Category Archives: Sports

Ain’t Happening For The Aint’s

By Agricola | February 7, 2010

  Media bias is everywhere you turn. Even in football. Why, you can’t even pick up the paper or turn on the television without hearing or reading the latest sob story about the miraculous return of New Orleans, and by association, their formerly woeful football team. What a load of balderdash. This blogger remembers when [...] Read more »

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Random Thoughts While Waiting for the Muse

By Agricola | February 5, 2010

  I know the answer to the question, but I don’t like it…so I ask it again, in the hope that someone will offer a different answer. That is, why is the Super Bowl played on Sunday night? Let me list just a few of the almost infinite inconveniences that the schedule imposes on the [...] Read more »

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Finding Your Center

By Agricola | August 28, 2009

What with the start of a new semester and exposure to a slightly different weltenschauung, a lot of "philosophy" has come my way. If you follow my tweets, you might have seen the pearls that recently came from one professor on the danger of using a pda or phone in class. Not for her the [...] Read more »

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Embracing the Inevitability

By Agricola | July 31, 2009

  Well, it had to happen. You can’t be my age and expect the reflexes, synapses, and sarcomeres to respond to every situation exactly as you’d like. I fell off my bike while it was moving and made violent contact with terra firma, or more accurately, terra asphalta. It happened suddenly, as I left the [...] Read more »

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The Biggest Day in Motorsports

By Agricola | May 24, 2009

Jenson Button continued his unlikey conquest of Formula One at Monaco today. Billed as a race with little passing (overtaking for the knowledgable), the thrill comes from watching the drivers push their cars through the narrow, tortourous turns of the city squeezed between the mountains and the sea. As we saw this morning, the merest [...] Read more »

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