First, the chill:
Explanation here. See also this paean to collegiate sports, also courtesy of EDSBS.
– Are schools getting better at gaming the NCAA’s rules system? Blutarsky summarizes: “So while major infractions over the past decade maintained the same pace as they did in the 1990s, the NCAA categorized them more mildly (the “didn’t know” defense rears its head again) and punished less severely when they occurred. You can begin to understand why ADs like Mike Hamilton survive the transgressions of the Pearls and Kiffins of the college athletics world. Nobody expects to pay much of a price for them.”
– Rewriting the book on libraries.
– Did the blog Bruins Nation kill UCLA’s hire of Rocky Seto?
– Alastair Campbell on leadership and winning.
– Stewart Mandel on Saban’s oversigning defense.
– The difficulty of making new discoveries.
– Is debt good (for an individual)? Uh, no. For once I side against the theoreticians. Of course the theoreticians were writing in June of 2008, so maybe that’s why.
– People believe what resonates with their prior held beliefs, an experiment. I think you can extrapolate this from politics to football recruiting and the incurrence or non-incurrence of penalties against or for your favored team.