Having survived NHL lockouts in the past (my third under Bettman alone! Plus one strike!) I can rationalize my chances of getting through this one like a seasoned junkie assuring himself that while there’s no heroin at the moment, it’ll be available again come Thanksgiving. Or Christmas. Or not for another year!, which seems to [...]
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I forget whether I commented on this case here before but I’m pleased at its end. A while back MLB sued the CBC fantasy sports empire over the right to use the baseball players’ names, claiming that its use was violation of the players’ right of publicity. The Eighth Circuit disagreed (pdf), affirming a lower [...] Via Pharyngula, Greg Saunders picks up on an interesting set of similarities in the initial coverage of the tragic West Virginia coal mining collapse. Beside the clever observation that identical photos can be used to convey opposite messages, he makes the more important point that much of the initial ‘they live’ coverage attributed that fact [...] |
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