Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Blatter took the first step, apology, but had no follow-through to remedy his blunder...
It’s not something you’re apt to see every day — FIFA president Sepp Blatter expressing regret for a decision he has made. But Blatter apparently recognizes that it was a mistake lumping together the bidding process for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Despite his admission that keeping the 2018 and 2022 bids together caused more harm than... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on October 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By the time this goes up on the site, I’ll be somewhere en route to California to the Bioneers conference in San Rafael. The coffee company my wife’s family owns and operates needed a few extra bodies to man their trio of locations at the event, and so I was conscripted for active duty. It’s funny to think, living as relatively close as I do, but this will be the first time that I will have given northern California more than a... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on July 22, 2010 · 2 Comments
As much as a summer can feel as though it is slowing down, there is still a ton of action ongoing both around the globe in the world of sports as well as more locally in my own life. It’s funny — I recently sat down to read fellow Sports Nickel writer Marcelo‘s current offering from his weekly “The Outer Limits” column, and the opening passage really got me thinking:
If you haven’t noticed, we’re in the middle of... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on July 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The lady on the left has already been stripped of her THG-stained medals, but the other three are smiling once again after their successful appeal…
For eight of her teammates, the revelations that Marion Jones had been involved with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) were a death knell to their place in Olympic history. The International Olympic Committee quickly stepped in, stripping every participant of the American women’s... Read More
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