Quote of the Day

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

Sunday Blog Casserole

Always wondered where Bay City's old Maxiflex B ended up (thanks Kast-A-Way):

YMCA of the Coastal Bend needs a pool manager. Job info is here.

Drink all sixteen ounces of that eight dollar theater soda before the previews even ended? Worried about missing something important in the feature? RunPee is for you.

What if...those of us funding the federal Spend-A-Thon...stopped paying our taxes?

Garrett Weber-Gale posted a good piece on communication the other day. It's got some serious items along with a little humor. Read it here.

They say he ate less than an hour ago...

Taking the "wo" out of Women's Studies? Read more here.

Trinity needs an assistant coach. Job info is here.

They were fine with Title IX compliance...until they found out what it's going to cost them! Read more here.

Next time they try telling you football and basketball are revenue sports, tell 'em this:

For every football or basketball program you can name that brings in more than it spends, I can name at least ten that don't!! Read more here.

It works at Ohio State and Texas. It doesn't at New Mexico State, Florida International and most everywhere else. Even when football teams are winning national championships, there are only a handful of athletic departments making money. The average Division I department lost $5.7 million in 2007, at least a year before the economy became an issue. That was up from an average $4.1 million loss in 2004.

ISU tennis is getting plenty of coverage - now that it's been dropped. Read more here. This A.D. should go on Leno...I mean Conan. Such a joker:

Prettyman realizes the preservation of the football program will draw criticism until its track record of futility is reversed. He hired former Sycamore Trent Miles as coach prior to last season, hoping to end the losing. Even though 2008 resulted in another winless record, on-field progress flickered in the latter half of the season, Prettyman pointed out.

Flickered? Like just before a candle goes out?

That's right, Ron, being outscored 229 - 61 in those final six losses showed boosters there's a light at the end of that tunnel. Hold on a minute...I think I hear a freight train...

For the record, I'm not advocating dropping football at ISU. I do wish they'd bring back men's and women's swimming, though.

More about suits on Swimming World here and at ASCA here.

Wrap-up of the Great Travis Trek is here. The six-member relay team covered 54 miles in 18:35.

UH "A" Results

Meet info for Senior Circuit #3 is here.

New Braunfels meet has been cancelled. Bud was unable to find a referee in time to make the sanctioning paperwork deadline. It's a danged shame!

Quote of the Day

Experience is not what happens to a man;

it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

Shark Hunters Nearly Shark Bait

Leon shared this story with us while Junior and I were in College Station for S.C. #2.

A buddy posted it Monday on Lone Star Sharkers (along with pictures).

Good news is they all had jackets.

Bad news is Brandon lost a lot of expensive gear along with his new kayak.

Read about it here.

We didn't catch any fish, but we made it back alive!

Quote of the Day

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth.

Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark

Quote of the Day

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Herbert George "H.G." Wells

Quote of the Day

Women want mediocre men, and men

are working hard to become

as mediocre as possible.

Dr. Margaret Mead

Quote of the Day

It's not enough that we do our best;

sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day

Success usually comes to those who

are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out

the trees, then names the streets after them.

William E. "Bill" Vaughan

500+ Girls Rally Against Title IX Decision

Don't believe it? Read more here and here.

Parents of three (3) N.Y.C. girls (mis)used Title IX to get the soccer season changed. A huge majority of the girls wanted to keep the season where it was.

The NYCLU hailed the move as a victory in the battle for gender equality in sports; since it was announced, however, its critics have been far more outspoken than its proponents.

Players held hand-written signs that said things like “You’re part of the three, I’m part of the 1,600” and “If they can’t count, there’s a problem.”

Quote of the Day

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind;
if a servant, sometimes deaf.



Thomas Fuller

Quote of the Day

When they call the roll in the Senate, the

Senators do not know whether to answer

"Present" or "Not Guilty".

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

We must believe in luck. For how else can we

explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau

Quote of the Day

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered

mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Weakly Demotivator

Wow!

I was stunned to read Tony Austin's take on Katie Hoff and Ryan Lochte. In yesterday's post on his SCAQ site, he ripped into both. Read more here.

Katie Hoff - you are swimming 1976 times in the 200 free. Sippy Woodhead, circa 1979, would have kicked your butt in her low-tech, Lycra suit.

Ryan Lochte: It "smells" like you are over training. (Garbage yardage has an odor, right?) You changed something and it is not working.

I doubt that either rested a whole lot for the Charlotte UltraSwim.

It's likely that Ryan was putting in some serious training during the meet as well.

To suggest that he should change coaches (there aren't many better combinations than Gregg Troy/Steve Lochte) is ridiculous!

Quote of the Day

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at

a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a

football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote of the Day

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean de La Fontaine