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A brief apology to the NBA
Dear NBA,I recently made some dismissive comments about the 2009 playoffs on my blog, essentially describing this year’s playoffs as boring, predictable, and uncompetitive.The playoffs are still pre...
"Sometimes I Dream…": The WNBA & Corporate Advertising
The WNBA’s newest Expect Great ads have a much more positive tone than the original set, but still fall short of really grabbing me.Whereas the first ads posed a challenge to doubters, the latest so...
Chuck Daly, Bill Laimbeer, and the formation of a basketball (junkie's) consciousness
Occasionally when a sports figure passes away it sends us into a mode of collective reflection in which we recognize the full extent to which the way they have shaped the way we perceive, understand,...
Diana Taurasi visits Phoenix school to promote fitness (and milk)
Diana Taurasi is looking forward to getting into a rhythm with the Mercury when the pre-season starts on Sunday.In the meantime, she's certainly using her time wisely -- on Tuesday she visited North ...
Expect Great ’09: A case study and reflection
Unfortunately, I don’t have any juicy information about the opening of WNBA training camps that you couldn’t get elsewhere.So instead, I thought this was a good opportunity to comment about anothe...
Pre-Season Opening Night in Seattle: Courtney Paris, Ashley Walker, Crystal Kelly...and a Great Atmosphere
Paying to see a WNBA pre-season game seems like a completely irrational choice compared to the alternative of sitting at home (or a bar) to watch Game 2 of the NBA’s Western Conference Finals.Yet, ...
Rethinking Gladwell: Maximizing talent vs "insurgent strategies"?
There are probably a few hundred commentaries floating around the web about Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece entitled, "How David Beats Goliath".While the early commentaries were positive saying...
Rethinking "Journalism": What is the Role of the Sports Blogger?
One way to think about the role of media in society is to think about how information is produced, distributed, and obtained during a major national event.Yesterday we had such a major national event...
"Cash Rules Everything Around Me": New Theme Song/Slogan for WNBA?
After building anticipation for something major over the weekend, the WNBA announced yesterday that the Phoenix Mercury will be allowing Lifelock to use their jerseys as human billboards.Greg Johns of...
Was the NBA Revolution Just Televised?
Saturday night in Orlando, my assumptive basketball world was seriously shaken.Not because Nike’s million dollar puppet show had convinced me that Kobe and LeBron were supposed to face off in this y...
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