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Can You Solve For Love?

Rathan Haran — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:13:11 +0000

This title already sounds like the sequel to ‘It Felt Like Love‘ aka the most depressing movie ever made (shout out to The Sundance Six for not committing seppuku directly following the film’s screening). Thankfully, I have no interest in exploring the depths of loneliness experienced by a 14 year old girl desperately seeking to be noticed in the [...]

Josh Freeman or Aaron Rodgers, A Friday Night Lights Story

Rathan Haran — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Week 15. Fantasy Football Playoffs. Do I start Josh Freeman over Aaron Rodgers? I already know the immediate answer. No. Absolutely, completely, without a doubt, No. You are an idiot for even thinking otherwise. It’s Aaron Rodgers! He’s the best QB in the game! You go with the horse that got you there. Rodgers is [...]

Mathematical Proof of Why Golden Tate’s Touchdown was the Right Call

Rathan Haran — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:39:02 +0000

These replacement refs have caused quite a stir in the past three weeks, and at this point, the game ending call on MNF may have ended the labor dispute between the NFL and the NFLRA. Everyone seems to be pointing at that last second call as the most egregious error in the history of [...]

Show Lin the Money

Rathan Haran — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:38:10 +0000

This isn’t a post about Jeremy Lin’s ability. This isn’t a post about the Knicks team composition. This isn’t a post about the somewhat hypocritical comments made by Carmelo Anthony (if he meant that ‘ridiculous’ was Lin signing the offer then let’s not forget he forced the Knicks to gut their team rather [...]

Wha’chu talkin’ bout Kobe

Rathan Haran — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:35:30 +0000

Kobe Bryant thinks that this 2012 USA Olympic team would beat the greatest basketball team ever assembled, the 1992 Dream Team. I can’t for the life of my figure out how that is possible, so let’s just jump into it and take a look at the numbers. I assembled the most basic statistics that most [...]

Goals and Saves

Rathan Haran — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:37:01 +0000

While watching Espana dismantle the Italians in the Eurocup Finals, I thought about what was the most impressive goal I’d had ever seen. I don’t watch a lot of soccer, so maybe you guys have better examples (and please send them my way), but this Roberto Carlos one from the end line was absolutely [...]

What was Linsanity?

Rathan Haran — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:16:01 +0000

Now that the Carmelo led Knicks have been dumped in the first round of the playoffs yet again, I thought I’d reflect a bit on this big time up and down season we’ve gone through (if you didn’t catch the roller coaster, here’s the New York Post’s Knicks back page covers for then entire season). [...]

The NBA’s Game of Thrones

Rathan Haran — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:06:09 +0000

For all that everyone has said about Mark Cuban, I have to respect that he made the move to take a terrible franchise and turn them around into world champions. To make it even sweeter, it was with HIS superstar Dirk Nowitzki, and it was against the 2 and a Half Men ‘Super Team’ [...]

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Hide Your 401K

Rathan Haran — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:43:18 +0000

My buddy Justin posted an interesting chart recently about the correlation between quantitative easing (what the blue shirt crew calls QE, QE2, and possibly QE3) and commodity prices (notice the gas pump recently?). It reminded me of a posting I drafted to write in January, right smack in the middle of the Fed’s 2nd [...]

“So this (Fantasy Baseball) team is perfect”

Rathan Haran — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:50:02 +0000

It’s almost fantasy baseball time again and although my slow starting roster made a respectable run to finish in 4th, I didn’t re-capture the title which I won in 2008. The consolation prize is that our commissioner, Hans Ruddilicious, for the 9th straight season did not win a title, settling for his record breaking/setting fourth [...]