By Andrew DeWitt

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ESPN’s 30 for 30 series has been great. Tonight, it featured a documentary on the death of No. 2 overall pick Len Bias. I’m a documentary junkie. Every year, Columbia hosts the True/False Film Festival. That’s what got me hooked on watching documentaries. I like true stories. I like documentaries, non-fiction books and good narrative journalism. I’ll leave the fiction stuff to the sci-fi junkies.

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I failed my first test in college. A big fat 48 on an economics exam. To be fair, everyone did horrible on the test. Somehow, I developed a love of markets and how they work from that class while everyone else cursed the teacher so much that she almost cried in class one day. That’s why this article on savings interests me. I also can’t wait to be able to afford the new book Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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This guy claims that Google is ending the world as we know it. At least that’s what he says in his new book. He was featured on C-SPAN’s Q&A this week. While flipping channels bored with the World Series, I stopped to watch what he had to say. The book is a biography of the company Google. But the most interesting thing he had to say was how Google has crippled traditional media. I can’t disagree with him. It’s up to traditional media to learn how to make money off its content instead of giving it away for free after so many years online.

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I love spending my Saturday’s relaxing on the couch watching college football. At the same time, I hate college football. It’s long been known that the BCS system is unfair but John Feinstein takes the BCS out to the woodshed and brings it back into the house crying.  At this point, is it any secret that teams like Boise State, TCU and Utah can hang with the big boys when they have their best years?

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