Archive for June, 2010

USA! USA!

This, just in time for tomorrow’s much-anticipated match. If this doesn’t convince you that soccer is a BFD, even in America, nothing will[ READ MORE ]

How Cool I Can Be

…if only in the eyes of my children[ READ MORE ]

ESPN’s World Cup Announcers Bore

ESPN, in all it's wisdom and strategy, sidelined one of the game's best announcers, presumably because he isn't British enough[ READ MORE ]

Palindromatic Video? “Lost Generation”

Yep, it’s possible. Nope, not “Palin dramatic” video, though this is a bit dramatic for me. But it’s a nice piece of film, in the sense of its cleverness-ousity: For the learning impaired, a palindrome is that which reads the same backward as it does forward. Though this isn’t technically true of this video, the [ READ MORE ]

Smile, You’re on Candid Camera

We’ve heard this bromide many times before, but this latest episode reinforces — nay, proves — it. You cannot hide from the “media” anymore…the social media, that is. Helen Thomas has a 100-year career (or so) as a White House correspondent, and it all goes poof in an INSTANT, thanks to a homemade video shot by [ READ MORE ]

Jim Joyce Goes Viral

The Anatomy of a Feeding Frenzy If you were anywhere near a sports fan, native Detroiter, highlight reel or Sportscenter broadcast, you now likely know that Detroit Tiger Armando Galarraga was robbed of an extremely rare perfect game (never before executed by a Detroit Tigers pitcher) by a blown call on the 27th out. (Watch [ READ MORE ]

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