Nick Casiello knows a good idea when he sees it. After all, he’s had his fair share of them over the past few years reports the Naperville Sun. About 13 years ago, the Naperville resident invented the Gotcha, a small hand-held disk with a nylon pull string that measures the distance of a golf ball […]
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George Nissen, inventor of the trampoline, died on April 7 at 96, but not before the acrobatics he first tried on the “bouncing rig” he built as a 16-year-old in 1930 (a canvas sheet stretched across a steel frame) became an Olympic event. Nissen was 86 and still capable of executing somersaults on his invention
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Rhonda Abrams over at Gannett has an interesting take on baseball and business. I like that baseball has history and promise. Strategy and sacrifice. Tradition and surprise. (Who the heck are half the players in the line-up?) Baseball is a sport of statistics. On Opening Day, every team’s record is perfect. The whole season is
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Jill Cakert says girls softball changed her life. Cakert, 52, is now an assistant coach of the Atlantic City High School varsity girls softball team. One thing Cakert didn’t like about coaching softball was hollering across the field to instruct her players, which caused her to lose her voice when her team participated in multiple-game
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According to a story at USA TODAY, coaches aren’t the only ones making money off the rising tide of their salaries. Winthrop Intelligence is a year-old company that uses open-records requests to create a database of what every Division I head coach and assistant in every men’s and women’s sport at every public college is
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According to a story in BusinessWeek, in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Shaun White’s incredible snowboarding performance stands out. Shaun had already won the Gold Medal before he did his final jump. Even his coach told him: “Shaun, we have achieved what we came here for. You can take it easy now.” What did White
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The Otago Daily Times is reporting that a Wanaka entrepreneur’s snow-grooming invention will be shaping park features at two of the resort’s skifields this winter, after gaining valuable exposure from the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Development Snowparks director John Melville’s “Global Cutter” invention – a custom-designed and laser-guided halfpipe shaper – was released on
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Editor note: The NCAA is streaming all the games free online at ncaa.com. Sweet 16! Photo by Fast Company.
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CNNMoney reports that it may not be a gold medal, but don’t underestimate the importance of this little piece of neckwear at the Olympic Games. Every athlete and visitor at the Olympics will be hanging tight to their lanyard and the credentials it carries. Chums, a lanyard-maker based in Hurricane, Utah, sold about 10,000 lanyards
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Ralph Blanchard’s putt left a lot of room for improvement. When he tried to look for something that would help him improve his putt he was left feeling like it simply was not enough. After talking with fellow golfers about his situation he soon found that he was not alone, reports Florida Today. That spurred
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