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When will the NFL Network standoff end?

Like so many others , I was furious when I couldn't watch the Packers-Cowboys games a few weeks back. The NFL Network is only carried on satellite which is simply not an option for many of us in urban areas like NYC. For those who haven't been paying attention, there's been a long-running...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-27-2007
EchoStar acquired by Sling Media

EchoStar has acquired Sling Media for $380 million . While this is interesting in and of itself, the timing is particularly curious considering Sling just announced a deal with competitor DirectTV to bring its NFL Sunday Ticket to the desktop . It will be interesting to see what EchoStar does with Sling...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-25-2007
Super Bowl Pool for Charity

Charlie set up a Super Bowl Pool with the winnings to be donated to charity . The boxes are $10 each and the payout is fairly typical - with the prize going to a charity of your choice. If I win, the prize will be going to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the same organization that my sister ran...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-02-2007
A player's right of publicity in sports statistics

MLB already tried to claim copyright over baseball statistics , an argument that doesn't hold much weight since facts are not subject to copyright. Glenn Mitchell has an interesting article about the opposite situation - players claiming ownership under the right to publicity. The right to publicity...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-02-2007
Impossible Predictions

Adam Schein, a so-called expert, has published his predictions for the 2006 NFL season . No one expects people to be dead-on with predictions like this, but the problem is that Adam's predictions are literally impossible. There are 32 teams in the NFL that each play 16 games - for a total of 256 games...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-05-2006
Fantasy Football: Geek Bowl is back!

We had some unfortunate issues and 2005 Geek Bowl never happened. There's been some recent requests to get the league back, so I'm going to give a shot despite the short notice. Given the failed experiments with AOL's Draft2Play and PHPFFL, I'm hosting it on Yahoo! this year. There are...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-31-2006
Seeking one more owner for BlawgerBowl III

Kevin is still looking for a 12th owner in the third annual BlawgerBowl, a fantasy football league filled with (mostly) legal bloggers. You don't have to be a legal blogger or law student or lawyer. Maybe the geek community needs more representation? If interested, drop him (or me) a line.

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-31-2006
Why hasn't the World Cup caught on in the United States?

Why hasn't the World Cup caught on in the United States? I've really gotten into it this year - there's a lot of excitement around the office, and it's hard not to get caught up in World Cup fever. My local pub has been PACKED all day for the 10am games. Note: I'm going to refer to it as "soccer" in...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-03-2006
Here we go Steelers! Get one for the thumb!

[ This message was pre-recorded ] I haven't written anything yet about the Steelers magical run this year to avoid any jinx... but let me say this much: the Steelers deserve to win more than the Seahawks. Not necessarily because the players are better, but because the fans are. Pittsburgh is a city that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-03-2006
Will the Madden Curse continue?

For those of you unfamiliar with the Madden Curse, a little history: since EA starting putting players on the cover, each have suffered injuries or a significant decline in purchase. First Eddie George. Then Culpepper went from a 33 TD year to a 23 INT year and knee injury. Then Marshall Faulk. Then...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-22-2005

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