why do people do the good things they do? This story by Bryan oops Cave Curtis on Grantland is why Grantland is Grantland: The Stokes Game tells the story of NBA player Maurice Stokes and his teammate and guardian…
Tag: Basketball
diversion: late score seals the win
believe it or not, not everyone is talking about it You know the setting … late in the high stakes match a guy on the visiting team scores in a most improbable fashion just a few ticks of the clock…
diversion: do we need to see patterns where none exist?
Big Data = opportunities Data are information, not knowledge. The New York Times Well blog post this week (Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing) is based on a study of five entire seasons of free throws in…
Tagged with: Basketball, Big Data, Bowling, Diversion, Free Throws, New York Times, Patterns, Statistics, Uncertainty
Sunday diversion is a B&B special that does not involve an overnight stay
one is timely and eternal, one just eternalI have commented before that Grantland has a wonderful collection of writers with a focus on sports but a wonderfully broad range of interests. In re-filling my Instapaper reader the other night I…
Sunday diversion, mf & hoops edition
those were the daysWhile Andy Pettite practices his big league stare in the Bronx, Roger Clemens stews in DC, and mothers everywhere recover from their home-made breakfasts, let’s go the the basketball courts, though not to the NBA. To DC…
weekend diversion / Final Four edition
signs the apocalypse may be upon usAmong the bizarre elements of this AP story this week out of a kidney dialysis clinic in Kentucky: (a) that the pugilists were 68 and 71 years old; and (b) that the Associated Press…
Sunday diversion: this week in kidney transplant media
been collecting a few of these disparate piecesNote to self: follow up to see how this story about a high school pitcher about to get a new kidney ends up. Kid has done a lot, 10-hour dialysis sessions and other…
this weekend diversion is Linsane, of course
no choiceIs there a bigger internet sensation this week than Jeremy Lin? And not just from the New York media. Not that I generally have my finger on the cultural pulse of the nation, but it feels inevitable that Manhattan…
Tagged with: Basketball, Culture, Daily News, Diversion, Harvard, Internet, Jeremy Lin, Knicks, Sports Illustrated
67 Hudson Street loft closes off 9% from 2005, with long history
was it shy about the loss?The sale of the “1,000 sq ft” Manhattan loft #3D at 67 Hudson Street is not new news, as the sale was way back on May 31. Nor was it new news when the deed…
Tagged with: 1997, 2005, 2007, Basketball, Foreclosure, Hudson, Neighbor Comps, Paired Resale, Rational, Renovation
Sunday diversion / “Woody Allen & Earl Monroe” is not a buddy movie
down memory laneI came across this 1977 Sport magazine piece a month or so ago, thanks to the magic of one of the editor-thingys on Instapaper. In ‘honor’ of the doofuses running the No Basketball Anymore league, I offer it…
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