Will the Cubs win the World Series or will they break my heart again. They have outstanding pitching, and even Kerry Wood has a rejuvenated role as the teams closer. This is a good team with Dereck Lee, Alfonso Soriano, Carlos Zambrano, and more. They should be able to continue their winning ways during the rest of the season and on through the Playoffs. They have not won the World Series since 1908! One hundred years of futility!
Barbara Warren, a champion endurance athlete in the over-60 age group, died in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Tuesday , three days after crashing during the bicycling portion of the Santa Barbara Triathlon. She was 65 and lived in San Diego. What a tragedy. You hate to see an athlete die in a sport that they love. She crashed halfway through a 34 mile bike ride.
It is nice to see the Olympics acknowledge the skills that are required by the Triathlon. What an incredible sport. It takes so much conditioning to prepare yourself for this sport.
Posted in Bicycles by admin on August 24th, 2008
I had just gone to bed after watching the relays at midnight. Shortly thereafter she ran into the bedroom to tell me that there was mountain bike racing. Of course I had to get up and watch it. They butchered the women’s racing broadcast. They had cut away from the women’s race during the first lap. We saw SEVERAL MINUTES of commercials, and we returned to the last lap of the race. What a bloody shame. Male broadcasting chauvinism? Anyways, Sabine Spitz of Germany, at 36 took the women’s gold. This race wasn’t even worth showing. I am totally ticked! We have to watch whole matches of table tennis or beach volleyball, but sports that require some physical conditioning we get piecemeal.
The men’s races fared much better. We saw several laps of Julien Absalon from France dominating the race. In the end Julien Absalon won the gold, Jean-Christophe Peraud from France won the silver, and Swiss Nino Schurter toke the bronze and fourth place went to his Swiss team-mate Christoph Sauser .
How did two Frenchmen and two Swiss beat the American. This sport started in the mountains of California. It is so hard to believe that we weren’t even in contention for a medal. We have four years to prepare, and let’s do a better job at PR. Mountain biking requires more testerone than friggin table tennis!
Let’s also do away with the male chauvinism and show more of the women’s races, this is chicken crap. If I was a woman, I would be in a total uproar.
Posted in tennis by admin on August 11th, 2008
What an incredible treat that would be! Both players have won their first singles match in Bejing. They have both won their first doubles match as well. What a treat that would be if they faced each other in the singles and the Doubles.
In the singles matches - Nadal beat Potito Starace of Italy 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. While Federer beat Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 6-4, 6-2. In the Nadal and Tommy Robredo of Spain beat Jonas Bjorkman and Robin Soderling of Sweden 6-3, 6-3. Roger Federer and Swiss teammate Stanislas Wawrinka defeated Simone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi of Italy, 7-5, 6-1.
Within the next week or so, Rafael Nadal will be Ranked #1, while Roger Federer will have slipped to number #2. 2008 is a year that Federer will want to forget as he has won only two tournaments of 13 or 14 tournaments that he has played in. I am sure that Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, Ranked #3, will be the biggest impediment to a Nadal-Federer final in singles. He could be the biggest spoiler if he played either player.
This is Nadal’s first appearance at the Olympics. He has won 7 titles in 2008, so this is an excellent year for Nadal. Visit my Federer vs Nadal 2008 Wimbledon Championship site.
Griffey is a White Sox, Rodriquez in a Yankee, Ramirez is a Dodger and Jason Bay is a Red Sox. These four teams have improved for the run to the playoffs. I love the trading deadline, you always find out who is willing to put up a little extra money to become the possible next World Series Champion. While I am a long suffering Cincinnati Reds fan, I will miss Griffey, but at least he is with a team that is in contention. I believe that Ramirez should help the Dodgers, I am sure that he is getting tired of being treated like dirt by the Red Sox. I have never seen a team that treated their stars like dirt so much. Ramirez has been on the trading block so often, and it has to effect his play along the line. But I am glad that Ramirez is finally out of that organization.
Ok, what is wrong with Federer? He was knocked out of the Cincinnati Masters yesterday by 16th seeded Ivo Karlovic from Croatia. Roger has only won two tournaments this year and lost 11! That is hardly the play of a #1 Seed. If Nadal wins the next three matches, he will be ranked #1 on Sunday, which will do tennis a favour.
I have finally lost 10 lbs with the wii fit! I feel like going on a food binge to celebrate! It is all the aerobics, and jogging in particular. I am not a gamer, but I am loving all the sports games on the Wii Fit. Visit my Wii Fit on how to lose weight. It is so nice to be able to do it in the luxury of my own living room. I do not have to deal with the outside elements like I do with my bike.
What is Nadal doing? He just won the Rogers Cub, his fifth major title this year. I am looking forward to the US Open. I think it is going to be one of the most exciting tourneys in years. I think that Nadal is going to be the next Number #1 seed. Bye Federer, doesn’t Number 2 try harder?
