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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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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This afternoon around 2pm East Coast time, Sitting Pugs had a total of 9,979 hits. When I came back home in the early evening, around 6pm, that number vaulted up to 10,036 hits. As of 8:44pm East Coast time, I have 10,068 hits.
Of course, other than a reader leaving a comment, I [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Football, Other sports, tagged Andy Lau, ESPN, Friday Night Lights, Glory Road, GQ, GQ Taiwan, Josh Luchas, Matthew McConaughey, NFL Cheerleaders, Tallegedega Nights, Tim McGraw, We Are Marshall on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I was at the bookstore in Chinatown today and saw the November 2007 of Taiwan GQ (No. 134). Hong Kong singer-actor Andy Lau graces the cover.
I picked it up, flipped through it and came across an image from the football biopickish We Are Marshall (McG, 2006). I did some quick scanning of [...]
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Posted in Cheerleading, Football, Other on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I was browsing one of my neighborhood Borders stores today and saw the new book from author Jeff Davis—Rozelle: Czar of the NFL.
The front and back cover design is pretty neat. The book’s spine is Rozelle’s smiling face and the back of the book is his other hand holding a football with “NFL” on [...]
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Piper Perabo landed her first starring role in a film called Coyote Ugly (David McNally, 2000) where she played a small town girl going to the Big Apple to pursue a career in songwriting. It takes a love sub-plot and a stint as a bartender, but she manages to get what she wants.
Incidentally, [...]
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