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Matt Hinton's flawed logic
Matt Hinton, if you don't know, is the official college football blogger over at Yahoo Sports. I'm a fan, have been since his days running Sunday Morning Quarterback, but I do find his Mountain West preview a bit flawed. I know what you're thinking, I have issues with this because he picks BYU...
Sports: Loyalty vs. Rationality
In today's Boston Globe, Samuel Arbesman argues that being a hard-core fan is less rational than being a fair-weathered one. His rationale is rather involved, so I'm going to quote at length from the piece: To understand why fair-weather fandom makes more sense, we'll need to apply a bit of...
Optimistically Defying Logic
"Quite simply captain, I examined the problem from all angles, and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances, the only logical action would have to be one of desperation. Logical decision, logically arrived at." -- Mr. Spock, Star Trek I am excited for today's game....
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