| October 2007 Archive
Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-'96), the New York Mets ('97) and the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, after six years at The New York Times, and he's the author of the Times' bestseller The Last Night Of the Yankee Dynasty, a book about the Paul O'Neill-Tino Martinez Yankees' dynasty of 1996-'01. He grew up in central Vermont collecting baseball cards and listening to Red Sox, Expos, Phillies and Pirates radio broadcasts, and was a rabid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in the same year as hoops legend Will Perdue, and claims to have witnessed the Commodores' last winning season in football (although anthropologists have not yet confirmed this).
What's in store for 2008
Last year Channel 7 won the ratings both nationally and locally, but things could look very different this year as the networks prepare for the effects of the US writer’s strike. Big rating winners on Seven such as Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy and 9's new show, Cashmere Mafia might run out of episodes as supply is threatened. Australian networks claim they are well prepared with plenty of local drama in the form of Underbelly, Canal Road, Sea Patrol and the final series of McLeod’s Daughters from Nine; Packed to the Rafters, Home and Away and City Homicide from Seven; East of Everything, Valentine’s Day and Bed of Roses from the ABC and The Informant, Neighbours and Emerald Falls on Ten. From a WA perspective there have been changes on the news front with Channel Nine Perth announcing that former Ten newsreader Greg Pearce will present the weekday National Nine News with Dixie Marshall from mid-February and Sonia Vinci will be hosting the new locally-produced A Current Affair towards the end of February.
Understrength Hornets crash out of Cup
Following a Kabba cross from the right, Ellington battled to open up a shooting chance but the ball broke for O'Toole, who calmly took a step sideways before rolling the ball past the static and helpless Hennessey to make it 3-1. The Hornets then almost set up a dramatic climax when Smith stood up a fantastic cross from the right and Ellington got up well on the edge of the six-yard box, only to send his header the wrong side of Hennessey's left-hand post. Adrian Mariappa then came on for Mackay, before Ellington sent a more difficult heading opportunity over the top following Kabba's deep ball in from the right. But Wolves could have had a fourth after 81 minutes when Potter put Keogh in behind the Hornets defence, but, with Jarvis unmarked in the middle, the striker got caught in two minds and sent a cross-cum-shot across the six-yard box.
MSM Hound Won't Hunt!
The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war ... MyDD is temporarily stunned! ... 2:33 P.M. ______________________________ Thursday, January 17, 2008 'Bradley Effect' Update: Obama is ahead by 9 points over Hillary in the most recent Mason-Dixon poll of South Carolina voters. But can we trust voters to have told pollsters the truth--or are racial concerns (including the desire not to offend) leading them to give inaccurate answers? a) Black 'Bradley' Voters? Noam Scheiber weighs in again on the possiblity of such a "Bradley Effect" for black voters.
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Unemployment figures for Scotland fell last month, official statistics ...
I think we're going to have to start shouting about the truth ("Scotching The Myth" etc.) a LOT LOT louder. I give you exhibit one from our dear friend Mr Simon Heffer: http://www.telegraph .co.uk/opinion/main. jhtml?xml=/opinion/2 007/11/14/do1401.xml .
Van Halen: Party animals
Turn it on, crank it up and shout along (or indulge in some gratuitous air guitar). Dance the Night Away (1979): One of the group's first smash hits, from Van Halen II, Away deftly balances reliably horndog vocals from Roth ("Well, don't skip romance, 'cause you're old enough to dance") and melodic fretboard fireworks from Eddie Van Halen. It's tempting to call the track sweet-natured, but we'll hold off. Jump (1984): This is the sound of pure '80s arena rock being born. If you didn't hear this at some point during the '80s, you might've been on another planet. Along with that famous synthesizer intro, Eddie Van Halen's scorching solo is primo red-meat rock goodness, carved from the almighty slab that is Van Halen's sixth studio album 1984. Panama(1984): Another killer single from the multiplatinum juggernaut 1984.
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