Month: December 2003

The Ford Lions: Where Quality Is NOT Job 1

William Clay Ford has announced that Matt Millen will return as general manager of the Detroit Lions.

Millen’s return comes despite Detroit’s ongoing NFL-record 24-game road losing streak and two high-profile verbal gaffes concerning a current or former Lion player.
Earlier this month, Millen came under fire for using a derogatory term for gays in a heated exchange with Kansas City receiver Johnnie Morton, who spent eight years in Detroit before being cut in 2001. Millen apologized shortly after

Chipping Away At Anti-Speech Zones

University “free-speech zones” have long been an affront to the First Amendment, and a betrayal of the purpose of liberal education in a free society.

It’s always good news when universities begin to take note of that fact, and back away from the idea that speech should be “free” in a small, designated area of a campus, and nowhere else:

They may have come kicking and screaming, but Southwest Missouri State University’s leaders did the right thing last week.

The Rail Boondoggle – cont’d

Rob Booth pulls this bit out of a Comical Q&A on light-rail:

How many people are expected to ride?
For all the hoopla, few Houstonians are expected to commute on the electric-powered trains. Metro has estimated daily ridership after the first year at 33,000, which translates into 16,500 people making roundtrips. That’s not even 1 percent of the city’s population.
Opponents fought the rail line every step of the way, decrying it as nothing more than an expensive

It’s Out

Since the demise of the Front Page Sports Football Pro series, I’ve been waiting for someone to write the next great football simulation.

And waiting.

But I think the wait may be over.

Total Pro Football 2004 has finally been released.

I’m fighting the urge to go purchase and download the thing immediately. I probably will give in to the

Tocqueville And College Football

Political scientist and BCS guru Jeffrey Anderson defends the BCS system.

In so doing, he makes a comparison to the inherent tension in American politics between unchecked majority rule and rule by experts (republicanism, of course, being intended to mitigate that tension).

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