H/T to Awful Announcing for posting on this first…

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN and the New York City Department of Education are teaming up to create a new high school focusing on the business side of sports.

The Business of Sports School, or BOSS, will open in September with 81 ninth grade students.

The school plans to emphasize real world skills through mandatory internships at companies like ESPN The Magazine, ABC Sports, and VitaminWater.

The school is part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s push to modernize outdated vocational or trade schools. (AP)

The last few graphs could have read that B.O.S.S. is actually a Voc. Tech school, and students will have to do mandatory shifts at the ESPN Zone in Times Square.

You had me sold at B.O.S.S. (As in: Who’s the Boss?…Hugo BOSS). They’re actually naming a school B.O.S.S.

Low Vs. Diamond was totally worth braving the elements for last night. Phase one of my musical odyssey this weekend es completa. Weezy F. Baby tonight!

Here’s Low Vs. Diamond’s video for Heart Attack, which is pretty wild. And also check out their performance on Leno here.

( www.myspace.com/lowvsdiamond )

VITAMINWATER NOT SO SEXY AFTER ALL (With Leather)
+1000 For Alex Trebek (Awful Announcing)
Jerryd Bayless Is Nasty (Intentional Foul)
There’s a Mike Tyson documentary coming out? (Epic Carnival)
The Fake Joba Chamberlain Gave A Woman His Fake High Heater (Don Chavez)
Spanish Prison = Kick Ass (Brahsome)
And Then There’s JJ (And One)
The Temp does: The return of “The Office” (9 to Fried)
Take That, Most Dominant Player On Earth! (Tirico Suave)
LIONS HIRE JIM SCHWARTZ (The World of Isaac)

The Gotham Girls of NYC are your 2008 WFTDA Women’s National Roller Derby Champions. Gotham went into the tournament (held in Portland, OR) the #1 overall seed and overwhelming favorite, and lived up to expectation as they took home the trophy – known as The Hydra.

Gotham absolutely tattooed the second seeded Windy City Roller Girls, from Chicago, in the Championship Match, with a final score of 134-56. You can check out a live-chat blog that took place during the Finals Sunday on DerbyNewsNetwork.com.

The finals was a rematch of the Eastern Regional Championship, where Gotham narrowly edged Windy City by 40 points. In Sunday’s confrontation, GGRD went down 0-4 in the first period – their first deficit of the tournament – before they steamrolled their adversaries from Chicago.

Windy City’s lead jammer Kola Loka was the fan favorite for tourney MVP, getting 38% of the vote online.

The Philly Roller Girls took third place at Nationals, defeating Western Region Champion Texas in the third place grudge match.

If anyone has photo or video content from the Championship, please send my way. Meanwhile, check out some stuff below from your 2008 supreme derby champs from NYC….

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I posted earlier on how well this show went for us…check it out and read the comments, someone vehemently disagreed with me.

I Found this on YT just now (I’m not monitoring, or nothing); a little better sound quality than the Kids video I posted earlier.

Here’s Time to Pretend…

Economic turmoil aside, Doubledown Media held their annual Wall Street Boxing Charity Championship this past weekend, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.

Evan Odim, of Citigroup

The show’s card featured white collar pugilists from some of (if not all of what’s left of) the big firms in the city dukeing it out in front of a crowd that popped for tickets ranging from $125 to $10,000. The event raised money for Youth Village in Rwanda and Tuesday’s Children, which helps families of 9/11 victims.

Check out one of the knockdown laden showdowns right here!
“big daddy” odim vs “the bull” nersten

Link:
Boxing on Wall Street: Wouldn’t you love to watch traders get beaten? (Blogging Stocks)

I’ve long been campaigning (lamenting to people with no authority or pull, whatsoever) in favor of the four-day work week. It obviously hasn’t happened…yet.

In the interest of idealists nationwide, each Friday I’m going to draft a list of how I could be better spending my time if I wasn’t confined to the office.

Because I am nothing, if not overly productive, during freedom time.

Strategically map out a TB route for Operation: One Free Taco? Nay, Many Free Taco day

Come up with less creepier packaging for broccoli

Deliver a far creepier monologue on the bus

Graffitying (sp.) the street

Answer all that pesky fan mail

See like 10 bands per hour, all day, for free

Add top Zombie flicks to my Netflix cue

Track down Russian Bear vodka

Come up with a plan for how to not get myself (and fellow geeks) pranked on April Fool’s Day

Everywhere I go, with swagger (help raise the stats!)

Cat proof my apartment

Organize an anti-Palin 2012 (never too early) rally

Send out my latest round of Halloween Costume Suggestions fo’ the Ladies via email

Grab a pen and a pad, and start crafting lyrics for a Political rap album

Tweet justice will prevail! @Osama

Write the treatment (screw the whole script!) for the Lil Wayne biopic

Get in touch with the nerd vote, see if they want to back the Four Day Work Week platform