Category Archives: Sports

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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NITology: March 2, 2023

Posted on March 3, 2023 by nathanalbright

A few years ago there was a website that appears to have gone defunct that did what no one at the time (or really, since then) has been willing to do, and that is examine the teams that are competing … Continue reading →

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The Unmet Hunger For Genuine Competition

Posted on January 30, 2023 by nathanalbright

One of the more pervasive and frustrating aspects of contemporary life for me personally, and it appears for many other people as well, is the unmet hunger for genuine competition that exists in so many areas of life. As a … Continue reading →

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An Indefinite Suspension

Posted on January 3, 2023 by nathanalbright

This evening there was supposed to be a Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati, but in the first quarter of the game, a frightening real life situation intruded upon the game when … Continue reading →

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On The Implications Of Simulation Theory

Posted on December 24, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of the natural results of incompetence in stage management of events is that attention is drawn to the reality of stage management. The incompetence of attempts at controlling reality has influenced a rise in contemporary gnosticism, which is an … Continue reading →

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A Journalist Always Has Enemies

Posted on December 12, 2022 by nathanalbright

Friday, while watching the World Cup Quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands, American soccer writer Grant Wahl collapsed and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Having been both estranged from the Qatari government and of sound health, it … Continue reading →

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