At an Apple press event, Chad Evans, director of mobile development for MLB.com, demonstrates the league’s new iPad baseball software. The app allows users to interact more with the game, including animated play-by-play action, statistics, and . . . → Read More: Apple, Major League Baseball Team Up on iPad App
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Roller Derby was a staple of the early television era and was similar in its promotional format to its better known “sports entertainment” cousin, professional wrestling. It was frequently seen in the same bad timeslots on the same low powered UHF TV stations, and it was run by the same loose confederation of Runyanesque promoters and businessmen that characterized the regional territory era of pro wrestling. Unfortunately, roller derby didn’t catch on the way professional wrestling did. There was obviously a serious athletic component to it, but the “angles” and storylines surrounding roller derby made pro wrestling seem like Ibsen by comparison. The sport does have its own history–most know that the LA T-Birds were the perennial champions of’70′s, and Ann Calvello and Ralphie Valladares had been in the sport forever and were considered legends–but it never really stuck in the public consciousness like the pre-Hulk Hogan era of pro wrestling. . . . → Read More: Roller Girls Revive A Moribund Sport One of the reasons that the popularity of sports gambling has skyrocketed in recent years is its accessibility. It’s easy to bet on most major sports because everyone understands the basics, which teams are good and why they win. Horse handicapping, on the other hand, is a completely different and somewhat arcane discipline. Where there are some shared concepts, success at sports betting doesn’t guarantee the same playing the ponies. Legendary sports handicapper Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder was famous for killing the books with his sports plays–and giving it all back with his inept horse bets. . . . → Read More: A Basic Guide To Playing The Ponies There’s no shortage of bad celebrity themed pinball machines. This time we wont rank them, well look at several different genres of bad celebrity tie ins: . . . → Read More: More Bad Celebrity Themed Pinball Machines Despite dominating the winless St. Louis Ram on the stat sheet, the Jacksonville Jaguars needed overtime to eke out a 23-20 home field victory over arguably the worst team in the NFL. Based on their statistical superiority, the Jags should have made mincemeat out of the hapless Rams-they had 33 first downs to 13 for St. Louis, held a 492-262 overall yardage edge and had possession of the ball for 42:12 compared to 24:48 for the Rams. They did have three turnovers to only one for St. Louis, including an interception that was returned for a touchdown. Jacksonville evened their record at 3-3 while the Rams dropped to 0-6. . . . → Read More: Jacksonville Beats St. Louis In Overtime Halloween is a Celtic celebration. It’s a year from October 31. An annual holiday of Halloween baptized Note: All Saints. In ancient times it was celebrated Samhain, or Irish, but now is celebrated by Christians the world community. Halloween was very first celebrated over a occasion in the 16 th century and also the name of the Scottish variant. . . . → Read More: Halloween – Be Ready To Enjoy And Be Scared At The Same Time! If you’re looking for examples of some of the most effective campaigns in branding, Toronto businesses are a great place to start looking. Businesses in this area are masters at using songs, symbols, signs, slogans, and a variety of other catchy gimmicks to mark their share of the market. While the concept of branding goes back to farmers branding their cattle with their initials or another symbol so they wouldn’t be mistaken for someone else’s, the rules and tricks used today are quite different. Without at least a basic understanding of modern day branding, no business stands a chance in Toronto, Canada, or anywhere else in the world. . . . → Read More: Branding Toronto The bizarre career path taken by Croatian striking machine Mirko Cro Cop will continue on New Years Eve in Tokyo as he faces 72 Korean kickboxer Hong-Man Choi in what should be the final addition to the K-1/DREAM combined show called Fields Dynamite! . . . → Read More: Mirko Cro Cop To Fight Hong Man Choi At Fields Dynamite Not too long ago, Mark Coleman headlined UFC 109 facing Randy Couture. Several days later, he’s apparently no longer good enough to remain in the UFC at all. On Wednesday, following a lopsided loss to Couture the UFC released Coleman from his contract and cut the veteran heavyweight. Coleman is now free to sign with any other promotion, but at 46 years of age his most likely-and most advisable-course of action is retirement. Fighters seldom do the ‘most advisable’ thing, however, and his actual plans are unknown at the moment. . . . → Read More: Hall Of Famer Coleman Pink Slipped By UFC The San Jose, CA based Strikeforce MMA promotion recently announced that they have signed Brazilian middleweight Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza to a multifight contract. He is expected to make his Strikeforce debut on the same October event as recently signed Fedor Emelianenko, which will be broadcast on the Showtime premium cable network. Though it didnt receive anywhere near the media attention of Emelianenko’s rejection of the UFC for Strikeforce, MMA experts know full well that ‘Jacare’ is a top notch acquisition. . . . → Read More: Strikeforce Signs Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza |
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