Genuinely good, but this quote from The Echoes Blog seals it: “On that piece piano, celesta and kalimba glisten like distant stars glowing in a dark sky of viola and cello.”
Literally no other way to describe it.
After years of promotional textile tie-ins, one could be forgiven for thinking that Sports Illustrated had the whole horizontal integration thing down by now. You’d require that forgiveness, though, because your thought would be incorrect, as shown by the erstwhile magazine’s latest offer:
I’m not even upset that the jacket is the wrong shade of blue. In case your fingers are tired from turning the pages of actual books and newspapers and you can’t muster the energy to click on that photograph to see a larger version, it reads, in part, “T-Shirt available in one-size-fits-all XL.” It’s a t-shirt, not an adjustable baseball cap, though, which heretofore had been the only viable venue for application of the “one-size-fits-all” label, and even the hat folks have backpedaled that to “one-size-fits-most,” probably at the admonition of fitted-cap-wearing lawyers. The photo isn’t the greatest, but there’s no indication the shirt is equipped with some sort of built-in cinch or otherwise is subject to a controlled shrink with strategic usage of heated water and air. Either SI is putting a smile on a budget cut, or the sentence is a confident expression of knowledge of their customers.
But really, it’s Honolulu blue for which you’re looking.
After taking a couple weeks off for various reasons (mostly because of a lack of interesting stories), ALDLAND is back with a brand new podcast. The B1G title race is featured, along with discussion of the Blackhawks record point streak and our first ever story about the MLS. Click play and get some culture!
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On a day when ESPN.com already misspelled Jay Glazer’s name, now comes the above headline. The only surprise is that the story comes from Milwaukee, not Chicago, and the author isn’t listed as Abe Froman.
As baseball returns, we remember with fondness Ernie Harwell’s opening of spring. (HT: NPR; It’s Always Sunny in Detroit)
Having relocated outside the Tigers’ Radio Network, I’m not sure if I’ll be equipped to do another Tigers diary like I did last year. (Brendan is planning a Mariners’ diary for this season, which should be a fun lens for observing Felix Hernandez’s elbow explode.) For now, tune in for some irregular updates on the Motown sports scene.
Last year we brought you a live-blogging event of the first and biggest race of the NASCAR season, the Daytona 500. Resources and circumstances preclude similar coverage for this year’s big race, which certainly will be overshadowed by the disastrous crash that resulted in over a dozen fan injuries at the end of yesterday’s Nationwide race, however. Instead, we hope you’ll accept this photograph of pals Mark Martin and T.I. catching up this morning before the race.
We’ll be keeping an eye on developments at the track, so check back here and on twitter for updates.
Nascar is a sport in need of a tuneup. Attendance has been slipping; viewership has been falling. But Sunday at the Daytona 500, America’s premier form of motor sports will be getting the overhaul it needs.
Daytona, the season’s kickoff extravaganza, marks the race-day debut of Nascar’s “Gen-6” Sprint Cup car, the series’s most innovative overhaul since 2007. … Read More
(via WSJ)
In news that has no one singing the blues, it was reported yesterday that the City of Memphis, Tennessee has been formally invited to submit a bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Rather than evaluate this proposal to make a proposal critically, let’s jump right to the best ideas to emerge from the brainstorming session the Memphis Olympiad planners held yesterday afternoon.
Women are at the NFL combine, the NCAA is demonstrating a lack of institutional control by accusing another school of a lack of institutional control, our pets’ heads are falling off, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is trying to explain the Russian meteor to Jon Gruden, and the Brooklyn Nets appear to have hired John Madden as their statistician.
Brooklyn’s new logo may be drab, but those f*cking hoopsters got themselves a sabermetrician:
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