Today is the first day of golf’s most prestigious tournament, The Masters. For four days, golf’s best will play for the right to earn immortality in the sport, and to wear the famous green jacket. What is equally famous at the Augusta National Golf Club is its tradition*. What you see above is not the [...]

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I enjoyed watching the commercials during the Super Bowl almost as much as the game itself. While there were certainly highs and lows with these long-planned-out spots, my favorite ad was not a commercial, but the static image you see above. Not long after most of the lights went out in the Superdome on Sunday [...]

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In just a few days, most of us will be celebrating the biggest secular holiday of the calendar year. Sunday is the  Super Bowl, featuring the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. Torrey Smith, the young speedster wide receiver for Baltimore, celebrated a bit early due to his recent 24th birthday. As you can see from [...]

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Exactly a week from today, many of us will be watching the Super Bowl, and eating what has arguably become the most popular snack food on the game’s biggest day: the chicken wing. How popular, you say? The authority on the matter, the National Chicken Council, notes that 1.23 billion wings will find their way into over-packed stomachs [...]

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Yesterday, formerly talented NFL wide receiver Chad Ochocinco (née Johnson) reported on Twitter that his rental Escalade was broken into, with his wallet, credit cards, and iPod being taken – thus ruining his potential trip to IHOP (now international!). Naturally, the item he declared that he missed the most was his Starbucks Gold card. Not [...]

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What could be better than getting a foul ball at a major league baseball game? In my opinion, not very much. But, what happens if said ball winds up in your beer? You might be a reasonable person and take the ball out, dry it off, and go on your merry way. Or, like the [...]

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Perhaps there is some validity to the claim that everything is bigger in Texas. The Texas Rangers are just stepping up to the plate to solidify it. And really, is there anyone better suited to pitch anything with ease then Team president Nolan Ryan? In a recent radio interview he enthusiastically boasted the new addition [...]

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I wrote a piece for PBS in which I analyzed all 15 food & beverage Super Bowl commercials from 2011 and all 15 from 2010. My goal? Determine the total calorie count of all the food that appears on screen in each ad. You can read my piece HERE. Let me know what you think!

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One of the last places you would probably look for art is the supermarket. But as you can see from the picture above, there are stores out there that feature some of the most original creativity around via soda displays. I’m not sure if these displays are made by store employees or the folks from [...]

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Jayson Werth is a Washington Nationals right fielder. A right fielder who they paid $126 million to sign for 7 years. He is currently batting .212. If you are not a baseball fan, let me break it down for you: that is bad. No wait, let me break it down for you further: that is [...]

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