Posted in Ballet, Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Dance, Football, Other sports, tagged female athletes, gender studies, Michael Messner, Michael Sokolove, NPR, youth sports on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
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While I was on my way home tonight from a trip to Target and Fresh Market for Bounty napkins and hummus, I heard a news story on WABE 90.1, my local NPR station, about female athletes and injury. It was the Fresh Air segment and featured an interview with writer Michael Sokolove regarding [...]
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Allison Van Dusen of Forbes.com has the following to report about the top ten most dangerous sports:
The numbers show, surprisingly, that of all the activities you might participate in this summer, or throughout the rest of the year, basketball had the highest estimated number of injuries, with more than 529,000 during 2006, followed by bicycling, [...]
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Mr. Green Lawns and Motorized Carts and his misinformed (or mal-formed) perception of the popularity of hockey.
Click here for the Yahoo Sports story.
Speaking of the frozen cousin of futbol (with more equipment and propensity for increased amount of dental work), click here for a Yahoo Sports story (and highlights) on the recent nose-to-kneecap goings on [...]
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A continuation of Prose 2, also inspired by real events.
It had only been a month since the man showed up at Emily’s doorstep. What was supposed to be a belated but coveted reconciliation steadily aged into inklings of doubt and unease. That she responded, “not today” to each of the man’s invitations every [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Football, Other sports, tagged absinthe, BCS, cricket, czar Nicholas II, Demetrius Bell, Hrithik Rosan, Indian Premier League, IPL, Karl Malone, Kevin Curtis, Sharuk Khan on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Or should I have said “Cyber Trails to you.” At any rate, I took a little swim through the world of 1s and 0s this morning and put together a sampler for your senses:
Numero Un:
The Indian Premier League (a competition series for professional cricket in India) has cheerleaders. Read all about it here. [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Dance, Football, tagged 1958 NFL Championship, Atlanta Braves, Best Game Ever Played, Brayan Pena, Colts, Danity Kane, Draft, giants, Girlicious, Ian Thomsen, Jim Trotter, Mark Bowden, NFL, Pussycat Dolls, sports illustrated, Yunel Escobar on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I was at the Buckhead Barnes & Noble Friday night and saw the April 28th issue of Sports Illustrated.
In addition to Jim Trotter’s piece on the NFL Draft Preview, there are articles on American basketball and Russia, the 1958 NFL Championship game between the [then Baltimore] Colts and the New York Giants, and a sportspirational [...]
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Take a look:
Source: Yahoo. Click here to see the rest of the right side.
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I’m sure you’ve seen that Vogue cover with Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. When I glimpsed it on the newsstands, I thought to meself, “Eee. That’s the worst Vogue cover ever.”
From compositional and aesthetic levels, neither of them look good in it. Of all the photographs that were taken, why did the [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Football, Other, Other sports, tagged Duck Hunt, Henry Jenkins, MMORGP, Nintendo NES, Pixel Love, Super Mario Brothers, video games on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I think video-game playing is a spectator sport. I was obsessed with Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo NES, the one that came with Duck Hunt) when I was younger, but as I got older, I became more interested in watching than participating (with the exception of Tetris, which I was addicted to during college).
Given cheat codes [...]
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Posted in Ballet, Basketball, Dance, Films, Other sports, tagged Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Andre Benjamin, Atlanta Falcons, Ben Hartsock, Chris Redman, Eric Bana, Henry VIII, Leap Day, Leap Year, Michael Turner, Semi-Pro, The Other Boleyn Girl, Von Hutchins, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Every four years February has a twenty-ninth day, giving it the distinction of being called a “leap year.” Leap Weekend 2008 started off with pure energy for me.
But First: In some Atlanta Falcons news, Chris Redman will return as a quarterback in the fall. Running back Michael Turner will know just how [...]
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