Charles Pierce's Blog

And, in the end...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:44:24 -0500

As has become widely known, This Blog is closing at this address and moving to a new location along the docks of Blogistan. However, it wouldn't want to shuffle off this pixelled coil without raising a glass -- figuratively, unless...

Panic at the disco

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:02:48 -0500

Stuck in traffic on 93 South yesterday while riding in The Car Without Satellite Radio, This Blog was favored on the radio with the smooth broadcast stylings of Mr. Baseball (pace Sean McAdam), who was quite clear that, because Marco...

Boise will be Boise

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:42:21 -0500

In case you missed it, cure little Boise State really hit the big-time. They got slapped with a three-year NCAA probation. (The NCAA must be really mad at Miami.) A couple of observations:1) Guys, don't get caught because you were...

Fallout

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:18:04 -0500

An earlier post touted Taylor Branch's landmark piece in The Atlantic that fairly well dismantles the entire raison d'etre for how college sports are organized in this country. By far, this is the most interesting passage in it: William Friday,...

Ordure in the court

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:36:52 -0500

While This Blog was off, as Natalie Portman's Marty puts it in Ted Demme's criminally underrated Beautiful Girls, being a dude in flux, the world's dumbest lawsuit ended with a whimper.This is a good thing because stupid sports owners are...

Hanging Chad

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:15:01 -0500

A while back, various Patriot loyalists and house-organ media watchdogs were steadfast in their notion that "The Patriot Way" was largely a myth propagated by those scurvy media wretches who pray outside the camp as regards to the team and...

History drops like a bomb

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:04:15 -0500

Among American historians, Taylor Branch occupies a rarefied space above those lacquer-coiffed PBS talking-head historians, as well as the well-remunerated members of the Founder-Of-The-Month club. His multi-volume history of the civil rights movement is enough to move him out of...

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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:04:15 -0500

We're still standing

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:32:44 -0500

For a while, anyway.The thing This Blog was really, really dreading about the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities was the inevitable, militaristic, tribal hoorah that it knew was coming from the National Football League, which occasionally is treated as...

Rogered

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:44:55 -0500

Can one of his sycophants in the NFL courtier press please explain to This Blog specifically how Roger Goodell has the right as the commissioner of the National Football League unilaterally to punish Terrelle Pryor and Jim Tressel for violating...

Shake down the thunder

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:28:54 -0500

Sooner or later, it has to dawn on the geniuses who program our television sports that the University of Notre Dame now fields itself a second-rate major-college football team that nobody cares about any more. Be assured. Some poor sod...

Aw. dammit, anyway

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:57:36 -0500

The news about Pat Summitt is sad beyond words, especially for This Blog, who has a particularly nasty dog in this particular fight. Its father and all four of his siblings succumbed to Alzheimer's -- which you can read about...

In the criminal justice system...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:53:18 -0500

And they say federal prosecutors have no sense of humor.Apparently, we are now asked to believe that, in the highest profile case pending in the highest profile sports "scandal" since the Black Sox, our dedicated public servants accidentally did what...

Think big

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:07:56 -0500

We will stipulate for the purposes of this post that neither Vince Wilfork, nor any of his Miami teammates, knew exactly how Nevin Shapiro made all the money he was handing out to them in cash and, ahem, trade. (Hubba-hubba!)....

Greetings from Planet Slacker

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:31:35 -0500

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Those days of soda, and pretzels, and NOT BLOGGING!Sorry, This Blog's been dark for a while. Thought I'd drop in for an August lagniappe -- which generally comes before an actual nap --...

...or a thug for J.H. Blair...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:21:58 -0500

This Blog is impressed -- No, really, it is. -- by the speed with which Commissioner David Stern has resorted to the my-way-or-the-highway tactics in the ongoing NBA labor dispute. Colleague Gary Washburn had an admirable survey of the...