RUGator

Insightful article in the New York Times regarding the current state of affairs of the University of Michigan football team.

Please go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/sports/ncaafootball/20michigan.html?_r=1&hp#

Can’t make it up.

“The French view (Roman) Polanski as an artist and celebrity and feel he deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people, which just isn’t an option in the U.S.,” says Ted Stanger, an author and longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and attitudes across the Atlantic. “The French in particular, and Europeans in general, don’t understand why it isn’t possible for American officials to intervene and say, ‘Hey, it’s been over 30 years and things look a little different now. Let’s just forget this thing.’–from Yahoo.com

An artist and celebrity who deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people. Are you kidding me?

How about Americans stop caring so much about how Europeans (in this case, the French) think of us. Maybe the issue ought to be what we think of them?

***UPDATE*** FROM THE SUNDAY OCTOBER 4, 2009 NYTIMES.COM: Read carefully. “Ooops goes the sanctimonious one.”

Week in Review

Moral tensions over the Polanski case in France, where aesthetes and philosophers are a priveleged calss.

Eat your heart out, Harvey Korman!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/27geithner.html?_r=1&hp

Something very fishy going on here:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/24/sports/AP-US-Pitino-Extortion.html?_r=1

While New York sports are important to its fans, baseball still reigns supreme.

The New York Times article below is a terrific overview of the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, the new home of the Mets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03stadia.html?_r=1&ref=sports

Panoramic views of new Yankee Stadium via today’s New York Times.

Please go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/02/sports/20090402-yankees-pano.html?hp

Sitting with a friend while our Girl Scout daughters bowled the night away, he asked me, “What happened to us? Where did we go wrong as Americans?”

Of course I had no answers to his rhetorical question.

Princeton professor of economics (and New York Times writer), Paul Krugman offers his insightful take in the following piece from today’s Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/opinion/30krugman.html

Thought-provoking piece by Lynn Zinser in today’s New York Times helps put some perspective on losing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/sports/ncaabasketball/28leading.html?hp

Rutgers football got its own stimulus package when highly recruited quarterback prospect, Tom Savage, chose the Scarlet Knights over a host of other major college football programs.

Please go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sports/ncaafootball/05rutgers.html?ref=ncaafootball

for details.

Here’s a terrific article (because I agree with it…duh!) from today’s New York Times about Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/sports/ncaafootball/25araton.html?ref=sports