Michael Lewis: Money(Basket)ball??

This could make me interested in the NBA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

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Finance + Sports = Barack Obonga

Don't know if anyone reads The Sports Guy on ESPN.com, but you should. At times, he can be hilarious.

This is one of those times.

In a column on the NBA getting "it's curves back," he uses the term "sunk cost" and proceeds to explain it:

What is a sunk cost? In financial terms, it's a lost cause -- you're paying for something that has lost its value to you. Let's say I spent $200 on one of those beautiful, 6-foot-high, glass-blown water bongs and named it Barack Obonga. And let's say I smoked a little too much of the special hydro weed they give to cancer patients, decided someone was watching me through my front window, ran outside in my underwear with a baseball bat, and eventually spent the next two hours sitting in a tree waiting for the imaginary guy to come back before my neighbors called the police. And let's say the whole experience made me say, "You know what? I need to quit smoking pot, it's making me a little crazy." Maybe I'd try to sell the bong on Craigslist to no avail, and none of my friends would take it because there's nothing grosser than owning someone else's bong. At that specific point, Barack Obonga would become a sunk cost; that money is out the window. It's gone. I need to accept this fact and move on.

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End of road for Broadcast Legend

Due to faililng health, after 43 seasons of calling games, Larry Munson has announced his immediate retirement. Munson was the long time "Voice" of the University of Georgia football program.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sec/0-1-453/Glory--glory-to-Larry-Munson.html

Whether you liked the Bulldogs or not, Munson was incredibly entertaining to listen to. If you have never heard Munson call a game, you've missed something special. A few classc calls.....

From the closing seconds of the GA-TN game in 2001:

"10 Seconds, We're on their 6. Michael Johnson turned around asked the bench something. And now, Greene makes him lineup on the right in the slot, we have 3 receivers. Tennessee playing what amounts to a 4-4, Fake, and there's somebody Touchdown! My God a Touchdown! We threw it to Haynes. We just stuffed them with five seconds left! My God almighty, did you see what he did! David Greene just straightened up and we snuck the fullback over! Haynes is keeping the ball! Haynes is come running all the way across to the bench. We just dumped it over 26-24. We just stepped on their face with a hobnailed boot and broke their nose. We just crushed their faces!"

From GA-FL in 1980:
"Run Lindsay, 25, 20, 15, 10, Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! ... Well, I can't believe it. 92 yards and Lindsay really got in a foot race I broke my chair. I came right through a chair. A metal steel chair with about a 5 inch cushion, I broke it. The booth came apart. The stadium... well the stadium fell down, now they do have to renovate this place... they'll have to rebuild it now. This is incredible. You know this game has always been called the World's Greatest Cocktail Party, do you know what's gonna happen here tonight, and up at St. Simmons and Jeckyl Island, and all those places where all those dawg people have got those condominiums for 4 days. Man is there going to be some property destroyed tonight! 26-21, Dawgs on top. We were gone. I'd gave up, you did too. We were out of it and gone. Miracle!"

But all of these are so much better with "the voice"...listen to clips here

http://www.larrymunson.com/audio.asp

To commemerate the legend of Munson, in true Georgia fashion, farmers in Georgia carved his face into their corn field. As interviewed by the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the leader of the pack just happens to be one of my old fraternity brothers. Nice work Jake and thanks Larry!