Cross country coach of the year.

They asked Coach Johnson, who had just been voted cross country coach of the year, what his secret was: "Well, for each practice session in previous years I would tell the team to run through the woods and back as fast as they could. This year I had this great idea. I told them, as fast as they could, to run through the woods and back, and then through the woods again. So I just got a bus, drove to the other side of the woods and picked them up each day. Yep, paid off big-time!"

John Riggins, explained.

Let there be no mistake, John Riggings knew fully well going in that having a vertical bar in the center of his facemask would obscure his vision, and thus make him a less effective player. But he absolutely insisted on having it anyway. Pussy!

Weird, futuristic, unreliable self-advice.

If, when you were 16 had you been given opportunity to get advice directly from your future self: 10, 20 or even 30 years later, would you have listened? I don't think I would have, probably because I think I would have made the assumption that something likely would have "happened" to me in the interim years, twisting my thinking. And you know what? I think that particular presupposition may have indeed been accurate.

My research on gravity defiance.

I've been doing quite a bit of research of late, trying to determine exactly who holds the world's record for being the fattest/shortest person ever to legitimately dunk a basketball. As you can imagine, since "fat" and "short" are relative terms, the data are controversial.

Why I voted.

The primary reason I voted is because it's important to me to try to impose my will on others.