The new emails are in, and what a good week. Lots of interesting stuff on Tiger Woods, conference realignment, coaches jumping contracts and the 1981 Sun Bowl. Let's go. Al: "Good piece today on stealing coaches. You mention the colleges are subject to anti-trust laws and the NFL is not. Why has one of the have-not colleges not filed anti-trust violations against the NCAA and BCS ?

Many conservative politicians, radio hosts, and pundits have repeatedly stated their shared belief that the Republican Party "lost its way" prior to the 2008 election. Rather, the movement consists of fiscal conservatives, limited government conservatives, libertarians, pro-business conservatives, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and others.

Well boys and girls it's time for bed. For you in England and me in the USA. Jet lag? You bet. Back around 1300 your time tomorrow - with one of our online chats at 1500. Oh yes. They're back! Thanks for your help today. See you tomorrow. Go well. 2305: It was interesting to see how few of the big-name trainers were here for the draw.

Monitoring the Think Tanks: What are the intellectuals saying. International Council of Security and Development (ISOC): Taliban control "virtually all" of Afghanistan "The best way to get out of Afghanistan fast is (for) people to think we're staying." Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

T.S. Eliot notoriously remarked that the only method of the critic is to be very intelligent. This doesn't help the writer much, but it saves the reader all kinds of time, allowing him to skip, say, the critical efforts of Brian Williams, the noted newsreader. Williams, to be fair, is terrifically game about the whole business, and one must admire him, in the way Dr.

As every self-respecting poker degenerate knows, there are 1,326 unique starting hands in the Texas Hold'em universe. When you peek at your hole cards at the beginning of a hand, all of the 1,326 combinations are equally likely. Your chances of seeing AhAs are exactly the same as seeing 7d2c .

If you had a magic wand that could make tomatoes, you probably wouldn't care about tomatoes very much. I mean, why would you? Why worry about preserving them in the refrigerator, when you can make more anytime you want? Need a tomato? Abracadabra, a wave of the wand and poof there it is. Do you think you would really pull out a Ziploc to save the unused half of a tomato that you had cut for a salad if you could conjure them at will?

Throughout the course of this blog I will point out the similarities that I believe exist between "investing" in the stock market and paying poker. In effect, one can think of these both of games, obviously poker more so than the stock market. By I hope to be able make the investing decision much less murky and more rewarding.

BetUS poker school about Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman's book The Mathematics of Poker: This book by Chen and Ankenman is a masterpiece in many ways. Unfortunately, it requires a very high level of math knowledge, it's extremely technical. The book outlines game theory applications of poker, and it does so methodically and completely.

hi, i play mainly hu nl holdem, but i have really enjoy playing mtt's, i maybe play 10-20 per week, starting to get right down to the last1-2% on stars regulary now, have never made a final table tho, always seems to go card ded at the crucial point or lose a big race which is just life i guess, really just wondering how many tourneys u regualr guys are playing and what ur expecting from them, in terms of finishing how deep?

Months, $2 Million" ("2M2MM") Follows Four 20-Something Math Whizzes Determined to Make it Big this Summer in the World of High Stakes Online Poker This summer, "geeks are wild" as G4 takes viewers inside the world of competitive high stakes online poker in a new series that follows four young high IQ friends who join forces and set up shop in Las Vegas.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution. Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen. What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking.

Greg "Fossilman" Raymer was born on July 25th, 1964 in Minot, North Dakota. When Raymer was only a couple of months old, him and his family moved to Lasing, Michigan. At the age of 11, Greg and his family packed their bags once more and moved to St. Louis, where he ended up graduating from high school.

The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The bulk of Morgenstern's papers came to the library in their original labeled folders.

BANGOR - Maine's Queen City is best identified by a trio of kings, but its appeal extends to those on a pauper's budget. Home to king of horror Stephen King and a statue of that king of the woods Paul Bunyan, Bangor was singer Roger Miller's destination in "King of the Road." With so many kingly claims, one would think Bangor's nickname would be the King City, but it has been promoted as the Queen City since the late 19th century.

The Celebrity Apprentice." She huffed and she puffed and she stormed out of Trump Tower. She still wasn't present when the show began this week. The million dollar question was "would she return?" Yes, yes she would. We all kind of knew that, and I'm happy she came back. I fully believed heading into tonight that she was going to pull out all the stops in going after Annie, and, if you haven't figured it out by now, I have wanted to see Annie go down for a long time.

Next entry: "Real Sports Don't Have Sequins - Joseph C. Phillips" King's Professional Domino Association Launches 12-City Tour Sponsors include Fundex Games, PitBull Energy Drink and Boss Productions Inc. Photo Caption King's Professional Domino Association Launches 12-City Tour Sponsors include Fundex Games, PitBull Energy Drink and Boss Productions Inc.

For those who are not yet in the know, Absolute Poker has come under fire in the most significant online poker room scandal ever. It is suspected that an insider had access to an account that showed cards of all players at the table, and the insider used that information to swindle mostly high-limit pros out of an estimated $700,000.

I Hate Bianca Club - even I called her Beeyotchy Bianca at the start - but at LEAST she kept us mildy interested, right? Thanks to the spoiler mentioned last week, we knew this was coming. But were you prepared to see Bianca emotionally destroyed, tears rolling down her eyes? She has a heart!

NEIL CARNDUFF Friends told him to stick to the books, but professional poker player Marty Smyth has already chalked up career winnings of almost 3 million and hopes to add to the pot at the Irish Poker Open in Dublin this weekend AS IS PROBABLY the case in most secondary schools, students at the north Belfast grammar I attended fell into clearly defined categories.

Welcome to CraveOnline's weekly music news roundup! Covering all the latest in the hits, the bombs and the trainwrecks, we sift through the headlines and bring you just what you need to know about musical current events. Top 5 Billboard AlbumsKelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted holds the #1 for a second week, moving 90,000 (down 65%).

Peter Lo sits in the production studio of KSCU in the basement of Swig Hall. The red light atop the eleven-story high-rise blinks in perfect time, like a metronome, as if it were an indicator for someone who'd just pressed a giant record button. Inside, the red light on my digital recorder blinks similarly as I interview Lo.

Angel Martinez flipped over his cards and grinned across the green-felt table at Wes Sickler, who had just lost a pot of about $100 in no-limit Texas Hold'em. "That was beautiful. I love my hand," Martinez chortled. "Hey, man, what happened to your chip pile?" It was a casinolike moment, but the betting action didn't take place in one of Arizona's two dozen Indian gaming establishments, where bets and raises are restricted to a maximum of a few dollars.

EW YORK -- This is how Mike D'Antoni tells me the story the morning after Kobe Bryant came into the Garden and dropped a merciless 61 on his Knicks in early February, with a catalog of spin moves and fadeaways that had the sold-out crowd cheering the visiting Lakers: D'Antoni passed Bryant near center court, walking onto the floor minutes before the house lights were dimmed for pregame introductions, and said, "Hey, Kobe, what's going on?" This is a phrase D'Antoni uses the way your mom greets company at the door, asking folks to come in, sit down and talk a spell.

One of the most alluring aspects of poker is that many of its most colorful practitioners are just as well known for their exploits away from the tables. One such player from poker's past was John Homes Jenkins III, a sixth-generation Texan who packed a century's worth of drama into a life that lasted less than half that long.