Pseudo-Intellectual
Are college sports simultaneously terrific and terrible? You decide
Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:07pm | Jim DeyBig changes are coming to major college sports, and not just in the form of new super-conferences.
Stating the obvious -- PBS Frontline broadcast on college basketball
Tue, 03/29/2011 - 11:02am | Jim DeyStating the obvious -- PBS Frontline broadcast on college basketball
Tue, 03/29/2011 - 11:02am | Jim DeyThe crime of the century from Jim’s Pseudo-Intellectual Book Club — Vol. LIII
Fri, 03/18/2011 - 12:58pm | Jim Dey
It’s been nearly 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a visit to Dallas, Tex., but the case continues to fascinate.
How could such a thing have happened? More importantly, who did it?
Good news for Illini hoop fans?
Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:11pm | Jim Dey
Illinois basketball fans have had their share of frustrations this year. But they may be getting some good news from an unexpected source -- the NCAA.
The final solution to a hoops conundrum
Tue, 10/05/2010 - 9:10am | Jim DeyIn these trying times, there are great questions, and there are GREAT questions.
Hoopheads have long debated how to approach the final seconds of a ballgame ( up by three with seven seconds or less left) when the good guys (Illinois) have a three-point lead and the bad guys (Indiana, Duke, Michigan - take your pick) have the ball.
How Obama Thinks -- Or Not
Thu, 09/16/2010 - 11:07am | Jim DeyAn article in Forbes magazine has drawn White House ire.
Bataan - a true tale and trail of tears
Tue, 09/14/2010 - 7:51am | Jim Dey
Jim’s Pseudo-Intellectual Book Club: Volume LI.
As a self-described pseudo-intellectual, I’m not pretentious about my pretensions. So when I say that “Tears in the Darkness” by Michael and Elizabeth Norman is all too real — a page-turning description of a heart-rending, four year nightmare — you can believe it.
Jim’s Pseudo-Intellectual Book Club Volume XLIX
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 4:13pm | Jim Dey
Ah, Johnny, we hardly knew ye. That’s what they say, but they’re wrong.
Many Americans are familiar with the broad outlines of the life of martyred President John Kennedy, who was elected in 1960. As the youngest person elected to the presidency, the 43-year-old Kennedy was a hugely popular politician cruising toward re-election when he was shot to death on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas.







