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Everybody's a media company, chapter 3,672
"Staci Kramer at Paid Content notes that the NFL is in discussions to create an ad network across its 32 team sites. The league would sell some ads and the teams would keep some for themselves."
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NBC pumps up for 'Gladiators' redo
"The competition skein -- which featured players with names like Nitro, Turbo and Laser in its campy, early '90s syndie incarnation -- will be updated for the 21st century with new technology and twists."
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"There are things in life more important than Arsenal soccer. Or so I’ve heard."
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"One of my favorite songs, and another cracking ad from Nike. Is it just me, or are Wieden & Kennedy on a roll at the moment?"
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Wayne Gretzky-Style 'Field Sense' May Be Teachable
Can you teach 'vision' in sports?
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NFL Films and the reinvention of football
"Ed and Steve say they thought about football as something theatrical, perhaps even operatic, well, come to that, actually mythical. They accomplish this effect with stirring music, slow motion athleticism, and a grand, booming narrative."
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Beyond the X's and O's, a Lesson in How to Be Big
"For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure."
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Bears fans vent anger on blog site over snubs
Da Bears Blog gets a nice mention in the Chicago Tribune.
Is Federer the greatest sportsman ever?
"The way Federer is going, it is entirely conceivable that he will one day be seen as the greatest sportsman in history."
Couldn't agree more. Where else are you going to see a BMX slow dance?
"Who has it right, and who has it wrong? KEVIN HASSETT on the economics of managing an NFL football team."
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NHL inks groundbreaking deal with YouTube
"The NHL becomes the first US pro sports league to enter a contract for content and advertising with YouTube, a place where people can watch and share original videos worldwide of a league with players from 20 nations."
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On the 7th Week...He Kicked Ass
Jeff breaks down this weeks games on Da Bears Blog by comparing the mascots.
Should the Yankees be Surprised?
"Beane says this because the sample in the playoffs is too small. Just like the Tigers found out in their series with the Royals a week ago, in three games any team can win."
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The bizarre story of Michael Oher, left tackle for Ole' Miss.
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"At a certain point, aren't we better off without the NCAA altogether?"
Roger Federer as Religious Experience
"How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis."
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Klosterman gets all postmodern and discusses fantasy football as simulacrum.
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"The World Cup is over, Italy is the champion, and it's time for a review of some of the highs and lows of the month-long jamboree."
"Zidane's action was . . . less dishonourable, I'd say, than the hundreds of examples of diving, faking, chirping, bickering, bleating and all-round cheating we saw from scores of players throughout Germany 2006"
"His willingness to headbutt Materazzi makes him more of a hero, not less. Admittedly, since France went on to lose, he's something of a tragic hero, but a hero none-the-less."
"I suppose the football fans will be less than pleased with the example that Zinedine set, but a young headbutter really could do no better than to emulate him in every detail."
"There are relatively few universal socially acceptable excuses for interacting with strangers in public spaces, but sport is one of them - useful if you are thinking of use cases for shared viewing of mobile TV for example."
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Video of Zidane's headbutt in the closing minutes of the World Cup finals.
Making Virtual Football More Like the Real Thing
"Multiplayer gaming once meant a bunch of lone-wolf players each trying to do in the others. These days . . . gamers are discovering the camaraderie and esprit de corps that have long been the province of soldiers and athletes."
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Only practice could make some World Cup players this good at diving.
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ESPN Wants to Be MySpace for Fans
""Monday Night Surround" will feature scouting reports, news and games within a game, where fans from the opposing teams register and battle each other for fan supremacy through trivia, IQ contests, debates and betting contest . . . "
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The Sins of American Sportscasting
"All these strands together add up to the crisis in American sportscasting that is made evident at every World Cup, when English-speaking fans flee in enormous numbers to listen to commentary in a language they don’t even understand."
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I Like Bill Simmons, Really I Do
Wages of Wins takes on Bill Simmons.
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The N.B.A. Draft: Now for Grown-Ups Only!
"Garnett shifted the paradigm for hopp greatness: suddenly, attending college was almost like admitting your game had flaws. College was for the staunchly nontranscendent."
