Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Athletes and Celebrities

Streetsblog Stalkerazzi Spots Tim Robbins on Two Wheels

By Brad Aaron | Jul 10, 2009 | 15 Comments

Here’s Tim Robbins, spotted today by Clarence Eckerson in Madison Square Park. Though The Rectifier looks none too pleased about being photographed by the bike paparazzi, we were assured that he waved after this snap was taken. Be a StreetStalker: Send us your celeb cycling shots.

The Opposite of Ad Nauseam: Farrah on a Bike

By Brad Aaron | Jun 26, 2009 | 5 Comments

It’s been a tumultuous week in more ways than one. We’re going to leave it behind with a flashback, via Cycelicious, to the late 1970s, when Farrah Fawcett pedaled to promote her own line of shampoo. What helmet could contain that hair? We couldn’t find video of Ed McMahon or Michael Jackson on a bike […]

Nothing Says Tranquility Like the Hum of a Huge Diesel Engine

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 25, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Mark Sanford scandal is a bit off topic for Streetsblog but Sean Roche at the Newton Streets & Sidewalks blog points us to this incredible passage from one of the e-mails between the South Carolina governor and his mistress in Argentina. Sanford writes: To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there […]

Tom Brady, and Baby Jack, Bike in Boston

By Brad Aaron | May 29, 2009 | 8 Comments

As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I’m pretty much required to hate Tom Brady. However, two Super Bowl wins in the last four seasons (that’d be six all told, but who’s counting?) have salved the wounds of those AFC championship losses at the hands of Brady in 2001 and 2004. And hey, the man rides a […]

Campaign Enlists Comedians to Curb Reckless Teen Driving

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Ad Council has some new material in its campaign aimed at teenage drivers. In these spots, a comedic actor (Fred Willard in the ad above) in the backseat of a car with three teens cajoles or threatens the driver into slowing down or minding the road. The gist of the campaign, corresponding with the […]

Tiki Barber Trades His Escalade for a MetroCard

By Brad Aaron | Nov 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

In a segment on NBC’s "Football Night in America" last night, the network’s NFL desk anchors and commentators were asked what they’ve done to "green their routines." While Jerome Bettis uses the cold setting for laundry and Keith Olbermann forgoes bottled water, Cris Collinsworth said he is walking to the studio every Sunday, and former […]

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