Barring future developments of an unforeseen nature, this is the final post of the Spartans Weblog. Commenting will be shut down in a few days; the site will remain up for archival purposes as long as Mrs. SW lets me continue to pay the server costs (or I figure out how to upload the contents [...]
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The end of the beginning
Posted in site news on April 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
National Championship Game Recap (4/6/09)
Posted in game recap, site news, tagged final four, goran suton, ncaa tournament, north carolina on April 7, 2009 | 16 Comments »
North Carolina obliterates Michigan State 89-72 in a 76-possession game. StatSheet box score. This four-factor graph does not tell the story: NCAA Basketball Stats The turnover differential obviously shows up loud and clear, but the other bars understate the degree to which the Tar Heels outplayed us. Statistically speaking, this game was played in two [...]
MSU-Iowa Open Thread
Posted in open thread, site news on January 29, 2009 | 93 Comments »
I’ve made a couple minor site upgrades: Added an Archives page, with collapsible listsings of posts by month. Added user-enabled editing of comments. You now have five minutes after you make a comment to go back and edit it. This is intended for those obvious typos/errors you notice immediately after you click “Submit Comment.” OK, [...]
Site News: 1:45 A.M. Edition
Posted in site news on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I finally got around to upgrading my WordPress software to the latest version. Given my very limited technical knowledge, I’m quite pleased that I was able to make it work in the period of an hour and a half. But I did manage to lose all the comments that were posted today. I think there [...]
Catching Up
Posted in game recap, links, site news, tagged big ten, idong ibok, kalin lucas, kansas, travis walton on January 11, 2009 | 13 Comments »
MSU-Kansas Thoughts To pay my blogging penance, I watched the full game on videotape this afternoon. Here’s the rest of the game recap: Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the current nine-game winning streak is how everyone in the playing rotation seems to be finding their respective roles. Eleven players played significant minutes yesterday, and [...]
Northwestern Game Preview
Posted in game preview, site news, stats analysis, tagged big ten, northwestern, schedule on January 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Site News The toils of blogging once again having worn me down physically, mentally, and spiritually, I am retreating to warmer climates tomorrow for a seven-day stay. I do plan to blog more regularly while on vacation than I have in the past, but content intensity will likely be down through next Saturday. The Conference [...]
Holiday Hiatus
Posted in site news on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to try to get at least a brief preview of the Oakland game up on Friday. But, beyond that, I don’t anticipate any new content being posted until Sunday or Monday. In the meantime, Fighting with a Vim was nice enough to wrap up all the best Spartan highlights from the last year [...]
Monday Night Potpourri
Posted in links, rankings update, site news, tagged soccer on November 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Site News of the Pull-Your-Hair-Out Variety Some of you may have noticed the site was down for a couple hours this afternoon. The server the site is located on has been having problems all week, much to my frustration. Bear with me for now. Hopefully, things will improve soon. Otherwise, I’ll have to go shopping [...]
State of the Blog Address: A-Change-is-a-Comin' Edition
Posted in commentary, site news on March 10, 2009 | 38 Comments »
To date, this basketball season has been a blogging dream. On the court, our team has fulfilled, if not exceeded, preseason expectations by running away with the Big Ten Championship–despite a series of injuries and illnesses along the way. On the blog, I managed to make some pretty good predictions before the season began (more [...]
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