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iPod tops ESPN's list of "Favorite Things of the Year"

Is there anyone out there who doesn't love the iPod these days? In what could end up being the biggest case of contagious bandwagoning since wearing flannel shirts and forgetting to wash ones hair, ESPN is just the latest in a growing list of entities, most of whom have no connection with the computer or electronics industries whatsoever, to lavish praise (and drool) on the iPod. Why a sports television network would feel compelled to publish a favorites list that has nothing to do with sports or television in the first place, that will be left for readers to ponder.

But for whatever it is or isn't worth, ESPN's "Favorite Things of the Year" includes the 40 GB iPod at the top of tech gizmos category:

"Here's the quandary: Drop crazy coin for 10,000-song capacity or go cheaper for less memory space? If you want to look as cool as everyone else on the street without paying so much, go for the 2,500-song, 10 GB model ($299). If you want to download your entire CD collection on the thing, go big."

So my question is, who's going to come out of left field and endorse the iPod next...Al Gore? Oh wait, he's already on Apple's Board of Directors as it is. Whatever. If you want to take a took at ESPN's full list, you can find it here.

On a side note, ESPN just so happens to be a subsidiary of Disney, so this PROVES, once and for all, that Disney is buying Apple and Pixar! Or it could just be that ESPN.com's editor loves his iPod. Readers can be the judge. ;)

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