Category Archives: Sports

Return To Normalacy?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by nathanalbright

In the 1920 Presidential Election in the United States, a corrupt and terribly incompetent man named Warren Harding won the election with a campaign which promised a return to normalacy. After years of censorship and propaganda and a bloody war, … Continue reading →

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A Random Conversation

Posted on March 26, 2012 by nathanalbright

One can learn a lot about people from what they want to look up on wikipedia. Today I had the opportunity of entertaining one of the students here who is working for part of the break, and who is fascinated … Continue reading →

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Profile Of A Bubble Team: The University Of South Florida

Posted on March 11, 2012 by nathanalbright

Update: USF got in as a 12 seed in the “first four game” against Cal. I suppose I’m not a terrible bracketologist after all. Update #2: USF shows that they belong in the NCAA tournament by battering Cal into submission … Continue reading →

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March Sadness

Posted on March 8, 2012 by nathanalbright

March is the time of year when the inner gambler inside many of us rears its ugly head, causing us to enter bracket pools and eagerly pour over the results of obscure conference results to see which of the mid-majors … Continue reading →

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Amateurs

Posted on March 6, 2012 by nathanalbright

Who is the NCAA? It is every college, every college coach, every athletic director, and every president of a university. It is not the players on teams, for these names, which are what draws the crowds and earns universities billions … Continue reading →

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Tastes Like Chicken

Posted on March 4, 2012 by nathanalbright

I may not look or sound like a “typical” fan of fighting sports, but I love a good boxing or MMA match, and I have long been a fan of a good fight. I suppose I have a bit of … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With Brackets

Posted on February 13, 2012 by nathanalbright

The biggest problems with brackets is that they have to be filled. Once you decide on a set number of people or groups or teams that are going to enter into a particular tournament, one has the task of filling … Continue reading →

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For All That We Are

Posted on February 5, 2012 by nathanalbright

The essence of prostitution is not sex, but rather something different, and that is the commodification of certain aspects of our being that are desired by others for exploitation without an appreciation of the whole person to which those qualities … Continue reading →

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Cockfighting And Other Pursuits

Posted on January 8, 2012 by nathanalbright

This afternoon, in a local restaurant in the humble village where I reside, I saw the cover of a magazine (torn off of the rest of the magazine) devoted to cockfighting. On the pages I could see, farmers/trainers showed pictures … Continue reading →

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Wave Your Flag

Posted on January 6, 2012 by nathanalbright

In 2010, two years ago, the World Cup theme was a song by my favorite Somali rapper, a Canadian-residing rapper named K’Naan, who I especially love for his work with Keane (one of my favorite bands). The song, which hit … Continue reading →

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