Random Thoughts on Nebraska basketball's season of fun, historically-great Michigan, stinky weather & decisions and more.

Some of the these stories call Thomas a backup catcher, but it looks like he was a platoon guy with the 1959 Phillies.

I spent my formative years in Dixie, the Deep South. I say that with a strange mixture of pride and apology. Dixie offers fuel for both emotions. But I am ...

More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

The other day, my buddy Joe Rossignol wrote this on Threads: Looks like I surpassed 8,000 blog posts at MacRumors recently. My typed word count has probably well exceeded 2 million.

If you try the blog date feature, the note is inserted more or less randomly. On mine, it was below several dates that it should have been above. Also, since the blog feature doesn't get applied to ...

Whether it’s getting dinner at the dining hall, walking at 11 p.m. to get a late-night sweet treat at Yogurt Park or simply taking a bathroom dance break together, my two roommates and I can’t seem to ...

The World Series is over and fans are deprived of an epic Game 7. The Dodgers ruined those hopes by winning in five. The offseason is underway, with players on the 60-day injured list returning to the ...

Travel decisions sometimes take random turns. Example: On our recent road trip, my wife and I chose to jump in a rental car and drive to Cleveland. That’s Cleveland, as in Ohio. Actually, it wasn’t ...