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...Despite skepticism over the practicality of having 20,000 owner/managers arguing over team formations, the project is groundbreaking for sports fan-club collaboration, and pioneering as an experiment in democracy. "It's a completely unique opportunity to get as close as you can to the game without actually being a player or being a manager," says Will Brooks, the 36-year-old former football journalist behind the project who puts his faith firmly in the wisdom of crowds. "Newspapers, radio phone-in shows and pundits spend hours after games talking about what team they would have picked and discussing tactics...
...information on training and tactical suggestions to members via a blog. Daish backs the plan, and as Brooks points out, "Liam has never paid any money for a player before, now he might be able to buy one." Former player now BBC pundit Garth Crooks applauds the concept of fan-ownership but is wary of supporters' involvement in team selection, "It seems like great fun but impractical: more fitting for Fantasy Football than the real game...
...course, a New York Yankees fan...
...turned my attention to the entertainment options: 29 video-on-demand movies (there will be 60 by the end of March), 77 TV shows, 102 CDs, 12 music channels and even Nintendo games and mah-jongg. As a big Denzel Washington fan, I chose his latest movie, Out of Time. He looked great on the relatively large, 9-in. video screen. After a couple of hours with Denzel, I got in some serious bar time--Singapore Airlines has done what no other airline has done for years, which is to devote a large expanse of space in the coach section...
...FOIA request 2006-0492-F consists of e-mails to and from John Podesta, containing the words either, X-Files or Area 51. John Podesta was a renowned fan of the "X-Files" television show...