The Green Bay Packers play for the smallest metropolitan area not only in the NFL but in all of American professional sports. They are a community-owned, non-profit organization that has 11 league (conference) championships and three Super Bowls.
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Gotta lead with the good stuff. Crank this one to 11. In re: McCrystal. A couple of things that should pop right out as the nut graphs of this whole affair but that (typically) have been totally buried by the media in the whole scandaliciousness frenzy surrounding the Rolling Stone article by , Michael...
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Got World Cup Fever yet? Maybe this picture of a 20 foot tall Clint Dempsey will help. Dempsey plays for Fulham FC in the English Premiere League. Although they are just mid-table journeymen in what is probably the world’s toughest league, they have made an improbable run to the final of the Europa Cup....
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The Fox network wrested the rights to European soccer’s premiere club competition, the Champions League from ESPN last year. ESPN, which only televised one or two (of the eight or more played during the main stage) of the games each match day had really not done much in the way of promoting the sport...
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I grew up in Rockwell, Iowa rooting for the Vikings back in the day when they played outdoors. As such, today’s ass-whipping of the Cowboys was particularly sweet. Like most Vikings fans of the era I considered myself a real Norseman and revelled the hard, freezing conditions at Metropolitan that made the Frozen Tundra...
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The draw for the group pairings for the 2010 World Cup was last Friday. The US was drawn into Group C with England, Slovenia and Algeria, setting up a legendary opening game with England on June 12. The US has not faced England in a World Cup since the legendary Game of Their Lives...
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Whether or not Iowa pulls it off against Indiana (they are down 21-7 now and Stanzi just threw a 40 yard interception) one thing is clear. Ricky Stanzi cannot throw the football worth a damn. Which is too bad, because he has everything else you want in a QB. Reads defenses well, check. Mobility...
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Staying with the football theme for this rainy Monday. The Chicago Fire will start the MLS playoffs next week facing (again!) the New England Revolution in a home-and-away two game series. If familiarity breeds contempt, Fire fans have every reason to hate the Revs as we have faced them in the playoffs now five...
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So, I was perusing some of the Iowa republican-oriented websites this morning. Gotta know what the other side is up to and all that. I stumbled upon this post at iowarepublican. com, Drink of the Week: Football or Futbol?. As has been noted here I have a love-hate relationship with American football and a...
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This post isn’t completely technology-oriented but it still shows how organizations can give up some centralized control to members/customers and harness the power of community production. It’s also just a cool story. Drew Carey is the part owner of the Seattle Sounders Major League Soccer club. Seattle is playing its first season in the...
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