Missed Connection
Last Saturday evening, I was scheduled to meet a fellow blogger and college basketball enthusiast for a game. We've been blog-buddies for several years now, but this would have had been my first in-person opportunity to hear about how much better at ESPN College Hoops 2K5* he is than me, and what a superior and more accomplished writer he is.

Looking for a New England
There’s a 30-second advertisement for a bailed-out bank in heavy rotation on U.S. television during these 2012 Games, one that depicts a fictional small American town. The residents, who can’t afford to travel abroad in these difficult economic times, pool their resources to create their very own London right at home.

Dribblings 1/18/2005 (Top Ten Edition)
Southern: Georgia Southern 102, Chattanooga 84 (story | play-by-play) - Throw out the record book! The SoCon team record for three-point goals made in a game was set last night in Statesboro, Georgia, where the Eagles (8-7, 4-2 SoCon) nailed 22 to bring down the North division-leading Mocs.

Princeton’s Look in the Mirror
PRINCETON, N.J. — For every hot college matchup played under the blinding lights of national TV, there are 20 like this — two cold-shooting, evenly-matched, size-challenged squads toiling away in a half-full East Coast gymnasium.

7. Pastora - Lola (2002)
“Don’t call me Dolores, call me Lola.” So goes the chorus from this top ten Spanish hit from a decade ago, a story about a woman who has settled into a comfortable life in the suburbs but is feeling restless. She daydreams of leaving her safe boyfriend behind. Pollón is Spanish for “big cock.”.