Knowing how to ice is important, but there are a few places on your body where you have to be a little more careful about how you go about icing yourself. Specifically, you never want to apply ice directly to your eyeballs or to testicles. You also do not want to follow the 20 minute…
The NFL has a deal with Nike, Reebok, and Under Armour that allows NFL players to wear clothing with visible logos only if it belongs to one of those three companies. Reggie Bush has a huge contract with Adidas now, and was fined in the preseason for wearing their cleats. Sunday rolled around, and there…
I read an article at The Sports Economist that discusses the ticket prices for infants at college football games. The problem comes from schools charging a full ticket price for infants, because even if they are sitting in their parents laps they usually have enough gear with them to take up a seat and it…
Breaking Away is a dated movie. It reeks of the 70s. Not that that is a bad thing, but I don’t think that it really translates very well for younger folk. Maybe the younger folk will watch it and disagree with me. The basic story is about a kid who graduates from high school and…
The Dan Cardillo Memorial 5k was this morning in Falmouth, Maine. Dirigo racing club swept the field with the first five finishers. Ethan Hemphill won the race in 15:39, followed a minute later by Josh Zolla and Bill Mariski. Blaine Moore and Rob Fast were not far behind. Sheri Piers ran a 24 second course…
Yesterday morning, the University of Southern Maine’s cross country team was on the way to a meet in Connecticut when a Dodge Stratus ran a red light and hit their bus. The accident happened in Scarborough after the Westbrook police chased the car through two red lights already. The car was totaled and both men…
The Portland Sea Dogs and the Trenton Thunder continued their playoff series last night in Portland, Maine. Hideki Matsui is still on rehab assignment to Trenton after breaking his wrist in May, but he was unable to bring another victory to the Thunder. The Sea Dogs won 5 to 4 despite a ninth inning attempt…
This week last year was centered almost entirely upon football, with the exception of my getting engaged and a tip on how to help yourself lose weight. Listed first but coming at the end of the week was my description of the best marathon training run ever, where I proposed to my wife after I…
Here are my picks for the first week’s games. I forgot to get this up yesterday, but I did have the Steelers picked to win. I thought that Miami was going to keep it close and figured that they had a good chance of taking it, but I wanted the Steelers to win so I…
The Pittsburgh Steelers have beaten the Miami Dolphins 28 to 17 in the opening game of the NFL season. I had cable television installed today at lunchtime, so I was able to watch the game at home this evening. Unfortunately, it looked like I was using rabbit ears. Hopefully they fix whatever that problem is…