I can’t think of a team with a higher ratio of well-written team blogs than the Seattle Mariners. USS Mariner is well-known as one of the best baseball blogs of any kind, and was recently mentioned by Peter Gammons as one of his regular reads. My personal favorite is Lookout Landing, written by Jeff Sullivan, who […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YRUspGnag

Can anyone confirm if this ever took hold?

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CCTV, a news organization many believe serves as little more than a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, recently issued a story titled Olympic press freedom hailed by foreign media. As part of the piece the reporter gathered several quotes. From foreign journalists covering the Olympics, right? Well, not exactly.
First, check out this lede:
It’s been a […]

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Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein squaring off on a stage at William Paterson University. Sounds interesting, right? Tickets were $37 a head. Ok, a little less interesting. Depends on what they talk about.
The New York Times has a write up of the event. According to the story Cashman, who is an alum of WPU, reiterated his […]

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Hong Sang-soo is probably my favorite Korean director and I highly recommend his Saenghwalui balgyeon (2002) aka Turning Gate. His most recent film Haebyonui yoin (2006) aka Woman on the Beach is also great and the dialogue for the film became my Korean study tool for some time. Why? Because Hong’s films typically show real people doing real […]

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