Augusta National, site of the famous Masters golf tournament, will admit its first female members after 80 years as being exclusive to the Y Chromosome. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina tycoon Darla Moore will become the first female members in October. Former club chairman Hootie Johnson, said infamously in 2002 that Augusta might [...]
Johnny Pesky, a beloved Red Sox icon, passed away at the age of 92. Pesky debuted for the Red Sox as a 22-year-old shortstop in 1942 and has been with the organization in some capacity virtually every year since. He played eight seasons in Boston, giving up three years of his early career to serve [...]
China’s Liu Xiang won the gold medal for the 110m hurdles at the 2004 Olympics. He missed the 2008 games in his home country because of a debilitating achilles injury. He returned for the 2012 games and during his medal race pulled up limp before the first hurdle. He still managed to turn in the most [...]
Here’s the part of the deal that stood out: Bleacher Report’s editorial content is generated by 6,000 mostly unpaid contributors who churn out more than 1,000 articles a day. My guess is they won’t see any of that money, even as a thank you. Most people in the media world assume the Bleacher Report staff [...]
From Reuters: “The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 3, 2012. [REUTERS/Luke MacGregor]“
Everyone has been pretty upset on Twitter with NBC’s handling of its Olympic coverage, even if it’s not as bad as everyone is making it out to seem. As an end around to NBC protecting Olympic highlights, the WSJ has taken the unusual approach of crafting homemade highlight videos of important Olympic events out of [...]
Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris points his lens on behalf of ESPN to the strange phenomenon of sports fan funerals. When you’re a fan, you’re a fan for life, and irrationally, some are even fans in the afterlife. [via ESPN]
Will Leitch takes the sane approach: There’s a good argument to be made that networks and corporations should pay utmost heed to what their diehard customers want, rather than just be blandly generalist. If you make your most loyal customers happy, they’ll stick with you during down periods, providing you a solid customer base. But [...]
We know director Danny Boyle has something interesting cooked up for the opening ceremony. Part of it will involve James Bond on a mission from Queen Elizabeth. Now, we might really be in for something ridiculously insane: If a British newspaper report is correct (and, oh, how we hope it is), Mary Poppins and Lord [...]
A nice follow-up to the story about American athletes and the flag, comes the story of America’s refusal to dip their flag to the host nation during the opening ceremony. Other countries see it as arrogant, but it’s become an American tradition dating back to at least the 1908 Summer games when shotputter Ralph Rose, [...]
