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Ohioans Love Their Booze

August 25th, 2006 | Comments Off | Tagged as:

According to a report from Forbes.com, Milwaukee, WI is the "drunkest" city in America. However, according to the study, Columbus, OH has the third highest number of heavy drinkers, giving it a rank of 3rd drunkest city in America, and Cleveland has the second highest number of alcoholics, giving it a rank of 7th. Cincinnati was all the way down at 16. Ohio was the only state to manage getting two cities into the top ten. I’m not sure if I should be proud of that or not. I bet the OU (top ten party school) students love it.

For those of you too lazy to try to find the actual rankings (they are hidden pretty well), here is a rundown: (Note: All rankings out of 35 except state laws, which is on a scale of 1 to 8.)

Forbes.com: Drunkest Cities in America
Overall Ranking City State State Laws Drinkers Heavy Drinkers Binge Drinkers Alchoholism
1 Milwaukee WI 4 1 3 1 3
2 Minneapolis – St. Paul MN 7 2 12 3 4
3 Columbus OH 7 17 2 5 6
4 Boston MA 1 3 15 4 17
5 Austin TX 3 10 6 8 14
6 Chicago IL 5 9 20 5 5
7 Cleveland OH 7 7 10 19 2
8 Pittsburgh PA 4 11 8 2 21
9 Philadelphia PA 4 6 4 5 30
Providence RI 2 4 5 9 29
11 St. Louis MO 4 18 6 13 19
12 San Antonio TX 3 20 1 11 26
Seattle WA 6 5 18 21 11
14 Las Vegas NV 4 23 10 13 12
15 Denver/Boulder CO 3 8 26 15 13
16 Cincinnati OH 7 12 18 12 22
Kansas City MO 4 32 16 18 1
18 Houston TX 3 28 26 10 7
19 Portland OR 8 15 21 28 9
20 San Francisco/Oakland CA 9 13 9 24 28
Washington D.C./Baltimore MD 4 14 24 25 16
22 Phoenix AZ 6 23 31 16 10
23 Los Angeles CA 8 29 12 20 23
24 New Orleans LA 4 33 21 21 18
Tampa FL 6 15 12 31 33
26 Norfolk VA 5 19 24 16 35
27 Dallas – Fort Worth TX 3 27 33 31 8
28 Atlanta GA 8 30 16 26 25
Detroit MI 6 26 30 28 15
30 Indianapolis IN 6 30 32 23 20
31 Orlando FL 6 22 28 35 24
32 New York NY 8 21 29 26 32
33 Miami FL 6 25 21 34 31
34 Charlotte NC 7 34 35 33 27
35 Nashville TN 2 35 34 32 34

MLS Gaining Popularity?

August 5th, 2006 | Comments Off | Tagged as: ,

I just ran across this article on ESPN.com. It looks like Major League Soccer (MLS) has gotten its first ever television contract. ESPN2 will air 26 games on Thursday evenings and three playoff games, and ABC will broadcast the season opener, the all-star game, and the MLS Cup (the MLS championship series).

This has me really excited. It looks like soccer might finally be taking off in the states. I love the World Cup (I watched as much of the past two as I could) and it is about time that Americans can watch soccer on both broadcast and cable television. The sport still has a way to go before it overtakes hockey, but I think that the day is fast approaching. Then soccer can be America’s fourth major sport. (They currently refer to themselves as the fifth major sport, which is somewhat inaccurate since, at the moment, they are borderline major. After all, only three teams even have their own stadiums.) I look forward to the day that American soccer is as legitimate as the English Premiere League or Italy’s Serie A and soccer is the second most popular American sport behind American football. I’ll be dancing on the streets when that happens.

Net Neutrality: Revisited

August 5th, 2006 | Comments Off | Tagged as: ,

In case my previous description of a multi-tiered internet was not clear enough, here is a good article from MIT Technology Review that gives a good comparison of a multi-tiered internet to the cellular phone industry.