On frustrated Men's Champions at the US Open ...

... and here you were (I was), thinking that <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/ESPN-cuts-off-Rafa-s-trophy-ceremony-for-Monday-?urn=ten-269538">ESPN</a> would be better than <a href="http://porcupyn.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/god-is-human-but/">CBS</a>!

Fortunately for me, this year I was not watching the men's final - because of the rain, the schedule had been disrupted and I did not know when the match was going to be played - else I might have blown a gasket.

Yahoo and ... cricket?

Two decades or so years ago, when I first came to the USA, not too many people here would have said that cricket was anything but an insect. I bet the situation has not changed much since then. What has changed, though, is that there is something called the internet, the great leveller, something that has <a href="http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat">flattened the world</a> even.

So, here we are, in the 21st century, and now Cricket owns the pride of place on Yahoo's website. Not only is there a site devoted to it, but it is also uber prominent in that it has found itself a niche <em>outside </em>of <em>Sports</em>.

<a href="http://porcupyn.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/yahoocricket.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1417" title="yahoocricket" src="http://porcupyn.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/yahoocricket.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="175" /></a>

I had observed it before, but today is the first time that I actually clicked on the link. It ain't bad! Check it out.

Managing the Afghan Conflict

Here is a <a href="http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/pert/">manager's perspective</a> of <a href="http://www.theafghanconflict.de/">the conflict</a>.

via <a href="http://twitter.com/prempanicker">Prem Panicker</a> (again)