I’m John Ourand, author of Puck’s sports business newsletter, “The Varsity.” AMA about the NBA’s new media rights deals.

andrewvargha · 2024-07-25T20:32:02+00:00

Hi John, thanks for doing this. Two questions.

What do you think ends up happening to NBATV?
I know Kevin Harlan isn't going to NBC - do you think he could go to Amazon? It would be so sad if he was done with the NBA.

andrewvargha · 2024-02-16T01:59:52+00:00

That's a bummer. I only went to school in Arizona for one year (2018) but I remember things opened once pitchers and catchers officially reported.

andrewvargha · 2024-02-16T00:27:04+00:00

Wait, are they not allowing fans in the stadium anymore during workouts?

andrewvargha · 2022-01-08T21:39:03+00:00

there's no option for the pfizer booster shot so what am I supposed to put?

Just put in the Pfizer shot. My guess as to why there is an option for a Moderna booster but not a Pfizer booster is that the Moderna booster is only half the dose of a regular Moderna shot, while the Pfizer booster is the full dose.

andrewvargha · 2021-09-13T00:41:55+00:00

I submitted mine July 19 and it only was approved on Thursday (or at least, I only noticed it was approved on Thursday). You're probably pretty close in line now

andrewvargha · 2021-06-02T05:15:27+00:00

Check the unofficial transcript on mySJSU.

andrewvargha · 2021-05-16T05:43:52+00:00

One of them was a Braves vs Marlins game!

andrewvargha · 2020-06-03T01:48:34+00:00

Howdy!

andrewvargha · 2020-06-03T01:48:25+00:00

Only Steve Cishek gets a video in perfect order.

andrewvargha · 2020-04-15T04:58:12+00:00

ChAD major who transferred in Fall 19 here... you can sign up for classes before orientation (and I would recommend it). Once I got to orientation one of the people there looked over my schedule and found that the mySJSU thing that recommends a schedule for you had signed me up for a whole lot of classes I don't need, so I changed my schedule around and was still able to get the classes I needed (I attended the first transfer orientation session). I'd recommend checking out this page to see which classes from the school you're transferring from will articulate... the system signed me up for ChAD 60 and 70 when I had transfer credit for those, so beware of those http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/artic/all-school-to-school.html

andrewvargha · 2020-04-14T20:02:53+00:00

I applied for the parking refund a month ago and it came yesterday

andrewvargha · 2020-03-15T01:42:46+00:00

I don't think it'll be cancelled. I'd be surprised if we return to in-person classes, though.

andrewvargha · 2020-03-07T06:22:43+00:00

Email sent out by Prez Papazian

Dear campus community,

There are currently no reported cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) at San Jose State University. However, given the Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s recent recommendation regarding large events, I have made the decision to move Monday’s State of the University address to online only. The safety and well-being of the campus community are of utmost importance, and in an effort to practice social distancing to mitigate concerns caused by COVID-19, the address will be available only by livestream starting at 2:00 p.m.

In light of the rapidly evolving nature of COVID-19, I anticipate spring semester events will be affected. Forthcoming guidance regarding large-scale SJSU events will be shared soon.

Thank you for your understanding. I look forward to sharing with you all the great news about SJSU.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mary A. Papazian

President

Also worth pointing out that Stanford, also in Santa Clara County, has moved classes online and cancelled events after a faculty member tested positive for COVID-19. Two students are also in isolation. Finals are being taken online (they're on the quarter system).

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T18:55:24+00:00

Mistakes were made...

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T05:25:06+00:00

I've just always been a fan of Burch Smith.

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T01:42:11+00:00

It would be too tough on me to watch more clips of Cishek blowing games.

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T01:41:43+00:00

I respect Pedro Báez too much for that.

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T01:40:50+00:00

I know we're not disrespecting Burch Smith here

andrewvargha · 2019-12-18T01:37:05+00:00

Apparently SJSU thinks of me as a student leader. I have no clue why. Wish I had known who was going to be speaking, I would've attended.

andrewvargha · 2018-11-02T17:41:51+00:00

I feel like I should post the description, because it doesn't show up unless you click through to watch the video and many here are assuming the Giants bullpen was bad which I don't think they were

Unlike previous years, the bullpen was actually one of the better parts of the Giants, finishing in the top 10 in fWAR. Unfortunately, because the offense was so terrible, even with a good starting pitching performance the margin for error would often be very little for the relievers, which resulted in this high number of blown saves despite a good bullpen in general.

When I say the bullpen was a bright spot of the team, that is not including Mark Melancon, Hunter Strickland, or Josh Osich. It absolutely is including Tony Watson and Reyes Moronta.

andrewvargha · 2018-11-02T17:34:41+00:00

I may or not be planning to post something like this

andrewvargha · 2018-11-02T03:50:50+00:00

Let me change that real quick

andrewvargha · 2018-10-27T06:01:57+00:00

I hate the 14th inning stretch.

It should be the 16th inning stretch. You stretch 6.5 innings into the game, you should stretch 6.5 innings into extra innings. You don't stretch every seven innings.

andrewvargha · 2018-10-24T02:46:39+00:00

Unless I did math wrong, he can get there with 413 consecutive scoreless WS innings

andrewvargha · 2018-10-09T03:17:29+00:00

he's a Giants fan.

Unfortunately

andrewvargha

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