One of the best Super Bowls ever. And wasn’t that an amazing 100-yard touchdown by James Harrison? Don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything like that.
Congrats also to the Arizona Cardinals on a hard-fought game and season!...
The sad news just broke in the past short while that Kay Yow, the longtime women’s basketball coach at North Carolina State University – and considered by many to have been one of the greatest women’s coaches the game has ever seen – has passed away at the age of 66 following a long battle with cancer.
Yow had been head coach at N.C. State since 1975, following stints as a high school coach and then at what used to be Elon College (now Elon University). She also coached the gold medal-winning women’s basketball team at the 1988 Olympic Games. Yow was also a multiple Hall of Fame recipient.
She had been diagnosed with cancer in 1987, but she fought it into remission. Unfortunately, it had recently returned.
Yow was a renowned and beloved icon not just here in North Carolina, but across the sport and around the world. ...
We may never see a sports moment like that ever again. Absolutely amazing.
Congratulations to Michael Phelps and the United States men’s swim team at the Beijing Olympics!...
WOW!
1/100th of a second ahead of Croatia’s Milorad Cavic.
If there’s a single moment that will be remembered from the Beijing Olympics, that will be it. We’ve been re-watching it at least a half-dozen times in slow-mo the past few minutes, and… just amazing, man!
He’s now tied Mark Spitz’s record of most gold medals during a single Olympiad. And tomorrow, Phelps might have one more for his collection....
And no, there is not an extra “0” in that number.
The New York Post reports on the special diet that has Michael Phelps breaking swimming records like nobody’s business at the Olympics. The guy is on a staggering twelve thousand calories a day eating regimen. A typical person usually takes in around 6000 calories every day. Phelps has been nearing that amount with each meal! Mostly lots of carbohydrate-rich fare like pasta.
The boy better figure in some Wheaties too if he wants to have his picture on the front of their cereal box 😛...
Right after my last post, Michael Phelps shattered another world record and earned his fifth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. That’s now eleven gold medals overall across two Olympiads, firmly cementing his place as the winningest Olympic competitor ever.
If he goes on winning gold in the rest of his events, Phelps will not only make his own record all the more unreachable but he’ll break Mark Spitz’s record of having earned seven gold medals in a single Olympiad.
Do it, dude!...
Butterfly is perhaps the most strenuous stroke of competitive swimming. And Michael Phelps won the 200 meter butterfly with a time of 1:52:03 early Wednesday morning at the Beijing Olympics.
Phelps is now the most-winning Olympic athlete in history: ten gold medals so far in his career, with four in Beijing alone. And he’s got a chance to bring home four more.
Go Michael! 🙂...
Remember how legendary Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton became when they each scored a perfect 10 in their Olympic gymnastics competitions? Heck, “Perfect 10” has become a part of our vernacular because of their achievements and those of other gymnasts. Well, we can kiss any hope of seeing some 10s at the Beijing Olympics goodbye ‘cuz a new scoring system completely gets rid of the traditional 10.0 grade.
In its place is a convoluted scheme that not only doesn’t reward poise and grace, it darn nearly penalizes it: demanding that gymnasts produce “bigger and better”…
...Nastia Liukin of the United States team, for example, performs a routine on the uneven bars that has a sky-high difficulty value of 7.7. Her father and coach, Valeri Liukin, crunched numbers last year to invent the complex, high-scoring routine.
He did the calculations on a Post-it before handing it to his daughter
EETimes.com has an article about a robot that plays air hockey against humans… and is playing it very well.
Here’s video of the robot in action…
19-year old Russian math student Nikolai Sazhin has won the title of world chess boxing champion. Chess boxing is a new “sport” that was inspired by a French cartoon back in the Nineties. Competitors like Italy’s Gianluca Sirc (shown in the photo) meet in the center of a boxing ring and play chess for 4 minutes. Then the board is cleared away and the contestants duke it out for 3 minutes in a regulation boxing match. A chess boxing match consists of 6 rounds of chess and 5 rounds of boxing. The winner is decided by checkmate, knockout, or points.
Maybe this can be an Olympic sport someday! 🙂...