Archive for March, 2011
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Kentucky: 14th trip to the Final Four and seven national championships. Connecticut: fourth trip in a dozen years with two national championships. Butler: second consecutive trip. VCU: are you kidding me?
Quick… name a former VCU player who made it to the NBA? (There have only been seven; the one you may have heard of is [...]
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Tags: Butler, chance, Connecticut, consecutive trip, dozen, Final, final fours, Florida, Fours, Georgetown, Gerald Henderson, Houston, Indianapolis, Jay Bilas, Kansas, Kentucky, laugh test, masters golf tournament, Mr. Ed, NBA, nba players, ncaa field, Northern Dancer, Richmond, selection sunday, team, test, tournament, trip, UK, VCU
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Today marks the end of the annual three-week Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Anyone living outside of the Bayou City might think that’s just a small gathering of rowdy Texans whoopin’ and hollerin’ about steer wrestling and saddle bronc riding.
While there is that, this year more than two million people visited the exhibits and midway, [...]
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Tags: amateur wrestler, attorney, Bayou City, Brad Paisley, break day, chance, daughter, David Handler, day, friend, Houston, houston livestock show, houston livestock show and rodeo, Janet Jackson, jester center, Keith Urban, Kirsten, Law, livestock show and rodeo, man, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Reliant Stadium, Rock, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, Stephon, Tim McGraw, today, wife, year, Zac Brown Band
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Tunisia. Egypt. Libya. The Middle East and North Africa are in turmoil as citizens stand up for their rights. It’s a long road. This quote appeared in today’s NY Times:
“Our task isn’t easy. We don’t have parties, we don’t have a constitution, we don’t have political organizations, we don’t have an effective civil society. We [...]
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Tags: Benjamin Franklin, brush fires, chief magistrate, Egypt, George Washington, History, John Adams, Libya, libya history, Middle East, nation, North Africa, ny times, part, Patrick Henry, political organizations, political organizer, quote, revolution, road, Samuel Adams, task, Thomas Jefferson, Times, tireless minority, today, Tunisia, turmoil, war and revolution, William Cushing
Cowboy Up
Sunday, March 20th, 2011Today marks the end of the annual three-week Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Anyone living outside of the Bayou City might think that’s just a small gathering of rowdy Texans whoopin’ and hollerin’ about steer wrestling and saddle bronc riding.
While there is that, this year more than two million people visited the exhibits and midway, [...]
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Tags: amateur wrestler, attorney, Bayou City, Brad Paisley, break day, chance, daughter, David Handler, day, friend, Houston, houston livestock show, houston livestock show and rodeo, Janet Jackson, jester center, Keith Urban, Kirsten, Law, livestock show and rodeo, man, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Reliant Stadium, Rock, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, Stephon, Tim McGraw, today, wife, year, Zac Brown Band