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Buckeye Links

The O-Zone--the best all-around coverage of OSU sports.

Official Site--OSU athletics' web site

Buckeye Sports Bulletin--most of their stuff is pay, but the rare free stuff is good and their print magazine is great

1460 The Fan--home of OSU sports, has one Dispatch article for free some days

Buckeye Nation--good stuff from the Central Ohio newspapers

Rival Fanatics-great anti-Michigan stuff here

Vanilla Gorilla--focuses mostly on recruiting. Blunt commentary. Makes me laugh.

Buckeye 50 Yard Line--frequent commentary, good historical stuff too

Buckeye Fanatic-rarely updated, but has nice Buckeye wallpaper

Center Ice Club--offical booster club of OSU hockey

Toledo Library-why do we hate Michigan anyways?

Roger Weber's Sportparks--This could fit under a number of categories--OSU stuff, baseball analysis, scorecards to name a few. Definitely worth bookmarking

Buckeye Gear

Where to buy quality OSU merchandise, especially hats which I am somewhat obsessed with

Official Team Site--you gotta love the URL

The Buckeye Corner--my favorite specialty store

Conrads--fine specialty store on Lane Avenue

College Traditions--another specialty shop, just a stone's throw from Conrad's

Long's Bookstore--a High Street institution

OSU Bookstore--Pretty much the same stuff as Long's

Universitees--Nice shop on High Street

College Town--book and apparel store on High Street

SBX--Whaddya know? Another book/apparel store on High Street

ShoeHat--foam hat made in Ohio, shaped like the Horseshoe. Portion of proceeds go to charity. Right now, trying to raise money for TBDBITL to go to the Bush inaguaration

Sabermetric Links

Fanhome--the best site for sabermetric discussion...I am USPatriot

Tango On Baseball--can't miss research on BsR, LW, Win Estimators, you name it

The Book Blog--Tango, MGL, and Andy Dolphin on sabermetrics and The Book

The Hardball Times--Gleeman, Sinins, et al, plus some unique stat categories

Baseball Prospectus--by far the best baseball annual

SABR--The Society for American Baseball Research, of which I am a member

High Boskage--I really wish they'd give their formulas, but the "Analysis Theory" article is great

Aaron's Baseball Blog--the famous Gleeman-length analysis of the Twins and MLB in general

Jim Furtado's Baseball Stuff--Never updated anymore, but has a good library of articles

By The Numbers--pdfs of "By the Numbers", the newsletter of the SABR Stat Analysis Committee, courtesy of editor Phil Birnbaum

Baseball Think Factory--fomerly Baseball Primer. Not as great as it used to be, but still an important site

James Fraser--developing "libraries" on various topics

John Jarvis-good analytical articles and good unconventional stats

Dan Agonistes--new(to me at least) blog on sabermetrics

David Gassko--he does the sabermetric blog at the Most Valuable Network

Sabernomics--an economist on sabermetrics

Beyond the Box Score--Group sabermetric blog...interesting to see what they're fiddling with

Baseball-Reference-basically an online baseball encyclopedia

Retrosheet-Great stats from a fine organization that looks to collect scoresheets from all MLB games

The Baseball Archive-a free, downloadable Access database with almost all of the stats you'd ever want

Walk Like a Sabermetrician--your humble author's entry into the world of blogging

Baseball Scoresheets--my scoring site

Political Links

Drudge Report--News without the liberal spin, and always first to break a story

Rush Limbaugh--The all-knowing, all-caring, all-feeling, all-everything, Maha Rushi

Townhall--all of the conservative columnists in one place

National Review--founded by William F. Buckley, a conservaitve flagship

OpinionJournal--online editorials from the WSJ. James Taranto's "Best of the Web" is a must-read

Neal Boortz--Atlanta-based Libertarian talker. His "Nuze" is a great daily fix

Tech Central Station--Yeah, it's partially funded by corporations. Should I prefer something funded by George Soros?

Samizdata--the best libertarian blog on the net

Q&O--"Neolibertarian" blog

Daily Pundit--Bill Quick is a libertarian blogger who doesn't mince words

Cafe Hayek--good economics blog

The Cato Institute--libertarian think tank; not always my cup of tea, but definitely worth checking out

National Rife Association-"Take my gun? Over my cold, dead hands!"-Charlton Heston