I’m not sure how I missed this but via the Sports Economist, I saw today that Sunil Gulati’s first move as president of the USSF was to reduce the USSF board from 40 to 15. I guess this move is meant to reduce some of the political infighting between the amateur and professional wings of […]
The New York Red Bulls site is up now. For a team that didn’t exist until today,it’s curious to see that they drew with Chivas 3 days ago (someone forgot to photoshop that metrostars crest and edit the copy), lost to houston (same), waived Leitch and Regan, and re-acquired Steve Joley (can you say he’s
One of my favorit bloggers from Cafe Hayek is having a “back-and-forth on inequality” at the Wall Street Journal Econoblog. Is the “growing” inqueality really a problem or threat to our society. I’m not convinced, and I think its usually misused as an umbrella for other societal problems (ie inequality of opportunity, which is different).
A common resason I hear for not getting a Tivo is a reluctance to pay a monthly fee for little more than the electronic TV guide. Never mind that your cable company also charges you a monthly fee for your DVR, or that the generic DVRs have a horrible user interface and don’t have wonderful
Via Bruce’s Belly, it looks like the sale of the Metrostars to Red Bull is all but done. Red Bull, yes the one that gives you wings, also bought a team in Austria and totally rebranded it. I’ve left comments on a couple blogs with my thoughts, but its worth summarizing them here. The team
Uh oh, coca production in Bolivia "has exploded". Apparently, coca acreage has risien in Peru and Bolivia because of aggressive anti-drug efforts in Colombia. So, basically the US war on drugs, specifically the coca eradication tactic, has managed to move coca production. Hurray, must be time to ask Congress for more money to fight the
NBC’s Olympic ratings in the US just made the guarantee to sponsors. An analysis of the ratings is posted at the Sports Economist “Olympic TV Ratings in the US“ I’m posting this here for future refrence as it’d be interesting to compare the Olympic’s ratings with those for the World Cup this summer. I don’t
The Motley Fool has a good feature looking at the outlook for TiVo from both a bullish and bearish perspective. I still have hope for TiVo, I know Sandy and Greg were impressed a bit when I pulled up my music collection to stream to my living room. In the next few years, I think
The US team handily beat Guatemala 4-0 in another preparatory friendly yesterday. For the US to solidify itself as a regional power, it has to take care of the minnows without breaking a sweat. Bruce Arena has his team doing that, and yesterday emphasizes that we’ve been doing this consistently for more than a year
ABC News reporter Nydia Han ignored facts about the Nintendo DS’s wireless capabilities in order to run a misleading report about the danger’s of the Nintendo DS’ Pictochat. What’s not in the story is anything explained by the GamerDad this reporter consulted before going to air. On Monday morning, I received a call from Nydia