Category: The Gambit
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NFL: sports equivalent of a gawker slow-down?
go here and read an insightful piece by strib writer rachel blount. do you think baseball receives more scrutiny than the NFL? at least recently, it would appear so. blount highlights the most shining example: mark mcgwire and michael irvin and their respective halls of fame. writers everywhere took the moral high ground and told…
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[daily dose of imagery]
Sorry folks, another mailed in Gambit for the day. We never promised you a rose garden. And if we did, the waiver you all signed absolves us of said promise. If you didn\’t sign the waiver, we have a form that you\’ll have to fill out if you\’d like to complain. The form states that…
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gambit me this, gambit me that
it\’s friday, kids. what does that mean? time to mail in a gambit! today\’s nugget: paint-thinner-drinking \’sconny rubes rejoice as brett favre comes back for his 78th season. more here if you\’re into, you know, details. we last saw cap\’n stubble at the end of the december, crying his way off of lambeau field after…
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Meta
Hi. Thanks for stopping by. No, seriously. It seems like there have been a lot more of you lately. I\’m short on time, patience, and energy today, so I\’m using the Gambit simply to say thank you. The just-completed month of January saw more visitors to our site than in any of the previous 23…
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edifice complex
like many baseball geeks, i rejoiced last august when i learned that the twins would be getting their own stadium in 2010. no more neon green astroturf or \”synthetic grass\” field turf. no more leaving a sunny 75-degree day to walk into a decrepit, domed menace for a baseball game. no more having to tilt…
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Cancer, The Internet, and You
I will admit that I like to surf popular-URL sites (Digg, Reddit, popurls, etc.), not because I feel as though I\’m getting hard news, but just because it\’s a good place to find quirky, interesting stuff. Of course, the problem is that I assume some people are using these sites on a factual basis, likey…
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it\’s a gas gas gas
i\’m just catching up on last week\’s SOTU coverage. quoth the shrub: And now even more dramatic advances are within reach. Tonight, I ask Congress to join me in pursuing a great goal. Let us build on the work we\’ve done and reduce gasoline usage in the United States by 20 percent in the next…
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Geography Lesson
Folks, this is what we in the Gambit business call \”mailing it in\”. I present you with my favorite geography lesson of all time. And if you get the tune stuck in your head, well, you\’re welcome.
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republican congresswomen are bimbos
really. progressive republican women (if that\’s not an oxymoron) must be proud of michelle bachmann\’s performance at tuesday\’s SOTU. she just had to touch him! she just had to kiss him! nothing\’s more titillating than a man with power! sayeth the new york times: As President Bush walked down the center aisle to exit the…
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Deep Linking
(Get your minds out of the gutter.) Not sure how I feel about this court ruling out of Texas. I guess I\’d need to see the site in question to comment specifically. If he were linking to an audio file without explanation, or worse, passing the file off as his own, then I think the…