Ladies, imagine yourself out on the town with your friends. You’re looking good, the club isn’t too crowded – you’re having a great time. You glance quickly across the bar and you see a blob-like man slowly make his way over to you. His hair is combed over, his beady eyes darting shiftily around the Read More
Building a Latino franchise
12/07/2011 By Leave a Comment
By now you’ve heard about how the Florida Marlins are making a splash in the baseball world by moving into Miami, opening a brand new stadium, and adopting an all or nothing attitude towards the 2012 season. These Fish want to win, and they have a lot of money to spend. What’s important about the Read More
Where will Jose Reyes go?
11/14/2011 By Leave a Comment
The World Series is over, and it is officially ‘hot stove’ season. Over the coming weeks and months, Major League Baseball teams will be looking to wheel and deal with this year’s batch of free agent players. Special this year is the fact that the offseason’s biggest prizes are both Latino, with shortstop Jose Reyes Read More
Tweeting your team
11/09/2011 By 1 Comment
Call it a sign of the times. The Jaguares de Chiapas, a First Division Mexican football club, recently announced that they’d be incorporating new social media initiatives through a marketing stunt in which they’d be replacing player names on uniforms with their Twitter handles. In addition to following the players on the field, you can Read More
Googling yourself, and other terrible ideas
10/17/2011 By 1 Comment
Where marriage meets free agency
10/11/2011 By 1 Comment
Imagine yourself, a young man on a date with your girlfriend. It’s a warm summer evening, the sun is setting, and she’s never looked more beautiful. After dinner, you go dancing, and then walk alone through the park. Nervously, you reach into your pocket to take out a ring box and a piece of paper. Read More
The rise of the $5 dollar card fee
10/04/2011 By 2 Comments
File this one under ‘not surprising’. Bank of America announced last week that it would begin to institute a five dollar monthly service fee for using their debit card to make purchases. Earlier this year I wrote about a few of the pending changes that banks were set to make, largely as a means of Read More
Clemente’s legacy
09/28/2011 By 1 Comment
On April 17, 1955, a baseball player listed on the roster as ‘Bob Clemente’ swung on a pitch, from Brooklyn pitcher Johnny Podres, at his first at bat, sending a single dribbling into right field. That player, more commonly known by his birth name, Roberto Clemente, not only started his major league career with a Read More
Remember how you wanted to live like the Jetsons? Well you still can’t!
09/15/2011 By Leave a Comment
The city of the future, or a green ghost town? Pegasus Global Holdings, a development company, has secured a 20 square mile tract of land in New Mexico to build a brand new city. The catch is that absolutely no one will live there. Pegasus is using the faux-city to test ‘green’ infrastructure and technologies Read More
Facebook just made life easier for lurkers and stalkers!
09/15/2011 By 2 Comments
Finally! Facebook answers that age-old conundrum — What if I DON’T WANT to “friend” those jerks from high school?! — with the introduction of the Subscribe button. Today’s Subscribe button announcement follows Tuesday’s official launch of Facebook’s greatly-improved Smart Lists, which allows you to sort Close Friends (people you want to hear from all the time) and Read More