Month: October 2007

Courtesy of Wolves stat guru Paul Swanson, here are the plus/minus total for the Wolves this exhibition season. 2007-08 Minnesota Timberwolves Preseason Plus/Minus Report (Final) Raw Minutes Team Opp Minutes Team Opp Net Player Plus/Minus On Floor Pts/48 Pts/48 On Bench Pts/48 Pts/48 Plus/Minus Telfair, Sebastian +25 74.3 101.4 85.2 319.7 88.4 97.9 +25.6 Ratliff,…

I’m guessing this doesn’t look like your day at work.

The website for Nau, a new-fangled “green” clothing company, is winning all sorts of awards. And some of their practices — such as small-footprint stores and discounts on orders shipped directly from their warehouse — seem right. But can ecologically-aware rhetoric explain the $40 sailor’s cap?

True story. Back in the mid-90’s, my friend M. got married. I didn’t much like the guy — he was shifty and weird — and for his bachelor party, his "friends" took him to a club downtown, where an exotic dancer slid her way across the bar, presented her spangled G-string to accept his $100…

The balmy weather and the impending denoument of my favorite season sent me up to Ely and then on to the Superior Hiking Trail for a little fresh air the past two days and I thus wasn’t able to make it back for the Wolves-Bucks tilt. Here are my questions and observations simply from gleaning…