Two interesting posts on The Sports Economists today. The first points to a story pinting out that Britain’s high tax rate puts the Premier League at a disadvantage relative to its Continental neighbors, forcing English clubs to offer higher wages to players in order to remain competitive. The firm said a player seeking net pay […]
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More people requested tickets during the pre-sale then are available, so there will be no public sale of tickets. People who submitted an application will find out by January 14th if they got tickets.
I was telling Sandy on our way back from lunch today that what I was hoping TiVo would announce an HDTV TiVo soon, and tonight I see that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas they announced HD TiVo Series 3 The tuner thing should be qualified though, because it will actually have 6(!) tuners.
Apparently, according to Los Alamos researchers Soccer ‘the most exciting sport’ if you define exciting as how easy it is to predict the winner of any given match up. The results showed that the “upset frequency” was highest for soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and finally American football. Now, its a bit of a
According to the US Soccer site, the private sale for tickets to the National Team’s matches at this year’s World Cup Finals in Germany ends today. Not sure when exactly they’ll inform the lucky folks who get tickets.
I’m a bit sad to hear that Michael Vale, the Dunkin’ Donuts baker from the 80s passed away today. His commercials were certainly memorable, enough that Staci still will occasionally try wake me up by saying “It’s time to make the doughnuts!”. Kudos, also to CNN for their solemn and classy headline: Death of a
Ok, its stuff like this that’s a real knock against linux being ready for the desktop. Since I’ve upgraded gnome recently, automounting of usb devices has stopped working. This is annoying, although livable. Today I found a fix, if you’re running debian with gnome and gnome-volume-manager still doesn’t display usb drives on your desktop when
A judge has ruled that so-called “intelligent design” can not be mentioned as an alternative to the theory of evolution in public school biology classes. He agreed that the motivations of the school board members who instituted the policy were religious and amounted to nothing more than a repackaging of creationism. No doubt, Dover may
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