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Bridgeport and Prospect Wrap up 11/6
The Sound Tigers are in the midst of a 3 game winning streak. This weeks heroes are David Ullstrom and Tim Wallace. Wallace notched his first hat trick of the season, while Ullstrom had 2 goals and an assist while being named 1st star on Saturday and 2nd star on Wednesday. Ullstrom is second on the...
An Arm and a Leg: The Future of Sportswriting for a Mere 99 Cents
Emma Span's "An Arm and a Leg," a new ebook single, is a brief primer on the awesomeness of Jose Reyes, and the difficult position in which the Mets' front office now finds itself. Neither of these observations will come as news to the average Mets fan; our eyes convinced us of the former a long...
Is the UFC Finally Serious About Making a New Star in Jon Jones?
Last year we identified a problem, one the UFC has been pondering for some time. Where are all the new stars? Since the UFC exploded into the mainstream consciousness with The Ultimate Fighter in 2005, the business has grown dramatically. Stars have been born, men capable of drawing hundreds of...
Sharks Gameday: Rise of the Machines
Of course you're all aware of the computer that is humiliating our greatest heroes on the popular television program Jeopardy, right? The Jeopardy computer, Watson, is an amazing feat of technology and also a big jerk. Here's an example: at the end of the second episode on which it appeared, the...
Utah's 2011 recruiting class is in the books
There weren't many surprises in this year's recruiting class - as everything pretty much played out as planned. If you were expecting some dramatic, last second surprises, you're probably disappointed. The Utes missed out on Andrew Peterson, Devin Lucien, Floyd Raven, Junior Pomee, Michael Eubank...
Expectations for 2011
Basketball season has pretty much ended for Utah and I'm sure a good number of you are interested in moving on to football. I don't disagree. With spring heating up, it seems pointless to fixate on the basketball troubles of the past. And that's exactly what they are - issues in the past. What's...
Jim Boylen, the future and the perceived process of rebuilding
No one thought this season would be easy for Utah. They lost too much talent to sustain the type of success we saw last year. However, I don't know if you'll find many people who thought it would be this bad. But how did it get to this point? That's not an easy question to answer. I don't think...
iPad Won't Save Print Media By Itself
Every so often, we talk about the current state and future of media, as every blog is wont to do. It''s always an interest in this world where sports blogging is still roughly only five or six years old. Also, I'm a nerd. Indulge me for today. Yesterday Apple finally introduced its iPad, a tablet...
The WNBA Will Need More Than Parker's Spark
Candace Parker received so much hype before even playing a WNBA game that her debut against the Mercury was almost like a formality for her entry into superstardom."I liken Candace Parker to when the Lakers acquired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and then in 1979 we acquired Magic Johnson and then in 1983-84...
The WNBA’s Growth: The Difference Between Quantity and Quality
What is the actual value of web traffic to a professional sports league?That’s what I was left wondering yesterday after I read the WNBA’s brief statement of growth that included an announcement of "record web traffic":In June, WNBA.com set an all-time record for monthly site visits with nearly 3...
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