This is a little tangential to the purpose of this column, but I wanted to give to give props to CBC's Bob Cole and Harry Neale, the voices of Canadian hockey for years. They are the Great White North's answer to Fox's Pat Summerall and John Madden, and truly seem to have the pulse of the nation, whether on the usual Hockey Night in Canada NHL broadcast or at myriad international competitions.
Kudos, gentlemen.
Xbox's snowboarding title, Amped, includes a corporate sponsor feature, where players can impress the sponsors with various tricks. In case you're not sure exactly what the feature is all about, they spell it out for you on the Xbox web site.
That's edutainment, dudes…
sportsBabel is a blog that critically examines the aesthetics, politics and poetics of sport and physical culture at the nexus of materiality, information and intellect. These are notes from an ongoing trajectory of research-creation and should be treated as such.
global+village+basketball is an internationally-networked game of pickup basketball that first took place on June 10, 2009. It is also part of a doctoral project by Sean Smith on networked sport and community politics. 
The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.
The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.
Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.
www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net
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