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Does the World Cup have a lingua franca?
"If a player doesn't happen to share a language with the referee, he might yell in his native language just to convey that he's upset. "Any kind of fellatio comment is inevitably understood," says Alexi Lalas, who was on the U.S. World Cup roster in 1994
Myth and Measurement after Game Three of the NBA Finals
"What are the myths (some of which I just made up) – and corresponding measurements (which I didn't just make up) – from these first three contests?"
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How Brazilian soccer players get their names
How Brazilian soccer players get their names.
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The N.B.A.'s Secret Superstars
What the non-scorers do matters, and in fact, it is those players who might ultimately decide who gets to be crowned NBA champions.
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Shaq compares the guards he's played with to Vito Corleone's sons in the Godfather trilogy.
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Does Baseball Need a Minimum Payroll?
"In essence, the Royals do not appear to be maximizing wins given their constraints, but rather, maximizing profits. Fans of the Royals, though, might not appreciate this objective. "
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"And that is the tragedy of Kevin Garnett. Year after year he is the most productive player in the league. And year after year he plays with many players who are not only not average, but quite a bit below average."
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Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
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Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
"The notion that lactic acid was bad took hold more than a century ago, said George A. Brooks, a professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. It stuck because it seemed to make so much sense."
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Curious Guy: Malcolm Gladwell (Part 2)
The conversation between Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell continues . . .
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"With the exception of the prime-time figure skating competition Tuesday, ratings have been subterranean, as the Torino Games have been routinely trounced by everything from American Idol to the Home Shopping Network."
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On athletes: We believe "that players need supportive environments in order to flourish. It would be nice if we were as generous and as patient with the rest of society's underachievers."
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If West is the NBA's logo, should he be?
"The NBA logo is, outside of the Olympic rings and the Nike "swoosh," the world's most recognizable sports emblem."
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"Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is mulling a deal to distribute some television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service"
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I Invented ... the Yellow First-Down Line
"Meet Marvin White, the mastermind behind the greatest boon to televised sports since slo-mo."
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McSweeney's: "Under Center"
"It then dawned upon me that the intellectual approach to simplicity is to reduce details, whereas the intuitive approach to simplicity is to add subtlety."
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Bill Simmons has discovered his voice as a reader's buddy
Da Bears blog is number 3. Hell yeah.
Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach's Guide.
"What follows is the best strategy my staff and I have come up with to limit Teen Wolf's effectiveness on the court."
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Lives of the Cannibals: Redemption
"And this is why the 2005 Yankees have a shot at being the most memorable team to come out of the City in years. They've seized every opportunity to make things hard this season."
ESPN catches up with infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman
"How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis"
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Big Ben is back, badder than ever
"As racist as it really is, the fact that white people can walk around the Palace in fake black Afro wigs without black folks taking offense is a testament to the power of racial "go beyond" that he has single-handedly generated."
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Is Robert Horry the NBA's best clutch shooter or its best con man?
From the very first moment we suit up for gym, our physical abilities can influence who we become or reveal who we were meant to be: blooming star athlete or total band nerd.
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The guy who wears too much protective gear and the other pickup basketball players in the NBA playoffs.
Daily Kos Swings for the Fences
Wired: "He wants to build an empire, and an unlikely one -- a network of interactive community blogs devoted to a world only slightly less partisan than politics: sports."
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Chicago Sun-Times Sports Section
I need a Jay Mariotti RSS feed
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Jaffe Juice: Tiger did it a.k.a. the next Nike Commercial
The way the ball hung over the cup with the Nike swoosh peaking out begs for a commercial
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A pretty cool viral site for the new EA sports Fifa Street game
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"I've never seen a man who seems more comfortable with who he is than Jose Canseco. Not with who we think he is, like our current president, or with his best idea of himself, like our president's predecessor, but with himself: charmer and snake . . ."
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NCAA® March Madness® on Demand
Watch NCAA games On Demand or Live on the web
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Current Football Players If They Decided to Spell Their Last Name Like Brett Favre.
