Adrian Peterson is Amazing
Check out some of the runs from last week’s game against Detroit. He’s getting more and more Barry Sanders-like
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Things we’ll say to our grandkids
In the Oct. Wired magazine they had a small blurb about things we’ll say to our grandkids. Some of the good ones were:
Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters
There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down
TV contests gave [...]
Digital Advertising and Nike
There’s a good article about digital advertising and Nike and how they are approaching the shifting landscape. Some key points to the article:
TV and traditional ad spending for Nike is down 80% over the past 4 years where as digital spend is up 200%. They want to go where the consumers are and more and [...]
Jonny Flynn and the Timberwolves
There’s been lots of talk about Ricky Rubio and all the he could potentially bring to the twolves. And while i think he’s pretty special, I’m also very excited about Johnny Flynn. What happened on draft day is that the the Timberwolves had ranked Flynn as #1 on their board of people they thought they [...]
Joe Mauer is Awesome
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr
Let me just repost what Aaron Gleeman wrote yesterday. It should be no surprise to anyone that Joe Mauer is my favorite player in baseball. The guy is a total stud:
Mauer is such a great hitter that batting .417 or getting on base at a .500 clip during a 19-game [...]
Music and Basketball
Another good quote from The Sports Guy. He had an email exchange with Macolm Gladwell and the subject of music and basketball came up. The Sports Guys responds:
We had lunch a few weeks ago and discussed the parallels between music and basketball. The structure is fundamentally the same: You have a lead singer (the NBA [...]
Bill Simmons to be Timberwolves GM?
Two of my favorite things are intersecting today. My love for The Sports Guy and for the Timberwolves could turn into a marraige as he’s launching a campaign to be the Twolves GM. The Star Tribune did an interview (via email) with him here.
I personally think he knows the intricacies of the league, the contracts [...]
Celebrity Voicemails
While reading the highly entertaining mailbag by Bill Simmons, i read this from one of his readers:
Recently, Morgan Freeman came to my town to help celebrate the opening of one of his restaurants, Pig ‘N Whistle BBQ. He came around and greeted every table and talked with each guest, and everyone was getting their picture [...]
Edina Hockey
Growing up in Edina, MN is a great experience. One of the highlights of the year is the state hockey tournament. If Edina made (which we always did) we’d get the days of school off and everyone would go to the Xcel Center dressed up like maniacs and cheer like mad for the Hornet players. [...]
Shane Battier and NBA stats
There’s a good article in the NYTimes today by my alter-ego (Michael Lewis) the author who wrote Moneyball, the influential book about stats and baseball. In the article he talks instead about the NBA and how the statistics are often misleading don’t tell the whole story. It’s also a case study of the Rockets forward [...]
