Everything. All The Time.
Transitions: Bud Collins (17 June 1929-4 March 2016). Bud Collins died last over a week ago and with his passing, the game of tennis lost its’ biggest, best, and most enthusiastic booster. For decades, Bud Collins was the TV journalist and personality who covered the really big tennis events: the French Open, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and …
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The Hunt for New Music: Chris Isaak is a major talent. He has a style that’s a little bit country rock, a little bit Elvis, and a lot rock & roll. With his country & western style suits he’d be right at home on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry or in Madison Square Garden. …
Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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Paying Attention: The bet here is this: you’ve never heard of Jean-Marc Bosman. Embed from Getty Images Why should you? He was a not-big-time soccer player for a not-big-time Belgium soccer club. But he revolutionized the sport. It cost him his career, but he changed the economics of European Soccer by winning the right to …
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Paying Attention: The richest female athlete in the world, Maria Sharapova, admitted this week that she had taken a “banned substance” –meldonium–and was more than likely going to receive a suspension from professional tennis. Sharapova is an Olympic medalist and one of the few players to have won all four of the grand slam events in tennis: …
Paying Attention: The richest female athlete in the world, Maria Sharapova, admitted this week that she had taken a “banned substance” –meldonium–and was more than likely going to receive a suspension from professional tennis. Sharapova is an Olympic medalist and one of the few players to have won all four of the grand slam events in tennis: …
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up……”
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate…”
Transitions: Ray Tomlinson (1941-2016), a computer scientist who is credited with the invention of perhaps the world’s most personalized channel of digital communications–email–died last week at the age of 74. Tomlinson was working for Ratheon and developed email as a means to communicate on the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet. By all accounts, he was a …
Paying Attention: BMW sees the future and it doesn’t involve you driving one of their cars. It involves you being driven in one of their cars. Here’s a short take on how an iconic brand is rethinking its’ future, from Fortune magazine. The Fine Print: Photo of BMW I8 from Automative Rythym via Flickr, …