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Toppidrett og grønne spørsmål

Toppidretten i Norge har i mange år vært fullstendig fraværende i grønne/energi og klimaspørsmål. Mitt enkle spørsmål er hvorfor? Et at de siste årenes engasjement er Earth Hour, hovedsaklig utviklet av Trigger Oslo for IKEA (så da teller den vel egentlig ikke??) – særlig når Egil Olsen egentlig ikke fikk lov til å delta fra Norges Fotballforbund…
Det er mulig jeg ikke har lest på – men jeg leter forgjeves etter tiltak fra NIF/NOK – igjen blir spørsmålet, hvorfor bryr seg ikke toppidretten i Norge om miljø- og klimaspørsmål?

Norges Golfforbund er en av de som aktivt engasjerer seg i miljø, men da omhandler det mer hva/hvordan man bygger golfbaner, og ikke i forhold til toppidrett. Norges Skiforbund gjør noe tilsvarende, direkte rettet mot SKi-VM i Holmenkollen. Hvorfor følger man ikke opp?

Som så ofte har amerikanere mange gode ideer på hvordan man engasjerer seg i kampen for klima. Fra det jeg har funnet ut er baseball laget Houston Astros de som ligger lengst frem, i noe de kaller Astros Play Green. Her er en video som beskriver casen. Som samarbeidspartner bruker man NRDC – Natural Resources Defense Council, en av USA største miljvernorganisasjoner med 1.3 milloner medlemmer. Sammen setter de standarder for hvordan de profesjonelle baseball lagene i Major League Baseball skal bedrive idrett mest mulig miljømessig.

Tenk om vi kunne få sett noe tilsvarende fra Norges Håndball eller Fotballforbund. Slik gjør man de rette miljømessige tiltakene for å se på kamp og samtidig bidra til miljøet? Se bare på dette eksempelet på hvordan man løste det under årets All Star Game i Arizona.

Derfor sender jeg nå en oppfordring til norsk toppidrett – nå kan dere ikke lenge lukke øynene og gi f** i klima- og miljøspørsmål, det er på tide å ta sitt ansvar!

Hva er dine første to sider på iPhone

Etter mye tvil har jeg også har konvertert til iPhone tenkte jeg gjøre en meget uformell spørreundersøkelse, hvilke apps er det folk faktisk bruker. Jeg har pr idag fire sider som jeg bruker, laster opp apps og fjerner, men de to første sidene blir de som jeg bruker særdeles mest.

Her er mine to første sider med litt kommentarer:

Første siden er vel ganske så selvfølgelig synes jeg, alt i god sosial medieånd, at Shazam ligger der skyldes datteren som hører veldig mye musikk på radion og hun vil jo vite hva det er. Tweetie 2 er den beste Twitter-klienten mener jeg

På side 2 har vi noen litt mer spesielle ting: MLB at Bat er en helt fantastisk app hvis man er interessert i baseball og her mener jeg at både NRK og TV2 kan hente litt ideer hvordan man syr dette sammen. SnapDat funker helt strålende for utveksling av informasjon som visittkort osv. PS Mobile er Photoshop Light, ordner bildene du tar på 1-2-3. PGA Golf er til for de som liker å følge med på hva som skjer på golffronten, finnes f.ø en flott app for helgens Masters i Augusta. Matprat og Matglede er to norske gode apps for oppskrifter. SVTPlay er svensk television som har gjort en super app, her finnes det fantastisk mye morsomt å se på! Og til sist, MLB WS 2009 mener jeg er den beste sportspillet, baseball. Men skal vel innrømme at RockBand kommer faretruende sterkt,,,,

Så, spørmålet gjenstår, hva bruker du??

A new baseball season!

So, it’s time again – Major League Baseball has started again. So what will happen this year??
Athletics Baseball

To be honest, I don’t dare to guess, my guesses last year was so terrible, but some predictions entering the 2009 season:
New York Yankees will miss the postseason again, Red Sox and Rays will be strong! Rich Harden will win the Cy Young for the Cubs in National League, Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals will throw a no-hitter, Jason Giambi, Oakland Athletics, will hit 30 home runs, Pirates will for the first time in a decade have a + .500 record, and unfortunately, Red Sox will win World Series againt Mets.

Go A’s!

Money can’t buy everything, sometimes…

The Brazilian superstar Ricardo Kaka refused to go from Milan to Manchester City,despite The Premier League club’s audacious bid to sign the Brazilian star in a £100million-plus deal.
He was happy where he is. Two points, his making a huge marketing impact as one of the few sports superstars saying no to a better bid (this wouldn’t happen in the US, referring to the free agent signings in Major League Baseball, and will getting an even better offer the next time he will available on the market – because he will go there!
But for the time being, my hat off!Kaka

Is really Oakland A’s trading for Matt Holiday?

