Posted in Diatribes, People, Sports, tagged college basketball, John Calipari, Kentucky, UMass on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“35 what? MILLION? Warm up my car!”
Former UMass coach (he’ll always be former UMass coach to me) John Calipari to Kentucky for 8 years and 35 million dollars?
Why don’t they stop calling it “tuition” and just start calling it “season ticket?”
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4/1 update on contract details
$3 million in retention bonuses he’ll get for staying with Kentucky [...]
Posted in Health, It's all about me, Noticed, People, tagged doctors, doctors' day on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This was National Doctors’ Day.
For most guys, this means little or nothing between the ages of 20 and 40. Unless you have to take a drug test to get a job. Otherwise, they just go their merry way because they are, of course, indestructible. I remember well.
I, too, was indestructible. And then, for some reason, [...]
Posted in People, Sports, tagged Arnold Palmer, Bay Hill, golf, NBC, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a lovely weekend watching both UConn teams win, as well as ‘Nova, MSU and Carolina.
But with all due respect to the “ballers,” as the kids call ‘em, the best baller I saw patrolled the fairways and greens of Arnold Palmer’s place, Bay Hill in Orlando.
There is no one to compare with Tiger Woods in [...]
Posted in People, Sports, tagged Bob Ryan, Boston Globe, college basketball, Dee Rowe, Jim Calhoun, Pat Burke, UConn basketball on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If I had my way, the Yankee Conference would still be around, and UConn basketball’s biggest rivals would be UMass and URI, with guaranteed wins coming from the northern tier of our little corner of the earth.
But try as I might, I don’t have my way. So as the UConn women do what the UConn women do, [...]
Posted in Media, Noticed, tagged Brenda Starr, Chicago Tribune, newspapers on March 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You know things are really bad in the newspaper business when Brenda Starr gets laid off.
As it turns out, the comic strip is written by a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, who knows of such things.
By the way, Brenda is 69, and she looks fabulous.
Posted in Diatribes, Noticed, tagged grammar, Neag School of Education, School of Business, UConn on March 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m really not that nitpicky (OK, yes I am), but it’s been driving me crazy for a long time. The electronic billboard message for the UConn School of Business MBA programs.
The same message is on the school’s web site.
If they’re talking about going to work somewhere far away from Connecticut, good for them.
But I suspect [...]
Posted in Media, News, People, tagged A.I.G., Jake DeSantis on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t hope that bad things happen to the recipients of those bonuses. I really hope that bad things happen to the children and grandchildren of them! Whatever hurts them the most!!
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We will hunt you down. Every last penny. We will hunt your children and we will hunt your conscience. We will do whatever we [...]
Posted in News, People, Sports, tagged Jim Calhoun, UConn basketball, Josh Nochimson, Richard Hamilton, Nate Miles, Sports Illustrated, agents on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Former UConn team manager-turned sports agent-turned former sports agent Josh Nochimson is tainting The House That Calhoun Built.
We first brought up his name last November for his alleged rip-off of former client Rip Hamilton.
But if this investigation by Yahoo! Sports is accurate, Nochimson will go down in the UConn Hall of Infamy.
Combine the Rip Hamilton [...]
Posted in People, Sports, tagged Bill Russell, Curt Schilling, Dustin Pedroia, Jim Bouton, Tom Brady on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Curt Schilling never had to shut up because he always put up.
The guy played four years in Boston and helped win two World Series. Ted? Yaz? They went O-for-forever.
Read his retirement post on his blog. Then peruse some of the comments. There are a lot of haters. A lot of people…fans, sportswriters, teammates…just wanted him to [...]
Posted in Living in the Past, News, Noticed, tagged Ford, Framingham MA, General Motors, Saab, Sweden, UMass, Volvo on March 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories.” (Maud Olofsson, Sweden’s Enterprise Minister)
General Motors is about to bail out of Saab, and Sweden is not interested in an American-style bailout. Basically, G.M. bought a unique brand, chewed it up, and is about to spit it out.
“Under G.M.’s ownership, they denuded the intellectual content [...]
