The 2011-2012 NBA season was supposed to kick off last week. But, there's that little lockout that prevented the season from beginning anytime soon. While I doubt that the owners and players are in any serious threats of losing everything that they own, a lot of people are in trouble, like employees at arenas that work basketball games. However, there's a less obvious entity that's suffering… [Read more]
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Why Are We Fascinated With Tim Tebow?
By now you've probably heard of "Tebowing". If you're not familiar with the current craze, it's a meme, like planking, where people drop to one knee with a hand resting on their forehead as they pray, like Tebow does in the above picture. "Tebowing" was reportedly coined by former Denver native Jared Kleinstein, who perfected the pose at a bar while watching football. Sine then, he's set… [Read more]
Seriously? ESPN Parts Ways With Hank Williams, Jr.
Did you happen to notice something missing from Monday Night Football on October 3, 2011? Of course you did, since ESPN made a big stink out of some comments made by Hank Williams, Jr. If you don't remember what caused the Worldwide Leader to pull the famous MNF intro, here's a brief recap. Williams went on Fox & Friends and said that the golf outing between President Obama and House… [Read more]
Women of Knockout
Compared to men's boxing, however, it lacked popularity and exposure. This might be attributed to the fact that women's boxing confronted a society filled with stereotypes and which categorized professions as either 'men's work' or 'women's work', or because most people did not believe they would find the same caliber as in men's boxing. Women's boxing can trace it beginnings to London in the… [Read more]
Extreme Diving Stunt From Roof of Boston Art Museum
Boston Harbor was the site of a most unusual occurrence this past month when fourteen divers from all over the world competing in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series used the overhanging roof of an art museum as its most recent launching pad. Thousands of spectators were drawn to the scene of the jump from the most unusual diving board that was the roof of the Institute of Contemporary Art.… [Read more]
