Category: Event Coverage
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Gadget Links: Old Granddad Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the Phinney Family, a Dream and a Challenge on NYTimes.com: This story came out last week, right before Taylor Phinney raced in the Individual Pursuits at the Track Cycling World Championships. Taylor finished eighth. His father, Davis, is a legendary U.S. cycling champ who has struggled with Parkinson’s Disease in…
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Gadget Links: Lost Weekend Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute Big hockey weekend: This weekend the USA Hockey Women’s Nationals are taking place in West Chester, PA, the USA Hockey Tier III Junior Nationals are in Marlboro, MA, and the NCAA D-I Men’s Hockey Regional Tournaments are on in four cities around the country. More hockey tournament info on rinkatlas.com/blog.…
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The NCAA Is Restricting Live Blogging of Winter Sports Tournaments?
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the most interesting posts I’ve read this week came from Awful Announcing, a blog that I discovered as a result of using Alltop Sports for the first time. The blog post says that the NCAA restricts the number of blog posts that any credentialed journalist can make during…
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Check Out Alltop.com
Reading Time: < 1 minute Guy Kawaski, Will Mayall, and the rest of the folks at Nononina have built a new topic-based RSS aggregator called Alltop. There idea is to display the latest five stories from thirty or more blogs in each topic area. You can drill down to the topic areas that you are…
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Mario Cipollini is Back in the Pro Peloton at the Tour of California
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Amgen Tour of California began on Sunday with a Prologue time trial in Palo Alto. One of the more intriguing developments is the return of veteran sprinter Mario Cipollini to the ranks of active professional cyclists after a three year retirement. Cipollini retired on May 7, 2005 after a…
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Gadget Links: Freakout 2008 Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute RPI Plays Princeton tonight in the 31st Annual Big Red Freakout. RPI needs the win. In other news, the White beat the Red in the Alumni Game 9-8. Kipkay’s Video Tips & Tricks on Instructables: “Here are 5 easy and cheap tricks for anyone who uses a camcorder. Total cost…
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Gadget Links: 8 Days to Choose Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutes Apple Releases a New “Get a Mac” Ad Co-starring a Football Referee on Apple.com: Pretty good attention to detail. The referee is wearing a white hat and a uniform that is very close to that worn in many college football leagues. What I would add to this is the referee turning…
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Why is Apple Announcing Hardware Upgrades Before Macworld Expo?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple went ahead and announced an upgraded Mac Pro and an upgraded Xserve this morning. These announcements occurred one day after Intel announed 16 new processors based on 45nm silicon fabrication at CES. I’m a bit confused by the timing of these announcements. It makes sense to release these new…
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How Cool Was The NHL Winter Classic?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kathleen, Jimmy, and I watched the 2008 NHL Winter Classic, an outdoor hockey game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins that took place at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, NY. I have to officiate tomorrow afternoon in New Jersey, so we watched the game on NBC from our…