The professional wrestling world continues to turn following WrestleMania 29 in New Jersey. The 'Raw' crowd on Monday Night kicked off the new wrestling season with a bang, and I just hope WWE can carry that momentum into the next couple of events
My grandmother, Rhoda Singer, died earlier this year. She lived much of her life in Brooklyn and was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Her favorite player was Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers' scrappy white shortstop who famously silenced a racist Cincinnati crowd by putting his arm around his black teammate Jackie Robinson during pre-game warmups.
I thought about my grandmother a lot while watching '42,' the new biopic of Jackie Robinson and his quest to break the color barrier in baseball. On an intellectual level, I can tell you a dozen things wrong with the movie, from its excessively preachy dialogue to its bloated length. But on an emotional level, I have to admit that this movie bypassed my brain and grabbed my heart, pulling each and every string contained therein firmly and repeatedly. It's a pretty good tribute to a great man. And when Pee-Wee and Jackie embraced on that field in Cincinnati I cried.
If Richard Sherman is right, maybe they should call it the ADHDFL?
Wrestling is as hit or miss as any weekly show on television. One segment is brilliant, the next three are mind-numbingly bad, and then the main event makes you forget the last two and a half hours with its greatness. Over the years, WWE has tried a lot of things, some worked just how WWE Creative planned, while others backfired miserably.
Sometimes gardens are for growing things, and sometimes gardens are for constructing massive playgrounds for you and your friends.
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April 9, 2013 Well the Final Four this year was held in Atlanta, Georgia and Dude Perfect was along for the show. Actually, they had their own little competition going on outside the arena. The Capital One Ferris Wheel was the stage for the guys next hoop challenge. These trick shots are even more unbelievable than their Kyle Field tricks. As the guys like to say "Go Big"!
South African athlete Ernst Joubert plays rugby for Saracens, a professional team based in St Albans, England. From the looks of the picture below from the BBC's Dan Roan, someone mistook Joubert's face for the ball during his team's 27-16 win over Ulster in the Heineken Cup last weekend in Twickenham, England.
Takes a hard man to smile with a nose as damaged as this: Sarries' Ernst Joubert after their
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino had some skin in the game on Monday night. Minutes after his team won the 2013 NCAA basketball championship over Michigan, the Cardinals' head coach revealed that he had promised his well-inked team weeks ago that he would get a tattoo if they won the national title.
"About 12-13 games ago, all
Louisville 82, Michigan 76
Reserve guard Luke Hancock scored 22 points, including making all five of his 3-point shot attempts, as Louisville beat Michigan, 82-76, in the 2013 NCAA basketball championship in Atlanta on Monday night
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Can you believe it’s been a week already?
Sure the sample size is small, but there is plenty to be taken from what we have seen. The biggest thing I have taken away this week is the fact that the Houston Astros know how to strike out
