by Minter Dial | May 18, 2008 | Politics, Sports, Travel
I recently experienced first hand the consequences of bad diplomatic blood between the USA and Brazil. It’s a case of fingerprinting turned into finger-pointing…gone wrong. In short, the Brazilian Consulate did everything it could to delay my visa which...
by Minter Dial | May 16, 2008 | Sports
Feeling penned in, Philadelphia Flies the Coop to live another day…winning Conference Final Game 4 by 4-2 The Philadelphia Flyers have had a great 2008 season when all is said and done and, regardless of the outcome of game 5 in Pittsburgh (the chances of a...
by Minter Dial | May 12, 2008 | Branding, Marketing, Sports
I had a marvelous marketing moment recently. I was walking down the Champs Elysées and, having just flown and enormously enjoyed Emirates Airline, I saw a photograph [left] on this storefront of a Paris St-Germain (PSG) football player wearing his uniform emblazoned...
by Minter Dial | May 4, 2008 | Sports
Well, it’s time I fessed up. Our Philadelphia Flyers bullied the Montreal Canadiens 6-4 (in Montreal) in Game 5, enough to win a convincing Conference Semi-Final playoff by 4 games to 1. My prediction had been for a Habs victory in 6 or less games. Got that...
by Minter Dial | May 2, 2008 | Sports, Travel
Our visit to Dubai for family holidays Rarely does one get a chance to see a city in the making, especially if you have lived all your life in “old” Europe and/or the East Coast of America. For those in the Shanghai’s of the world, it is perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Apr 24, 2008 | Sports
As is frequently the case, in the big games, it is all about creating your ‘luck’. But in sports fan-dom (sitting in your canapé or reading BBC.co.uk, etc), you win some and you lose fun (oops, I meant ‘some’). The Reds of Liverpool (my team in...
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