping Point, Outliers, and -- most recently -- Context: History's Kingmaker, to be published this summer. Gladwell spends a chapter in Context discussing the 2008 Longhorns football team. An excerpt from that...
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