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Did you know that in the course of the year, the average Microsoft employee donates over $1200? Not too shabby. A lot of that money is given in October for the annual Giving Campaign. Part of that campaign is an internal auction. Last year I won the ski patrol for a day auction and the day of ski photography...
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How much of a sports fan are you? Preston and Steve (the best morning show in the world) gave away two tickets to Game 4 of the World Series in a trivia contest. This wasn't just any trivia contest though. If you got a question wrong, you had a bowling ball dropped on your car from about 50 feet...
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The MLB is notoriously stingy with their content. You have to pay to see or hear any games over the web. Thanks to EdD for pointing out that we can now watch live streams of all the playoff games for free! You get a mosaic view of four different video feeds. To fire it up, go to mlb.com, pull down the...
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Thanks to AndyC for sending in this one. Edwin Baptiste from Morgan State must not have cut his fingernails before the game. If I didn't see this on some sports news sites, I would not believe that it was real. UPDATE: YouTube pulled the last video so I've linked to a different one.
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The Cubs have clinched the NL Central for the second year in a row! They currently rank first in BA, R, OBP, SLG, and OPS. Not too shabby. I should have posted this a week or two ago, but did you know that it's very simple to calculate how far a team is away from clinching the title? Simple add the...
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If you stepped into my room when I was about 12 years old, you would have seen a huge Ryne Sandberg poster pinned in the spot of honor directly above my headboard. It was still wrapped in the plastic with a cardboard backing because I wanted it to stay in perfect shape. Ryne Sandberg was my hero. At...
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Cubs fans have lived full lives and died since the last time the Cubs won the World Series. Yet, pick any year and talk to a Cubs fan in March and they will say "This is the year!" Talk to them in mid-April and they say "Wait for next season!" It's a fun mix of optimism for the...
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Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that the Olympics are starting up tomorrow. My DVR is already set to record all three channels of HD coverage. I'm not sure how much of it I'll actually watch, but it's fun to get caught up in the excitement. The New York Times ran a story...
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Is anyone else sick of hearing about the Brett Favre deal? Every morning on SportsCenter they devote ~5 minutes to dissecting the latest information. I DON'T CARE. The Cubs just swept a four game series with the Brewers and are now five games up in the NL Central. Talk about that instead. Thank goodness...
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It's official: Ryan Newman is leaving Penske at the end of the year to race for the newly formed Stewart-Haas race team. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he can do over there with Tony Stewart as a teammate. Both are from Indiana and have a good relationship off the track (something...
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I've heard a lot about StubHub, but I've never actually used it to buy or sell tickets. Transferring tickets online has always seemed very sketchy to me as there are many holes for scams. I had an extra ticket to get rid of so I decided to give it a try. The selling process was very simple. I...
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Here's an interesting stat for you: Richie Sexson (1B for the Mariners) is batting 0.218 this year. Carlos Zambrano (pitcher for the Cubs) is batting 0.358. Crazy, eh? Over the past two years, Carlos has batted 0.291 and Richie has batted 0.210. If you go back four years, Carlos still wins 0.258...
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The U.S. Open has extended their web coverage this year and you can now choose some specific feeds to follow your favorite players. I'm recording it all at home on the Tivo, but when I watch that I would just fast forward to the Tiger Woods parts anyway. It's really nice to have a feed that follows...
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Remember that Beer Belly that Tim and Chelsea bought for my birthday? This evening I got some season tickets for the Mariners game from a guy at work and decided to try to sneak the Beer Belly into a game for the first time. Tim and I huddled behind the car filling it up and strapping it on before walking...
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Here's my MLB All-Star Ballot for 2008. American League 1B - J. Morneau, MIN 2B - I. Kinsler, TEX SS - Y.Betancourt, SEA 3B - M. Cabrera, DET C - D. Navarro, TB OF - I. Suzuki, SEA OF - J. Hamilton, TEX OF - M. Ordonez, DET DH - D. Ortiz, BOS National League 1B - L. Berkman, HOU 2B - C. Utley, PHI...