The A’s are working to complete a trade with the Rockies that would bring Matt Holliday to Oakland. One of the sources said said reliever Huston Street, lefty starter Greg Smith and outfielder Carlos Gonzalez were among the players who had been discussed in recent days.
Why, beats me since it’s only a one year rental, Oakland can’t afford to keep, but as the owner Lew Wolff said in an interview: “f we can bring a little bit of hitting talent to our current team I think the pitchers won’t get as frustrated as they were late in the season,” Wolff told the gathering of sports editors. “You’re always rebuilding and regenerating. It’s fun. We want to win. I want to win. We’re going to try to be there again if we can.”

Phillies win the World Series

The Philadelphia Phillies just won World Series. If that sounds strange, it was strange. Nearly 50 hours after Game 5 started but was stopped by rain, Brad Lidge and the Phillies finished off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in a three-inning sprint Wednesday night and won the series 4-1.

Left in limbo by a two-day storm, the Phillies seesawed to their first championship since 1980. Pedro Feliz singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh and Lidge closed out his perfect season to deliver the title Phillies craved for so long.
It was among the wackiest endings in baseball history, a best-of-seven series turned into a best-of-3 1/2 showdown when play resumed in the bottom of the sixth inning tied at 2.

Tampa Bay did itself proud, too, until this final week. Baseball’s best success story this season, the worst-to-first Rays played like the Devil Rays from the past decade.

And I was the one thought Rays would come out on top…

Small things in life happens

Norges Bank announced it was cutting another half-point off its key rate. That brings it down to 4.75 percent, and means that rates have dropped by a full point since earlier this month, the snow is falling and I won the bet on which day the first snow will fall, World Series is postponed because of rain, and a bankrupt Sterling put all it’s planes on the ground. What can you say, it’s just another Wednesday!

Tampa Bay Rays to the World Series

The doubts have smothered the Tampa Bay Rays all season. From arduous games to demanding tests, the Rays were expected to fade away. Sooner or later, the inspirational Rays would go home. But the Rays are not going home after all. They are going to the World Series.

By advancing to the World Series, the Rays are engineering one of the best worst-to-first stories in baseball history. Only the 1991 Braves lost more games in the season before they shockingly rushed into the World Series. The Braves lost 97 games in 1990, one more than the Rays lost a year ago.

If the Rays had lost Game 7, the number seven would have haunted them in the off-season. The Rays had a 7-0 lead in Game 5 and were seven outs away from clinching the ALCS But the Red Sox scored eight runs to win, then won Game 6, too. Since the Rays avoided a collapse and prevailed in Game 7, it is a lucky number for them now.

Playing Philadelphia Phillies, this could be an epic World Series, two teams playing good baseball. First game tonight folks. This is the way it’s done:Rays goes to the World Series

Some predictions about sports!

It’s time for football and baseball, and everybody who’s kinda’ into it always guess champions and so forth; so ok, here is my pick for the closest ones:

Tippeligaen Norway:

Champions 2008: Brann
(maybe not a surprise pick for those who knows me, but in this matter, there is no doubt, they have the best squad to create yet another successful season)
Runner up: Rosenborg
3rd: Viking

Allsvenskan Sweden:
Champions 2008: Malmø FF (I think it’s their year)
Runner up: IFK Gøteborg
3rd: AIK (I wish gold, but it’s gonna’ be a tough ride at the end of the season, that’s why not gold!)

Major League Baseball:

  • AL East: Red Sox, AL Central: Tigers, AL West: Angels, AL Wild Card: Blue Jays
    NL East: Mets, NL Central: Brewers, NL West: Padres, NL Wild Cars: Cubs
    AL Champions: Tigers over Red Sox
    NL Champions: Mets over Cubs
    World Series: Mets over Tigers (six games)

    • And finally, here is a video of this years best pitcher; Rich Harden:
    Rich Harden, Oakland A\'s – this years Cy Young winner

    Predictions on Major League Baseball

    Since everybody is having a lot of ideas of who’s winning who, so here is my idea:

    AL East:
    Yankees,

    AL Central:
    Twins

    AL West:
    Athletics

    AL Wild Card:
    Tigers

    NL East:
    Mets

    NL Central:
    Brewers

    NL West:
    Dodgers

    NL Wild Card:
    Diamondbacks

    AL Champion:
    Twins over Athletics

    NL Champion:
    Dodgers over Diamondbacks

    World Series:
    Dodgers over Twins

    AL MVP:
    Alex Rodriguez, Yankees

    AL Cy Young:
    Rich Harden, A’s

    NL MVP:
    Miguel Cabrera, Marlins

    NL Cy Young:
    Ben Sheets, Brewers