You hate not to give Tour de France champion Floyd Landis the benefit of the doubt, but with all the talk these days about steroids and preformance enhancing drugs, allegations that his urine came back with high levels of testosterone must result in a collective sigh of disappointment.
Landis became a media darling, competing in the [...]
Entries from July 2006
July 28, 2006
Et tu, Floyd?
July 28, 2006
Welcome back, Spotbit
Great news!
Spotbit is back.
The site that offered digital versions of popular magazine and ran afoul of niggling copyright laws shut down for several weeks while it looked for material.
Now instead of US News and World Report and Macleans, there are such icons of publishing as Bak (from Turkey), GPS World, and Chunse, which appears to [...]
July 28, 2006
Et tu, Floyd?
You hate not to give Tour de France champion Floyd Landis the benefit of the doubt, but with all the talk these days about steroids and preformance enhancing drugs, allegations that his urine came back with high levels of testosterone must result in a collective sigh of disappointment.
Landis became a media darling, competing in the [...]
July 28, 2006
Welcome back, Spotbit
Great news!
Spotbit is back.
The site that offered digital versions of popular magazine and ran afoul of niggling copyright laws shut down for several weeks while it looked for material.
Now instead of US News and World Report and Macleans, there are such icons of publishing as Bak (from Turkey), GPS World, and Chunse, which appears [...]
July 12, 2006
The lost (baseball) generation
King Kaufman, sports guy for Salon.com, wrote a post-column about the slow murder of sports by television. For years, networks — and more recently cable TV — have insisted on starting games later and later. And let’s be clear here, the broadcast industry calls the shots, not the other way around.
The All-Star Game, which went [...]
July 12, 2006
The lost (baseball) generation
King Kaufman, sports guy for Salon.com, wrote a post-column about the slow murder of sports by television. For years, networks — and more recently cable TV — have insisted on starting games later and later. And let’s be clear here, the broadcast industry calls the shots, not the other way around.
The All-Star Game, which went [...]
July 11, 2006
So how often has this happened to you…
You’re standing in line to buy a good ol’ American cup of coffee and the person in front of you, with seemingly nothing better to do, stares at the fifty different types of beverages, trying to decide what he wants to drink.
Now move the same scenario to a fats food joint (not a typo, by [...]
July 11, 2006
So how often has this happened to you…
You’re standing in line to buy a good ol’ American cup of coffee and the person in front of you, with seemingly nothing better to do, stares at the fifty different types of beverages, trying to decide what he wants to drink.
Now move the same scenario to a fats food joint (not a typo, by [...]
