Sony is collaborating with Arsenal to equip their stadium with high-definition screens around their new stadium. I could see how these would be useful at a baseball or american football stadium, what with all the stoppages and down time during the game. I guess Arsenal fans can enjoy the high-def replays and keep up with action while they're waiting in line to get a beer. Via Gizmodo, Tech Digest.

The NY Times has an article about Sunil Gulati, who's taking the helm at the US Soccer Federation. Besides being an accomplished economist, he's been involved with soccer from an early age, playing, coaching, and refereeing though high school. They get him to talk pretty frankly about the issues he has to deal with, not just ni relation to the national teams but also to the professional side of the sport. About a women's pro league he says "There's no right to exist, so to speak, of any sports venture, or any business venture, for that matter." and similarly about MLS "It comes down to two things: one is economics and the other is the quality of the league itself," But there are hopeful signs for MLS:

"Those leagues are second to none except to each other," he said. "But that means 195 countries are below that level. You can have a pretty darn good league with a population of 300 million people and just some international players."

Though M.L.S. is not yet attractive enough for the best Italian or English players in their prime, Gulati pointed out, it is a magnet for good players from Latin America on their way to Europe. "I think that's going to continue to be a pattern," he added.

Found vis Skip Sauer and Off Wing Opinion.

D'oh, I had a huge post about my further experiences with Google Calendar but my dog ate it because my session timed out (yes its a bug I should fix, but generally I dont' write very long posts).  

The summary, I like Google Calendar. I imported my ics file from Mozilla Sunbird with only one glitch, event times were moved ahead by 3 hours. The web interface is quick and responsive that it wasn't too tedious too fix the events, but I only had a handful to fix. I then subscribed to my new google calendar in Sunbird on linux and iCalendar in OS X.\

Mozilla read the calendar url file, but messed up on recurring events because google does not attach an ending date to them. iCalendar read and rendered it fine, and via iSync I seamlessly transferred the calendar to my cell phone.

If you're still looking for a decent calendaring solution, and aren't tragicomically married to MS Outlook, you should give it a spin.  There's even a calendar for this summer's World Cup that you can subscribe to!\