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Then, Gossage's rants were mostly entertaining; now they appear to be the mark of a middle-aged man who may be clinging too closely to the past. "The saddest thing to me," says ESPN commentator Skip Bayless (who has called Gossage a "throw-hard blowhard"), is "the ex-athlete who can't let go." Gossage's rank dismissal of the talent ("The pitchers can't pitch") and fortitude ("The game is getting really soft") of today's players, as well as the character of younger baseball writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia...
...what we do. We really want this deep, meaningful time together in the haven of our homes. But when people actually get home, everybody races off. Mom's got something on the DVD, the daughter's on Myspace.com the son's got his video game, Dad's checking ESPN and his work e-mails, and everyone's compartmentalized within the household. I think there's deep yearning for--I know this makes me sound conservative, but I am--true community, and I think it's not good for families if we each do what we want to do. I think...
Democrats too have ideas about how to galvanize their base. "Intel and Yahoo! are introducing technology that will allow every DVR to record video from a website the way it records ESPN," says Rosenberg. He imagines a world in which Hillary Clinton would post a daily video message with an accompanying e-mail alert to the folks on Demzilla reminding them to set their TiVos. "So Hillary's now speaking to millions of people with no intermediary and no overhead." While managing Howard Dean's campaign, Joe Trippi used the 650,000 people who registered on Dean's website...
...Sharad Pawar, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci). Having won the deal, Nimbus, which has no TV channel of its own, is now in talks to resell rights to broadcast India's matches in individual countries. Interested media giants and cable-TV companies include ESPN, Sony Entertainment and the BBC. Money isn't flowing into the sport through broadcasting rights alone. In the last two months, the BCCI signed sponsorship agreements and other deals that raised the organization's revenue over the next four years to $745 million. During the previous four-year period...
...every game since the beginning of his sophomore season, emerged in the 2003-04 season to lead the team in rebounds, then built himself into a first-team all-Ivy player last year before assuming the team captaincy this year.The left-handed power forward was also recently named an ESPN Magazine Academic All-American, earning second-team honors to become the first Crimson player so recognized since guard Tim Hill ‘99.“The biggest thing about Matt has been his character,” Sullivan said. “From the beginning...