Yes, indeed. In their first game of the Big East Tournament today, Marquette defeated St. Johns by the score of 74-45. Honestly, the game wasn't even that close. The final five on the floor for the last three minutes? Frozena, Otule, Fulce, Butler, and Cubillan... that's how far ahead Marquette was....

I very rarely look at stats for this website, but I very briefly got curious about them today, when I realized how infrequently I’ve been blogging lately, and considering how most of it these days has been about my exercise routine. So I went and had a look, and while I was there, out of vague...

This week I helped out Peter John Meiklem on a story for the Sunday Herald about the future of journalism. Amid all the job losses in the Scottish media, the piece looks at whether bloggers can step up to the plate and begin to supplant traditional media outlets. My view has long been that blogging ...

Four years ago when Dwight Burke, Dominic James, Wesley Matthews and Jerel McNeal enrolled as freshmen the Golden Eagles were coming off a pair of disappointing NIT seasons in Conference USA. After falling at home by 14 to Western Michigan in the first round of the NIT to end the 2004-2005 season th...

From DShort, via SAI.  Yippie.  Let’s plow another trillion into loser companies (US banks) and industries (US auto).  You’ll “save” a few jobs in the short term, but in the long term, the only jobs you will have created will be soup kitchen servants....

(click the image below to listen!) embed this episode in your myspace/blog/whatev: So I’m going to apologize upfront: 1. The intro is long. The outro is long. This episode is long. Almost an hour. I talk a lot. 2. I repeatedly use a word that I’m not really known for using, ever. That ou...

Links for February 26th 2009 through March 6th 2009: Australians spend much more time online | Australian IT - “The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report surveyed more than 2000 Australians and found the average Aussie spent 89.2 hours a week consuming media last year or almost 80 per ...

Danny Finkelstein has an interest post titled "Do Republicans buy more porn?" which looks at subscriptions on credit cards for porno across America and finds that Republican states, and God-fearing states seem to like buying porn more than the liberal ones. The only question I have is why would anyo...

Consumer spending in February 2009 dropped significantly from January, according to a report by Coremetrics. Those who shopped online during February purchased 13% fewer items. Website sessions that resulted in purchases declined by 3%. Page views per session dropped 1%, product views per session dr...

"If you are going through hell, keep going." So said Sir Winston Churchill. And so go the Marquette Golden Eagles. After admirably competitive performances against UConn and Louisville last week, the scrappy Golden Eagles (23-6, 12-4) square off against another highly-ranked opponent on Wednesday ni...