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This weekend the Disney movie “Real Steel” will open with a futuristic look at fight sports, a world where robots enter the ring, controlled by gamers and former fighters, as a way to deliver action and excitement without the mano a mano violence that occurs when humans mix it up. Starring Hugh Jackman, the movie …
We take a departure from the sports banter for a bit to reflect on the passing of Steve Jobs. I did not know Mr. Jobs, I bought his products and loved his vision. His death is sad, but not a tragedy. The tragedy is that the world we live in today, in the U.S. especially, …
Most ugly Americans associate Australian Rules Football with the early days of ESPN, the kind of bizarre, out of the way rugged sport that was a throwback to the old days of the NFL tinged with the head banging of rugby. All ruffian, bizarre rules, broken bones, bloodthirsty screams. However like ESPN, AFL has come …
No matter what happens Sunday with the Lions and the Tigers, sport and its feel good messages have helped slowly recovering Detroit matter more to many again. The crash of the economy was reflected no more than in the downtrodden Detroit, where the auto companies fled for bailout money and the infrastructure of a once …
While he may not be Jon Bon Jovi or Bill Bradley or Joyce Kilmer or even Bruce Springsteen, there are few pop cultural icons from New Jersey who are more recognizable to the general public that ESPN personality Dick Vitale. The basketball Hall of Fame member and former Rutgers and East Rutherford High School coach …
On Tuesday at Yankee Stadium several hundred professionals, many in community relations from teams from around the world, gathered for the Beyond Sport United “Sports Teams For Social Change” conference. While cynical may say that the event was a chance to have professional sport gather to network and then go back about their business of …
Saturday around 250 bloggers, media types, interested parties and sports enthusiasts gathered at the world headquarters of Bloomberg in New York for Blogs With Balls 4. The event was a day long (as well as a preparty the night before and an afterparty last night) Petri dish for where media is, and isn’t today. Along …
There was a time not too long ago when all the uproar was over whether or not televising high school athletics was putting young athletes on too high a pedestal, with too much pressure. Were broadcasters exploiting the young, still developing athlete for personal and professional gain, and what were the schools sacrificing by putting …
Selling Eye Black as your main source of income is not an easy business. Does it work, should it stick, can’t I just use dirt? Is it to make me look cool? Is it actually just a gimmicky form of real estate where someone can slap a name or I can out my favorite bible …
The last two years, Inspireum, a Bend, Oregon based social enterprise, has built the High School “Rudy” Awards, which honors state by state the most inspiring story of a young student-athlete who plays football. He has never been the biggest or the best, but many times he has overcome the most or used the values …