| Team Party Crash: 'Radar' Third Issue Party
Nick Denton saunters up with L.A. blogger Mickey Kaus, who, in his long trench coat, looks like he desperately wants to be somebody's Deep Throat. The men start talking about Michael Kinsley and our eyes glaze over. Once they start serious discussion of whether Stuff magazine was "darker" under Greg Gutfeld's reign, we politely excuse ourselves. Also, we feel a bit weird reporting with Denton standing right there. It's a little like how we imagine it would feel to have our parents watching us have sex -- if Denton had any idea who we were. His hair is real. His love is not. With his love of karaoke and his knack for triple-fisting, we can see why NYT metro hottie Nick Confessore is a hit at these kinds of parties. Krucoff: "Si? Chuck? Let's hug it out." We don't know at what point the party turns into a blogger clusterfuck, but we're pretty sure it's around the time Andrew Krucoff shows up, minus his trusty box of "Save Krucoff" buttons.
H.S. BASKETBALL: Mid Penn schedule to only get worse next season
Call it the dog days of winter. For area Mid Penn Conference basketball teams, it's been that kind of year. With as many as 24 games trying to be crammed into an ever-shrinking schedule, players and coaches this season have become road weary with numerous three-game weeks and less and less practice time. And changes are on the way next year. Ever since District 3 expanded its football playoffs two years ago, basketball has felt the brunt of the aftermath, meaning fewer days to try to squeeze in the same amount of games. Next year, football will push things back another week. In response, PIAA has decided to cut the maximum number of games a team can schedule to 22. "The biggest point I think is whether we are asking kids to be students first or athletes first," Shippensburg boys coach Ray Staver said.
Cold weather has arrived
Happy belated birthday wishes go out to Jerel Middleton on Jan. 13, Billy Foster and Rosemary Bolton on Jan. 14, Mikki Lowery and my sister Nelda Smith on Jan. 16, Becky Riddle and Colby Bogie on Jan. 17, and Wesley Hall and Pricilla Winkler on Jan. 23. I hope that you all had very happy birthdays and many more happy ones to come.Happy birthday wishes go out next week to Joseph Stephens, Judy Childers and Geraldine Carter on Monday, Susan Hall on Tuesday, Estill Parks on Wednesday, Bryan Bogie on Thursday and Jerry Day on Friday. I hope that you all have very happy birthdays and many more happy ones to come.Happy belated anniversary wishes go out to Robert and Linda Murphy on Jan. 18. Robert and Linda celebrated their 40th anniversary. Also to Bo and Anna Robinson on Jan. 23. I hope that both of these couples had very happy anniversaries and many more to come.Happy anniversary wishes go out next week to Mike and Jackie Shanks on Tuesday.
Battle of the quarterbacks: Esposito, Orlando looking for edge in ...
Spectators at Georgetown High this morning may be heard having a version of the Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning debate.
Only, this time, it will be the Commonwealth Conference Small (CCS) version with Royals junior Joe Esposito and Manchester Essex junior Pat Orlando serving as the subjects.
Each of the quarterbacks can lead their respective team to a CCS title and a playoff berth with a victory in the annual Thanksgiving Day contest. The winner will represent the conference in the Division 4 playoffs against Boston City South League champion Brighton next Tuesday.
Esposito holds the edge in the series after last year's 28-27 win over the Hornets. Orlando, however, captured the bigger prize with the CCS title and a playoff berth.
"Pat (Orlando) and (Joe) Esposito are the two best quarterbacks in the conference," Manchester Essex head coach Mike Athanas said.
Three weeks until it begins anew
It might not feel like it to most of you out there across North America, but winter as we baseball hacks know it is quickly fading. Seems hard to believe, but it's just three weeks until we relocate to Dark Star for six weeks of painful wakeup calls, blissful breezes and copious quantities of coffee. Edwin Pope, the venerable Miami Herald scribe with whom I had the pleasure of working in the same pressbox with on numerous occasions, once wrote: "It is true that spring baseball makes millions more promises than it keeps. But baseball is unlike love. In baseball, making promises means vastly more than keeping them." With that in mind, three teams can enter spring training realistically counting themselves as contenders for the NL East title. (And some members of the Nationals and Marlins might also try to convince themselves their squads have a shot.) The Braves, like the Mets and Phillies, can make a legitimate claim that if things go well — not if things go perfectly, but just if they go well — they can reclaim the NL East title that New York took from them in 2006 and which is presently held by Philly after the Mets' Great September Collapse of '07.
Blog: Software More Fallout From the GameSpot Fiasco
For the videogame media industry, this week was a disaster. GameSpot's Alex Navarro likened the situation to being a metropolis in SimCity intentionally destroyed by a variety of disasters. While Navarro draws no specific parallel, he's probably referring to the firing of former GameSpot editor Jeff Gerstmann over supposed incongruence between editorial and sales. The only official word from parent company CNET representatives have been denials that advertiser pressures had any role in the termination of Gerstmann, and that "GameSpot takes its editorial integrity very seriously..." Eidos, the games publisher who produced the Kane & Lynch game at the controversial core of this entire matter, is saying even less. Michelle Curran, Eidos' director of public relations, said, "Yeah, we're not commenting on that right now." For multiple reasons, the official truth will never be on record – but thanks to the anonymity offered by the web, a supposed insider posted comments on the Silicon Valley blog Valleywag his or her account of the recent events.
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House censures Douglas Bruce
Read the full 2-page censure resolution Read Douglas Bruce's 7-page PDF defense of what he calls "The Nudge." Watch CBS4 Denver's footage of the morning prayer, during which Doug Bruce kicked a Rocky Mountain News photographer. Discuss the incident and what should happen next. Read the full joint statement regarding the formation of the special committee to investigate the incident. .
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