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Bag’s Take-Away:
After yesterday’s meltdown on the parallel bars, media industrial complex eats its young.
via NBC News
(photo: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images. caption: Gabrielle Douglas of the United States falls off the beam during the artistic women’s beam final at North Greenwich Arena.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
We were wondering when we’d see pictures of those Olympic rooftop anti-missile sites. They have corporate sponsorship also??
via NBC News
(credit: Jim Seida/NBC News caption: Protesters pass a surface-to-air missile site atop a water tower on a residential block in Bow Quarter, London, Saturday. This is one of six missile sites installed around London in case of a 9/11-style attack during the Olympic Games.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Shows how much the White House rides on popular culture.
via WhiteHouse.gov
(credit: Sonya N. Hebert/Official White House Photo caption: First Lady Michelle Obama is picked up by U.S. Olympic wrestler Elena Pirozhkova during a greet with Team USA Olympic athletes competing in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, at the U.S. Olympic Training Facility at the University of East London in London, England, July 27, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Artist pic of Dow “stadium wrap” Indians threatened Olympic boycott over. Dow Olympic sponsorship: £7 mil. Dow, parent of Union Carbide, of Bhopal fame. Sustainability being question now, also.
Main point, though: …Stadium wrap???
More.
(photo: AP Photo/Dow Chemical caption: Artists Impression of Stadium Wrap)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Didn’t go as planned.
The Olympic logo bears down on the residents of London looking far more like pieces of a chain link fence than symbols of international cooperation and brotherhood.
(credit: Kevin Coombs/Reuters caption: People pass by an artwork painted on a wall in East London depicting the Olympic rings which was created by a street art organisation called “The Toasters” April 18, 2012. The Toasters are releasing a limited edition screen print of the design to mark the 100 day point before the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
If you are svelte and sexualized, you will have no problems in life. However, if you’re just a regular gal in the stands, look out.
(credit: Jim Young/Reuters caption: Chicago Bulls’ Ronnie Brewer crashes to the floor during the first half of their NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat in Chicago.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
This is Ozzie Guillen on the Jumbotron apologizing to Miamians for the temerity of having an opinion they don’t like.
via Yahoo Sports
(credit: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images caption: MIAMI, FL - APRIL 10: Protesters rally outside as Miami Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen seen on a screen speaks during a press conference about comments made about Fidel Castro at Marlins Park on April 10, 2012 in Miami, Florida. The Marlins suspended Guillen for five games over his pro-Castro comments.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Anytime I’ve mentioned that I think basketball is closer to ballet than any sport, men laugh at me. But it is.
(credit: Jeff Haynes/Reuters caption: Kentucky Wildcats forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (L) falls while driving to the net on Kansas Jayhawks center Jeff Withey (5) and guard Elijah Johnson during the first half of their men’s NCAA Final Four championship game in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Thanks International Volleyball Federation! It’s really nice to know that Olympic athletes no longer have to dress like Vegas mud wrestlers to play beach volleyball. Quite a relief that women from countries with religious or cultural objections (see Rwandans above) can choose to expose less as opposed to more of their bodies.
But when you look at the uniforms now accepted by the IVF, you really have to wonder how they got to the current uniforms to begin with and why women play a sport in costumes clearly aimed at men.
Read more: Spiking the …. Uniform? Women’s Olympic Volleyball Getting “More Flexible”
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Today’s Tebow-sanity … or, what passes for stained glass in the temple of the Jets.
(photo: Richard Perry/The New York Time caption: Tim Tebow, at the lectern, the New York Jets’ newly acquired backup quarterback, addressed his first news conference as a Jet at the team’s training center in Florham Park, N.J. He was traded to the Jets by the Denver Broncos, a team he guided to an American Football Conference West title last season.)
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