2-Minute Drill; Rank & File; a Lineup of Sports Tidbits
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By DON WALKER  Super Bowl XLI ticket sales by state, according to StubHub and TicketsNow.com. As of Friday morning, the most expensive ticket sold on StubHub was a $10,287 ticket in the Club Prime Midfield, and the price range for tickets was $2,000-$10,287.
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SATURDAY BOXING 10 p.m. -- Welterweights: Berto vs. Figueroa; WBC/WBO middleweight championship: Taylor vs. Ouma, HBO
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Peanuts, hot dogs and wireless instant replays. It's the future of baseball...
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GEIGER: I guess I&#39;m part two. Greetings, everybody. Obviously many of you have seen and probably have in your possession the story that broke this morning on espn.
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With the pro football season in full swing, it's time again for a superfluous digression into the corollaries between investing and sports. I can already hear some of you groaning, but cut me some slack.
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The big game is the perfect excuse to throw an awesome bash. Here's the gear you need to score for maximum fun. By Daniel Dumas.
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C'mon, T.O., take the bait. Admit you're better than Randy Moss. Say you can run faster, block better, make the most big plays out of double coverage.
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When, where: Tonight, 8, at Target Center, Minneapolis. TV, radio: CSN, ESPN, WEEI (850). Records: Boston is 37-9; Minnesota is 10-37. Scoring: Al Jefferson 21.5, Rashad McCants 14.9, Ryan Gomes 11.8. Rebounding: Jefferson 12.3, Gomes 5.5, Craig Smith 4.7. Assists: Sebastian Telfair 6.0, Marko Jaric 4.4, McCants 2.3. Head to head: This is the second of two meetings. The Celtics ...
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TODAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL/MEN 8 p.m. -- Yale at Penn, CN8 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL/GIRLS 6:45 p.m. -- Braintree at Framingham, WBNW (1120) PRO BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. -- Celtics vs. Phoenix at the FleetCenter, FSN, WWZN (1510) 7 p.m. -- Cleveland at New York, ESPN 9:30 p.m. -- Sacramento at Houston, ESPN BOXING 7:30 p.m. -- Eddie Sanchez vs. Teddy Reid (super ...
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Description: George Johnson talks about the NFL, WNBA playoffs, baseball pennant races and other sports headlines. There&#39;s the music which means it&#39;s time to bounce.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A good subplot can be one of the most intriguing parts of a sports story. Sammy Sosa chasing Mark McGwire while the Cardinals chased the Cubs. Shaq and Kobe feuding while the Lakers ran off three consecutive championships.
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In today's installment, Coach Bill starts with a minimonologue. "OK, how's it going today?" he begins. "Good? Got the holidays over, ready for the new year. Got the game on every network. It will be like the State of the Union address - you can flip to every channel to see it."
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.
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Television: ESPN2. Dave O&#39;Brien (play-by-play), Len Elmore (color analysis) and Stacey Dales-Schuman (sidelines) call the action.
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In most sports, there are athletes built for the long haul, and those who dazzle in quick, mercurial bursts. Track and field has distance specialists and sprinters. Baseball has starting pitchers, setup men, and closers. Based on anecdotal evidence collected from 40-odd years immersed in sports literature, I suspect sportswriters fall into roughly the same categories. Like the starting pitcher who is awkwardly relegated to the bullpen, some writers aren't a great fit for every project. Lars Anderson, author of "Carlisle vs. Army," is a case in point.
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Big arena, lots of players, stories at every turn. A week covering a tournament like the Deutsche Bank Championship leaves some lasting impressions. Just a sampling of the sights carried with me from this year's tournament at TPC Boston: