In a sad commentary on just how much I’ve missed NFL Football, I spent a good portion of my weekend watching the NFL draft. Draft weekend is the time when the NFL teams choose the best eligible college players to join the ranks of professional football. The ongoing explosion of salaries has changed the shape of the draft significantly from what it once was.
A high draft pick used to be consolation and hope for the worst teams in the league. As in, “Our team is terrible and we finished last in our division, but at least we’ll
Baseball is Back!
by Ronald A. Rowe April 21st, 2009 | Baseball, MLBBaseball is back! It seems like it was years ago that the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Devil-less Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series. It was a long, hard winter without the sound of pine hitting leather, but the 2009 Major League Baseball season has begun anew.
I especially enjoy the first few weeks of the season because everyone – every team, every player - starts fresh. With no season-long history behind them, team and individual statistics are fun to watch. At the time of this writing, the two last place teams in the American League
Choosing a Martial Arts School
by Joe Lawrence April 14th, 2009 | Martial Arts
There are many key factors and choices to make when deciding what martial arts school to attend. There are many different arts to choose from, such as Judo, Aikido or Taekwondo. Then within each art there are traditional and modern schools. Finally, out of those schools there are harder or softer disciplines.
There are many established arts that have been around for decades and even centuries. Some of the more popular ones are Kung Fu, Taekwondo and Karate. Kung Fu is an art that patterns its fighting styles after the way animals fight and defend themselves. Taekwondo is art that stresses self-defense.
There are many established arts that have been around for decades and even centuries. Some of the more popular ones are Kung Fu, Taekwondo and Karate. Kung Fu is an art that patterns its fighting styles after the way animals fight and defend themselves. Taekwondo is art that stresses self-defense.
Parkour – The Art of Movement
by Joe Lawrence April 7th, 2009 | Gymnastics, Martial Arts
Ever wonder when people would start moving from place to place like Spiderman? Think it is fake how martial artists run up the sides of buildings in the movies? They may be engaging in a very quickly growing art called Parkour.
This French art has been called Parkour, and the practitioners are called traceurs. The movements are strictly insane and jaw dropping. The whole point of this art is to use buildings, trees, mailboxes, etc. as devices to get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible.
In the 90s a growing trend of freerunning or freestyle running was growing
This French art has been called Parkour, and the practitioners are called traceurs. The movements are strictly insane and jaw dropping. The whole point of this art is to use buildings, trees, mailboxes, etc. as devices to get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible.
In the 90s a growing trend of freerunning or freestyle running was growing
