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A Little Show Tune For You
Bill Little commentary: The air of confidence In the end, the success of the Texas Longhorns will be determined by their belief in themselves. Sept. 4, 2011 Bill Little, Texas Media Relations Alriiiiight! College football season is finally here! The annual four month celebration of everything...
Cutting Down Concussions (And Junk Science)
There has been a lot of discussion around CTE and how it may impact the future of football and other contact sports - some gadflys predict it will be football's ultimate demise or render the sport unrecognizable - but the studies are not yet sufficiently comprehensive to draw many conclusions...
Science is Done
You had to hear it from someone, and it might as well be me. Science is done. Through. Finished. Kaput. We technical types have known this for years. But we conspired to keep the drooling rube masses in the dark for as long as possible. Unfortunately, the jig is up. It's no longer possible...
Flunking Bracketology
Kentucky, Connecticut, VCU, and Butler. What are the chances that anyone would have correctly predicted that odd quartet to qualify as the Final Four in this year's NCAA Tournament? According to one data set, roughly 0.000033%. Not a lot of us got this one right. Out of approximately 6 million...
The amazing value of pigs
Did y'all know that pigs can catch eat rattlesnakes and will even seek them out as favored meals? I have only recently absorbed this information and am often surprised by what I learn about the "wonderful, magical animal" that can also produce bacon, pork, and ham. You had me at bacon oh great Sus...
Head Kick Legend Scientific Dispatch: A Modest Revolution in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
The perception of science is often that of a static field, rigid in the way information is formed, or interpreted. The truth is anything but. For example, even now, if you were to look in your biology textbook, you might see words attributed to the role of glial cells ("support" cells in the brain...
My Very Earthly Marleau Just Sat Under Niemi's Porch
Which San Jose Sharks players are most like each of the planets in the solar system? If you're like me, you've probably asked yourself that question at least once, and then decided that it would make a good topic for a stupid post when there's nothing else important happening with the team. Let's...
Ted DiBiase Sr. comes across as a religious charlatan to Richard Warnica of the Edmonton Journal
Richard Warnica of the Edmonton Journal went to see a sermon by Ted DiBiase Sr. and from the tone of his piece he didn't seem to be impressed, teasing that DiBiase was a religious charlatan and was only in it for the money: After a long career as a pro-wrestling villain, DiBiase now serves ...
Sports Fan Study Reveals: Scientists Are Nerds
Pictured: the next Copernicus. SOURCE There's a reason why some sports fans are referred to as "die-hards" -- even after they move away, their loyalty to their hometown team endures, according to research by two University of Illinois professors. Okay so you're saying that just because...
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