Woody Paige writes that Tiger’s return to the Masters will be dramatic theater. Oh, really? I think it’s just going to be like the last four Masters Tiger won.
MITCH BLATT
Woody Paige’s column begins:
Tiger At The Masters is the Act IV continuation of the medieval morality play with a modern-day twist.
Well, no, there are [...]

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I was watching the Rockets-Nuggets game tonight (which the Rockets won) that was played in Houston, and I noticed something weird about the sideboard ads.
Some of them were in Chinese.
Well, it’s not that weird, considering Yao Ming plays for the Rockets, and there will be millions of Chinese watching many of his games.
Chinese companies have [...]

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Apparently Tom Brady thinks that we can save the world by turning lights off for one hour of one day of the 365 days of the year. He made a video about it here saying that global warming is going to kill us if we don’t turn the lights off for one hour:

I’m sure [...]

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Watch this interview with a man pretending to be Team USA goalie Ryan Miller, and think whether you can tell that the person interviewed isn’t Ryan Miller or even if it matters whether he’s Ryan Miller:

He made all the traditional space-filling comments that you would expect from an athlete: “We felt that we had a [...]

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MITCH BLATT
More buzz on Super Bowl ads:
Hyundai’s full shoot with Favre:
The commercial that I thought was funniest

“Humanitarian News”: “Denny’s acknowledges suffering of egg-laying chickens.”
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Beware, the Green Police are on the lookout!
MITCH BLATT
I cover sports business for JSB, as well as writing general posts, so I figure I should tackle the Super Bowl ads: not just which ones were funniest but which ones did the best job of marketing their products.
However, we will start off with which ones are [...]

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Tim Tebow’s mother expressing her love for her child is “offensive.”
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The Conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family bought some spots to run abortion-related ads during the Super Bowl, eliciting outrage from liberal groups including National Organization for Women and Planned Parenthood.
Ty Duffy at The Big Lead said CBS shouldn’t air them then got [...]

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“The Yankees reside in the largest mkt in the United States. AROD? Teixeira? CC? They’re all inherited. Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

Small-mkts work their butts off grooming players, only to sell at the deadline. All Stars gone, Prospects in return. What have the Yanks done? Nothing. And I will [...]

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