After recovering from the seemingly boring slate of games that plagued college football in week 10, week 11 is on the way to tantalize you with multiple top 10 matchups and a possible scenario that would spill chaos across the Bowl Championship Series, like Mt. Vesuvius raining fire down on the unsuspecting villagers of Pompeii.
Any good instructor will tell you that all writing is born out of planning. It’s a skill every one of your TAs in English class is trying to drill into you right now. And, while planning ahead or mapping out processes are skills that have broad applications, they are particularly pertinent to the practice of writing.
This past weekend, I made the trek down to Milwaukee to see the same band three times—a move some would call reckless, while some fans of the band would question why I didn’t go to Kalamazoo to see the band the night before.
Last week, Take-Two Interactive Inc. announced “Grand Theft Auto V” sold 29 million units in the six weeks since its launch. Somehow that’s not a misprint. To put it in perspective, every “Call of Duty” installment has trended toward 20 million or so lifetime sales. “GTA V” eclipsed that in six weeks. My mind exploded when I saw that so as I haphazardly stuff it back together, let’s look at the implications of this mind-boggling number.
$270 million is a lot of money.
Nov. 4, 1631: Mary, Princess Royal/Princess of Orange (mother of William III, future monarch of England) is born.
The arrival of cold weather has signaled the return of Wisconsin basketball. Action returned to the Kohl Center Wednesday night, as the Badgers handled UW-Platteville in an exhibition game 80-51.
An anonymous NBA General Manager told Jeff Goodman something we already know, but were still shocked to hear.
Well folks, it’s Halloween again, which means it’s time for the obligatory writing on horror movies. But I’d like to do something a little different, if y’all don’t mind.
As the Boston Red Sox takes a 3-2 lead into the decisive game of the World Series, look for old baseball norms to dictate a winner just as much as the players on either team.
The Paris Review has been around since 1953, founded by Harold Humes, George Plimpton and Peter Matthiessen. Over the years, it has published many of the most prominent authors from the 1950s and onward—names along the lines of Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, Adrienne Rich, etc.
Franchise fatigue is usually thrown around among video game players like pizza among the hordes of drunken friends you invited down this past weekend. It’s natural for people to hunger for a new series after playing through the twelfth “Call of Duty.” I’m someone who abhors the concept, and have mostly given up hope for new intellectual properties in the AAA space. If you’re hungering for new experiences check out the indie space, it’s the video game Mecca of innovation right now.
Every year, tens of thousands of people descend upon New York City for a week of industry types hobnobbing around while more than 1,000 mostly below-average bands perform in 80 venues across the city.
Saturday, the set of ESPN’s College GameDay will descend on Tallahassee, Fla., to cover the world of college football from the week’s most visible arena.
It was not the news I was expecting to wake up to Sunday morning: Lou Reed dies at 71.
2:49 p.m. April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode on Bolyston Street in Boston, near the finish line of the famed Boston Marathon. The blasts killed three people and injured over 200 others.
A recent survey conducted by NBA.com revealed that most general managers believe that the Miami Heat will again win the national championship. Though I am tempted to conform to the majority, I don’t believe the Heat will pull off a three-peat.
The first Bowl Championship Series standings came and the Badgers were not in it. The metaphorical uproar that ensued was comparable to “Jump Around.”
The BCS standings were released Sunday with the same fanfare and controversy we’ve come to expect. Complete turmoil and upheaval have rocked the standings for the past two weeks.
This weekend, I started reading “Madame Bovary” just for the hell of it. I know; it’s such a willful, loose-cannon thing for someone to do. I’m so rebellious.
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