Paying Attention: Freestyle skiing is a multi-disciplinary sport that includes moguls, aerials, ski cross, half-pipe, and slope style skiing (and insurance form processing). It is extremely demanding technically and can be very treacherous physically for competitors. This wiki has complete background information on the sport as staged at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Competitions are …
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Olympic Briefing: Cross Country
Paying Attention: Cross Country skiing is the sport of ski touring across snow covered terrain using skis and poles. The skis are thinner than those used for downhill skiing and because participants are expected to go uphill as well as downhill, the sport can be quite demanding physically.Along with swimming, cross country skiing is considered …
Olympic Briefing: Biathlon
Paying Attention: Saturday’s Olympic schedule has the first round of Biathlon competition. Biathlon is a “fusion” sport–it combines cross country skiing with target shooting. The key is to move around the course quickly (which uses lots of energy and ramps up the heart rate) and then slow down your heart rate and nerves enough to …
Olympic Briefing: Slopestyle
Paying Attention: Slopestyle is new to the 2014 Olympics. The video (special thanks to GoPro for making this and other POV videos available) and this wiki should brief you on the event and it’s challenges (and dangers). Already, one high profile contestant, Shaun White, has dropped out citing a wrist injury. White is going for his third gold …
Olympic Briefing: Spectator ClickPack
Paying Attention: The 2014 Winter Olympics are upon us. Chances are your Russian is not quite as good as your Spanish, which is miserable compared to your English, so here, in one spot, are all the links you need to follow, understand, and enjoy the Games. Everything you need for deep background is one click …
Olympic Briefing: The Events
Paying Attention: The 2014 Winter Olympics officially open on Friday, the 7th of February, but the first events ( Men’s and Women’s Snowboarding qualification and Team Men and Team Pairs short skating program) actually goes off today, 6 February 2014. To get prepped for the Winter Olympics–our favorite here at the Media Bunker …
The NFL All-Time All-Star Nickname Team
Paying Attention: With the Superbowl just hours away and the TV packed with lots of great old bits and remembrances of football players great and no-so-great, it seemed like an appropriate time to come up with an All Star team of my own. Didn’t want to base it on stats or playoff game performances, …
A Startup Education
Paying Attention: One of the most incredible new business case histories is the one provided by Everpix, an internet based photo storing and sharing site that shuttered itself in November, 2013. Everpix failed but not because the product wasn’t great, the entrepreneurs not experienced, the software not good. Sometimes, you can be very good at …