Vinny Testavedre makes me laugh
25 years of skateboarding narrated by Steve Alba
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The 1,121 Words You Can't Put on the Back of an NFL Jersey
Lawyer tries to name Boston arena for Jeter
The person who bought naming rights to the FleetCenter for a day wants to call it the Derek Jeter Center
Eagles fans have a right to want to get rid of Freddie Mitchell
Top 10 overpaid players in the NBA. Is it any surprise that three of them are Knicks?
NFL Mascots That Could Not Actually Wear a Football Helmet Without Suffocating.
A short, but very funny list by McSweeneys
Great ESPN.com Page 2 interview where Gladwell talks about the themes of Blink as they relate to sports
IFILM is hosting all the Super Bowl ads for your enjoyment
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How people ranked the ads. Anheiser-Busch took two of the top three spots.
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Super Bowl XXXIV Advertising Bonanza Review
Adland reviews and rates all the ads from the Super Bowl
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Henry Bekkering - The Remix (Movie)
Turns out white men can jump
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How television killed the newspaper sports column.
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Reggie White used to thank God for helping him sack quarterbacks. But before his death, the football star confessed that sports trivialized faith and religion. Will his message be heard?
EA in exclusive NFL games deal
Electronic Arts, the world's biggest video games firm, has signed exclusive agreements with the National Football League and the NFL players' union.
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A bunch of Yale students got Harvard to hold up signs that spelled "We Suck"
Go Daddy's alternatives to spending all that money on a Super Bowl ad
Jeff George Looking for a Team on Match.com
He joins a monster depth chart of Craig Krenzel, Chad Hutchinson and Jonathan Quinn
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It's unconventional, but Bears' success is success nonetheless
"If you're a sophisticated fan, you won't be sucked in by a 4-5 record as much as you'll sit back, enjoy the run and realize Peyton Manning is coming next weekend. If you're a goofy fan, you'll start making playoff plans and tell me the rookie quarterback
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He claims he got cars and cash
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The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936.
As we'd expect, it was wild ride
Bob Ryan on the Red Sox World Series win
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By Leigh Steinberg, the sports superagent who inspired the movie Jerry Maguire and who has negotiated more than $2.5 billion in contracts for clients such as Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Lennox Lewis, and Sugar Ray Leonard
F*** my wife for red sox tickets
They're real excited up in Boston
Chomsky on sports
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St. Louis Cardinals political advertisements
Why you should root for St. Louis
He's only eating pudding until the NFL comes to the Virgin Islands
Fantasy Football Championship Rings
I thought a trophy was bad, who is rocking the ring?
Sheffield unknowingly used steroid
Lots of fun factoids about Sheffield's and Bonds' relationship
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New Yorker article on Tom Coughlin's new rules for the Giants
Grossman out for season with ruptured ACL
Another Bear bites the dust
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Took me a half hour to figure out the name of these things, when you search for tiger print football pants on Google you come up with nothing
Kerry Drops Ball With Packers Fans
Kerry recovers fumble with Bears fans
Why you didn't see the Dolphins-Titans game live
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Arsene Wenger makes up words like footballistically
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How some computer geeks bought and revamped the PBA
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Olympic medals adjusted per-capita
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Terrell Owens is completely out of his mind . . . but he makes me laugh
Bill Simmons Quote of the Day Archive
Maddux a closet baseball genius
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Brian Billick and his connection to technology
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Songs baseball players come to the plate to
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How to deal with someone stealing your sports section
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South African ref shoots coach dead
Last time I question a call
A Brief Look At Professional Gaming
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New Nike Commercial: See Lance Ride
Really just a good looking commercial
Delgado takes a political stand
Fall TV to show 19 straight days of football
I can't wait
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Fantasy sports sites addictive
Chicago Bears' cornerback Charles 'Peanut' Tillman gives his movie reviews
Salon.com News | Some in Illinois want Ditka for Senate
"Off the field, Ditka is well known as a conservative Republican. In 2000, he warmed up a crowd for then-candidate George W. Bush by saying the W ‘‘stands for women. I believe women want a man for president of the United States." "
The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Golfing Mongolia: A 2.3-Million-Yard Par 11,880
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Yahoo! News - Wilson, Parra Made to Wear Wrong Jerseys
The Mets can't get anything right