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Category Archives: Press Clippings
Wimbledon Live Scoring
Paying Attention: Stay in touch with Wimbledon Embed from Getty Images as it moves to a climatic weekend of Championship play by checking out their live scoring/schedule site, which is produced by IBM. It is, as you might expect, pretty terrific. The Fine Print: Image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who bring sharing …
How to Watch Wimbledon(Continuing)
Paying Attention: The world’s most famous tennis tournament continues. There will be play today (Saturday) but traditionally Sunday is an off day. Embed from Getty Images Not this year. Play will continue on Sunday, 3 July 2016 so that the tournament can catch up from all the rain delays during the first week. Here’s the …
The (Unofficial)History of Watkins Glen
Editor’s Note: There’s a six hour endurance race this weekend–Sahlen’s 6 Hours of the Glen–at Watkins Glen, the upstate New York racetrack that is one of America’s most famous. The race is part of the IMSA series and features many American teams that just finished racing at Le Mans, like our friends at Risi Competizione, …
How to Watch Wimbledon
Embed from Getty Images Paying Attention: The world’s most famous tennis tournament is on right now. Here’s a brief guide on where to see it. The Fine Print: Thanks, always, to our friends at Getty Images for sharing their massive photographic archives. If you’ve got a non-commercial blog (and they don’t come any more non-commercial than …
The Wimbledon Dress Code
This article was originally published about a year ago. It seems appropriate to bring it back since the Wimbledon Tournament started yesterday, 27 June 2016. Paying Attention. One of the many traditions at Wimbledon that tennis audiences have come to love is the dress code. Wimbledon imposes a very conservative, all-white dress code …
The 24 Hours of Le Mans: An Entire Race Covered in Just 4 Press Releases
Paying Attention: For over a decade, I have worked at/with/for Risi Competizione, the top American Ferrari racing team. This year, they went, again, to race in France, at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, a race they have won three times (1998, 2007, 2008) in two different models of Ferrari race cars …
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Newe for Summer: The First Playlist
The Hunt For New Music: When it’s summer, it’s time for summer music. Summer music always a different feel and sound to it. It doesn’t have to be about the beach, sand, water or sun to be summer music, although that doesn’t hurt, but it does have to have a certain attitude about life, good …
Point of Information: Brexit
Editor’s Note: With this post, we start a new category of subject material: Point of Information. A Point of Information is a feature of a parliamentary debate that allows one party to bring up a fact (or facts) about a particular subject matter under debate. If you’re interested in the topic, click here for further …
Will Rogers on GOLF
“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself, you forget to hate your enemies…”