Archive for the 'Sports' Category
November 8th, 2007
I’ve seen more and more of these videos, I don’t know if you would call it “Extreme Sports” or just plain old fashioned insanity, but now you can see how it’s done, and it blows my mind that these guys do this, I’m guessing they probably have a 1 in 10 chance […]
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April 10th, 2007
From YahooNews:
102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1
CHICO, Calif. - Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.
cause of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn’t see […]
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April 9th, 2007
From MSBNC.COM:
Man braves piranhas, sharks in Amazon swim
Strel may have set record for longest swim, covering 3,272 miles in 65 days
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance — […]
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February 20th, 2007
From Yahoo.Com:
3 ultra-athletes endure sand, heat to run across Sahara Desert
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt (AP) — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.
“It will […]
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December 19th, 2006
From The Tennessean:
Titans’ T-Rac subject of suit
Former QB says mascot hurt him
Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Adrian McPherson has sued the Titans because their mascot, T-Rac, ran into him with a golf cart at halftime of an Aug. 12 preseason game at LP Field.
The suit, filed Friday in Davidson County Circuit Court, seeks $15 million […]
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October 24th, 2006
From MSNBC.COM:
Upset U.S. dad pulls gun on son’s football coach
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of a young football player pulled a gun on his son’s coach because he didn’t think the boy was getting enough playing time, Philadelphia police said on Monday.
Wayne Derkotch, 40, was charged with aggravated assault after getting in a fight with […]
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October 16th, 2006
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August 14th, 2006
From FoxSports.Com:
Mangold’s sister following in his footsteps
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - When Jets center Nick Mangold started playing football in third grade, he developed his own little fan club.
Baby sister Holley idolized him. She got dragged to watch him practice and play in games. She used to play a little game with Nick at home, too. […]
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July 28th, 2006
From YahooNews:
Irish bookie plans biggest-ever strip poker game
DUBLIN (AFP) - The biggest-ever strip poker championship will be held in London next month, with daring contestants from all over the world vying to keep their clothes on.
Leading Irish bookmaker, the Paddy Power company, came up with the idea of setting a world record for the game […]
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July 22nd, 2006
From SFGATE.COM:
MOMENT OF TRUTH
Modest American pedals through pain of dead hip bone to pull within reach of victory
Tune in your television to the Tour de France this morning and you may see the perfect convergence of a feel-good miracle against medical odds, an inspiring tale of grit, and — by the way — one […]
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July 19th, 2006
I love stories like this, It reminds me of the movie Rudy. An autistic kid who had been the high school basketball teams manager and water boy for years gets a chance to play for a few minutes in the final game of the year, and shows everyone he should have been playing all […]
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July 12th, 2006
From YahooNews:
Man, 83, is oldest pro baseball player
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - No one in the bleachers at the Sioux Falls Canaries game was quite sure what was going on down on the field. They were all quiet, wondering and transfixed on the little old man digging into the batters’ box.
The infielders moved up on the […]
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July 10th, 2006
Now you too can be just like one of the Football (or Soccer) pros!
Try this new Zidane Headbutt Game and see if you can qualify for the red flag that helps your team lose the world cup.
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July 6th, 2006
Check out those Tennis Balls!
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