By now, you’ve heard about the United States’ Men’s Soccer team’s win over Algeria. If you live under a rock or have no friends, the short story is that even though they had a valid goal disallowed, and Algeria had many solid chances, the U.S.  pulled out a win when Landon Donovan (right) buried a rebound [...]

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According to Wikipedia, ‘Ambush marketing’ is defined as ‘a marketing campaign that takes place around an event but does not involve payment of a sponsorship fee to this event.’ In South Africa, ambush marketing is a crime. Or more specifically one can violate the ‘Contravention of Merchandise Marks Act.’ On Monday, Denmark and the Netherlands squared [...]

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A few weeks ago, we gave away an advance copy of “Delivering Happiness,” a book by the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh (Congratulations Alan Cassinelli!). Today, the book officially goes on sale. If you’re anything like me, you appreciate finding out a little about a book before you buy it. Will it be worth your time [...]

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Have you heard about Burgergate? Phil Mickelson has apparently been frequenting 5 Guys Burgers and Fries quite often recently, and the former In-N-Out diehard has now switched his allegiance. The skepticism comes with the knowledge that he owns the right to a Southern California 5 Guys franchise, causing one to wonder whether this sudden fascination [...]

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Today’s blog post will be a little different than most. For one, it includes a giveaway! As a blogger, I was privileged to receive an advanced copy of Tony Hsieh’s ‘Delivering Happiness‘ which won’t officially be released until June 7. To my surprise, when I got the package, it also included an extra book for me [...]

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Let me throw some numbers at you: 68 (teams), 14 (years), 10.8 (billion dollars). The NCAA announced today that the 2011 Men’s basketball tournament will expand not to 96 teams, not to 80 teams, but to 68 teams, an increase of just three over the 2010 tournament. Last Friday, during our live chat here on this [...]

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An interesting article from flipcollective.com by Paul Shirley (former NBA player) that I read earlier this week got me thinking about the differences between men’s and women’s basketball. Paul focused on the differences in athleticism and how enjoyable the games are, but I’ve been thinking more about the cold hard cash. The men’s championship game [...]

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(NOTE: This was written prior to the airing of Monday evening’s “Dancing With the Stars” and therefore contains NO spoilers) We all know Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco can make some serious moves on the football field. Tonight we’ll find out what he can do on the dance floor when he and partner Cheryl [...]

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There’s one March Madness juggernaut that no one has been talking about on sports talk radio. It’s not Kansas, or Syracuse, or even Duke… it’s Nike. The Nike basketball Twitter account announced just hours after the selection show that 49 of the 65 tournament teams would be wearing the swoosh, with three more sporting the Jordan [...]

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In case you’ve been mesmerized by NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics, I felt it was my duty to let you know what has been going on in other sports news since February 13. February 13 – Danica Patrick finishes 35th in her Nationwide debut at Daytona International Speedway, and Jamie McMurray gets the Daytona [...]

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