Giving credit where credit is due: diabolical genius! Deadspin asks, "What Time Does The Super Bowl Start, He Wrote As A Headline To Game The Google Results"

NY Giants defensive players have to resort to faking injuries in order to keep St. Louis Rams no-huddle offense from steamrolling them. Sept. 20, 2011. http://youtu.be/eY26rgd4aps

It's not officially a Super Bowl until Alyssa Milano comes to Indy. 
NOW it's on!


Above, Alyssa wearing her signature Touch by Alyssa Milano New England Patriots Sweater Mix Jacket, the sort of thing you may've seen at the NFL Experience if you were in Indy while she was there schmoozing with fans and doing some promotional work for her popular line of NFL-themed women's clothing.
(I went to the one in D.C. held on the National Mall when the NFL started doing that to start off the season and held it in the NFL city hosting the first Monday Night Football game; if I remember correctly, they later had a mini-concert there by Journey, which I missed, since I rushed home to watch the game on TV.) 
But while I have chosen to show Alyssa wearing Patriots gear above because I'm picking them to beat the Giants by at least ten points tonight, as you can see from the photos of her at her always amusing posterous photo blog, which as I've mentioned here previously, I've subscribed to for a while now, she's actually pulling for the NY Football Giants. 
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/date-night-in-indy


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Giving credit where credit is due: diabolical genius! 
Deadspin: "What Time Does The Super Bowl Start, He Wrote As A Headline To Game The Google Results"

The post was sinister and dumb and ruthless and brilliant, and a good indicator of why the HuffPo's traffic numbers are so insane.

http://deadspin.com/5881720/what-time-does-the-super-bowl-start-he-wrote-as-a-headline-to-game-the-google-results


http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/46/what-time-is-the-superbowl

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/46

Or, if you are not near any of the tens of millions of Americans TVs that have the game on,  watch it online at: http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/46/live/sunday

Beet TV video:  NFL, NBC Sports and Verizon Wireless Ready the First Mobile Super Bowl
By Andy Plesser
February 3, 2012
http://www.beet.tv/2012/02/superbowl.html  



Rasmussen Reports
Super Bowl Viewers Don’t Think Madonna’s Good Choice For Halftime Show
February 3, 2012 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/sports/january_2012/super_bowl_viewers_don_t_think_madonna_s_good_choice_for_halftime_show

Yes, 57% of likely Super Bowl viewers say no to Madonna as halftime entertainment, and I'm with them. For about the 20th year in a row I won't watch the halftime, but instead mute the TV and listen to what they're saying on the radio broadcast, in case someone stumbles accidentally into telling the the truth.


By the way, the 57% opposed to Madonna is a higher percentage of American than have voted for any winning presidential candidate since November of 1984.
(President Reagan was re-elected with 58.8% of the vote to former Vice President Walter Mondale's 40.6%.)


Two months after that election was the last Super Bowl the Dolphins played in, a 38-16 loss to the 49ers.
To give you some perspective, no woman now or recently appearing in Playboy was alive when the Dolphins last played in the Super Bowl. 
Just saying... epic mediocrity spans decades.


Here's some more perspective on those 27 years:

1985: The last time the Dolphins made it to the Super Bowl.

Story: Jake Cline, Sun Sentinel, Photo gallery: Melina I. De Rose, Sun Sentinel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/pictures/sfl-super-bowl-1985-lifestyle,0,1759537.photogallery

Below, an excellent historical analysis of Super Sunday from John Maxham, an advertising executive at Seattle's Cole & Weber United.
He "gets it."

Apart from being an effective and fun marketing gimmick, the use of Roman numerals in the Super Bowl may offer a deeper insight into our national psyche

mediabistro's AgencySpy blog
Op-Ed: ‘Svper Bowl Svnday’ – Our Invented Ancient Tradition
By Kiran Aditham on February 3, 2012 11:03 AM
http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/op-ed-svper-bowl-svnday-our-invented-ancient-tradition_b29030


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Two last things: If Tom Coughlan and Eli Manning were with the Seattle Seahawks, and had the same back story and stats, and were now in the Super Bowl, nobody-but-nobody would be talking the nonsense I've heard so much of this past week, on ESPN and elsewhere, about how IF they win against the Patriots, they're locks to get into Canton.
Who decided that?


