Wired: Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes
Sunday, 7 February 2010, 17:39
"For more than 30 years, sports videogames have been focused on simulating real-life athletics more and more perfectly. But over the past decade, games have moved beyond just imitating the action on the field. Now they’re changing it."
Reuters Editors: Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter | Blogs |
Friday, 26 June 2009, 11:09
David Schlesinger: "Fundamentally, the old media won’t control news dissemination in the future. And organisations can’t control access using old forms of accreditation any more."
Telegraph: Arsenal fans will be able to watch highlights on their PSPs after Sony deal
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 19:42
"It will allow any of the 60,000 fans that attend the Emirates Stadium to tune into their PlayStation Portables – a handheld games console – and watch live streaming of the match with a five second delay from next season. This will mean fans that missed a tackle or goal could glance down and see an immediate replay."
Times Online: Journalists cry foul as politicians put the boot in
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:11
"[A] a charity football match between Scottish politicians and sports journalists which had to be abandoned after descending into a brawl…"
Guardian: Home runs and home truths in Marcus Trescothick’s benefit bash
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 20:12
Andy Bull: "It's a pub-table conversation brought to life. An animated hypothetical. Would Trescothick's hand-eye co-ordination make him a natural slugger? Could Giles' ability to spin a cricket ball translate into a mean curve? Might Jones make a sharp shortstop? And would the superior athleticism and ball skills of the professionals outweigh the knowledge and understanding of the amateurs? The answer was an emphatic 'no'." Despite the provocative article, this has the most sensible comments section I have ever seen on baseball vs. cricket.
Times: Test players step up to plate but get taken out at whole new ball game
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 20:10
Josh Chetwynd on playing baseball against Marcus Trescothick's team of cricketers: "The cricketers showed the skill sets necessary to succeed at baseball, but the nuances of the sport were elusive. …"
The Sun: He’s h-air Lehmann
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 15:04
The Sun has picked up the story of Jens Lehmann's helicopter flights. That'll be the story that Bildblog reported had been nicked from a local blogger by Bild….
Property Week Forums: Football forums
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 10:58
Eh? Why is a B2B magazine running a football forum? Building a user community around something other than the thing they all have in common is a strange strategy.
BaseballGB: GB National [Baseball] Team versus [Marcus] Trescothick’s Bangers
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 09:44
"[4 October is the] date of the game between the Great Britain National Baseball Team and a squad of top cricketers, which is part of Marcus Trescothick’s benefit year and will take place at the County Ground in Taunton"
The Canadian Press: Major leaguers could play in Olympics come 2016 if baseball makes comeback
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 12:00
"The International Olympic Committee will vote in October 2009 in Copenhagen about what sports, if any, it will bring back for 2016. These Games were baseball's 12th in the Olympics, but it has only been a medal sport since 1992 in Barcelona."
Gawker: Is Olympic Coverage Worth $412,000?
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:20
"The New York Times has 32 reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing. Thirty-two! That's quite an investment from a company in the newspaper industry. … Is this Olympics coverage worth the cost?"
Shane Richmond: Ignoring the Olympics
Saturday, 9 August 2008, 12:40
"If you like the sport, watch the sport. Why be a tennis fan for two weeks of every year? Likewise, why become an athletics fan once every four years?"
Dave Lee: Russia goes to war. Important? Not if you ask the BBC
Friday, 8 August 2008, 15:55
BBC News website, but only the UK edition, seems to be the only major UK news website not leading on Russia-Georgia this afternoon.
Monday, 30 June 2008, 22:56
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"Beijing’s Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."
