The NightShift: The News While You Slept

Press Clippings: It’s Friday, 30 September 2016…… Here’s the Very Early Morning evening edition of The Nightshift. The Ryder Cup competition starts today, pitting a team of 12 top U.S. golf pros against a team of 12 top European golf pros. The competition continues all weekend and, combined with another terrific weekend of college football, this …

Nightshift Sports: Sunday Olympic Essentials

The Olympics What to watch, the schedule, results, and the Rio Firehose. Last day necessities. Embed from Getty Images The Olympic Results: Who Won What  (Source: The Guardian) The Rio Firehose (Courtesy New York Times and others) Google Olympics Schedule (Courtesy Google) What To Watch Today (Courtesy Bloomberg) The Fine Print: Image courtesy of Getty Images, …

Nightshift Sports Training: Swimming like an Olympian

The Olympics Embed from Getty Images They make it look so easy, the Olympic swimmers, but the strokes they lay down in the 50 meter pool are so much more refined than what most of us produce when we do a few laps for exercise. In a sport in which tenths and hundredths of a …

Night Shift Sports: Tuesday Clickpak

The Olympics   Embed from Getty Images Articles and posts of interest about the 2016 Rio Olympics Modern Training (Source: Yahoo) A New Source of Funding for Olympic Athletes (Source:Bloomberg) Five Sports That Shouldn’t Be In The Olympics (Source: Investopedia) Disruption: TV Innovations at the Olympics (Source: BusinessInsider.com)          

Nightshift Activities: Photographing a Meteor Shower

Paying Attention   Embed from Getty Images This is the weekend for the annual Perseids Meteor shower–a spectacular, late night, light show, courtesy of nature. Expect the shower to start about 10PM and run until sunrise. While you’re out to view the shower, why not take a camera and see if you can’t capture some …

Nightshift Sports Rio: Thursday Clickpak

The Olympics A clickpak of relevant and interesting articles about the Rio Olympics.   Hunting for the Gold Medal in Branding (Source: Bloomberg) The Sharpshooter Look at the Olympics (Source: Wired) Leslie Jones (of SNL) Goes To The Olympics (Source: NY Magazine) How Technology is Changing the way we Watch the Olympics (Source: Business Insider)

Nightshift Sports: Thursday Olympic Essentials

The Olympics What to watch, the schedule, results, and the Rio Firehose. Keep this link on your desktop.   Embed from Getty Images The Olympic Schedule  (Courtesy IOC/Rio Olympic games) Google Listing of Olympic Schedule (Courtesy Google) What to Watch Today (Courtesy Bloomberg) The Olympic Results (The Guardian, London) Rio Photographic Firehose (New York Times and …

Nightshift Sports Rio: What It Takes To Cover The Olympics

The Olympics A snapshot of NBC’s efforts/logistics in covering the 2016 Rio Olympics, provided by NBC. Absolutely Amazing. STAMFORD, CONN.—NBC Sports has released some stats related to its coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro beginning on Friday: 1.1 billion+ Dollars generated in national ad sales. 120,000 Tons of equipment sent to Rio. …