Despite the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras, there doesn't seem to be an equal growth in the
number of mediums who know when to flick on the record button as something big is going to happen
in the next five seconds.
No medium was apparently on hand for a Scottish Cup match which has landed one angry soul a
fourteen game suspension.
So?
This column provided by Northwester University seniors Sam Stejskal and Shashank
Churukanti and the good folks at soccer analytics start-up, Chimu Solutions. Take a trip
on over to Chimu Solutions (kind of like an Opta on steroids.)
We see possession numbers thrown around all the time in the soccer world.
Despite overtures to delicacy, Barcelona FC has become an unwieldy force, a football leviathan.
Coinciding with the city's international debut in the '92 Olympics, the club began two decades of
furious attack on Real Madrid's hegemony over Spanish football with championships in La Liga and
the Champions League, with Super Copas and thrashings at the Bernabéu.
A More Splendid Life takes pride today in welcoming the excellent Match Fit USA's Jason Davis,
here to remind you why the dirt won't wash off after today's Transfer Deadline Day mayhem.Ian Prior's #guardianfail transgression, claiming an exclusive and then under-delivering with a
rumor that even the orthodox Amish consider as common knowledge at this point, crystallizes how
dependent the blogging community is on traditional media.
By Ollie Irish
Edin Dzeko: Desirable to all
The Guardian's Barney Ronay captured best the ubiquity of Edin Dzeko, in a superb piece about
the January transfer window:
"The player who is suddenly everywhere will, once again, be everywhere.
Leaping across the border, today we look at the
New York Times online Soccer page.
Sustainable or no, the Times has the sort of resources newspapers like the
Globe and Mail
can only dream about. But the difference here is one of degree, not of philosophy.
As with the
Globe, the mainpage is littered with Reuters and AP wire reports, although the
layout is much more attractive and the news more up-to-date.
Leaping across the border, today we look at the
New York Times online Soccer page.
Sustainable or no, the Times has the sort of resources newspapers like the
Globe and Mail
can only dream about. But the difference here is one of degree, not of philosophy.
As with the
Globe, the mainpage is littered with Reuters and AP wire reports, although the
layout is much more attractive and the news more up-to-date.
