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30 Jun 2011 16:36

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Culture: NBA headed for a lockout as collective bargaining talks fall apart

  • NBA headed for lockout: As talks between league officials and the player’s union on a new collective bargaining agreement have fallen apart, it’s clear that the NBA will suffer a work stoppage. It’s been thirteen years since this last happened, when the 1998-1999 season was cut 32 games short. The impasse is mainly about salary versus revenue; the NBA claims 22 of its 30 franchises are losing money, and they want lower player salaries (likely a lower cap) to compensate — obviously, the players feel otherwise. Said union head Billy Hunter: “I’ve been waiting for a lockout for two, three years. Now it’s here. Our guys are anxious to get a deal.” source

02 Jun 2010 12:01

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Music: M.I.A.’s prison is YouTube, based on her new album cover

  • Youtube just got the avant-garde treatment. MIA has pretty much always been the most out-there pop star in the best way possible, and the cover for her new album “/\/\ /\ Y /\” (that’s “Maya,” for the non-hipsters) looks like it’s going to keep up that trend, putting her behind a wall of Youtube players. See the symbolism? source

30 Sep 2009 08:44

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Sports: All those hits NFL players take are not good for their psyche

  • 19x higher rate of dementia for former NFL players source

07 Sep 2009 20:25

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Sports: Who does tennis upstart Melanie Oudin think she is, anyway?

Some would applaud unseeded 17-year-old Melanie Oudin for kicking butt at the U.S. Open, but we think it’s insensitive of her to defeat established tennis players. source

31 Aug 2009 20:30

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Sports, Tech: The NFL put in a bunch of stupid rules against social media

  • team Players (or team officials) can’t tweet (nor can surrogate tweet for them) during the game, nor 90 minutes before or after. The surrogate part is the Ochocinco rule.
  • press They can only use social media to update once a quarter, so as not to usurp play-by-play mechanisms media outlets pay the NFL a lot of money for.
  • fans Fans can tweet to their heart’s content based on current rules. Which means you have a leg up on NBC News if you go to a Redskins game with a cell phone. source