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Packer Viking Game Views
Yesterday’s exciting Packer-Viking game generated no shortage of commentary around the web. Check out these links:
Snowkiting
Paul McHugh on skiing’s next frontier:
Kites may do for winter sports what they’re already accomplishing for windsurfing. Six years ago, big U-shaped kites were a rare sight at windsurfing spots. Conventional triangular sails attached to masts and boards dominated the scene. Now, at Bay Area sites like Crissy Field, Coyote Point and even rough offshore spots like Waddell and Scott Creek, it’s easy to see kites bobbing in the sky while riders on small, twin-tip boards skip nimbly over the waves.
According to longtime snowkiter Ken Lucas, utilizing wind power with a kite on snow may wind up even more popular than on water.
DC Politicians Display Smarts in Their Baseball Stadium Deal
Interesting contrast to the Miller Park scheme hatched in Milwaukee & Madison some years ago, DC Common Council Chairman Linda Cropp has added some reality to the District’s deal with Major League Baseball:
At the John A. Wilson Building, anxiety over the future of baseball in Washington was evident all day. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) pronounced during his morning news conference that the deal was “in great, great jeopardy.” Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp (D), the architect of the legislative amendment that required private funding, said she was “looking to reduce the cost and risk for the District.”
“I keep hearing that we had a deal with baseball,” Cropp said. “Well, I have had a 30-year-plus deal with the citizens of this city. That deal trumps any other consideration with Major League Baseball.”
David Bernhardt: Clear Thinking on the Role of Sports in Society
David Bernhardt offers some rather clear thinking on sports & society, in light of the recent Detroit NBA fight, steroids and the NHL strike:
What are our expectations of these athletes and our own son and daughters? Hopefully, it is to watch them compete, have fun and perform to the best of their natural ability. When society begins to focus on winning at all costs, we see where the fun leaves the sport, performance enhancement cheating begins and frustration of continual expectation boil over in an unexpected violence. In addition, the rapid firing of college coaches from an upstanding university where the student-athletes were students first and athletes second, makes one again question the values of the institutions of higher learning.
Badger Women’s Volleyball advances to NCAA Regionals
Great fun watching the University of Wisconsin Women’s Volleyball stage an impressive first period rally to beat Notre Dame 36-34, 30-16 and 30-16 Saturday night at the Field House.
The Badgers advance to the NCAA Regional semifinals played at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis., Friday evening. Wisconsin will take on third-seeded Hawaii Women’s Volleyball (30-0) with the winner moving on to play either Texas Women’s Volleyball (26-4) or Stanford Women’s Volleyball (26-6) in the regional final. For ticket information, call 1-800-895-0071.
I smile at the thought of Hawaii, Texas and Stanford joining the UW in Green Bay (Resch Center) next weekend 🙂
You can follow the NCAA finals here.
Baseball’s Steriod Problem: Comments around the Internet
Unsurprisingly, there’s no shortage of comments on this week’s steriod use disclosures by Jason Giambi and a sort of disclosure by Barry Bonds (from grand jury testimony). I’ve compiled quite a few links: Alltheweb | Clusty | Google News | Teoma | Yahoo Search
Michael Hunt pens a refreshing column taking baseball, Bud Selig and the MLB player’s union to task for not addressing the problem. Nice to see a more realistic approach from the journal-sentinel after their strange Miller Park cheerleading.
Barry Bonds Grand Jury Testimony
Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-Wada for the 2nd day reveal grand jury testimony in the BALCO case. This time, it’s Barry Bonds:
Barry Bonds told a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream supplied by the Burlingame laboratory now enmeshed in a sports doping scandal, but he said he never thought they were steroids, The Chronicle has learned.
Federal prosecutors charge that the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, known as BALCO, distributed undetectable steroids to elite athletes in the form of a clear substance that was taken orally and a cream that was rubbed onto the body.
It will be interesting to see how Milwaukee based commissioner Bud Selig deals with this…..
Giambi & Steroids
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams break the steriod testimony of ex Athletics and current NY Yankee slugger Jason Giambi’s grand jury testimony that he injected himself with human growth hormone in 2003 and had earlier started using steroids.
Brett Favre on Life’s Challenges
Brett Farve on his wife Deanna’s view of life during a personally challenging time (breast cancer):
?My wife said one time, ?See life through the front windshield, not the rearview mirror,? ? said Favre. ?I thought that was a great comment. You deal with things that are in front of you, and you can?t really worry about what?s happening behind you. So that?s kind of what we do.?