If you think Ohio State belongs in the Final Four, watch this clip including the egregious flagrant foul Greg Oden committed near the end of the Xavier game.  Except the refs didn’t call it flagrant.  Check it out at about the :48 second mark.  If that’s called flagrant Xavier gets two free throws and the […]

It’s easy to watch pro sports on TV and sometimes think the only difference between them and us is phenomenal physical gifts - height, strength, reflexes, speed, eye-hand coordination, etc. Wrong. It’s as much mental as physical, maybe moreso. Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling on one of the favorite teammates he’s ever […]

One more quick story from the software conference (here’s the first).
Microsoft has a booth here, and like most companies they’re trying to entice people to their booth and convince them to submit their business cards for a drawing for some gadget so the company can assault us with junk email and telemarketing calls all year […]

I’m in DC for a software conference (yeah, it’s about as exciting as you’d imagine), and tonight a few of us went out for dinner to Filomena in Georgetown, as we’ve done the past few years. Highly recommended.
After dinner some of us walked up the street to Rhino Bar. It was quiet since […]

For Kal Elsayed, a former executive at New Century Financial, a large lender based in Irvine, driving a red convertible Ferrari to work at a company that provided home loans to people with low incomes and weak credit might have appeared ostentatious, he now acknowledges. But, he says, that was nothing compared with the private […]

From the Inmates are Running the Asylum department:
THIS is what 3 a.m. looks like at the Costello house, a diminutive red brick three-story in the West Village: On the second floor, Harrison, age 5, is splayed, sideways and snoring, across his parents’ king-size, Anglo-Indian four-poster, having muscled his mother out completely and pushed his father, […]