And tonight we shall…

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Saw this on DBR this morning – a quote from Maryland freshman Cliff Tucker:
I can’t stand Duke. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here so I can beat Duke, I already got North Carolina. Duke is next. I cannot stand Duke. I tell people all the time, if they gave me a [...]

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4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2)

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Wednesday during lunch I was eating at a local Chili’s and from where I was sitting, I could see a television over in the bar area. I couldn’t hear it, but this is what I saw:

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It’s been a long week. More on that another time. For now…
From the land down under
In my US Open recap a few months ago, I wrote that Djokovic’s time is coming, and coming soon. The gap between Federer and everyone else was closing fast. Nadal already owns him at the French, [...]

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I did a lot of work around the house the past two days, so I was able to keep my eye close on the sports world (well, at least, the NFL, tennis and college basketball.) It was a great weekend in my opinion.
NFL
The Super Bowl is now set.

A year after Peyton reached his first [...]

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I haven’t done one of these in a while (other than my year end lists), so I figured it was about time. My eMusic downloads refreshed yesterday and I’ve already used nearly half of them, plus I’ve acquired a few others in the past month or so. Here are some samples of what [...]

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A few random things . . .
Barack Obama: closet Muslim or racist Christian?
It’s no secret that those on the right seem intent on demonizing Barack Obama. I was only slightly surprised at what appeared in my inbox this past week. It seems that the “racist Christian” angle on Obama has more traction these [...]

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It’s true. But who cares? The ACC basketball season has begun!
Duke tips off their ACC season on Sunday night as Virginia comes to Cameron, so I need to go on record with my ACC record prediction for the Blue Devils. Last year I thought I was being a bit pessimistic when I [...]

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I haven’t written much from Camp’s book recently, but here are a couple of other quotes from a section I read through recently. In discussing just war and “just war Christians”, he shares the following story:
Indeed, those who bore the name of Christ were those who often perpetuated the madness of twentieth-century warfare, simply [...]

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