Stardate 67-20110113 - The Season of Ideas
CHICAGO -- Whenever I am standing in a long line at a bank, holding a check and a deposit slip in a limp right hand attached to a limp right arm, my mind wanders. I know the others in line are experiencing the same in-between feeling too, that it's a state we share. These days, most people occupy themselves during the wait by looking at their phones, checking their messages and playing games.

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.

The RVA Revolution and the RPI Test
Richmond, Virginia isn’t just a place to get a 21st Century dinner on the way back from Colonial Williamsburg anymore. Its erstwhile role as seat of the Confederacy has been superseded by its new status as the capital of NCAA Tournament’s Southwest region. Virginia Commonwealth and University of Richmond have put the River City on the national college basketball map.

Team-ball, Not Stars, Have SIU, Butler in Sweet 16
Right now, there are hundreds of mid-major basketball programs sifting through the rubble of seasons that ended too soon, conference champions and league losers alike. The axes are beginning to fall across Hoops Nation, from CAA underachievers Georgia State to Big West champs Long Beach State.

The State of the Other 22, Week 10
The State of College Basketball is a gracefully-aging 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 344 (here's the long-winded version). This is the full chart, and this is a recording.