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A college football fan beats a drum as he attends the 2012 Fiesta Bowl between the Stanford Cardinal and the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Glendale, Ariz. on Jan. 2.
(photo by Rick Scuteri / Reuters via NBC Sports)
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Jan10
May27
Nice video from the NYT about the crossover. Interviews with some of the best to ever do it in the NBA along with clips of people getting their ankles broken.
The Crossover on Display
The crossover is one of the most lethal offensive moves in the N.B.A. Miami’s Dwyane Wade found inspiration for his version from players like Allen Iverson and Tim Hardaway.
(via The New York Times)
Feb7
Participants throw balls as 2,012 students compete in a game of dodge ball at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada on Friday, Feb. 4. The game attempted to eclipse the current Guinness World Record, which was set by just over 1,700 students at UC Irvine last September (John Ulan / The Canadian Press via AP).
Jan7
Chrissie Wellington interview: The iron lady | Sport | The Observer→
She came out of pretty much nowhere, won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii on her first try and then started destroying records and the competition.
She has no sense of embarrassment either. She will regularly greet her boyfriend after a training session, her face whitened with dried-up dribble. “If you’ve got time to wipe away the dribble then you’re not working hard enough,” she says. She thinks nothing of stopping on the roadside in the middle of a race, whipping down her shorts and going to the toilet. “You lose all sense of modesty because a lot happens to your body during the eight or so hours it takes to do an ironman,” she says. “I’ve done diarrhoea in my shorts and left it trickling down my leg, but I’ve never been one to be ashamed of that kind of thing.” On her blog she cheerily apologises to the cyclists caught behind her for the “six pees” she did as she went. “If you do it on a downhill,” she says, “you don’t make too many friends.”
Nov8
Not many people noticed a slight change on the George Washington University website earlier this year. It concerned a player on the school’s women’s basketball team named Kay-Kay Allums. Just a couple letters were taken away, a Y was moved and an E was added to form the player’s new name: Kye Allums. To most people it was meaningless, but to Allums the change was the most significant of his lifetime…
…On Nov. 13, Kye Allums will introduce himself to the NCAA basketball world at the Best Buy Classic in Minneapolis in a game against the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. When he steps foot on the court, Allums will be the first publicly transgender person to play NCAA Div. 1 college basketball.
(via outsports.com)
Nov1
Hockey’s Most Decorated - Slide Show
Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins in May 1978.
The first decorated mask belonged to Bruins goalie Cheevers, who drew stitches on all of the places he was struck in the face. The first were drawn by the Bruins’ trainer, Frosty Forristall, after a practice in 1968. So resonant was this mask that it inspired the punk band Chixdiggit’s 1996 paean to lost love, “(I Feel Like) Gerry Cheevers (I Got Stitch Marks on My Heart).”
(photo by Associated Press via NYTimes.com)
Oct25
Monks. Basketball. Motorcycles.
A picture made available 25 October 2010 shows lamas playing basketball on a basketball ground built by the government some two kilometers away from the monastery in Jiuzhi county, Qinghai province, China, 23 October 2010. Five lamas of the Longge Monastery have formed a team and sometimes can have a match against local herdsmen (EPA).
(via Photoblog)
Oct16
A Hunting Competition That Even a Deer Can Love
Armed with bolt-action 20-gauge shotguns mounted with digital scopes developed for military training, each hunter was given five blank shells a day. Each night, he returned the empty shells and firearm to tournament officials, who removed a memory card from the $1,200 scope. The 10-second video clips on the card were used to determine the most skillful hunter…
…The series is the latest example of technology transforming a traditional sport. Just as some baseball and football players are turning to advanced imaging technology to improve efficiency and performance, deer hunters can now in theory practice in the field without risk of maiming an animal or running afoul of game laws…
…Digital rifle scopes, Koch said, can enable hunters to track their prey out of season and help children build a solid foundation in ethical hunting, a component of which is to kill an animal as quickly and painlessly as possible.
(via NYTimes.com)
Oct12
It’s not hard [to donate] in that you want to help people down the road,” [New England Revolution forward Taylor] Twellman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “But it is hard since they want your brain because it’s been damaged.
Oct11
Hokies right guard lost part of finger, played on→
The school says Nosal lost the finger tip when it got caught between two helmets in the first half Saturday against Central Michigan. After a brief search, team doctors found the severed piece inside his glove and determined that it could be reattached.
They gave 6-foot-6, 293-pound redshirt junior the option to do it right then or have the tip put on ice.
He chose going back in the game, received some pain medication and went back in.
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