This Superbowl…
…seems really loooong to me. But then, I’m not a football fan. I went out to dinner with a friend, talked for hours, came back, and I see they’re just starting the fourth quarter. But now I’ve learned there was … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Baseball and sports
I just don’t care about Lance Armstrong’s confession
Though you might say, “well, why are you writing a post about it, then?” I never followed Armstrong’s career, although I certainly knew who he was and about the controversy that whirled around him; how could you follow the news … Continue reading →
Lance Armstrong’s guilt
So, what do you think about this? Was Lance Armstrong guilty, despite having passed a gazillion doping tests at the time? Is the testimony of former teammates under the following circumstances convincing enough?: Former Armstrong team mates at his U.S. … Continue reading →
One of Paul Ryan’s speechwriters…
…for his convention address was Matthew Scully, the same guy who wrote Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention. If I ever need to make a speech, I think I just might call that guy. Scully is … Continue reading →
Two Davids
There’s this: And then there’s this: ‘Nuff said.
Continue reading →Michael Phelps and pool hygiene
Olympian Michael Phelps pees in the pool. And he says everybody does it, too. But the survey from the WSJ article indicates that everybody doesn’t—or at least, they don’t own up to it, because 37.7% of respondents say they never … Continue reading →
Those athletic hips again
For all of you who were fascinated by our recent discussion of hip shape in female athletes, here’s some more research you can do. Of a serious scientific nature, of course. You may note in the photos (among other things … Continue reading →
Gymnasts’ bodies: form follows function
The bodies that excel in different sports are not randomly chosen, they are selected by the needs of the activity. One would never mistake a professional basketball player for a jockey (except maybe the highly unusual Spud Webb, and at … Continue reading →
A different kind of diet
And speaking of diets (which we were)… If you’re an elite endurance athlete, you’ve got to pack in those calories—up to 6,000 a day—if you don’t want to start dropping too much weight while you’re training. That may sound like … Continue reading →
Outrageous: the 1972 Munich massacre
This year will mark the 40th anniversary the Olympics’ darkest day, and one of the darkest in the history of the struggle against terrorism: the massacre of Israeli athletes at the hands of Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972. But, … Continue reading →
Time (and the Olympics) marches on: Comaneci is 50
It’s Olympics time again. I used to be a big fan, but in recent decades I’ve hardly paid attention. The hype is too big, the athletes too interchangeable. But I came across this clip of Nadia Comaneci, the star of … Continue reading →
Climb every mountain, ford every stream?
Tamae Watanabe, 73, has become the oldest woman to climb Mt. Everest. According to the article, this should be an inspiration to us all. My hat is off to Watanabe, but it makes me a bit weary. Now it’s not … Continue reading →