“Chelsea’s biggest problem is also in defence: because John Terry is their weakest link. He is fortunate to be playing against United but I believe Chelsea are a weaker side because of it.” - Stewart Robson

Comment & analysis round-up Quote of the day: “I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like a UFO landing, a mistake like that. I’ve been to see the referee and in fairness he’s only going on what the linesman says. He’s working in a team and if someone comes in his ear telling him it’s a goal then I suppose he’s got to give it [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 08:18:30

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Lisa's and Katie's Berets

Lisa and Katie are my sisters.  It was endless fun growing up in a family of girls (even the cats were always female) ... , with her combined weapons of superior age and a natural disposition toward bossiness leadership, never lacked in ideas of what we should do.  Weather permitting we were outside constructing elaborate gam [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 19:48:51

Random Thoughts after Night One of “There’s Only One October”

So the first day of this ultimate baseball marathon week has come to a conclusion and overall, it really didn’t go according to plan ... and Zambrano is made for big games like that. (He’ll pitch well tonight and that series will head to Los ... in not playing the games to win. I understand keeping your guys healthy, but there’s a legit question [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 06:31:43

UNT's Stephens, Jackson could go down swinging

At each other, that is. North Texas left town today for Wednesday's first-round Sun Belt tournament women's first-round game at Arkansas State with ... loss at Denver. On Tuesday, Jackson was named first-team all-SBC after averaging 16.8 points ... . Not only is Stephens weary of what she perceives as Jackson's disrespect and poor leadership. On Sunday [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 20:25:29

City of Palms MEGA Update

by Aggrey Sam After waking up at 4 for a 6:25 a.m. flight Friday from Philly, if I didn’t see some good ball at Fort Myers’ Bishop Verot High School, there would have been some problems. Fortunately, it didn’t come to that. I saw sleepers, stars, upsets and underachievers on the second and third days of the Bank of America City of Palms Classic, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:56:56

Essential Research Labor 58-42; Interest rates cut by 100 basis points

As a bit of an update to my post last night, the Essential Research poll is now out, basically showing no change from last time ... about suggesting that Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership has yet to really shift any of the trends that were evident ... have indicated will lead to a .8% cut in their variable mortgage rates. Dennis Atkins, writing at Party Games [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 13:33:26

I acknowledge in the endnotes Dan Abbott's contribution of this clever phrase. I had been saying for years that I worked the military first, industry second, and Congress third, and my interactions with Lockheed Martin over their acquisition of Pacific Architects and Engineers had certainly pushed me into thinking about the relatively [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 01:09:25

Worldchanging's Best Foreign Correspondents

This article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We have a global network of writers, but a handful of them are regular columnists and contributors. For instance, Mara has done a great job as Worldchanging's China correspondent, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:09:58

Down with team-building games

Count me among those who do NOT get worked up about city councils and other public bodies treating ... $3,000 on a "leadership seminar focused on team-building" at their retreat at the end of last week ... in a maze without talking to each other. To confess, I have a deep-seated prejudice against team-building [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 20:48:22

Why Is The Michael Phelps Scandal Still Smoking?

Let's revisit what we expect from our Olympic athletes and whether we should be getting all prudish about this in the first place ... they can swim fast and run fast and excel at all those other activities that are pretty much pointless in modern society where we have easy access to boats and cars. And as role models, we trust [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 08:00:58

Why, on second thought, I dislike the Jacobs Deal

Daylight Savings Time fascinates me. It utterly fascinates me that everyone in the entire country — or at least all the affected areas of our great nation — will agree twice a year to change time. Here we all are, every last one of us, saying: “OK, yeah, you know what? It’s not 10 o’clock anymore. Nope. From now on, it’s 9 o’clock [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 14:44:53

Questions About The Election

Here are some questions that have been floated my way… #1 - Do you think the results of this election will lead to the end of the world as we know ... to slam someone in a leadership position if they haven’t sincerely sought the Lord on their behalf ... and watch some football games…other than that I am really not sure…and neither is anyone else. #4 - [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 11:51:41

No Baseball Today: Yanks Playing Pool

While the Mets play intrasquad games over in Port St. Lucie, the Yankees learned at 9:30 this morning that practice was canceled ... the start of the exhibition schedule on Wednesday, Manager Joe Girardi decided to go on a group bonding ... and boarded team buses, Girardi carried a large poster board with tournament-style brackets. Nick Swisher [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 16:15:19

Siverberg: “There is only a military solution.”

