Having been banned from track and field for illegal doping, Justin Gatlin has started working out for different NFL teams over the past month. He has not played football since he was in high school. He has an appeal coming up early next year, but if he loses the appeal it would certainly help him [...]
Read More...This week does not have me real excited. Games start on Thursday on the NFL Network for the next few weeks. I think that New England, Indianapolis, Chicago, and New Orleans are pretty solid locks for the week. Oakland is going to do their best to keep from getting the first pick in the draft, [...]
Read More...In the gym today, I was doing some deadlift shrugs. It is a fairly simple compound exercise. You load a bar on the floor as you normally would with a deadlift: feet shoulder width apart, over hand grip, and your back in a natural arch. The only difference is that rather than stopping the deadlift [...]
Read More...Adeel at Complete Running wonders, “Is running a dying sport?” He argues that African domination has eroded American interest in running as a sport, and that it is only viable because of the participation factor. Coupled with changing economics rooted in non-competitive enjoyment, the future is at best uncertain for running as a sport. It [...]
Read More...In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about injuries for the month of November. This is the final article in the series. I will first explore why runners get injured, and then I will share some of the most common running injuries that you are likely to hear [...]
Read More...Thiago Olson, a high school cross country and track runner, created a fusion reactor in his basement in Oakland County, Michigan. In the basement of his parents’ Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren’t privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more [...]
Read More...Thanksgiving week last year was pretty slow. There was some random football news, but it is not really very relevant anymore. Although it was kind of funny that Jay Feeley missed so many field goals. I still believe that weighing yourself daily is not only a healthy thing to do but is also an important [...]
Read More...The New England Patriots are claiming that StubHub, an online ticket reseller, is circumventing Massachusett’s anti-scalping laws and the team’s own policies in regards to the resale of tickets to their games. They claim that the website does not inform their users that what they are doing is illegal and can lead to the Patriots [...]
Read More...This week starts early, with three Thanksgiving Day games. Do not forget to get your picks in in time, and to set your fantasy lineups. I did not think a lot about this week’s picks. Miami is going to have a strong late season, same as last year. I hate to do it, but I [...]
Read More...I have used the start of Winter as a time to recover from a long racing season. My racing season usually starts in late winter, peters out a bit after my Spring marathon, and then goes full bore through the Summer and until my Autumn marathon. After the Autumn marathon I give my legs a [...]
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