And now for something completely different
Since Nick and I started blogging here a couple months ago, we've been focusing exclusively on daily family life around here. We're enjoying that, and we're going to keep going in that direction. And in addition to family blogging, every now and then I'm going to post up a link to an article or essay that I think many of you may enjoy. Think of this as eating your vegetables in between dessert servings of kid pictures.
The first article to occasion this kind of posting comes from today's New York Times Magazine. Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side - two of my all-time favorite books - reports on the phenomenon of Shane Battier, a "marginal NBA athlete" who just might be one of the most useful players of all time:
"Here we have a basketball mystery: a player is widely regarded inside the NBA as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars. And yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win."
Read the whole thing here.
The first article to occasion this kind of posting comes from today's New York Times Magazine. Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side - two of my all-time favorite books - reports on the phenomenon of Shane Battier, a "marginal NBA athlete" who just might be one of the most useful players of all time:
"Here we have a basketball mystery: a player is widely regarded inside the NBA as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars. And yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win."
Read the whole thing here.
