Mythical California Cup action on Week Zero, what a treat. San Jose State at USC this Saturday. Has USC ever been as fun to root against as this season? They’re defending champs with the defending Heisman winner, the defense was so bad it gives everyone hope, they’re playing four California games and oh yeah they… Continue reading We have games
Realignment heartache
Well the Pac-12 had a good run. I won’t recap the gory details of the past week; there are plenty of other great resources out there for that. (As ever I am a fan of Wilner, here is his decline and fall of the Pac 12.) One thing that comes to mind is I’m not… Continue reading Realignment heartache
David Stern part 7: Donaghy and Battista
Note: I’ve had this post in drafts for almost a year now. It’s not super interesting. But I feel it does close a loop regarding the DelCo stuff. So let’s push it out there and move on. In September 2022 Bill Simmons did a podcast segment with Sean Patrick Griffin where they expressed some frustration… Continue reading David Stern part 7: Donaghy and Battista
David Stern part 6: An extra large satin piece of the puzzle
Defector has a fantastic article this week from writer Keith Paradise titled The Rise And Fall Of Starter, The Coolest Company On Earth. Starter, of course, was an early maker of licensed sports apparel. Those awesome “satin” warmup jackets were their most famous product. (If you don’t subscribe just pay the $10 to read this… Continue reading David Stern part 6: An extra large satin piece of the puzzle
How long were they selling recordings?
Read this this morning and I’ve been bouncing off the walls ever since. This is the New Yorker! So wrong and so checkable. At bottom, the boom in private gigs reflects two contrasting trends. One has to do with the music industry. For more than a century after sound was first captured on wax cylinders,… Continue reading How long were they selling recordings?
Simulating 2023
The schedules are up in College Football Data so let’s run it: $ python3 ./mcc_schedule.py -v San José State at USC on Aug 25, 2023 UCLA at San Diego State on Sep 08, 2023 Stanford at USC on Sep 08, 2023 UCLA at Stanford on Oct 20, 2023 USC at California on Oct 27, 2023… Continue reading Simulating 2023
Three music pieces
I’m going to keep these in one place to keep from gumming up the archives.
revisiting github actions
We added github actions in May and then caught an actual regression a few months later. Now the life cycle has come around to fixing a weird deprecation. I identified how charmingly insane their set/get key/value system was so it looks like they overhauled it. Clicking through onto the Actions tab showed me that the… Continue reading revisiting github actions
Learning from a Message Board Genius
Or, why College Football is the purest sport. The twitter account Message Board Geniuses trawls the deep dark waters of single-team message boards and screenshots the most unhinged posts, often in galleries on Saturday when a particular team is melting down. I like to check in from time to time but I can’t bear to… Continue reading Learning from a Message Board Genius
Goodbye David Shaw
David Shaw is done at Stanford. And while the Rose Bowl victories and Pac-12 Championships are nice, we all know that his foremost achievement was the seven Mythical California Cups in his twelve years as head coach. Before things went pear-shaped in the last two years he owned Cal (eight game winning streak before 2019)… Continue reading Goodbye David Shaw