I like the change to script for the wording but do think it looks a bit generic baseball. Also the “O” looks too much like the Orioles’ “O”.
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
10 January 2011
23 December 2010
03 September 2010
Greatest of All Time
[Who's the highest-paid athlete of all time?](http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/greatest-of-all-time.php)
13 September 2009
Roger Federer Between the Legs Shot vs. Djokovic
Roger Federer made an unbelievable between-the-legs shot in today’s US Open semifinal match. It took me a few watches to be able to see that it doesn’t bounce. He just hits it backwards, between his legs. He won the match on the next point.
03 July 2009
25 June 2009
A Rooting Interest in the Bottom Line
A Rooting Interest in the Bottom Line
The Nationals are seeing a great surge in attendance from visiting fans rooting against them. It’s easy to get to DC from Philly, New York, or Boston, and it’s cheaper to get good seats here.
07 September 2008
YouTube - ryan vs. ventura
Was looking around for baseball fights today. Watch Nolan Ryan bean and then beat up Robin Ventura.
21 August 2008
MLB, umpires approve implementation of replay - MLB - SI.com
MLB, umpires approve implementation of replay - MLB - SI.com
Because games don’t take long enough as it is.
18 August 2008
Olympic Fever 2
Thoughts from the first week of the Beijing Olympics:
- I really like the type treatment of “Beijing 2008” in the official logo.
- I like the idea that the picture of the man in the emblem is based on the Chinese character for the “jing” in “Beijing”, but the picture itself doesn’t look that cool to me.
- I can’t take volleyball seriously. Sorry. I won’t go as far as Slate does and call it not a sport, but it doesn’t look Olympic to me and, bikinis aside, I don’t think it merits prime time coverage instead of, say, bastketball.
- I wish instead of showing entire volleyball matches they’d use the time to show highlights from less popular sports. They seem to want to fool us into thinking everything is live, but viewers are pretty used to highlight reels. I think we’d be okay with it.
- I finally figured out why I don’t like women’s gymnastic floor routines: they’re forced to pretend to dance, but aren’t forced to do anything on beat. If there’s music playing, I want them to have to hit landings on rhythm. I admit I’m mostly uneducated in gymnastics, but I know music pretty well and don’t like it being there just for mood so a nymphet can prance around. In this regard I think the men are treated much more like adults who are respected athletes. Why not just let the women do actual gymnastics?
- Once you figure it out, NBC’s Olympic coverage website has lots of good stuff on it. You will have to install the Silverlight plug-in, which doesn’t run on non-Intel Macs.
- The Michael Phelps stuff really was exciting. The interview with him and Mark Spitz was amusing because it contrast Spitz, who’s clearly made a life of making inspirational speeches to young swimmers, with Phelps who could only muster cliches like “if you put your mind to it you can do anything”. I wonder how he’ll handle the burden of role modeling. Anyway, the best of his racing was the 4×100m freestyle relay, but the photo finish from Friday night was damn exciting. Sports Illustrated has a good set of pictures of that, and this piece discusses how the timekeeping technology works.
- Despite all that, Phelps’s last event couldn’t match Golden Girls spin-off Empty Nest in ratings.
07 August 2008
Olympic Medal Count Map - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Olympic Medal Count Map - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Scroll back and forth through the years to see how the diversity of the countries competing in the games changed over time.
23 June 2008
28 January 2008
Fictitious Sports Team Jerseys
BuzzFeed has neat links up to jerseys from fictional sports teams (San Dimas high school football rules!) and t-shirts for fictional bands (Wyld Stallyns!)
05 June 2007
London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2... 2012
London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012
Reaction to the unveiling of the ugly, ugly logo for the 2012 Olympic games.
30 March 2007
YouTube - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game
YouTube - WiigoBot: The Perfect Game
Lego robot designed to play Wii Sports Bowling
07 February 2007
Wii Sports Boxing Gloves - Kotaku
Wii Sports Boxing Gloves - Kotaku
“Another candidate for the useless peripheral hall of fame, the Wii Boxing Gloves actually transcend my usual criteria of being only useful in one game by being useful in only one fraction of one game.”
02 February 2007
20 December 2006
Madden Wii Uses the Forecast Channel
Madden Wii Uses the Forecast Channel
Awesome. The weather in Madden reflects the actual weather in that region.
05 December 2006
24 October 2006
22 October 2006
At CHS, band doesn't take back seat to sports
At CHS, band doesn’t take back seat to sports
I, too, played a varsity sport and marched in the band. It’s hard to explain to people the culture of Charlottesville High School, where a tenth of the school is in the band and no one really cares about the football.
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