1. Three Reasons Why Contador Is Not The Next Armstrong
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...July, but I personally look forward to your first Ironman, and your return to Austin as just one of those people that make this city so amazing. Photo credits: Wikipedia Related articles by Zem...

2. A Tale Of Two Cities - NBA Style
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...manager Sam Presti so eloquently summed up the insanity of the week by stating that ''At a time when people think 'I,' Kevin thinks 'we.''' Durant's approach to team sport is refreshing to sa...

3. Thoughts On Football, Soccer, And The 2010 World Cup
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...ing as it always is. Well, entertaining to the vast majority of the world, and probably a large number of people in the United States. With the exception of one Glenn Beck. Imagine that.   ...

4. Rhubarb Ruminations: Episode 3
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... But even if we can get beyond the amazing lack of planning, we are still left with the anger inherent to people losing their livelihood. And in the bigger picture, it's just another wake-up call to r...

5. A Homecoming Of Sorts
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...nto decades - graduates of the 70s, 80s, 90s ... and even further back than that. I think there were some people that returned for their 50th college reunion. I hope I am alive to experience mine! ...

6. The Tifosi Are Coming! Formula One Heads To Austin
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...the news, including front page headlines, my sense is that it's really a non-entity thus far amongst most people. I haven't heard much talk of it. Apparently I am the only kid running around in this c...

7. Rhubarb Ruminations: Episode 2
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...How Tim Tebow and Brett Favre Are Connected (bleacherreport.com) Tim Tebow NFL Jersey Sales: Eight People We Know Haven't Bought One (bleacherreport.com) McDaniels Legacy Lays In The Han...

8. Swimming In The Stream Of Social Media
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...this instance, a lifestream has a context - your life. As Stephen Covey notes in "First Things First", people have an inherent need "to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy". Perhaps that...

9. Tiger Woods, Augusta, And The Court Of Public Opinion
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...st let the guy play golf again, and let him get on with repairing his world and his relationship? Or do people really feel like they need to play bad parent and just keep scolding him? I understan...

10. When The Dust Settles On HR 3590
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...ithin days of the greatest attempts put forward to kill the bill. I think that trend will continue once people fully realize what this bill means to them, and not what it means to the special intere...

11. Rhubarb Ruminations: Episode 1
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...e morning newspaper and having a cup of freshly-brewed java along with it. I might be one of the 10 or so people left on the planet that are still reading the paper the old-fashioned way. When you ...

12. The Bucket List
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...ng Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. In principle, the bucket list makes good sense. I understand that people may have a list of items that they want to experience prior to departing this world. Or...

13. Friendship: New Meaning In The Digital Age?
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Friendship. It's a word that used to have a fairly consistent meaning amongst people. There are certain things you would do - and wouldn't do - to your friends. There was a certain responsibility t

14. Health Care And - Armageddon?
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...w This has all become rather ridiculous. Not that we haven't heard this type of thing before. I think people were going to lose their freedoms if they voted in favor of Medicare 45 years ago too. ...

15. After The Gold Rush
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...resy - if you ask a Canadian. They invented the sport. Hockey is so important to Canadians that 4 million people tuned in to watch the official announcement of the Olympic team on TV. There were 18 mi...

16. Terror Knows No Religion Nor Politics
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...rror? Here? Really? Please, wake me up. Really? But is it "terrorism"? It seems like there are a lot of people debating the semantics of this. Why, I am not quite sure. Terrorism is, by definition, ...

17. One Nation - Under Gold
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...to performance enhancing drugs, figure skating "judges", and the like, the Olympics represent a time when people come together in the spirit of competition. Wars don't matter. Races and religions don'...

18. Free Speech: For The People, Or The Corporation?
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...their "personhood" often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of "We the People" by whom and for whom our Constitution was established." Thank you for the refreshing...

19. Mammograms, Evidence, And Emotional Debate
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...his discussion is taking place at a time when the current health care reform climate is volatile at best. People have already started proclaiming that "this is rationing of care - and exactly what hea...

20. The 2009-2010 2nd Annual December Delirium
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... does play for one of those national championship playing teams, so I guess that was enough rationale for people to select him for the Heisman Trophy. Fortunately, we'll see if the real Mark Ingram is...

21. The BCS Goes To Washington
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...ce (or twice) before, and I will say it again. Annually. It's pretty simple, actually. No matter how many people you talk to, it seems that the overwhelming response is yes, there needs to be a playof...

22. The Disturbing Trend Of Religious Intolerance
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...is the beauty and privilege of living in a country like the United States of America - the freedom of the people to speak freely and maintain their own religious faith and convictions. I fully support...

23. Longhorns Update: In Defense, We Trust
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...rn fans in stunned silence) were THAT loud? Mack, you play in a stadium that regularly seats over 100,000 people! The Horns get to the line, and fortunately McCoy throws the ball out of bounds with 1 ...

24. Right Here, Right Now
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... named Wilber was as comfortable as possible in his final hours. His life ended surrounded by the love of people that barely knew him. And I am sure he's now off chasing other squirrels in the afterli...

25. The Tragically Hip: Stellar After All These Years
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...xes" Admittedly, there is a lot of Canadian history woven into the Hip songs. And when you see the people attending a Hip show, the first 4 or 5 standing-room-only rows of people at stage level...

26. Longhorns Update: An Ugly Day At The State Fair
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...usiness. Texas, over the past five years, has the best or second-best offense in the country. THE COUNTRY PEOPLE. THE COUNTRY". When you have players like Vince Young (perhaps the best college play...

27. Longhorns Update: Pre-South Showdown
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...onghorns were going to lose. Reason? Once again - 2008. It might have been close, but there were too many people that couldn't forget the sting of 2008 and had to exorcise it from memory. Mission ac...

28. Town Halls, Liars, And A Call For Civility
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...g), where were the "fiscally responsible" Republicans when this spending was approved? These are the same people that are decrying a $900 billion health care reform that is spread over 10 years and, i...

29. Hypocrisy And Health Care
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...t all. Funny thing is that emergent care is about three times more costly than simply giving all of these people health care in the first place. So if you think you're afraid of "socialized medicine",...

30. A Pause In My Day
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... House (my dorm) or was affiliated with the physiotherapy program. It's great to see what has happened to people as they have gone down the many roads that life provides all of us ... and where we end...