O’Neil Bell knocks out Sebastian Rothman

O’Neil Bell knocked out Sebastian Rothman to retain the cruiserweight title. He had to fight dirty to do it, though. He knocked Rothman out cold in the 11th, but he had had points deducted for hits below the belt. Unsportsmanlike, in my book. Points do not...

Sea Dogs defeat Fishercats 5-2

The Portland Sea Dogs defeated the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 5-2 today at Hadlock Field in Portland. Portland has beaten NH 18 times this season and has not lost to them in the last 14 meetings. We had coupons from the Mother’s Day race that we kept forgetting...

Site Changes (Part II)

The changes to the site will probably happen this weekend or early this week after all. I have been playing with redirects and the like and have modified a migration script so that permalinks will still get you to the correct page. I just need to write a theme for the...

Kenenisa Bekele sets 10k world record

Kenenisa Bekele has cut about 3 seconds off his previous best to run a world record 10k in 26:17.53. “I had tried to beat the World record (5000m) in London but the pacemakers there were not too good, and in Hengelo (10,000m)I had to compete in bad weather....

Site Changes

The goal this weekend is to make a few changes to the website. They may or may not trickle to this blog for a few weeks. Basically, I am going to play around with WordPress and see if I can’t get that working (and eventually migrate everything over to that if I...