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THOSE NON-PROFIT PACKERS
In a season where N.F.L. owners have steadily threatened to lock out the players next year unless they secure more profits in the next collective bargaining agreement, it’s poetic justice to see the Green Bay Packers, the team without an owner, make the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s not quite accurate to say the Packers are without an owner. They have a hundred and twelve thousand of them. The Packers are owned by the fans, making them the only publicly owned, not-for-profit, major professional team in the United States. The Pack have been a fan-owned operation since the primitive pro football days of the nineteen-twenties, when N.F.L. teams could be won in card games and no one foresaw the awesome power this sport would hold over both the American imagination and the American wallet.
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The world’s coolest nationalities: Where do you rank?
Is it possible to call an entire nation cool? Is it fair to say one nation is more cool than another?
Given that most countries have their own share of murderers, tyrants and reality TV stars, the answer is unequivocally -- yes.
To help sort the cool from the less fortunate, we’ve compiled this list of the hippest peoples on the planet. No easy task when faced with almost 250 possible candidates.
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How Netflix Can Save Music
I recently wrote an essay about how open web mobile apps will ultimately triumph over the device specific apps that are red hot right now for iPhone and Android when wifi reaches more spaces. In that piece I hinted at a solution to the problem of making money off of digital music that has plagued the ‘industry’ for over a decade. The answer is encompassed in one single word. Access.More » -
Suave signs Packers LB Matthews to endorsement deal
It's a good thing Clay Matthews doesn't have male-pattern baldness.
If he did, the run-up to Super Bowl XLV would be all about hum-drum football stuff, such as sacks and quarterback hits.
Instead, get ready for a blitz - pardon the pun - of hair stories.
Matthews, the all-pro outside linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, has joined Pittsburgh Steelers' safety Troy Polamalu in an exclusive club: Super Bowl participants with shampoo contracts.
Matthews has signed a one-year deal with Unilever's Suave brand. The deal includes media appearances before and after the Super Bowl and a production day should the company want to film a commercial with him. Contract terms were not disclosed.More » -
In the final column of his tenure, the ombudsman urges ESPN to listen to its audience
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose. That even includes ombudsmen, as this is the final column of my term in that role for ESPN.
It's been a fascinating 18 months for me, a period in which your e-mails have punctuated the highs and lows of ESPN's coverage on television, on the radio, in print and on the Internet. Representing your voices has been a challenge at times. The mailbag often reflected thoughtful concerns about those cases in which the network succeeded -- or failed -- in delivering upon its brand promise: "ESPN is sports with authority and personality. We take sports seriously, but not ourselves."
Does ESPN attempt to listen to and learn from the complaints and compliments of its audience? What issues have earned frequent-flier status in the mailbag? What are the lingering implications? And what challenges for ESPN might those letters portend?More » -
4 Mississippi riverfront visions for Mpls. to be unveiled
Four competing design firms will present their visions Thursday evening for how to improve a large portion of the Mississippi River corridor in Minneapolis north of downtown... . -
Williamsburg, Toddlertown
MICHAEL MOSHAN bought his first condo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2003. A few years later he persuaded his girlfriend, Shana Liebman, to move there from the West Village. She was skeptical — she didn’t want to be surrounded by 20-somethings just out of school. But over the years the neighborhood, with its restaurants, bars and galleries, grew on her.More » -
I’m declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me!
Though it is embarrassing to admit this in public, I can no longer hide the truth. I have a Sarah Palin problem.
I have written about her in 42 columns since Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice-presidential running mate in 2008. I've mentioned her in dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radio appearances. I feel powerless to control my obsession, even though it cheapens and demeans me.More »
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