Rookie of the Year is a bit of a strange award. It's given, I presume, to the rookie-eligible player who had the most valuable season in each league. Full Article at Beyond the Box Score

I've been trying to yell at my 4 1/2-year-old son a little less this year. It's not that he doesn't deserve it some of the time. I'm just not seeing a lot of results lately with the principal Richard Vernon approach. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

(Conflict-of-interest disclaimer: I was sent an Advance Reader Copy of The Monty Hall Problem and I really enjoyed reading it; so, feeling guilty about not finishing reviews of books I got for free, I try to compensate by posting brief, laudatory notes. Full Article at ScienceBlogs

Thanks to the Game Show Network, even folks who weren't around when it aired in the sixties and seventies can enjoy the Monty Hall classic Let's Make a Deal. Full Article at Huffington Post

I'm turning into one of those scary ladies who totes a giant pocketbook filled with mystery items. Actually, I carry two bags. An ugly brown one, on the flap of which my daughter wrote in ink: "I love you forever, Mommy." Full Article at Coshocton Tribune

I'm turning into one of those scary ladies who totes a giant pocketbook filled with mystery items. Actually, I carry two bags. An ugly brown one, on the flap of which my daughter wrote in ink: I love you forever, Mommy. Full Article at The Asheville Citizen-Times

"The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is to encourage them to participate in the ongoing holy war against the enemies of Allah in Somalia," said Sheikh Abdullahi Alhaq. Monty Hall he ain't. I'd rather have the latest from Speidel. Full Article at Jihad Watch

Meet Our Judges Sid Caesar: His 1950s TV hit, Your Show of Shows, introduced America to Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. A man walks into a drugstore and asks the guy behind the counter: Do you do urinalysis here? Full Article at BrothersJudd Blog

One difficulty with word problems is their ambiguity. Rosenhouse does a superb job of reducing, if not eliminating, this source of endless argumentation with his canonical version. Full Article at ScienceBlogs

Though I’m a game show fanatic through-and-through, I’ve never had much of a connection to Let’s Make A Deal. Full Article at The A.V. Club

BWI AIRPORT, CONCOURSE B --- I arrived just in time to watch a latter day Monty Hall at work. A couple was desperate to scrounge up an extra seat on a flight to Fort Lauderdale. Full Article at Washington Times Blogs

So now we have a shiny new, 21st century edition of Let's Make A Deal. How does it stack up to the Monty Hall classic? For the most part, the show hasn't changed a bit. Sure, some of the prizes are different now: satellite televisions and HDTVs. Full Article at No Control

So now we have a shiny new, 21st century edition of Let's Make A Deal. How does it stack up to the Monty Hall classic? For the most part, the show hasn't changed a bit. Sure, some of the prizes are different now: satellite televisions and HDTVs. Full Article at TV Squad

PASADENA, Calif. Full Article at East Valley Tribune