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 [...]
I read a great article by Malcolm Gladwell last week called How David Beats Goliath. It talks about a Silicon Valley CEO who has never coached basketball before and how he takes a novel approach towards basketball strategy when coaching his 12-year-old girl’s team. Realizing his girl’s team is lacking the talent needed to compete, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
As I’ve been talking about all over this blog, traditional media is on the decline (here and here). Papers are on their way out and everyone knows it. Ever since i was a kid, I’ve always loved the local sports pages but one thing I’ve been doing for the past few years is reading sports [...]
Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists. I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 [...]
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