Beijing 2008 - It’s a wrap - The Big Picture - Boston.com. awesome set of photos.

Sex and the Olympic city - Times Online . on the pile of sex that occurs in the olympic village. pretty funny article.


YouTube - Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water. a very savvy yet expensive response.


Marvin Gaye singing the national anthem in Nike USA basketball ad. wow, from internet meme to commercial in like a week.

Five American Batters Hit By Chinese Pitchers In Brutal Olympics Game. includes some video footage. one guy was brought to the hospital with a concussion.

A great ad about Dutch simplicity - (37signals). nice goals with a punchline at the end.

George & Dragon Pub : FOOTBALL ON TELLY. i’ve been told by many that this is the only real place to watch soccer in seattle.

Business guru Lenny Dykstra (kottke.org). There’s a great segment in Moneyball about how Dykstra’s ignorance of his own failures made him such a great ballplayer. Check out the except here.

globesports.com: CFL set to confirm return to Ottawa. hahahahahahahaha. it’s like 2002 all over again, only now they’re using a condemned stadium.

YouTube - Steve Nash - Training Day. nash wrote, pitched, and produced his own nike ad.


Team Ryouko - Fifa Street 3 Trailer. that’s some crazy stuff. via ram.

Sports Illustrated article on a the dribble-drive motion offense that’s sweeping college and high school basketball.

Patriots’ Season Perfect For Rest Of Nation | The Onion. ha.

All Too Perfect. Chuck Klosterman on how the Patriots would be more legendary if they lose the superbowl.

Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dead at 64. man, even tom cruise would say this guy is nuts.

Big wave surfing at Cortes Bank (kottke.org). the photos on these sites look nuts.

The Rarest of NBA Treats: a Game Protest is Granted - TrueHoop. they’re going to replay the last 51 seconds of the game. for real.

top 25 individual seasons

ESPN’s Page 2 has a great article up right now about the top 25 individual seasons of all time across all sports (or sports popular in the US). There’s a couple facts which I find particularly ridiculous because they put everyone else’s career totals to shame or seem to just rub it in…

  • Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State Cowboys, 1988 - “Sanders had four 300-plus rushing games that season — more than anyone else has had in a career.”
  • Martina Navratilova, 1984 - 74 straight wins, 13 straight singles titles, 3 major championships. “To top it off, Navratilova and doubles partner Pam Shriver won all four majors and did not lose a match all year.”
  • Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, 1992-93 - “Lemieux finished the season with 160 points (69 goals, 91 assists) and won the Art Ross Trophy despite missing 24 games” and coming back from cancer!
  • Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Warriors, 1961-62 - “Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds. [...] To put all this in perspective, take Tim Duncan’s best scoring and rebounding season — then double it.” and “He set the NBA record with 4,029 points — Michael Jordan is the only other player in league history to crack even 3,000. Chamberlain scored 50-plus points 45 times. Just how impressive is that? Michael Jordan cracked 50 points 37 times in his entire career.”

Serfs of the Turf - New York Times. Michael Lewis on the hypocritical business of “amateur” college football.

Steep - Trailer. really fucking steep. I’d love to see a movie like this in Imax.