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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Love the Kansas City Chiefs? Well, you better not show your pride by standing.
Snatched a news story from Yahoo Sports concerning proper fan behavior (beyond being civil towards fellow fans…of either team).
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One Ga Tech sour note:
A cornerback cornered.
A couple unfortunate UGA Bulldogs helpings:
Two linemen are in trouble with the law.
UGA VI [...]
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Posted in Football, Other on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
….so life has given me pause at red lights and merging lanes. I swing my head right and left, amazed that the tar-pit buggy to my right doesn’t realize that it’s not going fast enough to move ahead of me and not nearly slow enough to get behind me. I have only two choices, [...]
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That’s Ginger ‘Soybean’ Rogers, the mascot for Sitting Pugs, on Atlanta Falcons quarterback Chris Redman.
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A couple of weeks ago, the rookies graced us with their presence at Perimeter Mall. Today, five of the veterans did the same. Linebacker Keith Brooking was supposed to be in the house as [...]
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It’s almost the end of regular football season and you’re the Buffalo Bills. You’ve just beaten the New York Giants 23 to 19 (probably) and are heading to the play-offs. To give the starting offense–especially quarterback Doug Flutie–low-impact to no-impact practices before (and possibly between) play-off games, you bring in a near-former NFL [...]
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A dozen years on the NFL; Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden decides to step off the field.
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Pic cred: google image search
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So my alma mater has no football team….neither did Georgia State University
until now.
Bill Curry has the honor of being the first pigskin coach there.
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Shock, shock, horror, horror.
Someone (or some ones) made off with Giants Super Bowl jewels!
Read the rest of the news piece here.
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Two peaches from NFL.com.
Michael Strahan readying the retiree wheels.
Cedric Benson loses some of that shimmer.
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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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