I went to an open house today for ESPN’s Graphics Department and they made up a player card for each of us. Pretty amazing stuff - a pretty impressive mix of people with design and technical backgrounds.
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Summer session takes on a whole new meaning at Caltech. Division III basketball school California Institute of Technology hasn’t won a conference game since 1985. That’s probably because most of the players are super students doing undergraduate research and are getting 4.0 GPAs in physics majors. Kind of flies in the face of “winning is the only thing” but its a fun story.
Tennessee’s Lofton quietly faced and beat cancer. Just an amazing, must-read story that’s really well done. It’s easy to get cynical about ESPN, especially when you see it warts and all on a daily basis, but this story and one earlier this week about an opponents carrying an injured softball player around the bases washes over all that for me. It makes me a little prouder than usual to be working of the worldwide leader in sports.
Johnny Gilbert’s Perfect Sweet 16. Some 3.5 million people submitted brackets on ESPN.com’s Tourney Challenge game and after this weekend’s upsets only 2 had all the sweet 16 finalists (nobody has a perfect one). One of them was this young boy, Johnny Gilbert, a Ohio State fan who says he got all his picks from reading the morning paper and reading up online. Way to go!
Connor rates his Pro Day performance as a 13 out of 10 (jokingly, apparently) and says in a Battle Royale of Penn State linebackers he would take out Paul Posluszny in the final round. Then again, if you read Hashmarks most recent post, maybe you would be feeling this good too.
Yuckster Fricassee. The New York Times has an interesting piece about Rick Reilly and Dan Patrick switching outlets and how they’ve been brought in to contribute to the Web as much as print, TV, or radio. Also intersting to me, not only is Matthew Berry name dropped in the story, its not even the first time he’s been mentioned in the Times.
Me and ESPN’s Austin Hamilton, originally uploaded by Steve Clancy.
Hanging out with Austin Hamilton at the New Britain Museum of American Art. Austin has become a figure of attention (read ridicule) on Deadspin.com so I thought I would buoy his personality by posing for a picture with him.
ESPN.com: 1 in 5 fans do things to avoid jinxing favorites. I thought I was weird when I avoided buying a Phillies hat during their playoff chase and their playoff series, but I guess I’m not alone.