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Coach Kelly of Oregon has some really interesting approaches to football strategy that are backed up by innovative team practices, management, and communication. (N.Y. Times)

Very droll preview of all the World Cup teams (n+1 via Daring Fireball)

It’s sad that this wasn’t addressed before the death at Whistler. (N.Y.Times)

Very funny and on-target rant about yoga. My favorite is “yoga is not a sport.” In that spirit, I filed this post under “sport.” (Namaste Bitches Blog)

As soon as something fearful happens, you need to replay it in your mind and replace your fear with optimism for next time. (N.Y. Times)

There are lots of things you can do to prevent injury while skiing or boarding. Also, despite some well-publicized deaths, skiing is a low-fatality activity. (The greater danger is probably from obesity due to lack of exercise.) (N.Y. Times)

The Yankees long-term reinvestment in their team is, in part, what makes them great. They don’t let greed get in the way of spending a lot of money on their player’s payroll. The Steinbrenners understand that you have to spend money to make money. (Daring Fireball)

This lesson also applies to another story that Daring Fireball has followed for some time: newspapers. The greed that ran up the price of a lot of media properties in the past two decades—and saddled many of them with huge debts—made selling papers more important than writing them. (The tension between selling and writing was always there; it just was more balanced.) Many newspapers ended up shrinking their newsrooms and lowering the amount of locally-written content. Maybe not at first—but audiences noticed and are now moving on.