LWN Found a New Home

Faithful Readers,

LWN has found a new home for his blog.  We have broken free from the wordpress restrictions and have left the nest.  You can now found LWN and contributors at:

www.armchairculture.com

For all the UB-Believers

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Poker: Why we love it.

I first fell in love with Poker as a boy, probably no older than 10 or 11. I was at my Cousin Vinny’s birthday, (yes, I have a cousin named Vinny), bored with the silly 7 and 8 year olds running around and screaming, I wandered into the forbidden basement of my Uncle Jim’s house. Around a table sat 6 burly Italian men, some chewing on cigars, others smoking filterless Camels, small glasses of various liquors and wine in front of each of them.

Apologetic Sports News Articles Get A Thumbs Down From UDOJ

As I often find myself deciding ultimate justice on the run, I am the proud owner of a BlackBerry Curve (at $450, it makes a great stocking stuffer), which keeps me in the know about all things sports. I even have a LWN RSS feed on there. It’s great, but I’m not here to blow the trumpet of the 862nd most popular sportsblog in America, or teach you all how technology can change your lives, but rather to wonder. I wonder why a senior writer (Len Pasquarelli) for the Worldwide Leader in Sports (ESPN) felt the need to apologize for his subject in this article FIVE times in the first three paragraphs (the story was the main article on the ESPN.com mobile site the morning of November 28). Len wrote about the tragic death of Sean Taylor, but also about the impact that Sean’s absence will have on the Washington Redskins’ defense. Though this subject is somewhat grisly, ESPN.com is a sports website – it is entirely appropriate to discuss the purely sports-related effect of a death, particularly when several other posted stories on ESPN.com have thoroughly covered the tragic/human angle.

“Is This Really a Sport?” Of The Week!

For this week’s “Is this really a sport?” we take a trip to Belgium to examine the the validity of Bossaball.

People, don’t be too quick to judge on this one, first please consider this, they have “samba referees”.

What is Bossaball you ask? Well, I will tell you. It’s a ball game between 2 teams that combines volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira. The game is played on a court made of trampolines and inflatables (like a bouncy-bounce, for you layman).

Ha! Now I bet you’re thinking “what the hell is capoeira?” Well, I’ll tell you that too.