It's because they're with the New York Giants. 
Period.


Again, I like the Patriots by at least ten points.

LA Dodgers questions great & small: wither McCourt, padding of attendance; Alyssa Milano's +1 is most heartening Dodger news; McCourt = Steven Ross

Above, thru thick and thin, actress & activist Alyssa Milano remains TRUE BLUE!

Los Angles Times

Dodgers Blog

Will we ever know had badly Dodgers' attendance is down?

By Steve Dilbeck

July 29, 2011 | 9:16 am

Oh, we know it’s down. Have evidence that it’s way down.

But the published numbers don’t tell the full story; not even close.

Buoyed by a pair of 50,000-plus bobblehead crowds (for Andre Ethier and Fernando Valenzuela), the Dodgers are averaging 36,623 per game.

That’s 8,102 fewer fans than last season, and actually better than the 9,319 it was down earlier this season. The Dodgers' total attendance is off 453,694 for the season...

Read the rest of the post at:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dodgers/2011/07/will-we-ever-know-had-badly-dodgers-attendance-is-down.html

The above is not the Ghost of Christmas Past, but rather The Ghost of the Dolphins' Future.

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FYI: Fox owned the LA Dodgers from 1998 to 2004, and also owns the the sole national broadcast rights as well as the broadcast rights to 14 MLB teams on its regional sports channels -including the Florida Marlins- most of which I watch on DirecTV.

New York Times

TV’s Supporting Role in Dodgers’ Drama

By Richard Sandomir

July 3, 2011

The fight for control of the Los Angeles Dodgers that reached United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Tuesday pits Frank McCourt, an owner desperate to keep his team, against Commissioner Bud Selig, who believes that McCourt has turned the iconic team into a financial wreck.

But away from the legal battle is the story of a long relationship between the Dodgers and Fox Sports, which underscores the rising value of sports television rights and what a media giant will do to keep them.

In the case of the Dodgers and Fox, it is a tale of mutual self-interest in which each side has taken turns at being the alpha male: the team knows it is valuable but needs money; Fox needs the team and has the cash.

Read the rest of the post at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/sports/baseball/dodgers-plight-highlights-influence-of-tv-in-sports.html

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Los Angeles Times

Frank McCourt has worn out his welcome

With Frank McCourt, the solution to his Dodgers dilemma is always somewhere over the rainbow. But fans aren't buying the loaves-and-fishes spiel. If he knew enough to exit quickly, he might earn some gratitude, but never forgiveness.

By Bill Dwyre, Times columnist

August 5, 2011, 2:14 p.m.

The most stunning aspect of the current Dodgers situation is not the greed of Frank McCourt, but the blind stubbornness.

Now, he is planning to sue his lawyers and projecting that, just maybe, the proceeds of that might be enough to pay off debts and get out of trouble. That's similar to his stance that, if he is just allowed to make his $1.7-billion-to-$3-billion deal with Fox, he'll be free and clear.

With McCourt, the solution is always somewhere just over the rainbow. He turned a Boston parking lot into ownership of the Dodgers and now wants us to believe he can keep them by multiplying loaves and fishes. He is a huckster's huckster, a poster boy for the buy-now-and-pay-later.

Read the rest of the column at:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre-frank-mccourt-20110806,0,5892585.column

Long before financially self-serving LA Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's antics finally kept devoted Dodger fans away from Dodger Stadium this year in droves, after he fired Davey Johnson as Orioles manager in the off-season after he was named AL Manager of the Year for 1997, after getting the Orioles to the '97 AL Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians, Oriole fans were loathing Peter Angelos and Co. and refusing to come to Camden Yards -my home away from home for most of the 1990's- and fork over one cent to him, preferring instead to watch all the games on cable channel HTS (Home Team Sports, now MASN) at home or sports bars.

Under current Dolphins owner Steven Ross, the Dolphins have morphed into the worst on-field aspects of the Detroit Lions and the worst off-field aspects of Frank McCourt's tenure as Dodgers owner.

Ross is an acute embarrassment to the teams most loyal fans -like me- and seems NOT to have learned a whit since becoming owner, continuing the Dolphins era of complete insignificance.

