Now that ESPN has become involved, the arm wrestling circuit has production value.
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Showboating not only is tolerated in competitive scooter riding, it’s encouraged. And when you fall on your keister while trying to do a buttercup across the pyramid, or a deck grab to an inward bri, or a pogo pivot 180, the other riders will help you up, and they genuinely feel sorry for you.
This is what makes the World Series of Poker so inviting each year, players such as Paul Conelly and those journeys that bring them to the Rio, regular people with fascinating backgrounds who dream of reaching a final table and watching a river card turn in their favor to earn them massive amounts of cash.
In a week during which U.S. authorities indicted 14 people on bribery, racketeering, fraud and money-laundering charges within international soccer dating to the 1990s, Sepp Blatter’s 17-year run as president of FIFA continued when his opponent surrendered after one round of voting.
LeBron James’ mission is to lift a pedestrian supporting cast of Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA championship by conquering a superior Golden State Warriors team led by two of the world’s best perimeter shooters. Golden State opened as a minus-270 favorite to win the series and has been bet down to minus-240.
Did the overconfidence of Spectacular Bid trainer Bud Delp and jockey Ronnie Franklin lead to his near miss at the Belmont in 1979 and the beginning of the current curse? It’s a good bet Bob Baffert and Victor Espinoza won’t make the same mistake with American Pharoah.
Tube baits are simply that, a plastic tube that is open at the back and closed at the front. Surrounding the opening in the tube is a fringe that resembles tentacles and adds extra motion to the bait when it is in the water. They first showed up on the bass fishing scene in about 1980.
Dannielle Diamant was a star at Bishop Gorman High School, and after that she was a star at Northwestern in the Big 10. She signed with a team in Hungary, Uni Gyor, out of college, because women who play pro ball overseas generally make more money than women who play in the WNBA.
Palo Verde High School lacrosse coach Gary Campo was in Philadelphia over Memorial Day weekend to watch the collegiate Final Four, but more so to offer support for Jeremy Huber’s family, which also made the trip. Jeremy, who played for Campo, was found dead in his dorm at Johns Hopkins on Jan. 26.
The teenager who rushed Roger Federer at the French Open meant no harm when requesting a selfie, but other such snapshots across the sports world have led to horrible endings and rightly suggested the security in charge of protecting athletes is often negligent. Not that it’s always their fault.
Bryce Harper, 22, was the first player selected in the 2010 major league amateur draft; Kris Bryant, 23, was the second man picked in 2013 after his college career at the University of San Diego. They’re two of the brightest prospects to come down the pike in years.
One loss is not enough to put a scare into the Golden State Warriors. But the fear of losing Stephen Curry to a serious injury threatened to change a series in the blink of an eye.
Judge Bill Jansen, who was justice of the peace in Las Vegas for 26 years, traveled to his first Indianapolis 500 in a Packard Clipper, if that tells you anything. The year was 1949. The track still was made of bricks.
John Avello, Wynn Las Vegas sports book director, is so convinced about the Chicago Cubs’ future that he is predicting they will win a World Series in the next five years, and he was inspired to post a proposition on it.
John Dodson comes back from a serious knee injury Saturday night to face Zach Makovsky on the UFC 187 preliminary card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. “I’m going to knock somebody out and do a flip off the cage,” says the ever-confident Dodson.
