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More from our Nwk blog on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament

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A note from our sponsors: My smarter better colleagues and I are blogging the NCAA tournament for NWK, here:

There’s not so much that hasn’t been done or said on the Spitzer thing, so I’m steering clear. But this blog, Letters from Johns, sheds some interesting light.

In keeping with my longstanding tradition of providing the best in global insight by, um, recommending people who actually know what they’re talking about, I present the latest from Rootless Cosmopolitan: A guest column by Mark Perry of Conflicts Forum on the ouster of William “Fox” Fallon. Enjoy.
UPDATE: Fred Kaplan at Slate has a similar take.

The talented and (usually prolific) Pat Stack has gone on a brief blogging hiatus with this announcement:

Sorry for the lack of writing, but application essays are sapping my editorial resolve. In the meantime, stay awesome.

Which, of course, brings me to one of my favorite posts ever: A compilation of blogger excuses for not blogging. Some of the best:

“I know I have not posted in quite awhile due to personal training, appearances and DVD slaes skyrocketing, but I dod want everyone to know - I AM STILL A VEGAN NUT!”

“I got promoted to an officer in my World of Warcraft guild “Trick Model” on Illidan.
“I just don’t enjoy it as much as I convince myself I do”

Mainly because I haven’t taken the time for my mental to be at ease allowing my thoughts to flow.”
“once again my world zoomed out of control.”

Come back to the Web soon, P. Stack.

Welcome to the Internets, former Newsweek Intern.

This time, from Pat Stack’s fine joint; p. stack

My friend Tony Karon, who is to international geopolitical soccer analysis what KBR is to cost overruns, has a fab bit on the the Iraq soccer team and what their match today means; if you read one bit on this, make sure it’s this one.

UPDATE: Iraq wins the pennant! Iraq wins the pennant!

N’Gai’s gaming blog has several nice posts this week about mothers, kids and gaming, including this good one from Newsweek editor Kathy Deveny about her daughter and a certain pink Nintendo DS Lite:

“For days, I floated around in a DS-induced post-feminist haze, dreaming of the day when Jing would write her first lines of code. I also noticed–for the first time–that there was a GameStop just two blocks from our apartment. Perfect. I bravely walked in and asked for a pink DS. No dice. Sold out. Till after Christmas.”

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Jen Chung, whose Gothamist is one of the earliest, and certainly the best, of the new generation of hyperlocal blogs, finally gets the recognition she so richly deserves in the new issue of Wired. There are some other people on the list that you may have heard of–Arnold, for instance–but if anyone deserves to be a recipient of the 2007 Rave Awards, it’s Jen. Check it out here.