Sonia Sotomayor, Image: Newscom

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated today to fill an empty seat, is on board with solving sports-related problems. In 1995, she helped to end the MLB strike. Her ruling against the owners effectively ended the strike, which lasted 232 days.

Sotomayor also was involved with the ruling that players must be out of high school for at least three years before they can be drafted or signed as a free agent. A lower court had previously allowed Ohio State runnng back Maurice Clarett to enter the draft, even though he hadn’t been out of high school three years yet.

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Supreme Court Nominee could Save the BCS

After browsing around the NBC Olympics website I got to noticing just how much screen real estate that Microsoft is gathering on the site. They’ve just about got every single corner of the page covered by one of their properties.

Good deal for them, and I’m sure NBC was pleased to get some sponsorship money to help with the giant bandwidth charges they’ll be seeing for the next few weeks.

Microsoft has got MSN, Hotmail, MSNBC and their own corporate website linked in from the homepage and every other page on the site.

The good news is that the Silverlight videos are all now working for me.

Good stuff!

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08.08.08 – Lucky Microsoft! Loads of Sponsorship Eyeballs