Dale Earnhardt Jr. is one of NASCARs most popular drivers without a doubt. He has earned this popularity due to his outstanding racing skills that have gotten him to the point where he now is in his career. Earnhardt lately is in a bit of a drought and is looking to break that streak of 62 winless soon. Among NASCAR fans 1/3 people consider Earnhardt their favorite driver. Earnhardt is on the line if he does not start winning some races. At this point he earns around $22 million a year in endorsements which is far more then other drivers. This shocks some since he is far behind other drivers as far as success goes. NASCAR feels Earnhardt is becoming the A-Rod of their sport. Even if Earnhardt doesn't start winning consistant his sponsors won't leave him out in the cold. NASCAR needs Earnhardt to start winning to help the organization as a whole. If the big gun isn't winning people arent watching. Although Earnhardt will still be making his money, NASCAR is losing money while he finishes outside of the top spot. Earnhardt is the big star of the sport and they need him to succeed in order for the organization as a whole to grow.
Written By Michelle Corso and Jose R. Valdez
Then it hits you, there's no music. No "CHARGE" bugle, not organ at the baseball game, nothing. Music and sound effects help pump up the crowd at any sporting event.
Teams do have streaming audio and video on their website of the game being played. But how great would it be to log onto Last.fm, and play "Shout!" at home every time the Bills score. Yeah, that would be awesome.
Having a partnership between a league and internet music site would be a huge boost in both of the companies. A Miami Dolphins fan can hear a talk show with Chad Pennington, even though they live in Oregon. Football, or as most Americans know it as soccer, can listen to live feeds of games. Baseball fans can listen into the game from their desk, rather than just watching a box score from their computer.
True: Most teams provide this for their fans already. But if partnered with Last.fm, one of the largest music based social networks, leagues would be able to get their sport out to more people. A simple idea would be to have users check off if they would like game feeds, if selected the user would choose which teams they would like to have feeds from. Every time the user is logged on, there would be an update sent to their Last.fm player. If they decide they want to listen to the game, a simple click on the score would transfer them to the audio feed for the game.
It is a no-brainer to have this partnership. And hopefully, we will soon be able to see this implemented in the near future.
--- Christopher Adamek, Joseph Cardinale, Mike Mendez
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The website www.ovguide.com can be used for many different things. It has videos for all sorts of catagories to fulfill your viewing pleasures. One of its more popular catagories is its sports catagory.
Inside the sports catagory or different channels that you can enter for whatever sport you are looking for. It links directly to most league's video section and it also has links to other media feeds such as ESPN and Youtube. Also, the website has user ratings to let you know which sites have the best content. It is a very useful site to get replays from last night's game or for any other video that you may be looking for.
The Seattle Mariners hired a new manger on Wednesday November 19th and with the hire they made history. The new manager Don Wakamatsu becomes the first Asian American manager in the history of the MLB. Wakamatsu played 11 games in the majors as a player but mostly was a minor league player. Last year he was the Oakland Athletics bench coach, and before that he spent 5 years in the Rangers Organization. Wakamatsu becomes the 14th manager in the history of the Mariners and looks to turn a underachieving oraganization around. Last year the Mariners lost 101 games and had the second worst record to the Washington Nationals. With a decent amount of talent and a nucleus of young players the team from Seattle has potential to contend and they look to Wakamatsu now to bring them to the next level.
I beleive that this is a great hire for the Mariners. Seattle is a very multicultural city and has a rich tradition in Asian history. Perhaps the Mariners are looking to appeal to Ichiro Suzuki to keep him from going elsewhere in free agency. Suzuki, one of the most consistent and valuable players in the MLB, is an important part of Wakamatsu's success with the new team. This hire and the influx of Asian baseball players coming to the MLB will perhaps increase the amount of Asian managers in the future.
Dear MLB and Baseball Writers of America,
On Monday you awarded Albert Pujols his NL MVP award. I believe this decision was the correct one and he truly deserves the award for being the most valuable player to his team in the National League. However, I do not agree with the list of follow up's in the order they appear. Based on what I have listened to and read in years past compared to more recent years, I do not understand the criteria for how these decisions are made.
Is there any criteria at all? I do not understand how a handful of this year's nominees were ranked so high on the list, or how some of them made the list to begin with. Let me start with the following: For the runner up for MVP, the writers unanimously chose Ryan Howard. I am baffled as to how you can consider anyone for MVP when that
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