Posts Tagged 'sports'
The Masters of Mini Golf [video]
Published October 27, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: competition, crappy sports, marginally athletic, Mini Golf, putt putt golf, sport, sports, video
Amazing 7 Year Old Boxer – And It’s A Girl [video]
Published April 24, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: amazing kid, Athlete, Boxer, Russia, sparring, sports, video
New Singapore Stadium – Largest Dome Ever Built
Published July 14, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: AECOM, Arup, DPArchitects, football stadium, Largest Dome, park, retractable dome, Singapore, sports, SportsHub, stadium
If huge spaces freak you out (looking at you, agoraphobes), look away now. Singapore’s huge new stadium, SportsHub, just clinched the title for the largest free-spanning dome structure ever built—stretching more than 1,010 feet across at its widest point. Designed by Arup, AECOM, and DPArchitects, this sprawling development doesn’t just include a 55,000-seat stadium—there’s also a network of pedestrian and cycling trails, infrastructure to hold all manner of games from cricket to rugby, a pool and a water park, a skate park, volleyball courts, space for canoeing and kayaking, a mall, and a huge rock climbing wall. And more. In short, it’s its own city devoted to sports.
Wrestling Was Fake In 267 AD
Published April 18, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: ancient Greece, Demetrius, fake, fixed, Great Antinoeia, history, Nicantinous, Pro Wrestling, scam, sham, sports, Wrestling, WWF
Who says only modern-day pro wrestling is fake? Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed. The document, which has a date on it that corresponds to the year A.D. 267, is a contract between two teenagers who had reached the final bout of a prestigious series of games in Egypt. This is the first time that a written contract between two athletes to fix a match has been found from the ancient world.
The contract stipulates that Demetrius “when competing in the competition for the boy [wrestlers], to fall three times and yield,” and in return would receive “three thousand eight hundred drachmas of silver of old coinage …”
Athletes Of The 1st. Winter Olympics In 1924 [pics]
Published February 17, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: 1924, Athletes, bob sled, bobsled, Chamonix, Clas Thunberg, curling, history, ice skating, iceskating, Julius Skutnabb, pic, picture, Sonja Henie, Speedskate, sport, sports, Winter Olympics
A Guide To American Football [video]
Published January 27, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: American football, Merica, sports, Super Bowl, video
2012 In 4 Minutes [video]
Published January 1, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: 2012, history, look back, Politics, review, sports, video, year end review
What Are The Odds? Kid Attends 2 Perfect Games
Published August 21, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Baseball, Bode Dockal, Chicago White Sox, Felix Hernandez, Jennifer Dockal, long odds, Major League Baseball, MLB, no-hitter, Paul Dockal, perfect game, Philip Humber, Safeco Field, Seattle Mariners, sports
MLB.com reports that Paul Dockal has taken his one-year-old son, Bode, to two baseball games this season at Seattle’s Safeco Field and both of those games were perfect games. In April, the White Sox’s, Philip Humber was perfect and in August, Seattle’s, Felix Hernandez threw another perfect game. Most fans never see a no-hitter; so, imagine this kid’s luck.
There have been only 23 perfect games thrown in nearly a century and a half of Major League history. Two of them were the first two games Bode Dockal ever attended in person. Paul said that, in a way, he wishes his son would never attend another game – nothing could top what he’s already seen. But he knows Bode will have to relive the magic of Humber and Felix through photos and stories rather than actual recollections. Plus, someday decades from now, Bode might walk through the gates of a stadium with a son of his own.
Another Set of Very Old Baseball Photos
Published May 28, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Baseball, baseball player, history, MLB, photography, pic, sports, tintype
BuzzFeed presents another collection of baseball themed photographs from 100 years ago.
Very Old Photos of Baseball Players
Published May 16, 2012 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: Baseball, baseball player, history, MLB, photography, pic, picture, sports, tintype
BuzzFeed posted a page of 21 photos of baseball players from well before 1900. I had never before seen any of them.
How And Why MLB Baseballs Are Rubbed With Mud [video]
Published October 14, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Baseball, degloss, Delaware River, Lena Blackburne, MLB, rub one out, rubbing mud, scuff, sports, video
Just 37 Million Easy Payments Of $24.99! [pic]
Published June 6, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: cartoon, comic, football, funny, Home Shopping, HSN, humor, Matson, NFL, pic, picture, sports, St.Louis Rams