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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Sunday Sports -- September 17, 2023

Locator: 45682NFL. 

Unlike college football, the NFL has no "cheap" games in the opening weeks. 

Opening season for college football: ranked teams played unranked teams and in some cases, really, really bad teams. The games are jokes (some exceptions, of course).

Until late in the season, college football is a big disappointment for fair weather fans like me. Other than diehard fans, does anyone even remember any college games from yesterday.

NFL? Second week. Already, the Kansas City Chiefs game is hugely important. Losing two in a row at the beginning of a season would be a headline story.

So, why did NASCAR schedule playoff races to Friday and Saturday? NASCAR was not going to compete with the NFL.

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The Book Club

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, c. 2005.  

Notes.

An aside: Drexel University is an incredibly good research university. Private, non-profit. Located in Philadelphia. Ranking: 105 in the US among college and universities.

The US: what a great country.

Harvard has always fascinated me. The chicken or the egg. 

Reading chapter one of the biography of Norbert Wierner again shows just how incredible Harvard is. The students that end up going there; the faculty; the alumnae; the successes. Amazing.

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