UnCommon Thinking

“Beyond Basketball”

Posted by Team UT on November 28th, 2008 Books

Many coaches and business leaders have written books meant to inspire their readers to become more successful in their jobs or daily lives, but rarely does the inspiration come across so sincere as from Coach K in his book “Beyond Basketball – Coach K’s Keywords For Success”. Coach K uses 40 words ranging from Balance to Ownership to Standards, and offers a combination of personal and basketball experiences to explain their meaning and takeaway through his eyes.

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Team UT on November 27th, 2008 UnCommon News

Team UT would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Team UT Sports Wrap

Posted by Team UT on November 24th, 2008 UnCommon News

Duke to 6-0:
Duke improved to 6-0 on the season with wins over Southern Illinois (83-58), Michigan (71-56), and Montana (78-58). They’ll be in action on Friday vs. Duquense at Cameron Indoor.

Annika Sorenstam

Posted by Team UT on November 23rd, 2008 Sports Marketing

Things didn’t go as planned this wknd for the greatest LPGA player of all-time. With only her 10th missed cut on Tour in 303 events, Annika Sorenstam’s LPGA career came to an end on Friday at the ADT Championship. She’ll play competitively two more times this year (Lexus Cup – as the Captain of the International squad held Nov. 28-30; Dubail Ladies Masters held Dec. 11-14), but for an athlete that did so much in the US for the game of golf it’s a shame her Tour, Sponsors, and the media haven’t given her a better send-off.

G N’ R – Dr. Pepper Miscue

Posted by Team UT on November 23rd, 2008 Advertising, Interactive

Back on Oct. 23rd we wrote about the Dr. Pepper promotion with the debut of the new Guns N’ Roses album – Chinese Democracy. Well today is the day everyone was supposed to be able to sign-up for their free Dr. Pepper, but when you got to the site and take the time to fill out the form you’ll see that the Dr. doesn’t have enough bandwidth to handle all their requests (we ck’d with 5 other people in different locations around the US, all with the same problem).

Blue Planet – Project Profile

Posted by Team UT on November 19th, 2008 Project Profiles, UnCommon News

With the start of the new college basketball season off and running now, we thought it would be a good time to profile the site we did for the Duke University Men’s Basketball team located at www.DukeBluePlanet.com. When the site launched in beta format last November it became the first dedicated site for a college basketball program (men or women).