April 21, 2007
Random sports blogging
While I patiently wait for Brett Favre to finish his decades-long plan to humiliate Dan Marino and then collapse into a pile of dust (which will then be packaged in microgram reliquaries for the Green Bay faithful), here are some sports links.
Alyssa Milano has a baseball blog. Yes, it's really her. I'm about a Koufax One, unlike certain readers here -- you know who you are, and it's not just Noel -- but wow. She's really into baseball.
La Loca pointed me to the recent New York Times Magazine article on expertise, myelin, and Russian sports training for kids. In return, I gave her a link to a Los Angeles Times article on plyometrics and the bizarre subculture of teaching yuppies to dunk a basketball. I'm going to add another about the Polgár sisters and chess.
And since both the Psychology Today article and the NYT Magazine article mention Ericsson's research at Florida State, I'm throwing in a link to a Cambridge handbook he co-edited and to a partial CV, for my own future reference.
Posted by coyu at April 21, 2007 04:31 AMoooooh! that rage to master thing is interesting. I couldn't read the whole thing, because I can only have an ickle sliver of window open right now (I should really marry a guy who knows something about technology, right, yep) and anyhow, I have to have a whole screen to read. well, no. well, you know what I'm saying, right?
o, how it lives here in the little Empress with the dance. and so we just, yk, chauffeur her and stay out of her way. I've seen her in class and it's an amazing thing, watching her in full concentration, totally getting it on. which is different from me, who only has rage to master arts & crafts. which I then stick in a closet, all those porny barbie dioramas & afghans & little sculpey guys & cashmere scarves. or maybe a drawer full of poems. so you see how it's not the same. though I did last week decide that I should be better at bending over and getting it from proper penmanship. and so I spent an hour today fussing around and whistling and sawing with my calligraphy text + all those pens I have around. fun.
with ballet? well, not on teh intarweb. uh. yeah, good. the grocery store was full of people just like me! later, skater. xx
Posted by: lalaloca at April 21, 2007 07:36 AMYahoo has a free service (http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1 ) to start up fantasy football leagues. I believe that they permit invitation-only leagues. Is there any interest in forming a league among the Usual Gang Hereabouts? (I believe that the Yahoo service offers an alternative where everybody starts with computer-assigned teams instead of a draft; this might be more fair for Our Friends Overseas).
Posted by: Dennis Brennan at April 25, 2007 04:57 PM