Tag: sports
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The Art of Flight
I saw the most amazing video yesterday. The Art of Flight was released last year and is one of the best snowboarding movies I’ve ever seen. If you like the Warren Miller skiing flicks, this one is for you. It’s got Red Bull branding all over it but if you can get past that it’s an…
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Gabby Douglas = Grace
I’ve been keeping half an eye on the Olympics this year but this photo by Greg Bull of the Associated Press stopped me in my tracks. (click image to enlarge) UPDATE: Some details on how the photographer captured this shot over on Poynter.
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Jafet = Speed
Tyler’s soccer team this past season had a secret weapon. Jafet Oidor is a striker on the team who, when he wanted to, could turn on the jets like no one I have ever seen. Here he is blowing past four defenders who get ambushed and then left in the proverbial dust as he moves…
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Mikael Granlund’s Amazing Hockey Goal
Just in case you missed it. 19 year-old Mikael Granlund scored an amazing goal in last night’s hockey game putting Finland over Russia and into the final (which they eventually won). All eyes on Mikael and Finland in Sunday’s match against Sweden. Go Suomi!
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Speed Climbing Eiger
I first read about Eiger in Jon Krakauer’s book, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains in which he writes, The problem with climbing the North Face of the Eiger is that in addition to getting up 6,000 vertical feet of crumbling limestone and black ice, one must climb over some formidable mythology. The trickiest…
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Finnish Wife Carrying
So in the middle of all the excitement of getting settled we missed the World Wife Carrying Championship which took place (as it has for the past 14 years) in Sonkajärvi, Finland – about 500km north of Helsinki. Eager to see what it would take to participate next year, I came across the official site…
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Crazy Tennis Court in the Sky
In 2005, the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai was converted into a tennis court for a promotion featuring Agassi and Federer.
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Doppelgängers (part 2)
I’m even prouder of my son’s namesake who won the Stanley Cup after just one season with the Pittsburgh Penguins. My sporting alter-ego is taking time off from pitching for the Yankees after recently getting surgery for numbness in the arm.
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Stanley Cup’s Colorful History
UPDATE: After their epic win last night, here’s how the Cup spent last night in Vegas with the Washington Capitals. After last night’s loss to Anaheim, the San Jose Sharks are out of the running. Might as well post some highlights from the checkered past of the world’s most famous trophy. In 1905, the Ottawa…