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- Who Else Knows These Facts About Trampolines
“El trampolino” was the Mexican word for “diving board”,and one of the many words in common usage, which was onceactually trademarked as “trampoline”.
The first gold medal awarded in Olympic trampolinecompetition, went to Irina Karavaeva, of Russia. Theevent, which took place at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,Australia, was witnessed by George Nissen, the 86 year-oldinventor of [...]
- Sports Travel Insurance - Are You Covered?
Sport and activity holidays are hugely popular nowadays, as people look to practice their skills in a new environment or even learn an entirely new sport as part of their holiday. Many sports and activities, like skydiving and scuba diving, can be much cheaper to do abroad than in the UK. But despite all the [...]
- Analyzing Public Perception
Public perception might be the least talked about aspect of linemaking, but it is essential to understand this piece of the puzzle. Oddsmakers make betting numbers based on stats, situations and what they think the public is thinking about a game. We just saw a Super Bowl where the No. 6 seeded team (Pittsburgh) was [...]
- Baseball’s New York Yankee Debate - Babe Ruth’s 1927 Team Or Derek Jeter’s 1998 Team?
The 1927 New York Yankees are baseballs greatest team ever produced. This is true, despite the efforts of the so-called experts to prove otherwise. Could “The Duke of Flatbush’s” 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers beat them? What about the 1961 Yankees or the 1975 “Big Red Machine?” What about the experts pick of New York’s own 1998 [...]
- Tips To Increasing Your Vertical Jump In Record Time
There are many great athletes in the world today. Athletes who are star players on their team both in basketball, football, and many other sports. What is one great way you can become just as good? By increasing your vertical jump.
You’ve probably seen basketball players dunk baskets with ease. It’s almost like they leap into [...]
- Improper Competition Can Backfire
It’s a competitive, dog-eat-dog, world out there. Teach these kids to fight their way to the top. Otherwise, they are going to be stepped on, walked over, overlooked, become losers.” That’s how we often present the world of competition to the kids. This is another one of those issues that we deal with entirely differently [...]
- Fun Facts About Sports
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
Ethiopia, an African country, is the birthplace of one of the best runners in the 20th century:Abebe Bikila, who won consecutive olympic marathon gold medals in 1960 and 1964.Haile Gebrselassie, who is a famous runner, once said: “In Africa before Bikila, there were no successful runners, and most of us did not [...]
- Celebrity Suicides - Published, Hidden, and Nebulous Causes of Death - Part I of III
With the recent suicides of comedian Richard Jeni and band Boston leader Brad Delp, I started to reflect and research about other high-profile suicides. I learned that there were many famous, success people, talented artists, actors and musicians who suffered from depression and have successfully committed suicide. Sadly too many for just one post.
I never [...]
- America’s Worst Compensation Claims
Compensation claims are becoming more and more common in today’s society leading to many observers claim we are now living in a culture of compensation. More often than not people claim compensation for a legitimate reason but every so often a few crazy ones slip through only to be thrown out of court minutes later.
Well [...]
- Should MLB Players Censor Their Words?
The comments of David Wells against Commissioner Bud Selig about the removal of the sign the Yankees used to apologize to fans for their star players being off at the World Baseball Classic spurred controversy over whether MLB players should better censor themselves to the media or not. While some people, typically players themselves, feel [...]
