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Football

Hot Potato and The Friends You Don't Know Yet

by stern on November 27, 2009

Disclaimer: I consider Justin Shaffer a friend, and have gone to Yankees games with him, but we bought our own food.

Justin Shaffer, former geek in residence at MLB Advanced Media, the digital arm of the nation’s pastime, is on the cusp of tossing a new entrant into the social media game with “Hot Potato”. [...]

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The Blind Side

by stern on October 27, 2009

Trailers for The Blind Side are running along with a steady stream of TV spots. I think it’s the required viewing holiday movie for this year, because Michael Lewis captured so much of what can be good in sports. To top it off, he discovered the story accidentally, while looking for something [...]

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Perfect Ending

by stern on February 3, 2008

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m much more of a hockey and baseball fan than a follower of the prolate spheroid. Four months ago, I went so far as to suggest that the Giants were done and that the Yankees had life. Right city, wrong sports analogies. This is [...]

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With All Due Respect: Hail, Rutgers

by stern on November 10, 2006

This is a first and probably a last: I’m going to write about football. Not the kind of football that my British boss plays, but the American kind, the subject of analogies and great coaching stories and quarter-century retrospectives.
Start with New Jersey jokes. Slather on a healthy dose of random [...]

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