Category Archives: Sports

Formula One Night Racing in Singapore

From ESPN.
Night racing is old hat for NASCAR, IRL, Sprint Cars and NHRA and at countless bullrings around the United States. But it’s a new experience for Formula One as Singapore hosts the first F1 night race Sunday.
F1 normally adheres to a pretty rigid schedule with qualifying, and the races usually start at 2 p.m., [...]

Phenomenal Phelps Won his Record Eighth Gold

From ESPN. (Phelps photos, slide)
Mission accomplished: Phelps earns eighth gold in medley relay.
Phenomenal Phelps wins 7th gold by 0.01 seconds to tie Spitz.
Phelps’ Miracle Finish Frame-by-Frame Underwater Photos. (Sports Illustrated)
Lezak runs down French to win 400 freestyle relay gold for U.S.
‘No way’ turns into ‘no quit’ for Jason Lezak!
Really, I thought Cavic have won the [...]

Walking with Nokia Sports Tracker

This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]

Tiger Woods Greatest Ever Win

From ESPN.
Tiger’s swing coach believes ‘08 Open win was Tiger’s greatest ever.
A Torrey Story: Woods’ win was greatest U.S. Open ever.
Tiger puts away Mediate on 91st hole to win U.S. Open.
Out of competition for two months because of knee surgery, Woods won the toughest test in golf.
For the second straight day, Woods came to [...]

The Rocketburg and Gettysburg Address

From chron.com by Fran Blinebury.
One score (wins) and six weeks ago, our Rockets brought forth on this continent, a new team, conceived in Intensity, and dedicated to the proposition that all NBA teams are not created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great winning streak, testing whether that team, or any team so conceived and [...]

Yao Done for Season with Stress Fracture in Left Foot

From ESPN.

HOUSTON — All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets.
“It is not an injury we feel he can play with,” Rockets team doctor Tom Clanton said. “I’ve made the recommendation that it be treated surgically and we [...]

The NBA - Never Bet Against It!

From Time by MICHAEL GRUNWALD.
It’s been a rough off-season for the NBA, but then what off-season isn’t? There were the usual nightclub-related lawsuits and arrests, more than the usual superstar griping, and a spectacularly unusual betting scandal involving a previously unknown referee named Tim Donaghy, who first attracted the suspicion of investigators when he called [...]