Posted in News, Olympics, Sports on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s easy to get disillusioned with the sport of swimming when reading an article like this. I’ve summarized the controversy which you can read about here.
TYR (swimsuit manufacturer) is suing athletes and USA Swimming because USA Swimming requires the American team to wear the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit.
TYR is suing swimmer Erik Vendt who has [...]
I earlier wrote about this bizarre Nazi-style role playing story about Max Moseley. Moseley is now suing the News of the World who published the story. You know things are bad when your defense is:
James Price QC said his client admitted using prostitutes, but the paper had committed a “gross and indefensible intrusion”.
Cross-examined by Mr [...]
Posted in Federer, Sports, Tennis on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I woke up at 6am today just to watch the Mens Wimbledon Final. Six hours later, it’s still going although now they have paused with a rain delay.
Over the years, I’ve learned to appreciate Nadal despite my first impression which admittedly was formed by his tennis shorts rather than his game. What I like about [...]
Posted in Humor, Media, News, Sports, Tennis, UK on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Talk about pressure.
Posted in Sports, Video, baseball on July 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Fashion, Federer, News, Sports, Tennis, UK on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I somehow missed this neat little nugget of Wimbledon information from a few days ago:
June 27 (Bloomberg) — Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia took delight in dumping former champion Maria Sharapova and her outfit out of Wimbledon yesterday.
“It’s very pleasant to beat Maria,” said Kudryavtseva. “Why? Well, I don’t like her outfit.”
Sharapova’s outfit, a white [...]
Posted in Fashion, Federer, Sports, Tennis on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Personally I have more respect for athletes that dress like serious athletes. You can see more fashions here.
Via Huffingtonpost.
Posted in News, Sports, Tennis, UK on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s nice to know Marat Safin still has it in him.
One of the things I like about Safin is that he is always entertaining to listen to. He’s blunt, honest and at times self-effacing.
“I had to take my opportunities as he was under pressure fighting for the world number one spot so he has to [...]
Posted in Film, Humor, Literature, Media, Seattle, Sports on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I greatly enjoyed reading this article that highlights Sherman Alexie’s testimony for the Seattle vs. The Sonics trial going on right now at a courthouse in Seattle. I’ll try to best sum up the situation before quoting Alexie. Alexie is a Native American writer perhaps most famous for his novel Smoke Signals which was turned [...]
Posted in Advertising, Football, Humor, Random, Sports, Video on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
In honor of Euro 2008, here’s a rather appropriate commercial from Euro 2004.
Posted in Humor, Internet, News, Race, Sports on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Dave Barry the heavy artillary for winning an argument:
Compare your opponent to Adolf Hitler.
For when your opponent is obviously right and you are spectacularly wrong. Bring Hitler up subtly. Say: “That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say” or “You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler.”
This may be bad [...]
Posted in Football, Humor, News, Sports, UK on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems Alex Ferguson is a little upset that Real Madrid are openly wooing Cristiano Ronaldo to play for them. Best quote:
United have sold David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Gabriel Heinze to Real in recent years, but Ferguson insisted the case of Ronaldo was different.
He said: “Yes, we sold them Van Nistelrooy and Beckham [...]
Posted in Food, Football, HowTo, Random, Sports, TV, UK on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I wouldn’t call myself an avid sports fan (with the exception of tennis) but I do nonetheless end up watching a lot of sports. More for the symbolic significance of sports than for anything else. For instance, I support Celtic instead of Rangers (I like Catholics), and in the English Premier League I support Tottenham [...]
Posted in 70's, Entertainment, Humor, Pop Culture, Random, Sports, Video on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m on a bit of a Paul Newman kick right now. A few months back I saw Slap Shot for the first time and last night I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Here’s a clip from Slap Shot with the famous Hanson brothers.
Posted in Humor, News, Seattle, Sports, Video, baseball on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Even if you have no interest in baseball or the Seattle Mariners, you should watch this video.
One of the most annoying things about brawls in baseball is all the macho posturing. You’ll see none of that from Richie here. His interest is not in intimidating his adversary. It’s in bringing him down. It’s shear animal [...]
Posted in China, Media, Olympics, Politics, Sports on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It has been suggested that
A call to boycott any aspect of the Olympics is part of the current of not wanting to deal or directly negotiate with other nations on the “bad counries” list.
This kind of posturing makes America look incredibly immature — as if it has lost touch with the realities of statecraft and [...]
Posted in News, Race, Sex, Sports, War on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The headline grabbed my attention: “Formula One Chief in ‘Nazi’ Sex Scandel.” I thought to myself, what’s a Nazi sex scandal? Apparently Max Mosley, son of Nazi sympathizer and fascist Oswald Mosley, and International Automobile Association President has taken his fetish to a whole new degree of detail.
But Mosley, the urbane president of the body [...]
Posted in Literature, Sports, Tennis, Video on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love reading Dostoevsky because the characters are so over the top. They get drunk, they create scenes; in short they are grandiose.
Mikhail Youzhny has been an exciting player to watch the last couple of years. While I’ve always appreciated the on-the-surface emotion of players like Andy Roddick, this video of Youzhny pretty much blows [...]
Posted in Federer, Sports, Tennis on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This is big.
Unseeded American Mardy Fish produced a stunning display to beat world number one Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells.
World number 98 Fish served superbly and fired winners from everywhere as he raced to a 6-3 6-2 victory.
Not sure what to say. Sorry Federer? Better luck next [...]
Posted in China, Olympics, Politics, Sports on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The White House said Thursday that China’s crackdown in Tibet is not cause for President Bush to cancel his attendance at the Beijing Olympics.Presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino Bush’s position is that “this should be about the athletes and not necessarily about politics.”
She said that Bush, in accepting the invitation last year from Chinese President Hu [...]
Posted in Japan, Photography, Sports, Travel on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We took the train today to Osaka to watch some Sumo Wrestling. The wrestling starts at 9 am and goes until 6 pm. As the day goes on the rankings get higher and the level of play is visibly superior. It was really neat walking near the gymnasium, because you see these wrestlers — huge [...]
Posted in Andy Murray, Everest, Sports, Tennis on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh, I don’t know, because he says things like this maybe:
“He’s [Murray's] going to have to grind very hard for the next few years if he keeps playing this way.
“He tends to wait a lot for the mistake of the opponent,” said Federer.
“He stands way far behind on the court and that means you’ve [...]
Posted in Andy Murray, Federer, News, Sports, Tennis on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I have to admit when I read yesterday that Roger was planning on breaking Sampras’ Grand Slam record this year, I thought to myself that it may not be so easy for him. It’s always just when you get too cocky that someone else can sneak up on you. So many of these young players [...]
Posted in Seattle, Sports, baseball, mariners on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Baseballs spring training has begun, and the Seattle Mariners are getting ready for the upcoming season. I’m quite excited about this one. We were good last year and over the off-season we’ve traded for one of the best young pitchers in the game, Erik Bedard, and when an above average team adds a great player [...]
Posted in Fashion, Humor, Italy, Pop Culture, Random, Skateboard, Ski, Snowboard, Sports, Washington on February 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just got back from skiing at Mount Baker, the original ski resort of snowboarders so I am told, and I couldn’t believe the amount of Dolce&Gabbana crap out there. That’s right, Dolce&Gabbana, they don’t use spaces. They’re too cool for that.
The last time I watched winter sports on TV I saw the logo, but [...]
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