Brian Grey Blog

It’s rare that I have the time to read a sports section cover to cover, let alone the Sunday NY Times sports section. But I pulled the feat off today and it was great.

First, thanks NY Times for covering the Tour de France – without Lance (or any American) I had forgotten that the race was ending in Paris today!

Thanks also for Chris Lamb’s story about how a racial slur in 1938 added much needed pressure on baseball’s establishment to overturn the ban on black players. So much history and great story telling is embedded in sports.

A good piece about Bowie Kuhn’s and Walter O’Malley’s induction in to the Hall of Fame. My recollections of Kuhn was as him as the “old guy” I’d see handing out the World Series trophy drenched in champagne.

Speaking of the Hall of Fame, Sandomir reports that Cooperstown is giving Buck O’Neil a statue in the Hall -now they need to officially induct him and give him his plaque! (My favorite baseball memory is meeting and shaking O’Neil’s hand as we were walking out of Comiskey Park after the Home Run Derby at the 2003 All-Star Game)

And finally, an insightful piece about how Tom Coughlin changed his approach after the 2006 season – and the potential influence it had on the Giants’2007 Super Bowl run. I am a firm believer in how a positive but firm leader can greatly impact a team’s performance. Of course, having the other team’s cornerback let a game clinching interception go through his hands doesn’t hurt either!

I definitely need to make the Sunday NY Times sports section become a habit.

Incorporating the social graph aspect of LinkedIn in to The New York Times site (specifically in the Business and Technology sections) sounds like an intriguing concept. AlleyInsder.com gives couple examples of what the integration will provide for LinkedIn users.

Namely, a headlines module with articles targeted at users based on the industry they identify themselves with on the LinkedIn profile and the ability for LinkedIn members to use the share tool on story pages to share and discuss stories with LI users from their networks.

Now, if I could just find the integration on the Times’site!