Design for Use versus Posturing

[image via thefixfixfix]For some time now, there has been debate as to whether the rise of "cycling culture" is positioning the bicycle as primarily a fetish object, with functionality a mere afterthought. As with any trend, the marketing industry harvests the readily identifiable, superficial aspects of a phenomenon, enhances them to the point of vulgarity, then sells to...

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New Sports Illustrated Column on Barry Bonds Trial: Has Bonds Already Won?

With the prosecution's case-in-chief nearly over, I have a new column for SI -- in it, I take a look at where things stand in the Bonds trial and what to expect going forward. Bonds should feel good about 4 of the 5 counts, but he's still very vulnerable to a conviction on Count Two. Here are excerpts from the column:* * *What worked for the prosecution? 1. Kathy Hoskins's...

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Cricket World Cup 2011 Final Preview

Author Zaheer Haque.Sri Lanka Sri Lanka boasts the best opening partnership in the whole tournament with Dilshan and Tharanga. They have put on two double century partnerships in this tournament a record for a single world cup. Dilshan has been in brilliant form throughout the tournament and is the leading run scorer in the tournament Tharanga has also had a good world cup...

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ESPN Sues Conference USA

ESPN is reporting that it has filed a lawsuit against Conference USA, accusing the conference of breach of contract. Specifically, ESPN alleges that the conference breached a 2005 agreement by failing to provide the network with an opportunity to match the $42 million television broadcast agreement that C-USA recently signed with the Fox network. ESPN is requesting either $21 million in damages, or specific performance of an alleged contract extension it asserts the parties had reached in principle prior to C-USA signing its deal with Fox. Meanwhile,...

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More Praise for The Climate Fix

Harold Lasswell, one of the founders of the policy movement in academia of the mid-twentieth century, once wrote that "the whole aim of the scientific student of society is to make the obvious unescapable." So it is high praise indeed to read Mark Sagoff's fine review of The Climate Fix, just out in Issues in Science and Technology, where he writes:The great achievement of...

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The Legend of the Starfish

Here is 1 minute video from Coach Trent Todd that illustrates this point perfectly I'm sure there are times that you, like me, experience something very similar ...Let's have the attitude of the boy.The Legend of the StarfishA vacationing businessman was walking along a beach when he saw a young boy. Along the shore were many starfish that had been washed up...

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Sports Law Blog on the Rise

Over on TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron has his annual traffic rankings for law professor blogs, and Sports Law Blog is #22 among them in terms of visitors and #23 in terms of page views. His numbers also show a 9% increase in visitors to our blog, and an 8% increase in page views on our blog, from 2009 to 2010. As always, we appreciate you checking our blog out and seeing what we have to s...

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Good-Bye 'Blueskies' ...Hello Blueprints

A couple of days ago, Seymour Blueskies packed up his things and went home with a very nice couple. I bid him farewell as I fondly recalled our times together.From the start, my intent had been not to keep the vintage Trek, but to learn what I could from it, then move on to explore other bicycles. It was around this time that I recognised having two categories of bikes: a...

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New Sports Illustrated Video on Eller v. NFL

I was interviewed by Maggie Gray of Sports Illustrated/CNN video to discuss a new lawsuit filed by Carl Eller, Priest Holmes and others on behalf of retired and prospective NFL players. Their core argument is that the NFL lockout and various NFL restrictions on trade, including the draft, are illegal under federal antitrust law -- an argument also made in Brady v. NFL -- but unlike current NFL players, retired and prospective players are not members of the NFLPA bargaining unit. These players believe they too will be harmed by the lockout (for...

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Jerk pyramid

Jerk 2x28kg: 2,4,13,9,6,4,4Jer 2x20kg: 25/2minThe 28s yeilded 74% of max heart rate; the 20s 8...

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The Parasite of Passivity

This may sting a little bit but I believe there is a ton of truth here. Every single one of us, myself included, needs to battle the parasite of passivity ... the slow weakening into becoming a "spectator" in life.Please take this as an encouragement ... a challenge to step up just a bit more and help others to do the same....By Chris WillertzOne of the biggest hurdles in...

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Global Temperature Trends

THIS POST FIRST APPEARED 9 DEC 2009. SEE THIS FOR MORE.In an earlier post I made the case that one needs to know only two things about the science of climate change to begin asking whether accelerating decarbonization of the economy might be worth doing:Carbon dioxide has an influence on the climate system.This influence might well be negative for things many people care about.That...

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Crusaders sign Bradley Hill from Newport Gwent Dragons

Crusaders have signed promising 18-year old Bradley Hill from the regional rugby union side Newport Gwent Dragons on a part time contract.He will initially be based in the south with the Crusaders Academy and has already been dual registered with Championship 1 side South Wales Scorpions.Hill, who plays at centre or second row, turned out for the Crusaders under 16 side in the past. He then chose to go back to rugby union with the Dragons but has now decided to commit to the Crusaders and Wales Rugby League.Dan Clements, Head of Performance for...

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The Pashley Roadster Sovereign: Review After Two New England Winters

If you are a regular reader, you probably know that the Co-Habitant owns a Pashley Roadster Sovereign. We bought a pair of Pashleys when I first started this blog, and while I've since sold my Princess, he has kept his Roadster. He loves this bicycle. It is his main transportation bike, taking him to and from work every day for nearly two years now - in sunshine, rain...

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Jess came back today

And Brennan had a good work out. Green as grass and fairly lazy, bless him but he does try hard to please. I have borrowed Karen's old Isabell saddle and I think, with a raiser pad, it will fit them both fine. I am going to try and take him down to the dressage rally at Solway on Sunday for a look about so that the first day of the series is not his absolute first day out....

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My interview for PBS Frontline on O'Bannon v. NCAA

Here's a link to a transcript of my interview with Lloyd Bergman of PBS. The transcript is admittedly long - the interview was for over an hour and we covered a TON of ground for PBS' March Madness and Money feature.Here's an excerpt from the transcript:PBS: How significant is this case? McCann: It's a very significant case, particularly because it's past the motion-to-dismiss...

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TUESDAY

1. Obama set the country straight last night. That Nobel Peace Prize was a total clusterfuck.2. I wonder if Skeletor flosses daily.3. I've never seen Hillary Clinton and Skeletor photographed together.4. Qaddafi may go down, but he will go down in history as the best dressed dictator EVER.5. I've never seen Qaddafi and Superfly photographed together either.6. The NYT has the...

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