Quote of the Day: Stanford at the Olympics

From a newsletter by Ajit Dayal, Quantum Funds:

An interesting statistic: students (former and existing) of Stanford University in USA won 25 Olympic medals in China, of which 8 were gold, 13 were silver, and 4 were bronze. If Stanford were an independent country, it would have ranked as the 9th in terms of gold medals won and 11th in terms of total Olympic medals won.

Picture of the Day: China Pollution

From the Switchboard, a blog by the National Resource Defense Council, comes this picture of pollution in Beijing. Eric Young wonders if the marathon during the Olympics will have to be moved out in the country.

Cricket Vid: Oh What a Mash!

I never thought I'd be blogging about cricket the night after the New Hampshire primaries, but some horrendous screw-ups in a recent Test match have got me quite riled up. Thanks to Web 2.0, even an Indian living in the US can now pull up a neat documented collection of the incompetence of the umpiring!

Awesome Football Vid of Trinity's Lateral Win

This is a must watch!

Trinity's lateral revolution

Think NFL Players Make Too Much?

Some random facts I chose to look up on a Saturday afternoon ...

The average NFL player makes $1.1 million a year. Seem like a lot? Well, the average NFL player only lasts just over 3 seasons, so if he doesn't have another profession lined up, he's guaranteed not that good a life. Oh, and by the way, only 0.2% of high school seniors who play football ever make it to the NFL. All said, maybe NFL players don't get paid all that much?