Dolphins use outside agency to chase season ticket holders

Posted by Mike Florio on August 6, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/06/dolphins-use-collection-agency-to-chase-season-ticket-holders/

Touch by Alyssa Milano Miami Dolphins Women's Sleeveless Top

Orange you glad that I decided to add this one?

Although it hurts her to see her Dodgers so often used as a punchline this season, on her always amusing posterous website, one of my favorites, actress Alyssa Milano, is having the best year of all among celebrity Dodger faithful.

Check out the photo at the link, one I sent out to sports media friends within just minutes of her posting it.

#Dodgers I Love L.A. (picture)-->, from late July 2011

http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/dodgers-i-love-la-picture

Like bambino-to-be, like mother...

Above, Los Angeles Dodgers Royal Women's Primary Logo Tri Blend Long Sleeve Layered T-Shirt- by Alyssa Milano

I've written about or referenced Alyssa on the blog several times, the most popular post on her being this one form Sept. 18, 2010 titled, Proof positive that no photo of Alyssa Milano is without its magnetic CHARM. Not that we EVER doubted it!

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/proof-positive-that-no-photo-of-alyssa.html

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http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/

2012 Spring Touch collection: http://alyssa.com/?p=2569

http://www.fansedge.com/

http://www.fandalia.com/

http://alyssa.com/

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-columnist-bdwyre,0,7769040.columnist

Another reason to vote against Charlie Crist: his pitching is clearly outside of the 'mainstream'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jirSqpYpvrE

After Charlie Crist loses the Senate election in 25 days to Marco Rubio and leaves office -and Tallahassee in the rear-view mirror for good- Crist will move up to one of his wife's homes in the New York City area, where he'll become yet another foolish Mets fan, and after listening to too much nonsensical sports radio, he will become a chronic serial caller to WFAN.
"Hello Charlie in Westchester County, you're on the air..."
Ha! Ha! Ha!

In this video, ABC News correspondent John Berman discusses presidential and celebrity ceremonial first pitches (and foul pitches), as well as his 'first pitch' at a PawSox game at McCoy Stadium in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island, as always, the AAA farm club of the Red Sox.
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/20617909

One of my substitute teachers at N.M.B. High School, Tony Torchia, was easily one of the most popular teachers at the school whenever he was there, especially with the male students, and it wasn't just because he was friendly and engaging and... the PawSox manager in 1975.

When the Red Sox played the Reds in the World Series that fall, naturally, he flew up to Boston to be at the Sox home games at Fenway Park.

Well, to give you an idea of what a great guy Mr. Torchia was, he brought back a World Series program for me, only one of my most-treasured sports collectibles EVER.
He was a classy guy!

'Safe at Home'
Alyssa Milano confesses her love for baseball in her book in an interview On The Record with Greta Van Sustern of FOX News. 2009.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3933173/safe-at-home/

Rania Abouzeid in Foreign Policy Magazine: The World's Worst Place for Women Just Got Worse

The World's Worst Place for Women?

So many possible "winners" but the answer is Pakistan.

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FOREIGN POLICY

What the Waters Washed Away
The rural, conservative refugees from Pakistan’s floods have not only lost their homes, but also their entire way of life.

By Rania Abouzeid
September 17, 2010

CHARSADDA, Pakistan-Zeynat wipes her tears away with the edge of her donated, cream-colored dupatta. Her family was separated shortly after raging floodwaters destroyed her modest, mud-brick home, and it has been well over a month since she last saw her three teenage daughters. For the past week, Zeynat and her mother-in-law have been sharing a tent with her friend and former neighbor, Bach Sultan, and four of Sultan's children, in a makeshift settlement here in Charsadda, in the socially conservative and insurgency-plagued Khyber Pakhtunkwa province bordering Afghanistan.

