Change agent. Provocative utopian. Saucy wanderer.

Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,373 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,928,166 of his life's words have been collected here, in one place, for eternal posterity. Keep his flame alive. This is the Whelliston Memorial Library.

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Urge Overkill
When your humble proprietor was a wee lad, he played him some base ball. Although official statistics were not recorded in the Keene-Peterborough (N.H.) Pee Wee League, I'm sure that my .560 season batting average (achieved primarily with slap singles) would have been near the top of the league leaderboard.

800 Game Project - Practice Run #2
If you're just joining us, or re-joining us, 2011-12 at The Mid-Majority (a/k/a Season 8) will feature an experiment in college basketball crowdsourcing. We're calling it the 800 Game Project, and we're going to try to put together the biggest cross-referenced national spectator game report database the Other 25 conferences of Division I has ever seen.

The State Of The Other 22, Week 8
The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 341 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four in a simulation of last season. This is a recording.

Dribblings 2/11/2005 (Hot Shot Edition)
Big South: Winthrop 69, Liberty 61 (story) - I'd like to introduce you to a young man named Torrell Martin. He's a 6'5" sophomore shooting guard for the Winthrop Eagles who can shoot. This was a blowout in which the visitors eased up, so pay no attention to the scoring margin. One more to go, that's Gold Rush Night on Saturday versus middling Birmingham Southern.

Malibu Nightz
The portal that separates sleeping dream and wakeful reality is a dark egress, but it’s hard to tell the difference between the two when morning comes early with a knock at the window and the glowing honeycomb of a flashlight.Los Angeles International Airport is a half-hour south.