I was reading an article in the Portland Forecaster yesterday about the Bike Shop in Kennedy Park. The owner, Matt Velguth, sells donated bikes to the local youths (aged 8 to 17) for $5, and bike parts for $1. He teaches them how to ride and how to maintain their bikes, and has group rides…
This morning I was at the gym working out (my “getting back into lifting shape” workout), and I saw somebody doing a bridge, which is a great workout exercise for your abs but which I do not have currently written into my workout. However, he was doing it on a swiss ball, which I had…
James Toney defeated John Ruiz for the heavyweight boxing title, but then he tested positive for steroids and Ruiz was given the win. Now, though, Ruiz is filing a lawsuit against Toney, claiming that he suffered financially despite being restored as the heavy weight champion. What I wonder is, why don’t they test before a…
Ty Willingham, former coach of Notre Dame and now the coach of the Washington Huskies, has decided to play the race card. He has basically claimed that the entire Notre Dame institution is racist. This has upset a few people.
It never seems to end, but once again Manny Ramirez wants to be traded. Or so the rumors go at any rate. Now they say that he won’t show for Spring training if they don’t trade him away. If it weren’t for that rather sizable committment to his pocketbook that could sour a deal from…
Theo Epstein is gone! How the hell did that happen? Oh yeah, Lucchino is still the president. Team owner John Henry should have gotten rid of Lucchino a long time ago. He badmouthed Nomar after getting rid of him, and he seems likely to be the source of the leak about contract negotiations that took…
This may seem obvious as a workout tip, but plan your workouts before starting. Figure out what your goals are for the months ahead, so that you can figure out the general types of shorter term goals to set. That way you can set specific goals a week or two ahead of time, and have…
Karen König is the first of 137 former German Olympic athletes who may sue over being forced to take performance enhanding drugs in the mid 80s. The former East German sports system forced their athletes to take the drugs, but the committee no longer exists since the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse…
I have added Site Meter to this website in the footer. I will let you know how it works out once it has had a chance to go to work. In the meantime, feel free to click the link and see statistics for this site. Obviously, there will not be any prior to today. Update:…
After a layoff of some months without lifting weights, it is inadvisable to just jump right back into it. What I do is spend 2-4 weeks on a specific workout that gets my muscles used to the motions and stresses that are unique to lifting weights and which are much different from pounding out miles…