Barking Carnival

Despite reading numerous articles plainly stating that aggressively changing out your running shoes and getting an assessment from a trained running shop consultant are the keys to pain-free running, I’ve always liked to seek my own counsel. This means buying whatever shoes were on sale if they felt OK walking around the store and […]

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
One hundred years ago, Barking Carnival would have been blogging enthusiastically about America’s three obssessions: baseball, boxing and horseracing. Blogging back then largely consisted of standing on a street corner crate shrieking incoherent opinions about immigrants while backed […]

Next year’s basketball team will have more 4s and 5s than Sooner binary.
This is a problem. A good problem.
So let’s conjecture unfairly as to which of them might be transferring or redshirting and which will be making many two point dunk shots on gametracker.
First, the possible return of Damion James - […]

The only thing better than watching Texas pummel a quality opponent in person in a soulless basketball venue a quarter of a mile from the action is to watch it from a tiki bar in Waikiki whilst ostensibly on business. Game commentary by drunk locals speaking in halting pidgin is also substantially more satisfying […]

Give this a read.
Either this an outstanding troll playing upon our bracket fears (87.3% chance) or KU has a little sitch-eye-ashun going on (12.7% chance). Enjoy!

Joining recent Horn commit Barrett Matthews from North Shore is commitment #14 Trey Graham from Waco Midway.
Trey was recently mitsvahed at Temple Beth Israel in Mart. He will be an early enrollee in ‘09 if he doesn’t intern at B’Nai Brth.
Welcome aboard, Trey.

The game wasn’t available here in California. The local Fox affiliates were showing a Communal Kiln Building Exercise, lacrosse (OMG, pass it to Taylor; Cody, pass it to Taylor!), and the District Ashram Championships in boogey boarding.
Don’t worry. Not seeing the game doesn’t preclude me from expert analysis. I’m […]

I am…pleased. So very pleased.
I remember when Eric B and Rakim first worked Dixie Chicken into one of their rhymes. They took the L Train from the Bronx to get there though.
When the chubby white lawyer breaks it down at the classroom podium, I get goosebumps. I too […]

I’m having a tough time getting that exercised about this loss in Lubbock.
Passive offense and an early lack of intensity on defense allowed the referees to participate in the Tech gutty-home-win narrative. A 43-13 free throw margin raises an eyebrow, but we’re as responsible for that fact as the zebra’s weird inconsistencies. […]

I’m a huge MMA fan and the upcoming UFC 82 promises to have some outstanding matchups.
Here are the matches with official weigh ins for the main card tomorrow night:
UFC Middleweight Championship
Dan Henderson (184.5) vs Anderson Silva (185)

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Check out Silva’s elbow knockout at 2:27. It’s science.
This is a dream match up, featuring the […]