NFC better than AFC in 2008

For at least the last 5 years in the NFL, the AFC has been known as the power conference. And with good reason too, the New England Patriots have won three Super Bowl championships in that time. The Indianapolis Colts also won a Super Bowl, as did the Pittsburgh Steelers. Add the San Diego Chargers and you have a handful […]

Exploding the Details: Why Speechwriters Need to Pay Attention to Logistics

Murphy’s law When Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowan spoke at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day 2009, he began reading President Obama’s comments. The teleprompter had the wrong speech loaded. Someone screwed up. The speechwriter did not double check with the teleprompter operator beforehand. Reality was following fiction. A first season episode of The West Wing opens with speechwriter […]

Famous people born in Virginia

Thanks to being one of the first places settled, Virginia has a long history as the birthplace of famous people you read about in school, but it has also been the birthplace of numerous athletes and artists over the years. . So who has Virginia on their birth certificate? Shirley McLaine Born in Richmond, Virginia, Shirley MacLaine is an Oscar-winning […]

Who Invented the T-Ball?

“I won’t be happy until we have every kid in America between the ages of six and 16 wearing a glove and hitting.” Babe Ruth On May 6, 2001, the Capitol City League Rockies and the Satchel Paige League Memphis Red Sox from the Washington, DC area took the field to play each other in a game of t-ball. What […]

Require private detectives

Private detectives, also known as private investigators, help the public, corporate, legal and insurance companies to acquire confidential information, determine the whereabouts of a specific person or investigate fraud and different types of crimes. Private Detectives/Private Investigators are often required by individuals and large corporate organizations residing in metropolitan cities to obtain hidden facts and information related to a fraud, […]

Footnotes: Weekend Observations – October 31, 2005

Favre plays Santa Claus in the Packers’ latest loss… Apparently, Brett Favre is already in the charitable holiday spirit after throwing five interceptions in the Packers’ 21-14 loss at Cincinnati. Favre actually turned the ball over six times if you count the fan who stormed the sidelines and stole the ball from him during a last-minute botched play. When asked […]

How a CEO knows it’s time to go

When does a CEO know it’s time to go? Well, one way is when the board shows you the door. But sometime before that, when does a CEO know it’s time to go even when he’s still on a hot streak? If you are the CEO, no one but you can answer this question. But we can give you some […]

Who was the best NHL general manager of all time? you might be surprised

Let’s start with the total NHL points accumulated through the draft. To perform this analysis, I added up the cumulative NHL points of all drafted players (excluding goaltenders) by GM. Naturally, you would think that the longest serving GM would accumulate the most NHL points (drafting the most players increases the odds of accumulating NHL points). That’s mostly true since […]