TUESDAY

1. Google has seriously fucked their Google Reader by eliminating the sharing option. They are bound and determined to force people into using Google+. My response is to send my shit exclusively to Facebook now. I know some will miss the minimalist shares and the porn. It was good while it lasted.2. Looks like Herman Cain is getting the character assassination treatment. Notice how this always happens precisely at the moment someone becomes the front runner?3. Count...

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Clean

Clean 2x20kg: 5Clean 2x24kg: 5Clean 2x28kg: 5Clean 2x30kg: 5Clean 2x32kg: 5, 10, 10, 10 Oa swing 32kg: 20/20High pulls 2x20kg: 20 Push-ups: 3x 10repsFrench press w bar: 3x 8repsBiceps curl w bar: 7repsOa BU clean and hold 20kg: 1min/1min (=1rep/1rep, same as my old PR)Today was a very fun session. Hand was better, so I tried some clean-only. I have a strain in one upper trap...

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Sports (Law and) Economics

As was the case last year, the North American Association of Sports Economists ("NAASE") has organized a number of sessions at the Southern Economic Association's annual conference next month in Washington, DC. The entire program can be found here. The NAASE-sponsored sessions are highlighted here. Several papers will be presented that overlap with sports law. Examples...

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The Everyday Spooky

I am going to be honest here: I considered doing a contest or a funny story for Halloween, but I am just not in the mood.After a few days back in the US, I have to admit that cycling here has required some major re-adjustment on my part. Having initially set out with the same relaxed attitude I'd acquired after only a couple of weeks in Vienna, I immediately experienced a...

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A Great Way to Start the Basketball Season

This weekend I was honored to be a part of a father-son cookout to kickoff the St Gertrude boys basketball season.It was an opportunity for Dads to meet the coaches, reminisce about the football season and just have some fun. Cornhole, basketball, burgers, smores, hot chocolate and a fire made up the menu.After everyone was fed and settling in by the fire we had numerous men...

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Phil Goff Debate Disaster

The first debate between Labour Leader Phil Goff andPrime Minister John Key took place tonight, and PhilGoff made some huge tactical mistakes.He had to lose his wimpy image while sticking to theissues, he went about it the wrong way. In interviewsbefore this debate, he said he wont play the personbut he will stick to labour policies.He did the opposite, every time Prime Minister...

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[SOC]

I can feel the vultures circling. Apparently, it is getting out that I am single. I have been in total bachelor mode since May, and I have used the time well to work on projects and my fitness. I haven't had a single date since that time, and I have actually labored to keep it that way. My life since May has been monastic except for Friday nights at Hooters where I ogle ass I am never going to get. Last Friday, I passed on Hooters and went home for some rest. I am ending my Hooters habit in favor of doing the things that really matter to me.This...

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Jesse Ryder Injured Again

Seriously Jesse?Your injured again?? This time a right calf strain?Do you think that perhaps if you actually trained duringthe off season instead of eating a ton of McNuggets.you might of avoided injury.Shame on NewZealand cricket, for offering this guya contract, shame on New Zealand cricket forgiving  Ryder so many one last chances.Also shame on the public for thinking...

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NBA No Full Season BUT...

There won't be a full regular 82 game season, BUTthere will be an NBA season, players, owners, andthe NBA itself are ready to sign on the dotted line, after123 days of negotiation.Basketball fans can rejoice and  an announcement will bemade this week with the season starting in December.How's that for a Christmas present to global sportingfans!!!The season may be a sixty...

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Memory for a Lifetime

Here is a note from a good friend of mine, Gary Stegman. We are both volunteers with a boys club called Conquest which focuses on building boys into men through virtue - much like SportsLeader. I am honored to know his son personally. It is so awesome to see young boys embracing virtue with such strength.Many grown men and women would not have the same perspective and...

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[U.] Shizzy in the Hizzy

don't be in a tizzy. u-man's in the hizzy delivering up the shizzy my nizzies. break out some love for the U-DADDY motherfuckers.you into lady gaga? think she's kinda sexy? want to get some smush action on that hot bitch? THINK AGAIN. lady gaga is a MAN. straight k to the NUTS! check it out:time for the scoop on the ROTHSCHILDS. motherfuckers own you:planet x is real. nibiru...

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St. Louis Cardinals win World Series

Behind series MVP David Freese the St. Louis Cardinals clinched the World Series with a win over Texas in Game 7, 6...

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Food Fight

I have spent virtually this entire day researching on one subject--FOOD. The spur for this action came from my latest dust up with Karen De Coster. Karen had defriended me on Facebook after an earlier dust up because she is a high strung psycho bitch. After all my dust ups with her, I get discreet emails from people who know her who tell me they have the same experience with...

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The Grass Is Greener... On the Marsupial Bicycle Bag

With the gloomy weather outside, this seemed like a good time to feature the most unusual pannier I have been asked to review so far: the Grass Shopper from Marsupial Bicycle Bags.I received this pannier shortly before leaving for Vienna, so I took it with me and tested it on Jacqueline.If you are wondering whether this is what it appears to be, the answer is yes: The pannier...

