Great sports quotes from the '90s:

Collected by Pablo Fanque, Sports & Diversions Ed.

• Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raiders tackle, on his decision not to vote: "I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot." (1996)

• Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'" (1991)

• Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, on what he told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."

• Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." (1991)

• Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."

• Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

• Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record: "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play." (1992)

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Hillary Clinton on the cover of the New York Times Magazine

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

The New York Times published this less than flattering pic of Hillary this morning on the cover of the magazine.

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Boxing: it's the accessories

"I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? ... The one who wins gets a purse. And they do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love." - John McGovern

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Poem: The Man In The Mirror

By Jack Brummet

There's a civil war in his head:

Lobe against lobe.

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Poem: Icarus

By Jack Brummet

Hans Bol (1534-1593)

The rings of the splash
Send dopplers
Into the void,
Widening and pushing out
In the cold and lonely sea.
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Poem: A Flight Of Swallows

By Jack Brummet

A flight of swallows
Spins outside the window.

One by one,
Stars turn on

And the yellow sun
Transmogrifies to dusty rose

As it sinks
In its ebbing light.

The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on

And clouds drape
Across the sky.

Snared in the web
Of the Milky Way, we careen

Through space, twirling on earth's axis,
Around the sun, and into the black.
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Drawing: Faces #587 - the back office

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Some favorite images of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Jack Brummet, History Editor

If you run a Google/Bing/Yahoo search on Martin Luther King, Jr. images you come up with millions of hits.  Of these, there is a core group of about fifty or so that are ubiquitous.   Here are some of our favorite photos of MLK, along with some of the many hundreds of postage stamps created in his honor; a couple of shots of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C.; and a short video on the National Archives holdings of MLK photographs.

Click images to zoom/enlarge

Two uneasy partners:  Martin with his frenemy; President Lyndon Baines Johnson

 One more shot of LBJ/MLK

I have never been able to find out more about this photo. I don't 

really know if Martin knew his way around a pool table or not...

What if?

Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl, and MLK.  This shot was taken at a 1964 free speech event.

Bayard Rustin with Martin

MLK with Coretta

The "I Have A Dream" Speech

 Speech in Washington, 1963

 MLK with Malcolm X

Some selected MLK postage stamps:

 

Photos of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C.:

 A background video on the photographs of MLK, Jr in The National Archives:

 

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Photograph: Hill folks bag a Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch/Abominable Snowman

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re: the controversy over Richard Sherman's "interview" following the Seahawks-49ers football game

By Pablo Fanque, Sports Editor

We pay football players to stop people, find people, hurt people, and avoid people. If they can do that, why do we care what they do with the rest of the time?

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George Etzel Pearcy's 38 states of America

By Jack Brummet, Geography Ed.

Pearcy's original version

In 1973, George Etzel Pearcy, a California State geography professor, proposed that the U.S.  refashion its old state boundaries to reduce the number of states to thirty-eight.  Part of his idea was to distribute larger cities among the states.  The new states would be named after their geological features, or historic events (Cascade, Alamo, Prairie, etc). 

There was a lot of support for this change--except in Washington, D.C.

Rob Lammle, a cartographer, created a more finished version years later, showing how cities would be better distributed in the 38 state system.

Rob Lammle's version

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Poem: The Mission

By Jack Brummet

The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth—

On the evil and the good.
We're all just customers
Of the sun

With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.
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