Sunday Night Links . . . says if you can't beat 'em, promote 'em*

by KJ@theonlycolors on Jul 19, 2009 8:16 PM CDT in News Roundup Comment 6 comments

Candidates named for Big Ten officials coordinator - Mike DeCourcy - College Basketball - Sporting News
Ed Hightower is among the candidates. I agree with Bob Baptist: Give him the job, if only to get him off the basketball court.
Hummel satisfied with bronze medal :: Sports :: Post-Tribune
Bo Ryan and co. defeated by the dastardly Russians.
Gray, Walton enjoy opportunity to learn | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Marquise and Travis getting some practice time as they look to pursue professional basketball careers.
Hey, Joe: The best games
Latest in Rexrode's series of top ten lists. Has there evern been a better overall year for Spartan athletics in terms of pure excitement?
Could Spartans have all-Ohio OL class? | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Only one more offensive line commitment this year?
In Defense Of: Andre Rison - It's Just Sports
Andre Rison: Crazy, but also a pretty darn good NFL wide receiver.

Not a lot of news this week. Things should pick up in the next couple weeks as the start of football practice approaches. LVS and Pete will be doing position-by-position previews of the football team. (And I will be looking to close out my player-by-player review of the 2008-2009 basketball season within four months of the season ending.)

*We're still looking for a snappier title for these news roundup posts (e.g., Nitt Picks, Unverified Voracity, etc.). We'd come up with "Watch the Links Keep Growing" previously, but that's kind of wordy to be able to attach a pithy verb phrase to. Anyone who dreams up a winning idea will win . . . the gratitude of three bloggers.

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How about...

Laconic Vim?

by Stuka on Jul 19, 2009 9:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

"Laconic"

That’s deep, man.

A laconic phrase is a very concise or terse statement, named after Laconia (a.k.a. Lacedaemon [Greek Λακεδαίμων]), a polis of ancient Greece (and region of modern Greece) surrounding the city of Sparta proper. In common usage, Sparta referred both to Lacedaemon and Sparta. Similarly, a laconism is a figure of speech in which someone uses very few words to express an idea, in keeping with the Spartan reputation for austerity. This may be used for efficiency (like in military jargon), for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as Stoics), or for better disarming a long, pompous speech (the most famous example being at the Battle of Thermopylae).

The Spartans were especially famous for their dry wit, which we now know as “laconic humour.” This can be contrasted with the “Attic salt” or “Attic wit”, the refined, poignant, delicate humour of Sparta’s chief rival Athens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic

Cheer for The Only Colors: Green and White!

by KJ@theonlycolors on Jul 20, 2009 12:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I vote for a rejected blog title.

“The Red Cedar Review.”

"Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do."
The Only Colors

by LVS on Jul 19, 2009 9:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

How about

Link Right Through,
East Link-sing (so awful it may work),
Beaumont Bullets
Lambda Links (The symbol symbol lambda appeared on Spartan Shields to stand for Lacedaemon otherwise known as Sparta)
Spartan Snippets

Yeah some of these are a little too esoteric.

Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

by Seer on Jul 19, 2009 10:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs