March 28, 2023

University of Iowa Libraries: Preserving Hawkeye sports history, one digitized film at a time

University of Iowa Libraries: Preserving Hawkeye sports history, one digitized film at a time. “The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archives and Conservation and Collections Care have an initiative to digitize about 530 films of football, men’s and women’s basketball, wrestling, and track films that date back to the 1930s and go through at least 1989. The films’ state of degradation is dramatic, especially for the older material, and many of these films don’t have much life left in them.”

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March 15, 2023

TouringCars.net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database

TouringCars .net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database. “TouringCars.Net is today (14 March) announcing the launch of the Touring Car Database, featuring one of the internet’s most comprehensive sources of tin-top history and information. Data spanning more than four decades, 263 seasons, 4,066 races, 3,477 drivers, 2,438 qualifying sessions and over 30,000 photographs (and counting) is included in the comprehensive dataset.” I wasn’t sure what touring cars were so I looked it up. As I understand it, touring cars are modified road-ready cars, as opposed to F1 cars and suchlike which are designed for racing.

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March 13, 2023

Scottish Football Association: Scottish FA celebrates 150th anniversary of the national game

Scottish Football Association: Scottish FA celebrates 150th anniversary of the national game. “The new digital archive holds the earliest records of Scottish football, giving a glimpse into the origins of the game in Scotland through Scottish FA minute books and Scottish FA annuals. Over 5800 pages of Scottish FA minute books (1879–1969), and 900 pages of Scottish FA annuals (1875–1900) will be accessible in the archive.”

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February 15, 2023

Golf Digest: Artist CR Obetz salvages the iconic drawings of illustrator Anthony Ravielli with 21st-century methods

Golf Digest: Artist CR Obetz salvages the iconic drawings of illustrator Anthony Ravielli with 21st-century methods . ” As an artist, Obetz’s general instinct is to search for the lost and forgotten, so he ignored the paintings on the main walls and ventured into the back room where he found boxes containing thousands of sketches, notes and scratchboards littering a billiards table. Among them, he recognized the sharp black pen of Anthony Ravielli and knew he had to rescue them.” There’s some NFT stuff in here and it’s partially promotional with Golf Digest, so I almost didn’t include it. But the art is so good.

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February 4, 2023

PRNewswire: OSDB Expands With Addition Of NHL To Its Sports Platform

PRNewswire: OSDB Expands With Addition Of NHL To Its Sports Platform (PRESS RELEASE). “Since its inception in 2021, complete rosters of NFL, MLB and NBA athletes have been available on the OSDB website. Now, NHL enthusiasts will finally have a place to view in-depth athlete profiles featuring personal interests, business ventures, charities, and career statistics, along with agent and management contact information.”

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January 15, 2023

UniWatch: More Research Leads to Incredibly Comprehensive St. Louis Cardinals Uni/Logo Database

UniWatch: More Research Leads to Incredibly Comprehensive St. Louis Cardinals Uni/Logo Database. “Oliver has now created an incredible online database (similar to the Gridiron Uniform Database or Dressed to the Nines), in which Oliver ‘redrew all our uniform models and reincorporated all of our new research,’ to create the most comprehensive collection of the logos and uniforms of the Cards!”

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January 11, 2023

Utah State University: USU Libraries Launches Digital Exhibit Exploring Title IX and the 1978 USU Volleyball Team

Utah State University: USU Libraries Launches Digital Exhibit Exploring Title IX and the 1978 USU Volleyball Team . “A co-curated exhibit between students from the Department of History and USU Libraries exploring women’s sports and the passage of Title IX was published last week. The exhibit, titled ‘National Champions! Title IX and the 1978 USU Volleyball Team,’ explores Utah State University’s first national championship through oral histories of the players.”

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January 9, 2023

POPEYES MEME KID: I’M A COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER!!! … Wants NIL Deal (TMZ)

TMZ: POPEYES MEME KID: I’M A COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER!!! … Wants NIL Deal. “Remember the TerRio look-alike who went viral for giving the side-eye at Popeyes??? That kid from the famous meme is now a college football player — and we’re all officially old. TMZ Sports has confirmed … Lake Erie College freshman offensive lineman Dieunerst Collin is, in fact, the little kid in the yellow shirt who became internet famous on now-defunct social media platform Vine back in the day.”

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January 8, 2023

Poynter: Misinformation is swirling online about COVID-19 vaccines and Damar Hamlin’s collapse

Poynter: Misinformation is swirling online about COVID-19 vaccines and Damar Hamlin’s collapse. “Hamlin tackled Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins during a Jan. 2 game at Paycor Stadium. As millions watched, Hamlin stood up after the hit and moments later fell to the ground. Social media users seized on the incident and used it to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines contributed to Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.”

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January 5, 2023

GP Today: FIA Creates E-Library To Preserve Its History

GP Today: FIA Creates E-Library To Preserve Its History. “In order to preserve its rich heritage for future generations, the FIA will digitise its archives, creating an e-library that will be accessible to all in 2024, when the FIA celebrates its 120th anniversary…. The e-library will combine the 120-year-old Motor Sport and Mobility databases, making these facts and figures searchable and comparable. It will be an important tool for the FIA University’s work and by making it public, it will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Motor Sport and Mobility.”

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