February 2010
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Bloomberg has New Tool for Fantasy Baseball Fans
Last month I attended a demonstration session for a new baseball analytics tool from Bloomberg which is based on the company’s analysis and projection models for stocks, bonds and all things financial. Now available to all fans, the Bloomberg folks opened the site to media and bloggers to kind of kick the tires, and there’s a lot to go through, but my first impressions are quite good....
Dodge Ramming Fla. High School
Like the rest of the auto industry, Chrysler has plenty of woes. Apparently one of them is copyright infringement by a high school nicknamed the “Rams.”
Lake Mary (Fla.) High may bill itself as “Where bright futures are ignited,” but the school’s use of a ram logo that is a cut-and-paste of the Dodge logo instead ignited a phone call from Chrysler’s corporate...
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Olympic Photomosaics Brighten Olympics Site
The Internet and the Olympics are a perfect match. Real-time coverage, particularly when the Games took place in such far-away time zones as Sydney, Beijing and Nagano, was a huge boon to sports sites like ESPN.com and CBS SportsLine, and “official” sites quickly improved in quality and depth of features.
Though on a smaller scale than in 2008, NBCOlympics.com has plenty of info,...
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US Speedskating Going Social
Speedskating has traditionally provided many of the most exciting competition and interesting storylines of the Winter Olympics. This year, Apolo Anton Ohno, J.R. Celski and Shani Davis have been among the most discussed athletes at the Games so far.
Looking to capitalize on that, U.S. Speedskating has launched a social media campaign, “to connect with fans, capitalize on global excitement...
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A 13-Million Cranberry Salute
If you like cranberries and the delicious juices and sauces they make (like I do) and you like the Winter Olympics (me, too!), you will enjoy this fun tribute in Richmond, British Columbia, one of the host cities for the 2010 Games.
If you want to get bogged down with details, you will note that thirteen million floating cranberries, weighing about 13,600 kilograms (30,000 pounds), have been...
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WFAN's Francesa Knows where his Bread is Buttered
Sometimes when I’m away from my Sirius XM radio and can’t listen to XM Home Plate, I’ll listen in to WFAN’s Mike Francesa to get his take on some of the day’s sports news. As the standard-bearer for sports talk show hosts — and quite self-aware of that position — Francesa has a loyal following, and his strong position comes from having strong opinions.
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Some Super Bowl Fun Facts from the Census Bureau
Our friends at the Census Bureau have compiled a collection of facts examining the demographics of Super Bowl host city Miami, as well as the cities represented by the contenders, in this year’s edition of our nation’s most celebrated sporting event.
With the mail-out of 2010 Census questionnaires slightly more than a month away, the Census Bureau will run three ads promoting census...
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Three words: Sports. Film. Festival.
I heard they’re playing a football game this weekend in Miami.
But here’s another treat for fans who are in South Florida, tomorrow through Saturday… a mini-film festival at South Beach featuring three films - The U, ESPN’s all-time highest rated documentary; Invincible, the Vince Papale story starring Mark Wahlberg; and Faded Glory, a documentary of long-time friends who...
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USC-ya later
I love this story about USC basketball student manager Stan Holt, who got a technical foul in a game at Oregon on Saturday and was subsequently fired.
Actually, love is the wrong word. More like ‘“feel like bad memories have been dredged from a quarter century ago.” But, for these purposes, love will do.
Well, I don’t love that the kid lost his job, but I can empathize...