Is there any sprinter with a better name than Usain Bolt? If you haven’t seen it, watch this video of yesterday’s men’s 100 meter final at the world track and field championships in Berlin. It won’t take long. (Sorry the audio is in Italian but it’s a good quality video from Italian TV. There are [...]
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Friday January 16, 2009 12PM Pick-up game TRW Field, Burlington, MA Weather: 8 F, Sunny Field: powdery snow Perfect conditions for Ultimate. Surprisingly it didn’t feel too cold out there today. With basically no wind, bright sun, and soft powdery snow, we had a great 5v5 game. Ultimate Statistics (since January 2008): Total Games Played: [...]
Did You Know?
So I was watching the NFL playoff game between the Eagles and the Giants earlier today. At one point in the game, Donovan Mcnabb was called for intentional grounding in his own endzone, which translates of course, to a safety and two points for the Giants. On the ensuing play, the Eagles lined up at [...]
Olympic Rant
So those who know me know that track and field is my sport. I do tend to play a lot of ultimate these days, but I didn’t play ultimate in college because track consumed my time even more so than ultimate does now. So naturally whenever the sport takes center stage (and actually gets some [...]
Marathon Champion!
I would like to take this post to congratulate Katy for an absolutely awesome accomplishment, finishing the Boston Marathon in 5:30:42! Raising money for cancer research and also battling (and defeating) multiple injuries along the way during her training, it was no small feat.
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