The New Yorker: Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath
Saturday, 13 June 2009, 09:26
Malcolm Gladwell: "When the game becomes about effort over ability, it becomes unrecognizable—a shocking mixture of broken plays and flailing limbs and usually competent players panicking and throwing the ball out of bounds. You have to be outside the establishment—a foreigner new to the game or a skinny kid from New York at the end of the bench—to have the audacity to play it that way. George Washington couldn’t do it. His dream, before the war, was to be a British Army officer, finely turned out in a red coat and brass buttons. He found the guerrillas who had served the American Revolution so well to be “an exceeding dirty and nasty people.” He couldn’t fight the establishment, because he was the establishment."
AllThingsD: The NCAA Blows the Whistle on Twitter’s “March Tweetness”
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 09:06
"{Federated Media] has taken down [March Tweetness] at the request of the National Collegiate Athletic Association … The college sports group, which keeps a tight grip on any and all trademarks related to its teams, games and tournaments, says the site infringed on its copyrights."
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 16:48
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"The NCAA issued new rules this week that will allow credentialed press to blog live NCAA championship sporting events. The rules, however, limit the number of times reporters can post live blogs depending on the sport they cover." (via Guardian/PDA)