The Final Reckoning for Palestine Mark Silverberg, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS On November 25th, TIME magazine reported that the Bush administration is in the process of establishing relations with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and has warned Israeli Prime Minister Olmert against resorting to any military action against it or Iran before [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 16:31:25

Terrorism Cases Hinge on Paid Informants

A gate to Fort Dix. (Flickr: eflot) The trouble started for Mohamad Shnewer and his old high school buddies from Cherry Hill, NJ in a Circuit City store in Mount Laurel in January 2006. When a store clerk saw the videotape that a customer wanted transferred to DVD –- showing men shooting assault weapons into [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:05:12

Chicago Bulls Season Preview

Dear John, What’s up, Pax? Can I call you Pax? It’s just that my strongest memories of you come from the days when you were wearing No ... enough. You targeted and hired Scott Skiles, the perfect coach for a young team. Came up unlucky ... this year’s number one. So far, none of them have proven capable of carrying a team. You’ve [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 02:58:23

Layoffs hit CBS Interactive, spread across all digital properties

As we near the end of 2008 and approach the holiday season, layoffs get harder and harder to swallow. No one wants to close out the year with workforce cuts but sometimes it’s just inevitable. Such is the case with CBS Interactive, which announced internally yesterday that it would be undergoing a reorg attached to what is rumored to be just [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 18:26:33

The Cool Side of the Pillow

Okay, I’m going to be very transparent and honest about three of my favorite things to do. Besides using a Q-tip deeper than any Q-tip should ever go (which is probably my favorite silly thing to do), I also love getting my hair cut. I don’t know why, but it’s a very relaxing and fun part of my life that I look forward to [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 13:29:35

Defense and Leadership

Bumped. GO BRUINS. - N I have been waking up in a cold sweat every night at the horror that is my memory of the Washington State game. We picked a grand time to puke out a loss against a mediocre team in a trap game. No sooner could we say "We have the most favorable schedule of the 4 teams in a virtual tie for 1st" (a mouthful [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 12:30:27

6 American Athletes Who Found Stardom Abroad

Josh Childress, a former star at Stanford and a key piece of the Atlanta Hawks’ 2008 playoff run, is nowhere to be found on NBA rosters this season. Instead, he’s in Greece playing for Olympiacos. In an effort to make a big splash, the Greek League squad signed the swingman to a 3-year, $20 million net deal this past summer [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 14:47:22

Newt Gingrich, 10 years after quitting, still full of advice for GOP

Maybe you remember him. Newt Gingrich, the ex-Georgia congressman who took advantage of some serious Bill Clinton first-term mistakes to lead the ... candidate. It kept him in the news for a couple of weeks. And now the party's stark leadership vacuum ... that the desperately needed new leadership will come from the ranks of the 21 surviving Republican [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 09:28:50

Playing Chicken by digby The Democrats make a few common sense requirements, considering the epic level of philosophical failure, incompetence and corruption of the Republicans: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today said that Democrats would "not simply hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street" and called for "independent oversight, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 02:00:00

Obama Hails "New Dawn," Promises Unity after Historic Win

» read full story More News From GadgetsFujitsu Updates Its Laptops WD TV By Western Digital RIM’s BlackBerry Bold Finally Launched ... From Video Games“Gears of War 2” to Be Released this Friday New Content for Burnout Paradise – Party Pack ... of cheering supporters in Chicago Wednesday, just after midnight, that a "new dawn" of US lead [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 08:27:52

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009

The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00

Russia's Financial Beslan

Sometimes in looking back on the truly pivotal moments in contemporary Russian politics, we can see not only the impact of the deep crises the country has suffered, but also the uses and expediency of these national traumas by the powers - a seizure of an opportunity to pass measures to further consolidate authority [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 22:04:38

Too early for 2012 picks?

