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Disney has begun showing full-length movies online, beginning with Finding Nemo, the studio said Tuesday.
It’s the first time Disney has done so, and it’s notable as such, but don’t confuse the move with a full-on YouTubization of the company. Each movie will only be available for a few days after they air on ABC’s Saturday-night TV show Wonderful World of Disney. Finding Nemo, for example, can be watched online through June 13, Disney said.
It’s free, but don’t expect a full-immersion cinema experience.
The movies are available through a “watch now” link on the upper-right side of the Disney.com Web site. I had to sit through an ad for Cocoa Pebbles cereal, then an equally high-fructose introductory Disney promotional video. And the window showing the movie is surrounded by an encrustation of further garish ads.
But ads clearly pay some of the bills here, and streaming video takes a lot of bandwidth and server horsepower, so I can’t complain too much. (Especially since my own paycheck comes from ad revenue.)
I didn’t see much in the way of Snow White-era classics on the schedule, but presumably this is just for openers:
• Monsters Inc. airs on ABC June 14 and is available online June 16-20.
• Haunted Mansion airs on TV June 28 and online June 30-July 4.
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is on TV July 5 and online July 7-11.
• Princess Diaries 2 is on TV July 12 and online July 14-18.
• Freaky Friday is on TV July 19 and online July 21-25.
• Peter Pan is on TV August 2 and online August 4-8.
Disney also is showing Camp Rock online on June 23.

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Fans spit at her, drivers talked behind her back and sports writers wrote columns about how her pocketbook would get in the way while she was driving.
It’s been 31 years since Janet Guthrie became the first woman to start at an Indianapolis 500, and the world has changed. For the second straight year, three women will be competing in this Sunday’s 500, and one of them, Danica Patrick, is considered the race’s star attraction after becoming the first woman to win an Indy Car race last month in Japan.
Although Guthrie feels proud about all that is happening for women in her sport, there is another emotion too, one that sometimes makes it difficult to watch the sport that once brought her so much purpose and joy.
“The first word that occurs to me is envy,” the 70-year-old Guthrie said in a phone interview earlier this week. “I certainly wish I had had the opportunity to drive for all the teams that Danica has, and in as many races as she has driven. I guess I should be grateful for the opportunity that I had. It is good to see a woman in that position be up front.”
Perhaps it is Patrick, Sarah Fisher and Milka Duno who need to feel grateful. Because if it weren’t for the spirit, competitive drive and curiosity of a young engineer on Long Island some 48 years ago, they might not be where they are today.
That’s right. Believe it or not, the seeds of women’s race car driving began in Farmingdale where Guthrie was working after recently graduating from the University of Michigan.
“I needed a car, and with my wonderful new salary of $125 a week, I bought a Jaguar,” she recalls with a laugh.
In her autobiography, “A Life Full Throttle,” Guthrie details how she began competing in hill climbs and other minor races around Long Island. She did all of her work on her own car, spending all her spare time in a rented barn. By 1972 she was involved in racing full time.

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The Orlando Sentinel
March Madness is here, and that means scores of employees will be calling in sick to watch the opening-round games of the men’s college basketball tournament. But if you have to work, or don’t have access to a TV, you can watch every game on your computer free. It’s also great if your local CBS station isn’t showing your favorite team. You must have a broadband Internet connection to use the service.
1. Go to ncaasports.com/mmod
2. Click on “Register Free,” fill out the required information and click “Submit.” Click the link to continue and bookmark the page in your Web browser.
3. When you want to watch a game live, return to the bookmarked page and select the game you want to watch. Because of high demand, you may have to wait in the “waiting room” before your game is displayed on the screen.
4. If you are watching games at work, the service has a great “Boss button” which you can press when your boss comes over to your desk. Hitting the button will replace the video feed with a spreadsheet. Keep in mind that some companies block access to this service and if that happens, start working on your cough.
5. You can sign up for the service at any time, but if you do it early, you should be able to snag a “VIP Pass.” One of these will get you access to the games faster than people with “General Admission” access.

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When ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi joined Gambo and Ash earlier in the week, he discussed why Arizona State should not be in the NCAA tournament.
He used a bunch of fancy statistics like the RPI, SOS and their non-conference SOS - which is exactly what is wrong with the NCAA Tournament selection process.
It has become too much about numbers and not using common sense.
Over the course of an NCAA season you can watch a lot of college basketball. I haven’t watched every team that is on the bubble, but I have watched a decent amount of programs play throughout the season. I’m not sure how many teams the members of the NCAA Committee have watched, but if they have taken in a couple ASU games, it would seem obvious that the Sun Devils should be apart of the 65 team field.
Here is a look at the Sun Devils resume and some teams competing with them:
ASU went .500 in the toughest conference in the country prior to the Pac-10 Tournament. The Sun Devils a solid non-conference win against Xavier and a bad loss against Illinois on a neutral court, but did not play for two weeks before that game. If injuries are taken into account, why not a team being rusty in their first game of the season? They swept Arizona, split with Oregon and beat Stanford and USC at home. A win against UCLA or Washington State would have clinched a spot for them, but their resume is still good enough to get in between an 8-12 seed.

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