Zeynat's tent, which lies just feet away from the dozens of others pitched alongside Charsadda's Sugar Mill mosque, is sweltering inside. The front and back tent flaps are kept open in the hope of attracting a breeze, but they merely serve to expose the women to the view of passersby. The women say that custom prevents them from idly sitting outside. The camp's proximity to the mosque means that the building's bathrooms are available for use by the flood victims. This ensures them a modicum of privacy absent from many other camps, which lack sanitation or rely on outdoor toilets.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/17/what_the_waters_washed_away


See also:
Foreign Policy
New attacks stun Pakistan
By Imtiaz Gul
September 10, 2010
http://www.imtiazgul.com/Sep_10_2010.html

http://www.imtiazgul.com/

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/

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U.S. Fund for UNICEF: Alyssa Milano on Pakistan flooding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjIhTici7JM

Proof positive that no photo of Alyssa Milano is without its magnetic CHARM. Not that we EVER doubted it!

Above, Minnesota Vikings Women's Laser Cut 3/4 Sleeve Pullover Hoodie
Touch by Alyssa Milano http://www.ijcool.com

Behind the scenes at ABC-TV's hit show Castle, with Alyssa Milano:




Alyssa's appearance back in January, A Rose for Everafter, was only my favorite of the season. Wow!
You can watch the episode here in its entirety:
http://abc.go.com/watch/castle/SH559040/VD5569242/a-rose-for-everafter

It's easy to see in mere moments why Alyssa's clever and witty photo site has become one of my personal favorite social media additions this year: http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/

A couple of seconds to take, a few minutes of amusement & delight!
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/self-portrait-entitled-really-freaking-bored
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/my-new-favorite-photo-app-for-the-iphone-pict
At the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/this-is-what-i-am-doing-right-now-picture
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/omg-a-gift-from-asg-fanfest-from-chloroformda
(That's the Roberto Clemente bobble-head in her hands.)


http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-hi-picture-from-the-field
and http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/asg-picture-from-the-dugout
Good morning, this is your courtesy wake-up photo:
http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/good-morning-my-hubby-just-sent-me-this-pictu
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?"
http://www.alyssa.com/touch-clothing/new-nfl-touch-ad/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCL3B5LgUCo

http://alyssamilano.posterous.com/photo-from-the-2010-touchbyam-nfl-commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWdNG3wsw

So, you're asking yourself, why did I run the Mary Tyler Moore Show videos here of the famous MTM theme song, "Love Is All Around" by Sonny Curtis, in the middle of Alyssa's Touch NFL apparel photos?
The purple #10 Fran Tarkenton Vikings jersey Mary wears!
(At 0:24 while washing her Ford Mustang)
Always one of my favorite parts of the opening credits!

Compare and contrast with Alyssa at the top of the blog, or here:
Above, Miami Dolphins Full Zip Velour Cheer JacketTouch by Alyssa Milano http://www.fansedge.com/
Trust me, I knew some of them and the "Dolphin Dolls" were never like this!

New York Times
Suiting Up in Jerseys Suitable for WomenBy Tanzina Vega
August 25, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/business/media/26adco.html

However strange it may seem to actually read in print, the more you pay attention to such things, the more you know that in some very fundamental ways, the current reality is that Alyssa intuitively "gets" the new media universe MUCH better than the McClatchy folks running the Miami Herald and the Tribune Company people running the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. That's our reality.

CNN
What's new with Twitter?August 2010
Jessica Yellin interviews Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2010/08/09/ym.jack.dorsey.twitter.square.cnn.html


http://www.alyssa.com/
http://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano
http://alyssa.mlblogs.com/


Touch by Alyssa Milano:
http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3294500and http://www.nflshop.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3743308&ab=HP_Include_Touch



http://www.fandalia.com/

The Scopes Monkey Trial was never like this! Alyssa Milano's Evolution: Jersey Shore.

Originally, there was Dove Evolution.
Some folks thought it was great, while
others found it preachy and self-serving
in the extreme, not unusual for TV ads
pitching products geared to women.


Now comes before us for our perusal
and analysis, Alyssa Milano's Evolution:
Jersey Shore. Alyssa Milano prepares
for a new role.

Alyssa Milano's Evolution: Jersey Shore from Alyssa Milano

See her popular NFL-themed clothing line,
Touch By Alyssa Milano:
http://www.nflshop.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3294500&cp=2421485&cid=

Inherit the Wind:
Long trailer with director Stanley Kramer
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1543308057/

Short trailer




As always, Spencer Tracy's a good defense attorney
to have on your side!