I’ve crunched a few numbers to figure out pages that drew at least 0.1 percent of my total page views for the year. (The percentages are slightly lower than they should be due to some extraneous stuff in the stats…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Beach volleyball circuit goes inland
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Beach volleyball has come a long way from California. The North American AVP tour went coast-to-coast with a few stops in between. As with a lot of Olympic sports, Europe has been a gracious host for many events. But if…
SportsMyriad’s 2011 plans
by Beau Dure • • 4 Comments
So you’ve opened all the presents and thought, “Well, that’s nice, but what I really want is to know what SportsMyriad is planning in 2011. We’ve seen nine months of erratic updates and programming. What now?” Basically, you’re going to…
Mad about the Freedom? Place the blame on …
by Beau Dure • • 8 Comments
Yes, WPS and Washington Freedom fans, I hear you. BigSoccer hears you. The transitional staff hears you. You’re sad that the name may change and that the team may play games in (or eventually move to) South Florida. You’re frustrated…
Selling WPS tickets in transition (updated)
by Beau Dure • • 7 Comments
In working on a story that I’ll likely publish somewhere between now and Christmas (just in time for no one to see it), I was told by several people that the Washington Freedom were conducting business as usual for the…
Explaining the World Cup vote using ‘NewsRadio’
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Having failed in my effort to explain the World Cup vote using When Harry Met Sally, I’ll now explain it using a scene from NewsRadio in which Dave (Dave Foley) is England, the USA and Australia, while Bill (Phil Hartman)…
Tossing down the gloves before fans of hockey’s “Code”
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
A few years ago, hockey fans got an intriguing addition to their bookshelves — The Code, which promised to demystify the unofficial rules of fighting. It didn’t, frankly. The book is a worthwhile read, full of entertaining stories from the…
Holiday diversions: Chess, biathlon … any curling?
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
This is the time of year in which work productivity is minimal, traffic and weather can be too much to bear, and the yule log is sometimes the highlight of the TV programming. SportsMyriad sadly cannot be your all-inclusive guide…