Month: May 2007

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Chicago 2016 Sports

Chicago 2016 Olympics Update: Chi-town to host world amateur boxing championships

2016 Update

The International Amateur Boxing Association announced Thursday that Chicago would take Moscow’s place as the host city for this year’s amateur championships. Matches will be held from Oct. 17 to the final on Nov. 1.

Moscow was deselected because it didn’t live up to its committments, said AIBA, whatever that means. (Probably money or politics.)

“We know that Chicago has a great boxing tradition and we are excited about the opportunity of showcasing our sport in such an important American city,” AIBA president C.K. Wu said in a statement.

It could be a decent stage on which Chicago can show off its international feathers, and I have no doubt it will, but I think one event is about all anyone can handle.

But I suppose you never know.

(More information coming soon.)

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS ALERT: Read AIBA’s full statement here.

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Media news

Update: Dow Jones stock slips, keeps balance

After gains yesterday of more than $20 a share, the price of Dow Jones stock (Symbol: DJ) has fallen about 0.36 percent today. Early today, the losses were well over 1 percent, but that could have just been a reaction to Rupert Murdoch’s announcement yesterday.

As something of a non sequitur, here are excerpts from some of today’s editorials around the Web about the News Corp. bid.

I wonder if the price will level off fully or if it will stay around $55 a share. Perhaps Wall Street investors are wondering what Murdoch knows that they don’t.

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Chicago 2016

Chicago 2016 Olympics Update: Ald. Toni Preckwinkle to Olympic Village designers: ‘Start from scratch’

2016 Update

Toni Preckwinkle is no fan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill these days.

An article in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, reported by City Hall Reporter Fran Spielman, cites 4th Ward Alderman Preckwinkle’s furor over plans for the $1.1 million Olympic Village, slated to be built over a truck staging area at McCormick Place.

Said Preckwinkle, the proposed Village “looks like something dropped from outer space.”

Ouch. All joking aside, though, the alderman questioned the basic motivation of the architects, and in my opinion took a well-deserved shot at Chicago 2016 planners.

“I want it to be like a neighborhood. [What they’ve proposed] is sort of architectural egotism as opposed to a real neighborhood.”

Architectural egotism…sounds like a trend in Chicago these days…

(NOTE: Check out this graphic listing the proposed Olympic sites.)

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Site of the Day

Site of the Day: Kuler

If any of you are designing anything – a Web site, a magazine, a room, whatever – check out Kuler.

Created by Adobe, Kuler is a Web-hosted app (it’s linked to Creative Suite 3) that configures color schemes inside your browser. Basically, it’s an awesome site and worth bookmarking.

If anything, checking out Kuler online is cheaper than buying the full suite, which starts at about $1,200. Yowza!

Here’s a video about it.

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Media news

Changing world: Murdoch’s News Corp. bids $5B on Dow Jones

Imagine this: The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post could soon be controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

Page Six of WSJ...?

If Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. purchase Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal may get a bit racier. Here’s what it may look like (above)

According to a CNN Money article, News Corp. bid $5 billion today on Dow Jones, which isn’t up for sale.

Just think about the possibilities, though. Regular Page Six-style stories on the happenings of the hoity-toity. The possibilities are endless, as you can see in the picture. (Note: I haven’t yet installed Photoshop on my computer, so the image is really bad.)

Dow Jones – not surprisingly – employees are pissed. In a statement, the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (the union representing Dow Jones) said, “Mr. Murdoch has shown a willingness to crush quality and independence, and there is no reason to think he would handle Dow Jones or The Journal any differently.”

At least we know where they stand.

Let’s see what happens with this. I’m keeping an eye on this story.

(Disclaimer: Photo courtesy TribuneIndia.com, and it’s not a real story. I just used a random image of a stockbroker. So lay off, you lawyers out there.)