Maybe some of it will rub off.

Let’s hit it!

 

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Amazon. I bought my one-year-old a Dot because he already knows who Alexa is.

 

The roundup:

The Philly Business Journal recognizes the Sixers’ practice facility as a key transformation in the region. The region of Camden.

 

Pistachio girl was hanging out with that Neo-Nazi who got punched in the fucking face:

Still can’t decide if Pistachio Girl is sexy. I mean, she looks nuts and stuff, but there’s something I just can’t put my finger on.

 

A new technology is being added to FOX’s Super Bowl coverage:

The biggest upgrade to the FOX broadcast feed this year comes courtesy of Intel. The Silicon-Valley tech company aims to provide as many as two dozen player’s eye view clips from the game, a feature called “Be the Player.” The feature, based on its 360 Replay technology, models the real world so that virtual views from any location can be generated.

“Now you are able to do something that fans have always wanted to do,” says Jeff Hopper, general manager of strategy and marketing for the Intel Sports Group. “We’ll be able to position this virtual camera view in a way where it looks like you’re seeing what the player saw.”

Intel has installed 38 5K cameras high above the field at NRG Stadium in Houston, bolted onto the building’s metal structure. Pointed downwards, these cameras operate more like sensors, feeding visual data back to a rack of servers elsewhere inside the stadium. Working together, those servers can digitally reconstruct the 3D world of the game, representing real objects using 3D pixels, known as voxels. To reduce the data processing load—around one terabyte for a 15 to 30 second clip—during a game many of the features inside the stadium, including the field itself, are pre-rendered by the servers. Only moving objects like the players need to be added in real time.

OK, this sounds awesome and like the sort of thing that could be used to make incredible video games.

 

ESPN is cancelling The Sports Reporters:

ESPN will replace The Sports Reporters with an hour-long version of E:60, its long-running sports journalism magazine show. Outside The Lines is also expected to have a role in that show.

No panelist appeared on the show more than Mike Lupica, who is serving as the current host. Other sports media members who often took up residency included Mitch Albom, Bob Ryan, William C. Rhoden, the late Bryan Burwell, John Feinstein, and Bill Conlin, the disgraced Philadelphia columnist sports columnist who was accused of molesting children as far back as the 1970s prior to his death in 2014.

I always hated The Sports Reporters. It was almost as much of a buzzkill as The Sunday Conversation when I was little. But I get why it was such a long-running institution. Still, it’s run its course and was a fossil of sports coverage– old guys giving their hot sports takes under the guise of professionalism. Sports reporters giving entirely too serious opinions on a subject that isn’t actually that serious. Cool.

 

https://twitter.com/WalkWithLyle/status/822060125187964928

I feel like we know.

 

Here’s the guy who is the voice of Mario.

 

This guy tracked down cheaters in Philly marathon qualifiers.
Real? Not? Do we even care anymore?

https://youtu.be/yjHTvLdfCWs

 

It’s gotta be hard for your son to be your own personal bad take exposer:

https://twitter.com/SpikeEskin/status/823318924611776513

 

Weekend zip-up:

 

David Gambacourta takes a look at the different paths Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons took to become Sixers.

 

Matt Mullin compared this year’s Sixers to the pre-WS surging Phillies.

 

Sixers legend Raja Bell gave the Sixers a ten percent chance of making the playoffs.

 

The Wall Street Journal says the Sixers might finally be a real team again. The Wall Street Journal?

 

Roger Goodell must be so mad.

 

Kacie McDonnell swingin bats.

 

Johnny Manziel was only at the AFC Championship in Patriots gear because he couldn’t get to the NFC Championship.

 

LOL the Lakers.

 

New Star Wars movie:

 

Podcast:

Airing of Grievances with Josh Innes:

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The Stepover Episode 17 talks winnable games, Brett Brown criticisms (before the Cavs loss), and some fun Joel Embiid stats:

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