Category: Sports

So I was reading some reactions to the Superbowl over at Football Outsiders, and it occurred to me why I always rooted against Peyton Manning: because he’s Ivan Drago.

(Drago, of course, was Rocky’s opponent in Rocky IV (The Undiscovered …

Colts 38, Patriots 34 - HOLY CRAP what a great game that was! That’s the best AFC Championship I’ve seen since the Steelers beat the Patriots ten years ago, a game that also came down to the last minute …

Actual headline from SI.com: “Wallace unhappy with Detroit’s $49.6M offer”.

Yikes.

Andre Agassi announced last week that he was retiring after the U.S. Open, and today he played his last match at Wimbledon, defeated by rising star Rafael Nadal. Agassi’s career has taken many twists and turns. He showed …

After yesterday’s tech-fest, I thought today I’d talk about a book I finished up over the weekend: Scott Wolven’s collection of stories, Controlled Burn. I’d read a few of these stories when they appeared online - “Atomic Supernove”, for …