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New for March
February made up for a slow January on the writing front, as suddenly I
had more verbiage-spewing opportunities than I knew what to do
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As promised, I kicked off my new web column last month: This Week In The Other America is a
weekly look at low-income people in the U.S. (i.e., a huge chunk of the
population) and the policies that affect them. Check in every Monday
afternoon for a new one, or sign up for the e-mail list or RSS feed if you
have trouble remembering when Monday is. (And if, by any chance, you
happen to be an assignment editor: Yes, I'm available for freelance
articles on these topics.)
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Baseball Prospectus asked me to cover a topic a bit orthogonal to my usual
beat, but nonetheless interesting: The effects of MLB's attempts to
squeeze more money out of licenses for fantasy baseball sites. Fantasy
baseball, for those who don't know, involves picking teams of players and
scoring points (and in some cases, winning money) based on their
real-life stats; for those who knew this but didn't know that you needed a
license for it, well, read
the article.
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Finally, with the IOC in town to evaluate New York's Olympic bid,
everybody and their sister wanted the word on the latest with the proposed
$1.7 billion Jets stadium. For Newsday, I did an op-ed
on the lessons the Jets deal holds for Brooklyn's Nets arena plans (if
that link dies, I've mirrored it here);
for the Village Voice, I took a look at the growing
number of obstacles standing in the Jets' way; and of course for fieldofschemes.com I followed the
increasingly bizarre story day in and day out.
February is also the month when I get to pay my annual visit to Columbia
professor Sandy
Padwe's sports journalism class, which is always a treat - the
students always have incisive questions and think hard about the topic,
which is more than I can say for some professional journalists I've met.
(Exceptions, you know who you are.) And I always learn a lot, too - like
this time, I got to hear about the hermaphrodite track
star and the vengeful traditional healer.
In other news, Jordan turned
two!
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