Swans on Tea

The Breakdown: Defying Death at the Gym
Neat little gymnastics demonstration that you will never catch me attempting, because it looks like an engraved invitation to a serious injury. The physics is much less strenuous, being an exercise in conservation of linear and angular momentum. If you read through the comments you’ll find [...]

The Onion: Roster-Depleted Bears Sign Tire Swing For Cutler To Throw To
Analysts say that, while the move is somewhat unorthodox, Chicago was prudent in passing on veteran free agents Amani Toomer and Joe Jurevicius in favor of offering the tire swing a 3-year, $2.4 million contract.
I have Cutler on my Fantasy team, and [...]

The Crossover Flywheel hockey training aid
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The one redeeming facet about when “I am the story” reporters try to participate in their pieces is that there’s the potential that they can get hurt.

Stray Thoughts on 1962
Questions about the connection between gaudy stats and helping your team to win aside, a look at a comparison between the insane stats posted in 1962 and what’s going on today, in terms of the pacing of the game, then vs now.
Okay, so you’ve all seen Wilt and Oscar’s numbers from 1962… [...]

Tiger Woods’ game after surgery may be pure physics
Woods’ swing has been the envy of golfers around the world ever since he burst onto the professional scene in 1996.
His action is pure efficiency, combining hip, shoulder and wrist motion to exert the greatest possible force on the ball.
Pure efficiency? Does that make him the [...]

Statistics, and the quest for meaningful statistics, in basketball. Baseball may have the most dubious statistics, but because of the dynamic of the game, in basketball you can amass impressive personal statistics in a way that hurts the team, e.g. the box score shows you scored 20, but that doesn’t indicate if it was [...]

Imagine you are a teacher, giving tests over the course of several years. Even though you mention other behavior that is forbidden, for a long time you never tell your students that copying from a crib sheet, or another student, is wrong. It’s never listed as being against the rules. You leave [...]

Brett Favre retires for record 18th time.
Or it seems that way, at least.

Do two football teams meeting in a game, ever, ever like each other? I mean, for years I’ve been hearing variations of These two teams don’t like each other! in the pre-game blather.
Has anyone ever seen a player not make a tackle ot hard hit, or not pick up a fumble, because it turns [...]

Oregon State “crushes” Pitt in the Sun Bowl. 3-0
(More squeaking, actually)

Expect scattered posts to continue for the next two weeks. I’m off to the Great White North-of-the-Pennsylvania-Border.
My recent blogging has been light; I’m in my fantasy football league Superbowl for the first time, and these players require constant monitoring. (Two weeks ago I was way behind and implored my defense (Cardinals): rather [...]

Plaxico Burress accidentally shoots himself in leg