Disclaimer: This is not a scientific finding of any sort. In Portland there is a foot path around the bay that is very popular for walkers and runners, especially in the summertime. Over the last few weeks, I have been noticing some trends that seem to relate to the weather. The numbers that I am…
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 matter on a KO though.
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 to bring with us, but we did…
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 new site, and verify…
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. Today my brother Tariku did a very…
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 like it –…
Earlier this week, French newspaper L’Equipe accused Lance Armstrong of cheating, and that he used EPO during his 1999 Tour De France win. I predicted that this would happen when Armstrong retired in July. Armstrong is not getting any support from the Internation Cycling Union. Hein Verbruggen, president of cycling’s governing body, had this to…
Earlier this week I wrote about Lance Armstrong being accused of cheating by using the banned substance EPO during his 1999 Tour de France win. Le Ann Welty commented on EPO by describing what it was:
The field for the 2nd annual Nike Women’s Marathon has been filled. [Yesterday,] Nike announced the 2nd annual Nike Women’s Marathon is sold out! 15,000 women across the globe have registered for this highly anticipated event which will take place on October 23, 2005 in San Francisco. This year marks the second year for the…
The African Basketball Championship title was won by Angola when they defeated Senegal 70-61. Nigeria beat Algeria for third place immiediately preceding the championship game, meaning that they will get to play in the world championships in Japan next year. Unfortunately, Nigeria and Algeria spent the forty minutes trying to keep the police from interupting…