One tool that many boxers use to increase their hand-eye coordination and punching speed is the speed bag. If you don’t know what a speed bag is, I can almost guarantee you’ve seen one in a movie or a cartoon before. A speed bag itself looks somewhat like a tear, and it hangs from a ...
As an older brother of two football players who has spent the past few summers working out with them and one of their coaches as well as an associate of a trainer of top high school football players in Michigan, I am here to give you tips on what you should be doing with your ...
After failing to make the playoffs for just the 2nd time in the past 5 seasons, the off-season has proven to be a busy one for the Tampa Bay Rays. With limited resources, this wealth of activity is not surprising, since the club must always remain pro-active to compensate for the inability to sign players ...
Hand wraps are an indispensible piece of boxing and martial arts equipment. Any boxer or martial artist who uses a heavy bag or trains with a sparring partner needs to wrap the hands to reduce overuse injuries and prevent sprains or fractures of the delicate bones in the hand and wrist. Wearing bag gloves while ...
Charismatic was produced out of the Drone mare Bali Babe, by an unremarkable stallion named Summer Squall. Summer Squall’s stud career had been a bust, despite the fact that his dam, Weekend Surprise, was by Secretariat, and was a remarkable broodmare. Summer Squall had been an excellent racehorse, coming in 2nd in the Derby of ...
In this day and age, race is not the issue in sports it once was when athletes like Jackie Robinson were trying to break through color barriers in America. These days issues with race for the most part tend to flair up when a sports commentator makes a guffaw on a live telecast. Such seems ...
The world is full of a limitless potential of color combinations. The greatest time to see the changes of color in the world, is to take note to each new season every year. Winter brings snow, brightens the vegetation, and recycles the planet. Spring brings everything back to life, and injects green colors back into ...
After a let down in the 2009 NBA Playoffs, the Boston Celtics have surprised many by defeating the Orlando Magic 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals to earn their second trip to the NBA Finals in three seasons. The following are profiles of the players that will try to continue Boston’s storied legacy in the ...
Watch out, American sports fans-English soccer is setting its sights on breaking into the US market. Famous teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are spending millions of dollars in an effort to grab fans for life as soccer steadily gains in popularity in the last great untapped market. With so many competitions – ...
Humor, or course, is a very personal matter. For some, Chevy Chase’s imitation of Gerald Ford falling down a flight of stairs is a good as it gets (and that wasn’t bad). For others, the verbal acuity of, say, Dorothy Parker is necessary (and quite rare, obviously). Therefore, the following list of baseball’s funniest public ...
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