Green Bay’s Superbowl Victory: A Win for “Socialism”

10 different teams have represented the NFC in the Superbowl over the last ten years. It has been 7 years since a team repeated as Superbowl champion. This competitive parity is loved by fans and the NFL has been prospering as a result, becoming America’s undisputed number 1 sport. This most recent Superbowl became the [...]

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Winter Olympics, I barely knew you

So there was this little sporting contest on last week in Vancouver. They called it the “Winter Olympics”. It’s just like the Summer Olympics except it’s all rich white people from the Northern Hemisphere. I guess it’s my general lack of experience with snow and ice but I can’t get enormously excited by the Winter [...]

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This is what is wrong with Soccer

I’ve been meaning to comment on this for the last week. For those that missed it, last week Ireland and France played for the final European spot in the World Cup finals. The game was decided by a blatant handball by French star Thierry Henry (two, in fact, in addition to the fact he was [...]

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American money = broken

Having just returned to America having visited Australia I’m struck once again by how poorly designed American money is. By this I don’t just mean the design of the money itself, although that is pretty woeful, but more importantly the monetary spacing between coins and notes. In both cases they’re pitched way too low given [...]

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Tour de France reflections

On Sunday the Tour de France finished for another year. I love the Tour so its ending is a bit like Christmas for me: filled with excitement but also with the knowledge that it’s a long year until it comes again. Given the time zone I’m currently in I couldn’t watch it as avidly as [...]

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