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One Is the Loneliest Number

The glorious baseball season is over. The Eagles are 2 and 4. I am not Canadian. So where is the NBA?Commissioner David Stern just announced the cancellation of all November games and the Player’s Union Chief, Billy Hunter, announced no new talks are scheduled. What’s the holdup? The league composed of millionaire owners is at 50 per cent of revenues and the millionaire...

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Mr. Zola goes to Washington

Warren Zola, a contributor to this blog and a sports law and sports business expert at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, will be speaking to Congress on Tuesday, November 1, at a roundtable discussion entitled "Hype or Hypocrisy?  The Impacts of Back-Room Deals, Payoffs, and Scandals in American Collegiate Student Athletics."  The discussion will take place between 1 and 3:30 p.m. in the Congressional Visitors Center and Auditorium.  Jeremy Schaap of ESPN will moderate.  Congressman Bobby Rush, who we've blogged...

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Once more lc

LC 2x20kg: 5LC 2x24kg: 5LC 2x28kg: 5LC 2x30kg: 10x 3reps (long rests)LC 2x20kg: 10 Push-ups: 4x 10repsOverhand Biceps curl w bar (thumbless) Bar hang: 1minStretchThe cold is better so I did some lifting, copied Tuesday's session.  &nb...

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Review of England’s Performance in ODI Tour of India

By Zaheer Haque - Cricket BloggerEngland arrived in India only weeks after their emphatic home Odi series win against India.England may have felt that this was a great opportunity to win an Odi series in India.These were merely thoughts for England as they were humiliated in every Odi game of the Series and were whitewashed 5-0.  It was very painful viewing for all England Supporters.One needs to examine why this series for England was a complete disaster and a living nightmare.I think it was idiotic for ECB to agree to this Odi Series. This...

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Winter Follows Me Around

When I complained about the unseasonably cold weather in Vienna, the Co-Habitant comforted me with tales of 60 degree temperatures back in Boston. Imagine my dismay when I came home to this. Snow, in October! I went for a 25 mile ride wearing layers of wool and a down vest, my nose running the entire time. The sun helped me warm up, but even as late as mid-morning...

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What Game Photographers See

I received this note from a parent/booster member of the Eastern High School football team in Louisville, KY - Matthew Smith.As coaches, we don't always hear about the good things about our players and our programs from "outsiders" ... many times just the complaints.The more you teach virtue, the more the good starts to flow.Virtue = Strength, LouLIKE SportsLeader on Facebook...

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The Liberaltarian Mirage

Libertarians and conservatives have been allied quite awhile on common issues. Think tanks like Cato are quite chummy with folks at The Heritage Foundation. Ron Paul runs as a Republican. Fox News throws us a bone with letting Judge Napolitano have a show and make appearances on other shows. And conservatives at least pay lip service to cutting government even if they don't...

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Enter With Caution

I have an essay up at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as part of a roundtable on the subject, "When politicians distort science."  My essay begins, "Here we go again . . ."Please have a look and please come back here with comments, critique or questions. Along with Robert Socolow and Randy Olson we'll be engaging this roundtable discussion for the next month or...

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Which Bike for Long Rides?

After I wrote about completing my first 100 mile ride on an upright bicycle with an internally geared hub, I've received emails from readers asking to elaborate on the difference between doing long rides on a roadbike versus an upright bike. Previously, I had written that I prefer to ride a bicycle with drop bars for rides longer than 30 miles, and that I prefer to wear cycling...

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Germany's Energy Transition: Carbon-Free to Carbon-Full

Der Speigel asks whether Germany's ambitious energy transition is going according to plan. From the graph above, which is for Bavaria, it looks like Germany had better stock up on carbon offsets, because something looks to give and I suspect that it won't be the lights going o...

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Bill Clinton on Intelligent Design

The ever-quotable Bill Clinton surveys the recent debates among the field of Republicans vying for the 2012 nomination and renders his verdict:I believe in God and know what they mean about intelligent design, but looking at those debates I had to wonder.Masterf...

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Who Am I?

In the past few weeks I have come into contact with a number of coaches who have lost pretty much all perspective on what youth sports are about. They have forgotten that kids want to PLAY sports, that kids develop little by little, that they build confidence through little gains on the PLAYing field.It seems many coaches don't have the time or interest to develop players....

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NBA SEASON TO BE SAVED!

The 2011/2012 NBA season is to be saved. A deal is aboutto be reached, this means the season will go ahead.Dirk has reason to be happy and so do all the rest of theInternational stars of Basketball in the world's second most popular sport.With the Olympics coming up next year also, it will be greatthat the players will get to play in the league in the world...

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Johnny Depp gives Ricky Gervais a piece of his mind

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B.A., Sports Performance, University of Florida*

Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post proposes a very different reform for college sports: Allow athletes to major in "Performance of Sport," building around participation on the team a (hopefully) rigorous curriculum looking at history, law, ethics, policy, and business of sports. Jenkins discusses her proposal on a Slate podcast. Sports, she argues, should be like drama...

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