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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Sports
Irish boxer Kenny Egan is in the light heavyweight final against Xiaoping Zhang as I type. Naturally, I can't see it live in this country ... instead I get to see a bunch of overpaid millionaires play basketball against Spain....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Happy to see that Spain beat Germany today. Better team definitely won. Perhaps the Germans should have fielded the squad seen above?...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
Just finished watching the Dutch implode and get beaten 3-1 by Russia, making them the third group winner to lose. I can now only hope that Spain beats the Italian Diving Squad tomorrow to avert any possibility of a Germany...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:25 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
It happens every two years ... a veritable orgy of high-quality soccer. In 2006 it was the World Cup, this time around it is the European Championship. So far, the Germans look efficient, the French were underwhelming, the Italian...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:59 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It’s not like ASU did wonderfully against Texas (losing the Holiday Bowl 52-34), but at least they turned up to play somewhat (albeit not in the first quarter). The same can’t be said for Illinois in the Rose Bowl (49-17...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:03 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The qualifying draw from World Cup 2010 in South Africa was made today. Europe’s Group 8 looks like a challenge for the Irish (current rankings in brackets): Italy (3) Bulgaria (18) Republic of Ireland (35) Cyprus (65) Georgia (77) Montenegro...
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Tonight #16 Hawaii played San Jose State and won 42-35 in overtime. That’s the same San Jose that ASU beat 45-3. Hawaii go 7-0 but frankly, given whom they have beat, are horribly overrated. Despite being unbeaten. Hawaii haven’t really...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:22 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Eh, no. The rest of the world of sports doesn’t care when a cheating misanthrope hits a ball and shatters the "most-hallowed record" in American sports. Bonds, of course, played for ASU and his name hangs in the baseball...
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Doing this and only suffering bruises of the liver and lung, stress fractures to vertebrae and a small fracture on the top of one hand....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:07 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sports
I don't really get cricket. Growing up in Ireland, it was always seen as a British game and the Irish national squad was a bit of a joke. Barring a 1969 win over perennial powerhouse, the West Indies, nothing of...
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