Teixeira is definitely going to help the Angels. I guess the Braves have come to the conclusion that this year is not their year.
Posted in Baseball by admin on July 20th, 2008
<b>I usually do not pay much attention to the all-star game. Oh, sure I will check in every once in a while to see how the slugfest is going, but that is usually it. It took 4 hours and 50 minutes to finish this game, with a Michael Young sacrifice fly. Nobody hits sacrifice flies to will All-star games. It used to be a home run was the deciding factor.<b> I hope that there are more All-star games like this.</b><br>
My Fantasy baseball teams at the middle of the season stink big time. I have never had ball teams that rank 7th and 9th before. This is pathetic. I have usually been 2nd or 3rd, and within striking distance. I am finding the Yahoo leagues to be more competitive these days, which is good. I am also very busy with my <a href="http://www.funcoolcollectibles.info">Fun Cool Collectibles </a> store and I have several blogs and other websites, so the time that I have for my Fantasy Teams suffers. Oh, Well.
Posted in tennis by admin on July 7th, 2008
What an incredible tennis match! I thought it would never end. Actually, I though it was over when Nadal won the first two sets. I couldn’t believe that Federer, was letting Nadal get away so easily. But lo and behold, the five time Wimbledon Champ was not going to be a pushover. Federer edged out a 7-6, 7-6 wins to force a 5th set which went to Nadal with a 9-7 win. It was probably the greatest Wimbledon tennis match that I have ever seen. It was made for the movies. The lead went back and forth all evening until 9:15 local time until Federer made a key mistake when he hit the ball into the net. The drama was incredible! I couldn’t do anything constructive until this match was finished. I would love to see it again. There were great aces by Federer, he could hit a serve at 129 miles an hour! Nadal’s agility was incredible as Federer had him running all over the court, and Nadal was returning the volleys with incredible skill. If you did not see it, you are missing something.
Well, it seems that Wii Fit is great for average person like me, who needs to get fit and lose some weight. Believe me after 40 minutes (10 minute segments) I am sweating like you wouldn’t believe. I will be buying a heart monitor in the next week or so, because it would be interesting to see what my heart rate is. While Wii Fit may not be a great substitute for those in training, it seems that it would be a great warm up routine - “The results showed the Wii Fit workouts did elevate Burich’s heart rate beyond its normal ambient rate of 60 beats per minute, ranging between 90-100 on the step exercise, 90-110 for the hoola hoop, and up to a maximum of 130 during the running program. Comparatively, Burich’s heart rate measured between 145-155 during her running of the Philadelphia Marathon in November 2007.” from Fibre 2 Fashion Many of us would probably have massive heart attacks if our heart got to 145 to 155. I currently use the running, rhythmic boxing and yoga. I would like to use strength exercises, but when I don’t use Wii Fit I am riding my bike. The Ultimate Wii Fitness Ebook is an excellent way to utilize Wii Fit for whatever training program you want to use if for. It really is worth the price, so that you can get the most from Wii Fit.
I watched Roger Federer finish off Robin Soderling was quite a treat. Except for the first match, it was quite close. I really enjoy tennis. I also enjoy playing it, even though I am no where as good as I was in my twenties, oh well, age has a way of slowing you down. I am rooting for Federer to win 6 in a row. I think it is going to be harder for him. With the press asking the same questions over and over again. This should be a great Wimbledon, just to watch Federer win his sixth - a part of tennis history.
I have been working with Wii Fit for a month now. I wish I had more time to spend on it, but I have a teen gamer to compete with. He plays games from the time he gets up until he goes to bed. I have to use Wii Fit before he gets up at noon, which is ok. I like exercising in the morning. It seems to get my adrenaline going in the morning. While I still prefer riding my bike, Wii Fit is great for those rainy days, I like the jogging exercise. I figure at my age the aerobics are the best. Today I will jogging and boxing, I also enjoy the boxing. Visit my Nintendo Wii Store for all of your Nintendo Wii stuff. If you are interested in getting fit with Wii Fit, you should seriously take a look at The Ultimate Wii Fitness Program.
Riding the bike is the core of my exercise program right now. I would like to jog, but I suffer badly from shin splints. Riding the bike is away to get around this problem. I will ride the bike for about an hour a day. On the next day I will use Wii Fit and do about 30 to 40 minutes of jogging and then proceed to yoga. I am really starting to appreciate yoga. I hope that it will help me find some sort of balance. Well, I do not think I will become overly spiritual, it does seem to help my concentration and being able to hold a position for a good period of time seems to help. Wii Fit is an excellent way to get fit. I really enjoy it, and I am not embarrassed about exercising in the privacy of my own home.
I am actually enjoying the sports games that the Wii provides. I love Tiger Woods Golf. I can stand up, and swing the remote as if it is a golf club. I can work through the tournaments like they are real. Well, it seems to be only be missing the walk from one hole to the next (I have never used a cart. I believe that the walking is good exercise). There are some excellent sports games, I really wish I had more time to play them.
