Via Core77:
What could make the view from the infinity pool atop the Marina Bay Sands casino, soaring some 55 stories above Singapore, even more surreal? Human bodies jumping off of the roof behind you.
This is a great video.
Too cool.
BleacherReport.com has complied a list of the 50 worst NFL head coaches of all time. The Detroit Lions are ‘well represented’ on the list:
46) Dick Jauron
28) Marty Mornhinweg
15) Darryl Rogers
5) Rod Marinelli
I’m surprised that “The General” Bobby Ross didn’t make the list. I guess the guys didn’t want to seem like the were picking on the Lions by populating a full 10% of the list with former Lion head coaches.
By the way, Coach Ross appears at 2:30 of this great video because, as he says, ”I don’t coach that way”
Too funny…
This is so cool. Plus, the videography is excellent.
According to people in attendance, both tires on the car’s driver’s side were torn off, and the impact ripped the master cylinder from the firewall. The throttle cable was attached to the cylinder, so when the cylinder fell, the throttle controlling a 1,500-plus-horsepower engine got stuck wide open for more than a minute. Worst of all, the initial impact knocked Peterson unconscious, so he wasn’t able to do anything to intervene.
And the video…
The driver came to after the medics cut him out of the car and is said to be at home and ok.
It’s no secret that most sports writers are hard-core liberals. It is also no secret that liberals really don’t understand economics.
Mix the two together, a liberal sports writer discussing an economic concept and it can be a train wreck.
For a shining example of the concept, look no further than this article by Detroit Free Press (Detroit’s more liberal news paper) sports writer Drew Sharp:
Salary caps are nothing more than a publicly endorsed corporate bailout. It’s billionaire welfare, a free pass for owners who amassed the financial riches necessary to buy a NFL or NBA franchise through high-risk, high-reward business decisions to wantonly mismanage their sports properties because there’s little risk of consequence. It doesn’t matter if an owner spends recklessly because legislated cost controls will limit the extent his competitors can exploit those mistakes.
I’m really surprised Drew doesn’t get it. He is a sports writer after all.
The various franchises within a given league (i.e. The Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers) work together following mutually agreed upon rules (salary cap) to produce a product the league markets. The game day spectacle. The more people who watch the product or attend the games, the more money the league makes and is distributed among the various franchises per predetermined agreements within the league.
Drew continues:
If artificially propping up the economically fragile is blatantly un-American, then how is the redistribution of wealth acceptable when it’s subsidizing a dying Sacramento Kings franchise staying in a market that already has proven it cannot support a competitive NBA product through the necessary corporate support?
I wonder if Drew missed the futility and blatant mismanagement of the Detroit Lions? If pro sports was truly about winning, losing and competition, the NFL would’ve yanked the Lions franchise from William Clay Ford long ago. In reality, pro sports is about making money for the league. If the NBA thinks it’s a good idea to put a team in Sacramento and someone is willing to pony up the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to set up an NBA team there, that person owns the franchise. As long as the team is making money for the league, I’m sure the owners could care less if the team stinks.
When you boil it down, professional sports is not about competition between teams. The real economic competitions is between the various sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR) fighting for consumers entertainment dollar.
The 2011 Pikes Peak Hill Climb is getting under way, with the official race this Sunday.
The race is run on a 12.42 mile course with 156 turns that begins at 9,390 feet and finishes at the 14,110 foot summit of America’s Mountain; Pikes Peak! As the drivers climb toward the summit, the thin air slows reflexes and saps muscle strength. The thin air also robs engines of 30% of their power at the summit. Competitors and vehicles must be in top shape simply to finish…let alone win!
This year the race has 11 classes and features a variety of automotive, semi truck, exhibition, open wheel, super stock car, pro truck and motorcycle classes with a field approaching 200 competitors.
Ducati produced video (the racing footage starts around 2:40):
While Martin Aircraft’s Jetpack is not exactly ’jet’ powered it still is pretty cool:
The Martin Jetpack is the world’s first practical jetpack. It consists of a purpose-built gasoline engine driving twin ducted fans which produce sufficient thrust to lift the aircraft and a pilot in vertical takeoff and landing, enabling sustained flight.
The Martin Jetpack is creating a new segment in the aviation and recreational vehicle markets. Initially designed with the leisure market in mind, commercial demand for the Martin Jetpack has seen the research and development programme focus on readying the product for use in a number of sectors including emergency response, defence and recreation, with numerous applications in each sector.
One novel feature of the Martin Jetpack is the incorporation of a rapid deployment parachute in case of an engine failure.
Via Golf Digest:
The AT&T Oaks Course at the TPC San Antonio is generous off the tee but woe unto those who stray too far. In the Texas version of the Florida recount, Kevin Na went for 14, no 15, oops 16, on the ninth hole after driving it right, hitting a provisional, finding the first ball, declaring it unplayable, re-teeing and hitting it back into the gunch, then flailing about in the forest primeval, hitting himself with one shot and whiffing another.
Going into the ninth, Na was one under par. He was three under on the back. But, a 16 rarely does wonders for the scorecard. “I thought I made a good putt on the last hole to break 80 and I was pretty happy,” he said afterward, only to find out he posted the eight-oh on the number.
And here is the video-
Looks like a normal round of golf to me.
