Goal-Line Tech
From ESPN Playbook: MLS moves toward goal-line technology
Other sports have utilized technology to ensure correct calls for years, from the ball-tracking system in tennis to instant replays in football and basketball. Finally, it appears soccer — the world’s most popular sport with the most passionate fans — will use technology to determine if a goal is, indeed, a goal.
Don’t Take Me Out to The Game
From The Bleacher Report: MLB Baseball: Dying Sport or Strong as Ever?
At one point in American history, baseball was equal to religion. From factories to steel mills, churches and schools, to small towns, large cities coast to coast, and on US military bases all over the world, there was rarely a place in our beautiful nation where baseball was not played or discussed.
But today baseball seems to be dying, at least in the eyes of some people.
Riding For The World
From BikeRadar: Record in sight for World Cycle Racing competitor
Just over over two months on from their departure in Greenwich, London, the contenders of the World Cycle Racing Grand Tour bidding to become the new round-the-world record holder looks to have been whittled down to one.
Great Britain’s Mike Hall, who is riding for Quick Energy, has just passed the half way mark in the 18,000 mile odyssey, having clocked up a staggering 9,440 miles in just 58 days. He’s way ahead of the remaining 11 riders (the closest is Martin Walker on 7,101 miles) and on track to eclipse Alan Bate’s record of 106 days.
Gnarly Surf Board
From Forbes: Surfing Toxic Secret
As I paddle out into the surf on a crystal clear California morning, brown pelicans swoop low over the ocean, and a flock of seagulls of Hitchcockian proportions soar above a deserted beach where a harbor seal lolls in the sunshine. With surfers carving the face of a wave breaking off this reef just north of Santa Cruz, it’s the kind of nature-boy scene that sells billions of dollars of surf apparel and gear to coastal dwellers and landlocked wannabes. There’s nothing pristine about what’s under our feet, though. The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin. Gnarly, and not in a good way.