February 2012
20 posts
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Beren Academy Follow-Up →
Today, a follow up to my Monday story about an Orthodox Jewish basketball team, Sabbath and their semi-final game scheduled for this Friday.
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Jewish School’s Team, Refusing to Play During... →
An Orthodox Jewish school high school basketball team in Texas lost its spot to play in state semi-finals.
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In Which Sean Combs Talks With Me About Football,... →
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Bowling With the World's Best, Then Rejoining 8th... →
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In professional bowling, that corner of the sports landscape where gray-haired and balding athletes can thrive, Kamron Doyle presents something different. He is 14 and he is winning prize money against the best bowlers in the world.
Click here to keep reading about the young man who is showing the world of professional bowling how middle schoolers do it.
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Lin Merch Gets Crafty →
I trolled Etsy and crafting websites so you wouldn’t have to.
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Let's Hear it for the Handlers →
Forget what you think you know about the dogs that win Best in Show. Here’s the lowdown on the people who make it happen.
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Westminster Pooches and the Long Campaign Trail →
In Tuesday’s paper, a look at the long campaign trail. That’s after we looked at the frayed nerves on Monday and while we continue to tweet away.
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Todays Giants Parade: Tales of Crazed Fans →
I spent today running around downtown mingling with Giants fans. They’re crazy, love blue. (Tweets here, reportage on the Fifth Down and here’s what went in Wednesday’s paper.)
But let us take a moment to consider this young lady as an MVP:
But perhaps no fan was more committed than Cristina Buttler, a 17-year-old high school senior from Kings Park, N.Y., who said she...
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Maryland Bill Addresses College Athletes’ Social... →
On The Quad, fresh bloggage about social media, college athlete regs and good ol’ fashioned sports law.
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January 2012
5 posts
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Fire Survivor and Possible Olympian: A Horse Named... →
Today on the front page of The New York Times, we meet Neville Bardos, a horse that “cheated death — twice” and is now a contender for the Olympics in London this summer.
Please don’t miss Josh’s great photos or the video!
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Vegans Muscle Their Way Into Bodybuilding →
From the streets of Huntsville, Ala., my examination of the world of vegan bodybuilders in Thursday’s New York Times.
When’s the last time you ate 10 bananas in one sitting?
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PSA: In Chicago Talking History, Monopoly,...
I’ll be in Chicago this Saturday for what is looking to be a fun-filled panel “Writing History at the Wall Street Journal.” (More info about the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting here.)
I’m on to talk about Monopoly, now a book in the works, and we’ll hopefully address some of the broader chatter about the relationship between history and...
December 2011
8 posts
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Study Links Winning Football and Declining Grades →
So the better the Duck football team performed, the worse the students — especially men — did academically, according to new research.
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New Nets Announcer Shows Flair and Hair →
If the microphone is your office, you can talk cigars with the best of them, and you’ve got dreads that hang past your waistline, then you must be David Diamante, the new announcer for the Nets. We caught up with him this week at his Brooklyn cigar lounge.
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Forbes 30 Under 30 →
I’m insanely flattered and humbled to be on a list that includes some of my favorite people. And I love the word “crackerjack.” Thanks, Forbes!
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Year of Scandals Tests N.C.A.A. Enforcement Arm →
From Indianapolis, my profile of Julie Roe Lach, who heads up the “thankless job” of running NCAA’s enforcement arm.
My NYT print debut!
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Watch That Tweet! N.C.A.A., Colleges Wrestle With... →
On the Quad, we take a look at academic work on the rules governing social media and recruiting.
November 2011
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The Young and the Riskless →
Risk-taking is for the young—except, it seems, when it comes to investing.
Jessica, Joe and I take a look on the cover of today’s Weekend Investor.
October 2011
12 posts
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Why Fund Fees Barely Budge →
Light and I report in Weekend Investor!
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A Sign of the Times? Student Loan Debt Consultants →
From his home office in Shepherdstown, W.Va., Paul Garrard has carved out a comfortable niche in a growth industry for our times: He’s an independent student-loan consultant.
Garrard manages the student-loan process for over 1,000 doctors, who eagerly pay him anywhere from $50 to $600 annually for his services. The 56-year-old self-described “son of a preacher man” arises at 4:30 a.m....
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Larry Fink Blasts Lawmakers...And Blogs →
Top of the earnings to ya!
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Is Bill Gross Too Gross? →
But in his October letter, Gross manages to weave flabby abdominal muscles, cellulite and “the laxative I have to gulp before my colonoscopy tests” into a lengthy rhapsody over the debt crisis.
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Bill Gross Suddenly Finding It Hard To Get New... →
Min Zeng and I report on the much-watched bond manager.
Update! Here’s the print version in today’s paper.
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Student Loan Debt Among the Top #OccupyWallStreet... →
Reportage from the front lines downtown.
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WatchYesterday Fox Biz kindly had me on to talk about student loan debt and #OccupyWallStreet !
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I'm Heading to The New York Times!
Big news! In November, I will head to The New York Times to be a sports reporter!
For over three years, I’ve worked with an incredible team of journalists at The Wall Street Journal. Through many a crisis, my colleagues here have proven to be completely unflappable, professional and passionate about great reporting. It’s a dynamite newsroom full of incredible people.
I’m...
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Sentimental Buying of Apple Shares →
Are investors buying Apple shares as a tribute to Steve Jobs?
Who knows.
But I do know that last night when I walked by the Apple store on Fifth Ave., the crowd of Apple fans was already building.
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Index Niche Offers Lucrative Lure →
Bunge and I report on the details of all the McGraw-Hill/CME deal chatter and what it means for big indexers.
September 2011
14 posts
WatchOn the News Hub discussing Gundlach’s comments on the U.S. already being in a recession.