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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I watched Get Smart (Peter Segal, 200eight) and The Love Guru (Marco Schnabel, 200eight) over the weekend. I reviewed the latter for Filmthreat. Before I get to the Mike Myers bit, I’ll share some thoughts on the Steve-Hathaway snips.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I’m aware that [...]
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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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Une autre jour triste.
Tapped from Yahoo Sports:
Click here for the full picture.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
Click here to see an interview with Jim McKay where he talks about covering Olympic games from the 60s and on.
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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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Posted in Films, Football, Other sports, tagged Adam Sandler, Longest Yard, Necessary Roughness, Second String, Sports Night, Waterboy, Wildcats, Youngblood on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sitting Pugs will be celebrating its one year of existence on June Seventh. I had fully planned to include a gondola-full of entries on sports movies. Alas, poor Yorick, I’ve had to go back to the optometrist to get my left eye re-tested. I had to return one set of frames too–they weren’t comfortable. I [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Football, Other, Other sports, tagged Atlanta Falcons, Eight Belles, Georgia Tech baseball, Kentucky Derby, Michael Boley, Michael Hutts, Thomas Dimitroff on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After perusing the web site of my local NBC station, 11alive, I’ve pulled some sample sizes for you to try–and no caloric restriction required to slip into it!
Three French Kisses:
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up.
In an interview with [...]
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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, 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 Films, Football, Other, Other sports, tagged boxing, brawling, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Doomsday, mixed martial arts, Never Back Down, Sean Faris on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I spent my Saturday watching Doomsday and Never Back Down. I reviewed the former for Film Threat.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
Judging from the likes of “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent”, writer-director Neil Marshall has an affinity towards examining the interplay between Darwinian survival and the crumbling of humanity in times of extreme [...]
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