The trial over match-fixing by referees and players in the German soccer league began this week. Of the six defendants in the case, 2 are referees, one was a player, and the other three were gamblers who bet on the games.
At the end of September I had gotten fairly sick for a few days, but other than a bad cough I felt fine shortly thereafter. However, with a marathon coming up in the near future, and the cough only having gotten worse over the next few weeks following that, I had gotten desperate enough to…
Michelle Wie played her first professional golf tournament this weekend, but she was disqualified after unwittingly cheating rather than taking a 2 stroke penalty. A spectator told LPGA rules official Robert Smith on Sunday that he thought Wie had dropped the ball nearer the hole when she had taken relief from an unplayable lie in…
Advertisements have been reimplemented on this website. I am playing around with them a bit, but you will now see Google ads and Chitika eMiniMalls throughout the site. I am trying to optimize them so that they are actually useful to you; we will see how that works out. I have also implemented the Google…
Notre Dame went down swinging today against top ranked USC, losing the game off of a QB sneak in the last 3 seconds of the game. Reggie Bush ran for 3 touchdowns to bring USC up 28 to 24 over Notre Dame. Brady Quinn led an impressive drive culminating in a game leading 31-28 lead…
Bode Miller came out publicly supporting EPO on Wednesday, according to Ski Racing Magazine. Im surprised its illegal, Miller said, because in our sport, it would be pretty minimal health risks, and it would actually make it safer for the athletes, because youd have less chance of making a mistake at the bottom and killing…
Yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the gym at Fryeburg Academy, reducing the building and everything in it to ash with a few melted steel beams. All of the school’s athletic uniforms and equipment were housed in the building. Fire marshalls have not yet determined the cause of the fire. The school’s administration will…
Nomar Garciaparra was visiting with his uncle Victor last week in Boston when two women fell into the water, one bumping her head and going unconscious. Nomar sprinted down to the women while his uncle jumped off a 20 foot balcony into the water to rescue the two women. Good on him, I say. I…
The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the original article would be worth commenting on.
Kyle Maynard has no arms or legs, having been born with his arms ending at his elbows and his legs ending at his knees. He has managed to overcome his handicap, and become a competitive wrestler who has managed to win 35 times on the varsity squad his senior year. When he began wrestling in…