Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal has released their 50, er, 60 most influential people in the sports business. Here is the list.
Via IJSF blog where Nick notes that the list is really more of a North American list.
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Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal has released their 50, er, 60 most influential people in the sports business. Here is the list.
Via IJSF blog where Nick notes that the list is really more of a North American list.
[...]Friday, December 11, 2009
Statement from Tom Emmer
“As Speaker of the House, Margaret Anderson Kelliher has a tremendous amount of power and influence over the next legislative session. The special interests know this and are looking for any [...]
Southern Minnesota, and the entire upper midwest for that matter, is under one sort of winter weather advisory or another. We locally are under a blizzard warning for today and tonight. The current forecast calls for nearly a foot of snow, light and fluffy snow, with winds whupping up to [...]
Wikipedia was started by Jimbo Wales who was influenced by the writings of economist FA Hayek, specifically his paper "The Use of Knowledge in Society." Hayek noted that knowledge in a society is not held by a few chosen ones, but is instead dispersed throughout society. To solve [...]
Sure correlation doesn’t equal causation but according to gun control activists guns cause crime without any need of human influence.
[H/T Pat]
[...]Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, today criticised international investors' reaction to the Emirate's debt crisis, claiming: "They do not understand anything."
The defiant ruler, whose Government yesterday washed its hands of Dubai World, the state-owned conglomerate that owes $59 billion (£35.8 billion), also said:' [...]
During the last presidential primary season, we wrote extensively about Mike Huckabee's excessive use of his power, as governor of Arkansas, to issue pardons and commutations, and his role in influencing the parole process. In one particularly egregious instance, Huckabee worked behind the scenes in favor [...]
Today the MNSpec writer’s group gave me feedback on my story ‘Pinky, The Invisible Flying Pony Who Saves The World.’
Overall, people appreciated it for the mindless bit of fluff that it is – a dark parody, mashing Lovecraftian Evil with a children’s story. But there were several useful points [...]
