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there are many lucrative avenues for spectacular athletes not available generations ago. his description of mma was sweet.

i find the latter surman-bley recordings, in certain instances, transcendental. i'm profoundly sorry that there weren't more of them.

the boxing writer, historian, and raconteur bert sugar passed away today. the last time i saw him on tv, perhaps a year ago, his cigar was gone. that told me something. the newspaperman's hat, cigar, and gravelly voice, often visited a late night sports show with tony page. bert sugar was real--a real newspaperman, his own man, a writer, and a passionate lover of history. i will miss him. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/29/garden/at-lunch-with-bert-sugar-attention-fans-amazing-facts-fun-fictions.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm By FRANK J. PRIAL Published: March 29, 1995 Sign In to E-Mail Print BERT SUGAR?" "In the back, on the left. In the hat." The waitress pointed through the lunchtime crowd at O'Lunney's, an Irish bar and restaurant on West 44th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. And there, under the hat, he was. Holding court, you might say, with tie askew, stogie in hand, drink close by. His signature fedora, with a wide 1920's brim, framed a high forehead, a long, animated face and a mouth that, it soon became evident, rarely closed. "She said to look for the hat." "Join the party," he said, adding, "You know why old-time newspapermen wore hats in the office?" "No." "Because the old-time newspaper offices had cracks in the floor between the newsroom and the composing room above. When the typesetters dropped bits of lead on the floor they would sift down on the reporters' heads." While his friends and anyone within hearing distance absorbed this revelation, Mr. Sugar charged off on another tack. "I love this place," he said. "I love Irish saloons. O'Reilly's, the old Costello's, Gallagher's. If I had to live my life over it would be over an Irish saloon." Mr. Sugar is, as you may have guessed, a raconteur. After that he is editor, publisher and most of the staff of the influential Boxing Illustrated magazine. He is also a lawyer and a former advertising man. He is a Civil War buff and a Gilbert and Sullivan devotee. He is a throwback to a more colorful era in New York and has been described, probably by himself, as a lineal descendant of Damon Runyon. But most of all he is a living, breathing storehouse of sports history, sports trivia and sports memorabilia, which he collects with abandon. Stuff like Lou Gehrig's uniform and thousands of seats from Yankee Stadium. He also collects nonsports stuff, like a top hat once worn by W. C. Fields, John Wayne's saddle and Ben Hecht's typewriter. Oh, and he writes books -- almost as many as his years. He's 57. Meeting him on the street a few years back, the press agent and wit Irving Rudd said, "Gee, Bert, I haven't seen you since two or three books ago." Sugar titles include "Great Baseball Players of the Past," "100 Years of Boxing," "The Baseball Trivia Book," "Who Was Harry Steinfeldt and Other Trivia Questions" and "The Baseball Trivia Book to End All Baseball Trivia Books. Promise!" (article continues with link)

John Williams & the Boston Pops Orchestra have composed & performed "Fanfare For Fenway", a song celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Red Sox's Fenway Park. My link

[New York native vocalist Catherine Russell, will be the final performance of the 2011-12 season Jazz at Lincoln Center's Singers Over Manhattan series in The Allen Room, March 30-31, 2012 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Born of music royalty, her father, Luis Russell, was Louis Armstrong's long time musical director and her mother, Carline Ray, performed with Mary Lou Williams and International Sweethearts of Rhythm. In 2006 her hit debut album Cat, paved the way for headlining jazz festivals and opening for music legends like Steely Dan and Paul Simon. With her fourth and newest album Strictly Romancin' released on Valentine's Day and a recent GRAMMY® nomination, there is no stopping her. My link

......and has been for 10 straight days in northern ohio this midmarch.

Beginning in April,2012, visitors to NYTimes.com will have access to 10 free articles per month instead of 20.

Beginning in April, visitors to NYTimes.com will have access to 10 free articles per month instead of 20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvhstWKnKM

My link hopefully, apple won't acquire this technology. we'll be burned alive. :party: :party:

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My link :rolleyes: :rolleyes: By Ben Rooney A magnetic vibrating tattoo has to be one of the strangest patent applications in quite a while, but Finnish phone giant Nokia has filed a U.S. patent for just that. According to the patent application, Nokia is proposing “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.” Or to put it another way, a vibrating tattoo. That magnetic field would interact with the tattoo, causing it to vibrate in a certain way. Nokia’s thinking is that in much the same way that you can have different ring tones for different callers, so too a future phone could emit a different magnetic field depending who is calling, or if your battery is running low, or you receive an SMS, for example. It doesn’t have to be a tattoo; the application does talk about just a badge, but it is clear that some thought has been given to actually embedding this thing. There is a lot of talk about using “ink enriched by ferromagnetic or paramagnetic compounds” and how these would be applied. Why? The application doesn’t specify, but you could imagine situations were it is either very quiet, or conversely very noisy, so some alternative form of altering system could be used, although quite why just vibrating the phone itself isn’t enough… Hat tip to Unwired View for spotting this.

i've not tried it. thx.

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www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/drinks-idUSL1E8EK1P620120320 By Martinne Geller March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. carbonated soft drink consumption fell faster last year as strength in energy drinks failed to offset weakness in traditional sodas from Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc, according to a leading beverage industry newsletter. Total sales volume of soda fell about 1 percent in 2011 to 9.27 billion cases, according to Beverage Digest, about the same level it was in 1996. Sales volume fell 0.5 percent in 2010. Excluding energy drinks such as Red Bull and Rockstar, soda volume was down 1.5 percent last year, Beverage Digest said. "Carbonated soft drinks, while still the biggest category, are playing a declining role in Americans' beverage consumption," the newsletter said on Tuesday. Soda sales in the United States grew about 3 percent annually throughout most of the 1990s but began to slow in 1999. Sales have been in decline since 2005 as increasingly health-conscious consumers turn to options they see as healthier, such as bottled water, juice and tea.

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a division of local pepsi delivery trucks prepare to be loaded to allay our timeless massive insistent pepsi thirst. pepsi has been a big part of my life for all my life. check out the jazzy pepsi song from the 40s. it's my alltime fav pepsi song. pepsi cola is a cornerstone of our culture. get hep with pepsi

we are seeing here a classier reenactment of the favre foibles, minus the wranglers.

large package good stores that stock guinness often carry it. occasionally, i find it at kroger. strangely, my store was out of it today.

a really nice looking beer which, to me, tastes like a near identical twin of sam smith oatmeal stout. it's a really fine beer, but a bit sweet for my taste. it can't come remotely near a draft pint of 'regular' guinness.

steves ashes were spread around 3rd base at wrigley, as he requested.

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sweet. having 4 simultaneous games accesible is very sweet!!!!!

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