Articles in the Sports Category

Disney Pixar CARS 2: Mater Honorary Pace Car Driver – Coca Cola 600
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Posted in Disney Pixar CARS 2, Sports on 28 April 2011
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Blue-collar comedian and the voice of Mater in the upcoming Disney•Pixar summer comedy “CARS 2,” Larry the Cable Guy will “git-r-done” as the honorary pace-car driver for the 52nd running of the Coca-Cola 600 on May 29 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The State Farm Agents on a Mission Tour will also be at Charlotte. In [...]


If You Love Infographics & Baseball Stats to the Nth Degree …
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Posted in Books, Sports on 25 March 2011
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Check out the wacky and great website, FlipFlopFlyin.com. Most people don’t go to a random game, chart EVERY defense positioning choice and make a beautiful poster … But there you go. They also have a book out this summer. Tweet This Post


Internet Great – Every NBA Slam Dunk Competition Dunk …
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Posted in Sports, TV on 10 March 2011
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The internet is great. If you’ve ever thought … I would like to see the scores of EVERY NBA Slam Dunk Competitor from 1984 to 2011 shown in an easy to see grid plus a link to every freakin’ dunk on YouTube … now much would you pay? How’s about free? Yep, it’s all true. [...]


Super Bowl Parking – Priced Like the Super Bowl of Parking
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Posted in Sports on 28 January 2011
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If you found cheaper tickets than the $23,000 Jetsetter package … maybe it’s not a great idea to drive there … Hey, there’s no hidden fees – what more could anyone ask for? Maybe it’s just me but for $1,000 to park for 6 hours, I’d like to be carried into the stadium by the [...]


Jetsetter Super Bowl Packages … Only $23,500
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Posted in Sports, Travel on 25 January 2011
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Packer and Steeler fans will have to travel to the be-enemy city of Dallas (well, Arlington) to watch & root for your team to take home the Lombardi trophy … Sure, you can probably buy some tickets off Craigslist but if you want a full package, Jetsetter.com has ticket packages starting from $7,900 … Packages [...]


CARS & NASCAR – 50th Anniversary of ‘The King’
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Sports, Toys, TV on 11 July 2008
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Nice story in Yahoo Sports – appropriately entitled, “Forever The King” Tweet This Post


Disney Pixar CARS: McQueen’s “Japanese Cousin” Wins GT Round 3
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Posted in Advertising, CARS, Checklist, collecting, Disney Pixar, Film, Gadgets, Magazine, Marketing, Media, Politics, Sports, Toys, TV on 7 June 2008
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(Shhh, nobody tell Al Oft and those Lightyear Guys) Lightning McQueen #95 wins the 3rd Round of Super GT300 Series in Japan (click on the 300GT Tab) at the Fuji Speedway (all in Japanese, BTW). Official Circuit Website page for the #95 Team with driver info.* Cool – actual working headlights, I like it. Here’s [...]


Geek Warp Speed: The Star Trek Putter
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Posted in Advertising, Film, Gadgets, Marketing, Retail, Sports, TV on 30 October 2007
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I suppose this might be the best way to test out your golf nerves – can you putt while all around people are slapping their palm to their heads, mocking you loudly or throwing their clubs, beer bottles and the golf cart at you? Will you kiss the putter head and mutter ‘prime golf directive?’ [...]


Why is the NFL so Cheap?
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Posted in Financial, Marketing, Sports, TV on 28 October 2007
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At an NFL game, when the field goal kicker is about to boot the ball, they send two guys to run up a net behind the goal posts. Why? To protect the people a good 50 yards behind the net? If you’re sitting behind the goal posts, can you not see a 12″ inflated leather [...]