Earl “The Pearl” Monroe and Coach “Big House” Gaines. Photo courtesy of the WSSU Archives and NARA Clarence “Big House” Gaines, who spent 47 seasons coaching men’s basketball at Winston-Salem State University, passed away yesterday. He was 81. When he retired, he had won more men’s basketball games than anyone except Adolph Rupp. A few coaches passed him since then, including Dean Smith, but he was at WSSU long enough for 828 wins and entrance to the Hall of Fame. ...
Dave’s Long Box reviews one of the more accomplished villains in the DC Universe: Kobra. He sounds a lot like Cobra Commander from GI Joe, but competent. (He beats up Batman.) Of course, you couldn’t get much less competent than Cobra Commander; his enemies weren’t exactly rocket scientists, yet they beat Cobra all the time. (Actually, now I’m wondering. Did GI Joe have a rocket scientist? And if they did, would he have been called Booster?) :) ...
They revived the character of Slam Bradley in Detective Comics? Why?!?
One of my favorite NFL players, Mills played as an undersized linebacker for the New Orleans Saints and the original Carolina Panthers team. He then went on to coach for the Panthers, continuing through his illness and treatment. A high-effort player, as I recall he usually had a smile on his face to let everyone know it was just a game, but a game he loved to play. He passed away today at the age of 45 from cancer. ...
Apparently the Ohio government has invested some of its funds in rare coins. The Toledo Blade has the story. Since 1998, Ohio has invested millions of dollars in the unregulated world of rare coins, buying nickels, dimes, and pennies. Controlling the money for the state? Prominent local Republican and coin dealer Tom Noe, whose firm made more than $1 million off the deal last year alone. Link courtesy of EdCone.com
This is potentially very bad, if Adobe tries to make Macromedia products more Adobe-like. Adobe might “get” the print world, but Macromedia gets the Web, and I haven’t really seen any Adobe products that do as well for what I do. Of course, the other problem becomes readily apparent. If the companies’ competing products were already selling for high prices, what’s going to happen now?
Tom, Tom, Tom… Why do you protest so much? :)
…a Bono, Up and Back, the Gilligan cut… John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey on what you say when there’s little new under the sun. :)
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is speaking at a telecast organized by the Family Research Council. The event is set around the theme that using filibusters to block President Bush’s judicial nominees is acting against people of faith. It’s all “sick, dark and demented.” ;) Just to make it clear, I also find the equating of “people of faith” with “supports Bush’s nominees” to be offensive, but in a political, religious sort of way, not a “The culture war is starting!” sort of way. Are the folks speaking at this event wrong? Yep. Are they calling for a culture war against the judiciary? If they aren’t now, they have been. But can we act like this is shocking behavior, never before seen? ...
A column by David Folkenflik on what major news organizations really care about. …in an increasingly corporate world, media companies are acting more like companies than they are the champions of free speech and the public good. Link courtesy of Romenesko