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Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:30 AM

Un-retired

Michael Jordan won three championships, retired, came back and won three more. (Then he retired and came back again and hurt his legacy a bit.) Now one of sports most dominating athletes is going to accomplish the same thing as Jordan. Michael Schumacher...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:30 AM

NASCAR Returns

I know these last few months have been hard for you without any NASCAR to watch. Luckily, the short offseason is just about over. The Bud Shootout is this Saturday at 8pm eastern. Practice and qualifying starts on Thursday. The actual season starts the...
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Monday, February 01, 2010 12:30 AM

Postseason Favre

I’ve been pretty hard on Favre for basically everything since his first retirement. So when I ran across this quote, I wanted to post it, but given my past, it will probably come off as more Favre bashing. In an attempt to just present you with the data...
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Friday, January 29, 2010 12:30 AM

Tivo and Tiger

Tivo has a nice feature called Tivo Suggestions. It tracks the kind of shows you watch and then, when nothing else is being recorded, it will record other shows that you might like. Now that the golf season is starting up, it’s recording all of...
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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:30 AM

Bring Back The Old Tiger Woods

I told AndyC that I was looking for blog material and he suggested a post about Tiger and the other top athletes who have made bad choices (Kobe, ARod, Phelps, Tiger, etc.) I’m still trying to give Tiger the benefit of the doubt, but with each passing...
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Friday, December 04, 2009 12:30 AM

Say It Ain’t Sosa

Sammy Sosa continues to find new ways to disappoint me. If you asked me to name four of my favorite baseball players when I was growing up, it would be Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg, Mark Grace, and Sammy Sosa. It was a big hit for me when the steroid scandal...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:30 AM

Jimmy Johnson

The 2009 NASCAR season is over. Jimmy Johnson won his fourth consecutive championship. Stop and think for a minute about what a remarkable achievement this is! Free Press sports writer Mike Brudenell has a recap of other teams that have won four consecutive...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:30 AM

Talladega

Did you watch the NASCAR race at Talladega? Did you see Dale Earnhardt’s #88 Amp Energy Chevy? My name was on that car. No joke! Too bad HD isn’t quite good enough to show that, but my name was on the left hand side of the car towards the back in the...
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Friday, October 30, 2009 12:30 AM

WRC in HD

The World Rally Championships are now in HD on Discovery HD Theater. The televised episodes are about 6 months behind the live events, but it’s still some good looking TV. For those unfamiliar with the sport, it takes racing to an insane level. Drivers...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:30 AM

ESPN360

One of the first reasons I give when people ask why I don’t ditch cable and watch shows on Hulu is that I watch too many sporting events and there’s no way to get them online. While that’s still true, ESPN360 is a huge step in the right direction. If...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:30 AM

UW vs USC

Earlier this year, I won a pair of tickets to a UW football game of my choice from a charity auction. I somewhat randomly picked UW vs USC, and if you follow college football, you know that I picked well! It was raining pretty hard on Saturday morning...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:08 AM

Famous

I looked at my phone this morning and there were 15 emails waiting for me which usually means that people are bored. Today, however, it was because a guy we used to work with (well Ed still does work with him) was play #9 on Sports Center’s top plays...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:30 AM

NBC Streaming Football

If you watch NBC Sunday Night Football, make sure you fire up NBCSports.com . You can watch an HD stream of the game online and choose from 5 different video feeds (cable cam, end zone cam, etc.) You can pause, rewind, watch in slow mo, or go back to...
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Friday, September 04, 2009 12:30 AM

Anti-Twitter Policy

The NFL, NBA and a number of colleges have attempted to institute anti-Twitter policies at their sporting events. I say “attempted” because the idea that this will actually work is ludicrous. Let’s just say for a minute that you could stop anonymous people...
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Friday, August 28, 2009 12:30 AM

Redmond Softball

This summer, Tim and I joined a Redmond softball league. Kudos to the league. It’s well-run, the fields are awesome (rubber pellet astroturf stuff), and the paid umps are decent. The only issue is that there are teams in the recreational league who clearly...
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