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Top 10 Reasons the Yankees won’t Win the World Series
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 22, 2009 at 1:39pm
1. Karmic Debt
The advent of George Steinbrenner’s ownership of the Yankees roughly coincided with the advent of free agency, Watergate, disco and the birth of many Draft Day Suit writers. As an era, it was a karmic black hole. Steinbrenner’s persi...more
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The football post
by After Atalanta
posted September 18, 2009 at 4:20pm
Title makes it sound like this is my only one of the season.May be. Remains to be seenAnyway mostly it's a generic title meant to encompass two articles I came across that I don't want to talk about in two different posts.The Wall Street Journal has an ar...more
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Examples of Sport Rarely Seen
by One Sport Voice
posted September 16, 2009 at 1:42pm
This morning I was doing some “warm-up activities” (aka getting ready to do real work by surfing the Web) and came across the most interesting video of Synchronized Cycling posted on the Pretty Tough website. I had to post this spectacular sport! I ...more
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MLB will not punish Alex Rodriguez for steroid use
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 12, 2009 at 1:16pm
After completing their investigation Major League Baseball has decided not to punish A-Rod.
Well, why the hell not?
Is it okay to cheat as long as you come clean about exactly how long you were breaking the rules and you were telling the truth about tha...more
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Mississippi River Project: A dog in the night-time
by Pretty Tough
posted September 11, 2009 at 2:56pm
(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.)
Monday we finally left Wabasha for real: I started out fro...more
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Natalie Coughlin in the limelight
by Athletic Women Blog
posted September 9, 2009 at 3:56pm
A dash of fame comes with winning eleven Olympic medals, but even that might not be enough to prepare an athlete for what happens when she is cast in a popular prime-time television show.
I have argued that Natalie Coughlin deserves far greater recogniti...more
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Row, row, row your boat
by Cool Adventure Girls!
posted September 7, 2009 at 2:29pm
British environmentalist Roz Savage smiles as she arrives in the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati on Saturday. Savage, attempting to become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, set foot on dry land for the first time in mo...more
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Bonnie Mann: Breaking Ground, Discovering Boxing
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 6, 2009 at 9:22pm
I recently had the opportunity to talk with my trainer outside of the gym, and she shared a little bit with me about how she got started in boxing and the one woman and two incredible men who have made all the difference in her 14 year professional box...more
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India's Muslim girls box their way out poverty
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted September 5, 2009 at 1:18pm
By POH SI TENGKOLKATA, INDIA -- As the sun dips below the horizon, roll call begins at a boxing club in southeast Kolkata.Standing tall, soldier-style in three lines, are 47 students -- some as young as 8 years old, a few as old as 23 -- who hold their po...more
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New Playlist for Boxing Training
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 5, 2009 at 1:03pm
One of my super-tough MMA chick friends (who will box with me periodically and who is helping me learn ju jitsu: fist bump Junie!) sent me a few suggestions for refreshing my quickly-getting-tiresome Shuffle playlist for training. Her main additions to...more
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Christy Martin breaks hand, wins title
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 3, 2009 at 2:18pm
Last Saturday at Battle at the Expo 2 the announcer brought my trainer into the ring between fights to tell the world that Bonnie “Queen B” Mann planned to come out of retirement, and might be able to get a fight with three-time world title holder ...more
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Spotlight Adventure Town
by Cool Adventure Girls!
posted September 1, 2009 at 10:55pm
Bend Oregon
According to Outside Magazine, “Bend’s mix-and-match topography sits between the Cascade Range and the high desert and has spawned more hyphenated subspecies than Hollywood. It’s even money that the woman on the next barstool ove...more
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Learning to hate Tampa Bay
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 1, 2009 at 4:01pm
I should probably be specific here, insofar as that a certain someone who runs this site and has extremely well-documented violent tendencies comes from Tampa and knows all kinds of spiky heavy metal dudes and might well take exception to the ever-so-gent...more
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Mississippi River Project: 10,000 lakes; 1000 pictures
by Pretty Tough
posted August 31, 2009 at 6:08pm
(Ed. Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian is on a year long odyssey kayaking the length of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one in a series of journal entries about he...more
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3 New Lessons in the Boxing Ring
by The Glowing Edge
posted August 31, 2009 at 12:20pm
My newest sparring partner is 6′4″ and two hundred and please-don’t-hit-me pounds. Monstrous. And wonderful in the ring. We had a very respectable five rounds in the ring this weekend and he taught me a lot.
Obviously a guy this big has to work ...more
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In case you missed it...
by After Atalanta
posted August 31, 2009 at 11:59am
Just doing some post-weekend catching up on stories.Dr. Alice Dreger wrote a very good piece in the NYT about the biology of sex--inspired, of course, by the story of Caster Semenya.A 74-year old woman received a gold medal in judo--50 years after winning...more
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Fight Night: Battle at the Expo 2
by The Glowing Edge
posted August 30, 2009 at 6:59pm
I will never be an MMA fighter. One tiny slip-up that another fighter can take advantage of, and boom, you’re in a arm bar or choke hold or whatever, and you’re tapping out and all those months of training for a fight vanish in a flash, leaving you...more
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Hit like a girl
by Cool Adventure Girls!
posted August 29, 2009 at 12:08pm
Throw, hit and run like a girl — at least like 13-year old Katie Reyes from Canada. ESPN reported that Katie’s 9th inning single scored the winning run for a 14-13 victory. And this was not just a neighborhood scrimmage either — it was the Lit...more
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PBS to air film about women and bullfighting
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 29, 2009 at 12:05pm
The amazing independent documentary program P.O.V. will be showing the film Ella Es El Matador (She Is The Matador) on September 1st. Check out more info on the movie here. I suspect that there will be graphic imagery, but it should definitely be wort...more
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Reyes Wins LLWS Game
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 28, 2009 at 1:03pm
Katie Reyes of Canada became the first girl to drive in the winning runs in a Little League World Series game as she singled to score two runs and give her team a 14-13 victory against Germany. She had three hits in the game overall. We're probably th...more
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