Electric Josh

The Empty Seats.
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More cute baby pictures, including some of her small friends. Have fun.
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Earlier we watched what were supposedly the best basketball players in the world humiliated by simple zone defense:

"I'm humiliated, not for the loss – I can always deal with wins and losses – but I'm disappointed because I had a job to do as a coach, to get us to understand how we're supposed to play as a team and act as a team and I don't think we did that," said U.S. head coach Larry Brown.

I'm delighted by this turn of events because it maybe, hopefully, will stimulate the powers that be in the NBA to re-legalize zone defense. The NBA has pretty much been unwatchably boring for at least five years (that I've noticed—maybe it's been longer) and I'm optimistic that a dose of NCAA-style defense might necessitate some good coaching and team play. I'm not, however, fooling myself into thinking that they'll ever call traveling in the NBA.
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Meanwhile, every time the Olympics are on I delight in remembering (bragging about?) days of living within range of the CBC, where events are shown more or less in their entirety and the human interest crap is kept to a minimum, but because my memory is hazy I can never come up with concrete examples of non-horrible coverage. Dad to the rescue.
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