Football is gauged by wins, playoffs, and most importantly, Super Bowls. It has been widely popularized by Boston fans that without Belichick, Parcells would not be known as a head coach football icon… hopefully, that is from more of a knock against the NY media than the accomplishments by the man. But I am just [...]
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Linux Hack & Slash client
Oct 29
In the last millennium, I developed a custom Hack & Slash gaming client for Windows ’98, because I wanted to embed both music and sound effects to enhance online play. The result was a big hit among its players. But as a Linux user, I could not get that cool feature… that is, until today. [...]
Terrific!
Jul 16
The New England Patriots’ last three playoff appearances all resulted in losses. Curiously, this losing streak was led by a healthy and regular-season wonder, Tom ‘Terrific’ Brady, and Bill ‘Genius’ Belichick. Yes, both blame and credit are equally applied to the QB and Head Coach, even when it cannot be justified. But then again, this [...]
And the last two playoff games were at home where the NFL’s Golden Boy was hyped as being untouchable and unbeatable. Statistically, Tommy had a good year at his skilled position. But he looked none of that in tonight’s game. His poise evaporated from the early interception, the 5 sacks, a fumble (team recovered it [...]
NFL upsets
Jan 9
The sports writer, Michael Wilbon, gets it right when he says there is no such thing as an “upset” in professional sports. Heh, clearly, that is not the effect on the fans out there — there is plenty of upset. But, when NFL media writers (I cannot elevate them to sports writer status) want to [...]
