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4/15 Sundry
Assuming we'll still have a functioning government in six months, you may still want to file your taxes. It's not too late to send a charitable contribution to Barking Carnival. Sailor Ripley owns paypal after all. Living with Gene The NCAA isn't done sniffing around the High Plains. In fact they...
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Better known as Dorkapalooza. The conference was held on March 6th, headlined by luminaries like Rockets GM (and '00 Sloan School grad) Daryl Morey, author Michael Lewis, Colts GM Bill Polian, Mavs owner Mark Cuban, and ESPN Bah-stahhnophile Bill Simmons. It attracted over 1,000 fans, job...
Texas baseball sweeps Stanford
The rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We pistol-whipped Stanford this weekend, and looked pretty dominant in doing so. Giving up five runs and not committing any errors in a three game series is going to win you a lot of games, and we’re going to win a lot of games with...
Baseball: Is it time to rethink our "National Pastime"?
I love baseball. I love it in sepia toned photographs. I adore watching old men with names like Stan, Ted, Whitey, and Sparky, carry on about the old days in front of a soft focus lens that would make Diane Sawyer weep with delight. I love sabermetricians, Billy Beane, and Money Ball. I love...
Sundry
Guess who crashed into Big 12 Media Day? Sergio won't be suspended, but he vows not to drive and text anymore. Studies have shown that it impairs you. Don't believe me? Here's an authorative bureaucrat: Ditlow said the findings showed that a driver using a cell phone was four times as likely to...
Texas Leads NCAA in Revenue Production
Texas Burnt Orange continues to have a green tint to it as the Longhorns generated the most football revenue and total athletics revenue in 2007-08. Texas took in almost $73 million in football revenue during the 2007-08 school year, as well as a total of $120.3 million in total dollars. Texas was...
The Blind Side Movie
They're making a movie out of the Michael Lewis book The Blind Side and it has the potential to be a good flick. And by potential, I mean that it will be purchased by some studio hack who will turn out a football film similar to Johnny B Goode. Who can forget the raw athleticism of Anthony...
Paul DePodesta On Clubhouse Confidential (Video)
Paul DePodesta was on MLB Network's Clubhouse Confidential with Brian Kenny this evening, which is great. What's not so great is that there was hardly any new ground covered. Kenny asked a lot about how DePodesta got into the baseball business — he played baseball and football at Harvard and his...
The Billy Beane I Know: The Man Behind the Moneyball Myth
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Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation Part III
Yesterday you had part 2 of AN's exclusive interview with Billy Beane. Wednesday you had part 1. Today the interview with Beane concludes. I want to thank Billy for sitting down and chatting with me for such a long period of time the Monday after Moneyball was released. I hope you really enjoyed it...
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