Swimming Pool Sumo, Part 2, With Videos

After playing this game, I decide to find out if we had actually invented it.  A google search suggests that nothing quite like it has been played (or at least filmed) before.  There are variants of it, including a video of a sumo ring floating on an Olympic size pool, with two women wrestling (not [...]

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Cooking For Bachelors (Part 1)

Here is an easy breakfast recipe that even the most incompetent bachelor can make.  It also provides caffeine, which is one of the 4 basic food groups for single guys.  (The other three are beer, pizza, and donuts.)
COFFEE CHEERIOS
Pour one cup of coffee into a cup.  The coffee can be cheap, or even left over [...]

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Swimming Pool Sumo

We are happy to report that a new sport has been invented.  It is not quite ready for the 2008 Olympics, but with some skillful marketing perhaps we’ll be ready for 2012.
The new sport is called Swimming Pool Sumo.
To play this game, you need two guys (girls are OK too, but they are usually too [...]

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Happy Birthday, Pal Benko

Pal Benko, the Hungarian-born chess grandmaster, has just turned 80.
I first heard of Pal Benko at the U.S. Chess Championship in 1983.  I thought that I remembered him playing there, but the tournament records show that he was not a player that year.  Perhaps he was covering it as a journalist, or perhaps my memory [...]

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And Now, a Sport For Geeks…

I know that a lot of my readers think that sports are not intellectually stimulating.  I mean, what’s the point of large guys pounding on each other, throwing each other around, or just throwing a ball past each other.
For those of my readers who prefer something more intellectually stimulating, I present to you…
Chessboxing.
The idea of [...]

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