Long time readers will remember how the Zune Team played in a football futbol soccer tournament last year . A quick backstory: Each year, folks from E&D (Entertainment and Devices, the division of which Zune is a part) global sales/marketing folks in from all over the world come to Redmond, to talk strategy across the entire lineup. To kick off the week, a group of folks play in the tournament. This year, I reprised my role as a defender on the Zune team, Zune United: ( pictured from bottom left...

I've been in all day meetings the last few days, so the blog posting has been a little behind. Anyways, I've seen a good amount of speculation about a blue Zune - with lots of folks taking it with a grain of salt. That's a good call. In other news, I saw this and got a good chuckle. Reminds me of a line from the greatest movie ever made : "He's not just famous, he's INfamous!"

J Allard (my boss' boss' boss - what's up J!) has made good on a bet he lost with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal , resulting in. . . Read more about the bet here . In other rumors news, again, I re-iterate: We don't comment on rumors and speculation - even on those rumors that come with a photoshopped image ;)

Saw this post and this thread on Zunerama and decided to take a break from the SXSW blogging to post it. From 'rama: Zunerama member scoutflyer reports that he was able to track down a friend's stolen Zune that way [by turning on wireless]. The stolen Zune was still in the school building, and by using his own Zune he was able to tell when he got close to the missing player. Fortunately the perpetrator had not turned wireless off, so the stolen Zune was still announcing its presence to other nearby...