Category Archives: Sports

Anyone Could Have Done That

Posted on January 9, 2024 by nathanalbright

You know you are having a bad day as a college athlete, or any other kind of athlete, when a fairly ordinary casual fan of college football not only knows your jersey number, but knows enough to recognize that you … Continue reading →

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What Do The James Madison Dukes Need To Do To Get A Bowl Game?

Posted on November 9, 2023 by nathanalbright

There are some people who are fans of college football who hate bowl games and think that 39 bowl games that are completely unconnected to the playoff system are a bad thing. I must admit that I appreciate a playoff … Continue reading →

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The Root Of The Problem

Posted on August 1, 2023 by nathanalbright

As someone who has always been deeply self-conscious of the regional nature of American culture and indeed my own regional identities, such as they are, and the influence of one’s region on one’s experiences within larger nations like the United … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Program

Posted on July 4, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Program is a 2015 movie, and I had not heard of it during its original release (it was during a period when I didn’t watch many movies or pay attention to them), though as it happened to be a … Continue reading →

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Can’t Win Alone

Posted on May 23, 2023 by nathanalbright

I would like to take as my text the following message from a Sports Illustrated article: “76ers center Joel Embiid spoke to reporters in the aftermath of the team’s playoff exit on Sunday, and the league’s MVP appeared to have a message for … Continue reading →

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Shaq Diesel

Posted on April 18, 2023 by nathanalbright

Shaquille O’Neal is a man of many talents. While I was chatting with the bartender over dinner this evening, I found out that he had a reputation as being a competent DJ, if not one of the greats of the … Continue reading →

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On The Strange Exile Of Hans Neimann

Posted on April 15, 2023 by nathanalbright

As a rising young superstar in the world of chess, things seemed to be going up and up for Hans Neimann in the early 2020’s. As one of the top-ranked junior chess players in the world, 2021 found Hans Neimann … Continue reading →

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The Downside Of Being In the Inner Ring

Posted on March 18, 2023 by nathanalbright

I feel some sort of pity for the social media teams of college teams when it comes to their sports teams. I cannot imagine that such jobs are very highly paid, or that the people who have them are the … Continue reading →

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Nitology: 3/16/2023

Posted on March 16, 2023 by nathanalbright

At this point, more than half of the games of the NIT have been played (as hard as that seems to believe), and the 32 teams that were invited to this tournament have been but to 16 teams that will … Continue reading →

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Nitology: March 12, 2023

Posted on March 12, 2023 by nathanalbright

We should have a good idea tonight (how late, it is not clear, depending on when it shows on ESNU) what the NIT bids for this year are. There were eleven teams who clinched an automatic bid to the NIT … Continue reading →

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