Nimble mastermind. Romantic radical. Lusty wayfarer.
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.
Game! Of! The! Night! 12/6/2007 - Valparaiso at Wright State
An embarrassment of small-conference league-game riches tonight. Among other contests, we've got Sacred Heart at CCSU in the NEC, ambitious Morehead State will take on league champs Austin Peay in the OVC, and South Dakota State -- a team we like -- will begin its life in the Summit League Badlands Conference tonight at surprising Centenary.
The Travelogue, Chapter 7
Ask any assistant coach in college basketball, they'll tell you that one of the toughest challenges with away games is food. Carefully prepared team meals are usually the rule at home, but the road is an endless and glowing ribbon of McDonald's, Burger King, convenience stores and casual dining.
MMBOD Feb 21 - Matt Webster - Evansville
The Five-Bid Valley: wonderful idea in theory, but it proved to be a complicated Rube Goldberg device with far too many moving parts. Last night, the spoon-lever designed to move the golden egg from the mini-seesaw to the hamster wheel was smashed to pieces.
Ballad of the Blade Runner
Today, the South African Olympic Committee named double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius to its 4x400m relay team. Pistorius, known as the “Blade Runner” for fairly obvious reasons, had his lower legs removed within a year of being born with a congenital absence of both fibulas. Now 25 years old, he will be the first track athlete without legs to ever compete at the Olympics.
800 Games Project - Practice Run No. 4
By late January, there's very little new about the college basketball year. Every team has played 20 games or so, unspooling hours of scoutable game footage and locking themselves into a place in the temporary hoops firmament of the season. But the last beginning always belongs to the Ivy League.