• Entertainment & Gaming

    Do a Little Dance, Make a Little Dash...

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 10.17.2008 9 Comments

    Usain Bolt is freaking fast. Usain Bolt is so freaking fast, so much more so than all those other freaking fast, that he had room to taunt his competitors in a 100 meter dash. We’ll repeat that for emphasis: in a 100 meter dash. Despite a victory dance mid-race, Bolt still broke his own world record lowering it from 9.72 sec to 9.69 sec. But what if he had sprinted through the tape? According to an astrophysicist, Bolt would’ve done something never done before in sport.

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    Sox Fans Felled by Router Failure

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 10.23.2008 1 Comments

    Sports have been known to start riots. But no sports can cause utter pandemonium. For Red Sox Nation and the 20 Rays fans watching game six of the ALCS, the hypothetical nearly became reality. At 8:08 PM as the first pitch was being thrown, every bar in America was showing – The Steve Harvey Show? A power failure in Atlanta eliminated the ability to transmit live footage while immediately placing every bartender in Boston in a very clear and present danger.

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    The Price of Victory

    By Paul Adams Posted on 11.4.2008 0 Comments

    How much was ending decades of futility worth to the Red Sox nation? At least a 9.3-percent increase in ticket prices, apparently. After winning the 2004 World Championships, the Sox increased their average ticket price to a league high of $44.56. The cost of victory trickling down to Joe the Fan isn't novel or surprising, but a study last month in the Atlantic Economic Journal showed that teams who win it all jack up ticket costs disproportionately.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Everyone Loves a Champ

    By Paul Adams Posted on 11.7.2008 1 Comments

    College sports is all about winning, and so is alumni donations. An analysis of gifts to Middlebury College published last month in the Journal of Sports Economics shows that a winning season in high-profile sports leads to more donations for the school. The study also showed that former athletes are 22 percent more likely to give than their couch-potato counterparts, and that hockey players are more generous than football alums, but that there's no difference in generosity between men and women.

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    Big Wheel

    By Paul Adams Posted on 9.16.2008 1 Comments

    Can't let go of the Olympics? While it's unlikely you'll be able to purchase 2008 Chinese drummers to play at your next barbecue, apparently the big human-powered wheel from the closing ceremonies can be yours for the bargain price of $1690.

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    So Long, Tecmo Bowl

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 9.18.2008 0 Comments

    Remember the original Tecmo Bowl? You could pick Walter Payton and be guaranteed that nobody else on the field would have a chance of catching him (except maybe Lawrence Taylor). It didn’t matter if Payton got hurt midseason, had a streak of fumbles or even retired the next year. In Tecmo Bowl, ‘Sweetness’ was forever. Ah, those were the days. With the launch of DynamicDNA in NBA Live 09, EA Sports has completely shattered the static memory of Payton.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Entertrain Yourself

    By Paul Adams Posted on 9.8.2008 6 Comments

    The Entertrainer will either get you in shape, or really tick you off. The principle behind the gadget is quite simple: like your mother growing up, if you don't work out hard enough, the Entertrainer will turn off the television.

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    The Celtics Will Win

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 6.11.2008 0 Comments

    Forget last night. According to the statheads the Celtics have this thing wrapped up despite losing game three of the NBA finals yesterday to the Lakers. Lenovo Stat tool uses a plus-minus algorithm to calculate the best individual players and combination of players.

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    Welcome to the Bird's Nest

    By Megan Miller Posted on 4.18.2008 1 Comments

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/China_s_0_5_Billion_Bird_Nest'; After a landslide of negative news about the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, the hosts finally got a breath of (sort of) fresh air this week by opening the doors to the much-anticipated Birds Nest stadium. Nicknamed after its unique structure of woven steel, the stadium stands 230 feet tall and will seat 91,000 spectators. At a cost of nearly $500 million, the stadium, which went under construction in December of 2003, was completed just 14 weeks behind schedule thanks to a largely migrant force of nearly 7,000 workers.

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    The Baseball Replay Redux

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 8.27.2008 3 Comments

    Can’t say we didn’t try. When we saw the proposed instant replay plan for Major League Baseball in June we pleaded with Bud Selig to reconsider. Heck, we even gave him a blueprint for how to get it right. Apparently, Bud wasn’t listening. As of this Thursday, MLB will implement its weak excuse for instant replay.

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