Who says sports personalities are sometimes boring?
“Are you guys brothers?”
- from the movie Slapshot in reference to the Hanson brothers.
“Dave’s a killer!” Denis. Priceless.
“American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.”
- Legendary Detroit Red Wings forward Gordie Howe
Look at Mr. Hockey hurl a joke.
“Two grand slams in a week - man, that’s seven [...]
By Derek Braid
All those with aversion to parallels between sports and life need not continue reading, this one is just too rich for your blood. The turmoil surrounding the cheater, liar and fraud Marion Jones draws attention to the issues of performance enhancing drugs, human ethics, discrimination and justice.
Such weighty topics drench our moral conscience [...]
Note: With the World Hockey Championships under way, it reminded me of a post I wrote following the basketball world championships last year. A few hours after writing this piece Spain had defeated Greece 70-47 to deservedly win its first World title.
Many a theories abound about why the Americans lost to Greece at the World [...]
By Sal Marinello
I’m going to cover all of these issues in the newest, regular HealthandFitnessAdvice.com feature, The Ramble.
Rather than struggle to come up with 400 words on one topic I’m going to make things quicker and more interesting and keep it to a few sentences per topic. Learn more in less time with The Ramble!
Dangerous [...]
By Jim DeMaioribus
The conclusion of the Civil War marked the beginning of the cycling’s golden age. Races and racers captivated the United States public. Decades before Jackie Robinson broke Baseball’s color barrier there was Major Taylor.
About a year ago, during Black History month, my 10 year old son chose to write about a champion cyclist [...]
As a personal trainer, I get asked this more than almost any other question, “Should I exercise when I’m sick?”
People, regardless of where they live, get sick and fall prey to the ravages of “the cold and flu season.” However, working as a personal trainer in the northeast of the U.S, it seems that from [...]
By Derek Braid
The weblog platform has been denounced and disrespected, ignored and persecuted sufficiently to anger those burdened by the foolishness of the ignorant. If the collective outrage amounts to action and subsequently reaction from the persecutors then we’ve succeed in regaining our journalistic integrity and our right to speak and be heard. The purpose [...]
By Sal Marinello
The latest nutritional fad is the Flat Belly Diet and the concept of “Belly Flattening Foods.”
Recently there has been a lot of buzz about something called the Flat Belly Diet that features foods that are purported to be able to burn belly fat. This belly fat – aka visceral fat – resides within [...]
By Sal Marinello
The list is really quite long; Roger Clemens and the whole performance-enhancing drug (PED) in baseball scandal, Kelvin Sampson and the University of Indiana, Bill Belichick and the video tape humiliation involving the New England Patriots, and the story surrounding Reggie Bush allegedly receiving illegal benefits while at the University of Southern California. [...]
By pelotonjim
The tradition of cycling has men escaping from the fields and mines to find a life pushing two wheels. When an outsider pointed at the anemic salaries of your run of the mill donestique, the response always included a reference to the salary the rider left behind so in comparison, cycling paid generous salaries.
Even [...]