Daily Archives: March 5, 2003

So what kind of coach will I be?

“There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than anyone else: Build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.” — Rocky Bridges, quoted in Why Time Begins on Opening Day Thomas Boswell once … Continue reading Continue reading

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Three cheers for Mozilla

Here’s an extended commercial for using Mozilla, both as a blogging tool and as your everyday web browser. I use Mozilla at home and generally love it, mostly for the ability to kill unwanted popup windows. There are some links … Continue reading Continue reading

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Another view of Iraq

As long as we’re thinking outside the box today, I’ll point you to Centerpoint’s take on how to bloodlessly resolve the Iraq situation. Interesting reading. And I plan to hold Ted to his promise of future analysis. On a different … Continue reading Continue reading

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A different view of college athletics

Eric McErlain points me to this piece by Eugene Volokh about how to reform college athletics. It’s a pretty radical idea, suggesting that for most college athletes, the education they’re there to get is in athletics, so why not acknowledge … Continue reading Continue reading

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