Operation Gadget

Category: Event Coverage

  • Podcasts That Can Help You Follow the Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m spending more time at work during the 2007 Tour de France than I am watching the coverage on Versus. For this reason, I have become a voracious consumer of non-TV information about the Tour. One of the things I’ve been doing is grabbing Tour de France-specific podcasts from iTunes and listening…

  • Lots of Interesting Action at This Year’s Tour de Georgia

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteKudos to my friend Frank Steele for his excellent coverage of the 2007 Tour de Georgia on his site TdGblog.com. Earlier this Spring, it looked like the race might not happen because organizers had failed to recruit a title sponsor. However, AT&T stepped up as a major sponsor and the race…

  • Botts’ Dots Considered the Cause of Tour of California Stage 1 Pileup

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrank Steele of TDFblog reports that race commissaires at the Amgen Tour of California decided to neutralize the last 10 km of the finish of Stage 1 after a massive pileup that caused half the field to crash or have to stop. This allowed Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team rider Levi…

  • Great Tips on Photographing Pro Cycling Races

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 2007 Amgen Tour of California is taking place this week on the West Coast, so the cycling blogs are back publishing cool content for the new season. My friend Frank Steele from TDFblog.com published a great article on photographing a bike race that comes from personal experience Frank has had taking…

  • LiveStrong Challenge in Philadelphia Was a Success

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe LiveStrong Challenge Philadelphia took place on Sunday, September 10 without me. It sounds like it was a big success. The weather was nearly perfect that day, with rain coming in that night, well after all of the riders and runners crossed the finish line. Many articles appeared in the media before…

  • NBC Trying to Develop an Action Sports Tour Along the Lines of Golf and Auto Racing

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week The Washington Post published an article that talked about NBC’s effort to start an action sports tour as a source of programming to intrigue a younger audience. The Dew Action Sports Tour is in its second year of existence. It’s co-owned by NBC and Live Nation, Clear Channel Communication’s…

  • Dutch Developer Releases PalmOS-based Guide to the 2006 Tour de France

    Reading Time: 2 minutesDeepweb has released LeTour 2006 to help Palm users follow the 2006 Tour de France. [ Image: Deepweb Internet Solutions ] Frank Steele at TDFblog.com recently pointed out that Deepweb has published Le Tour 2006 a PalmOS application that provides stage profiles and distances, as well as intermediate Sprint and King-of-the-Mountains points. An update…

  • Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship to Run Tomorrow

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow is the first annual Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship. This race was formerly known as the Wachovia USPRO Championship— a race that Operation Gadget covered in 2005. As The Philadelphia Inquirer points out the race lost its sponsor and its role as the U.S. professional championship after the 2005…

  • SoccerTV.com Published Complete World Cup Schedule for U.S. Television

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 2006 FIFA World Cup started in Germany yesterday. I watched my first game of the tournament this morning– a surprisingly forgettable 1-0 victory by England over Paraguay. There are a lot of World Cup-oriented websites to look at. One site I found useful already is the composite World Cup TV…