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 »
….or not.
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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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The fruit of a random jaunt through youtube.
第 一
South Asian Thriller (re-interpreted as you’ll see):
I found three different uploads of this video, I’m embedding this particular one because the ytuber put “subtitles” on the bottom of the video. Not the lyrics translated into English, mind you, but rather what the original sounds like to [...]
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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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Cause rainy day.
A blackberry aperitif from Yahoo news:
Breakdance pioneer dies in NYC
By ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost, a hip-hop pioneer whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 movie “Flashdance” helped set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44.
Frost died Thursday [...]
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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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Wail. Today is Justin Timberlake’s 27th birthday—and mine was on Tuesday. Ha! Oui. I take pride in being forty-eight hours older.
I know the following assessment of How She Move (filmed in Canada) is not as thorough as I indicated it would be, but if i waited until my corporeality stopped misbehaving and acquiesced [...]
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…to be prim and proper.
Or, How She Move. Directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid and written by Annmarie Morais, this dance film can be most conveniently described as a gender-reversal of Stomp the Yard, minus the near exclusive focus on stepping. Mais, je crois que cette pensee est trop…facile? sans l’inspiration.
Sorry. There I go [...]
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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 Dance, Football, Other sports, tagged Army, Ballet, boxing, emotions, fencing, figure skating, Football, John Feinstein, martial arts, Navy, Notre Dame, Ronnie McAda, sports on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
…but don’t get so emotional, baby.
I’m just about halfway through reading John Feinstein’s book on the Army-Navy rivalry. While recounting the game between Army and Notre Dame in 1995–the one primarily quarterbacked by junior Ronnie McAda and where a successful two-point conversion in the bottom of the fourth quarter would’ve given Army a 29-28 [...]
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I was doing some googling and came across an article about Joffrey Ballet ballerina Julianne Kepley. Apparently she’s going to the San Francisco Ballet. Read all about it here at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Julianne Kepley danced with the Atlanta Ballet for nearly a decade before joining the Joffrey Ballet in 2002. I had probably seen every [...]
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