I haven't made the effort to identify who's responsible for the latest U.S. Women's Open preview from the Associated Press, but talk about using old talking points! The title: "Americans No Longer Dominate U.S. Women's Open." The theme: how badly Am...
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Consider for a moment the following thought experiment: what if Michelle Wie had been the player to kick off the LPGA season with back-to-back wins for the 1st time in 44 years, instead of Ai Miyazato? Wouldn't we have been treated to breathless spec...
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I usually reserve this kind of title for established golf journalists who write a boneheaded column, but Shane Bacon really brought teh stupid yesterday over at Golf Fanhouse, so he can join Ron Sirak, Steve Elling, Gary Van Sickle, and Jason Sobel in ...
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Here's the anime du jour at the Constructivist household. It's called Kimi Ni Todoke and the Full Metal Archivist calls it "the Bible of moe." What's moe? Mao Asada would like to know. (Hint: Mao Asada is moe and so is her reaction to the question ...
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If you aren't yet a fan of French Canadian anime songstress HIMEKA (Catherine St-Onge), you will be after checking out the following clips from youtube!Here's her victory performance at the Animax Anison Grand Prix contest, with English subtitles of th...
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Tim Maitland is one of the best golf writers out there. He was probably the only one of the pros writing on golf to call Ai Miyazato's breakthrough early this season (check out his profile of and interview with her from the HSBC Women's Champions even...
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Just a little public service announcement for those who come to Mostly Harmless looking for stuff on sf, anime, and other aspects of American and transnational popular culture: I've got students in both my undergraduate classes this semester signing u...
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From Momoko Ueda's post-final round interview at the Canadian Women's Open:MOMOKO UEDA: (via translator) This is going to be my last event in the mainland, but if there are any other events to play, I'd like to play them.Looks like Momo-chan has decide...
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In what's become a bienniel tradition, golf writing's heavyweights have weighed in with plans to improve the Solheim Cup, from Gary Van Sickle to Ron Sirak (while Randall Mell positions himself among the traditionalists who like the Europe vs. America ...
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