With former Arkansas governor and Republican caucus victor Mike Huckabee visiting Iowa Nov. 20 and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal visiting Nov ... of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City was essentially the runner-up in 2008 ... conservatives. What they said: “I think we need some new, young, energetic leadership — conservative, but new [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 18:53:11

Sylvester Croom resigns at Mississippi State

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When Sylvester Croom was hired at Mississippi State five years ago, CNN carried the announcement that the Southeastern Conference finally had a black head football coach to the world. Croom slipped out the door while no one was looking Saturday, resigning after an early morning meeting with athletic director Greg Byrne [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 06:10:46

Padavan Wins BOE Vote, Gennaro Challenge Continues

would simply drop dead. If it does happen, I hope it's on my watch. Now it turns out, as the Madoff yarn keeps unraveling, that his outrageous behavior is dearly costing a slew of organizations like Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First (see this Bloomberg list), in addition to the big and small charities we already knew about [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 16:59:40

NCAA Weekend Wrap -- One Fine Mess

1) Georgia USC Texas Florida Texas Tech Oklahoma is unstoppable! 2) According to numerous sources within the organization, the Rose Bowl has ordered new highlighter yellow blazers for its committee members, complete with faux-diamond plating on the shoulders, even brighter red pockets, and red LED lights for buttons [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 19:57:00

Not So Hot Stove Talk

Wow, yeah, the commenting on that last post got pretty nasty — probably the nastiest I’ve seen round these parts since the great Chief Wahoo debate. No, really, it got even nastier than that. I even had to delete two comments that broke my Hitler rule — first time I’ve ever had to do that. Finally, as you may have seen, I just closed it off [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 13:39:44

MHR University - Brian Dawkins; The Delta Force of the Safety Position

  Let me start off by sharing a bias I have.  My favorite NFL player through history (who was not a Denver Bronco) has always been Brian Dawkins.  That he is now a Bronco seems almost like something out of an old "Twilight Zone" episode.  My favorite all-time player now a Bronco?  I wish it had happened years ago when Dawkins was in his prime [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 17:30:08

MVP Race: Quarter Report

by John Krolik Hey all, I’ll be taking over the MVP rankings here at SLAM. My credentials are as follows: I love making lists, love talking about players, and think more about the MVP than any human who considers himself sane rightly should. Real quickly, here are my three main criteria for the MVP, all weighted more or less equally: 1) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 14:37:44

Time for a trip to the woodshed

One of my colleagues at The Torch received a passionate and heartfelt expression of opinion about this whole parliamentary mess in his e-mail yesterday. With the author's permission, we've posted it in its entirety: Regretfully, I am too old now to serve Canada in any political capacity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 16:17:00

Non-Hierarchical Management

You want to get something done. But it’s too big to do it by yourself, so you bring in some friends to help out ... team to succeed, they need someone helping them all stay on track — someone who we will call a “ ... who want their team to be as effective as possible. (Hi, startup founders!) So herewith, a guide [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 00:28:48

Big Fucknozzle Trade Show

hits D.C. this week. For all nine-minutes of bullshit, faux-introspection chin-music that came from the Right about change, future and vision after they got hog-slaughtered in the last two elections, if you want to know what is really at the corrupt, oozy heart of the American Conservative movement ( [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 23:52:00

SLAMonline Top 50: Vince Carter, no. 36

by Myles Brown Nestled securely in his lair, deep beneath section 201 of the Meadowlands, our hero found himself in a quandary ... played’ 76 games for the Nets in 2007-08, but as is oft the question with our listless millionaire, how ... to step forward on a gimpy ankle to fill the void of leadership left by a franchise savior and Hall [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 12:09:41

Buzz: Hudson Wants To Be A Met

In his most recent mailbag for MLB.com, Marty Noble writes the following about free-agent 2B Orlando Hudson: “From what I’m told, Hudson, ... in 107 games last season with the Diamondbacks. …as i said yesterday, i believe hudson is a must sign this offseason…it’s clear the Mets have missed the energy and leadership abilities of Cliff Floyd [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 00:03:56

Gordon Brown wins reprieve as Labour mutiny is put on ice

» read full story More News From GadgetsA Peak at Google Android Phone’s Goodies Olympus Reveals Micro Four Thirds Camera PENTAX ... Between Designers And Developers More News From Video GamesStudy: Video Games Generate Civic Experiences Better Than School The Battle of the Band Games Rocks the House Parents, Have No Fear: Video Games [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 17:46:01

Atlanta’s Political Sweepstakes – The 2009 Mayor’s Race

Maynard Eaton, Guest Commentary - “They’re all good people, but Mayor Franklin is going to be a hard act to follow,” –Roswell Mayor Jere Wood on Atlanta mayoral candidates. Much like the Olympic Games, every four years the local electorate and politicos across the nation are enthralled by Atlanta’s championship [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:13:42

Prop 8 Postmortem From Super-Volunteer (with Recommendations)

I am re-posting this diary for Bruce Hahne (a NO ON 8 "super-volunteer") who posted it on Daily Kos earlier today. It deserves to get much wider attention. I like the fact that it not only includes criticisms of the NO ON PROP 8 campaign from an insider but also recommendations on what to do in the next anti-gay ballot measure campaign [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 22:48:47

Haven't We Seen This Before?

Yesterday's game kept reminding me of the last time these two teams met. Everything was falling in place as it did before, but not even I could have predicted the ending. In Week 1, the Saints were up by two points late in the game, and the Bucs were driving. With less than a minute left, the Bucs threw an interception that sealed the Saints win [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 18:23:39

It’s the Economy, Stupid

Wow, so two weeks ago I wanted to write about technology and business. And I still do (and will). However, there comes a time when an adjustment needs to be made, and for me that time is now. The economy is in the tank with no end in site. Asian markets dropped 9% overnight and the European markets took a battering until the coordinated move of [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:59:58

Would Obama, Dems Kill 401(k) Plans?

Would Obama, Dems Kill 401(k) Plans? House Democrats recently invited Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor at the New School of Social Research, ... and Fannie Mae?  You ain’t seen nothing yet.  The Democratic leadership by and large still refuses ... some in leadership that she won’t permit any “witch-hunt” inquiries into both organizations’ problems [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 18:59:25

Neuroscience, Exile Culture Snake Through Sholi's Math Rock

Payam Bavafa, singer and guitarist of San Francisco-based band Sholi, has channeled his experience working at a neuroscience research company into jagged, post-rock songs that explore the nature of memory. "I was thinking about the ways we process information, recycle and retain ideas through selective recollection," Bavafa told Wired [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 15:13:00

A Manly Option for Higher Education: Senior Military Colleges

Are you a young man who is trying to decide where to go to college? Are you drawn to the discipline, leadership, physical, and mental training provided by the military, but aren’t sure if a military career is for you? Do you desire a college experience that will provide you with a challenging rite of passage into manhood instead of endless [more...]

Date: 2009-02-02 04:25:51

Brash: What happened to $400 million?

Brash: What happened to $400 million? (This is the second of eight or so posts going up throughout the holiday weekend tied to an article I ... that the company built up a full scale publishing operation, released three games, was in production ... for all its games, and was in the process of building a physical distribution infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 08:24:48

Eight-Second Violation: Monday, December 15, 2008

Maurice Cheeks out in Philly; DiLeo in as interim By Darren Spicer The city of brotherly love just turned their backs on head coach Mo Cheeks ... acquisition of star PF Elton Brand. It was thought to be the ultimate coup for a team that already ... -'09 season, the 76ers decided to part ways with the well-traveled Cheeks. A team that turned [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 17:04:15

Philly Fix6: College hoops is back!

College hoops is back and it's about time! Friday marked the season kickoff for three of the area's six Division I programs ... . Straight from the coach's keyboards to your eyes, you can read the expectations that the team's coaches ... Wizards summer league team, he is playing professionally in Germany this year. Without Elegar [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 22:14:46

A Neighborhood Success Story

A look at the “Sponsored By” tag on many event posters reveals Dodd Neighborhood , which has stood out this year as a major social force on campus. What does Dodd’s success mean? WSO provides this quote : It seems that while, in theory, the idea of having neighborhoods (and therefore more “hands in the pot”) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 06:36:39

Why Does The DCCC Allow Adam Putnam To Waltz To Re-election Without Lifting A Finger?

Sometimes it gets very frustrating that even in the best of political environments, like this year's, ... outlook on politics and his predisposition to always support corporate special interests over the well-being of the middle class, Putnam has taken a great deal of money from shady corporate operators [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 21:53:42

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