July 21, 2010 – A severe lightning and thunderstorm hit Grand Teton National Park around midday on Wednesday leaving 3 different climbing parties with injuries.
All three parties were within 570 feet of the summit of the 13.770 foot high Grand Teton mountain. Helicopters had to come in to rescue 16 injured climbers. [...]
July 11, 2010 – In the 116th minute of an exhausting game, well into overtime, Spain’s Andres Iniesta broke free in the penalty area, took a pass from Cesc Fabregas, stayed on the right, put his right foot to the ball from 8 yards out, and kicked it just past Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg’s outstretched [...]
July 8, 2010 – On Thursday Hawaii’s favorite golfer, Michelle Wie, played herself out of contention in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open at the Oakmont Country Club.
The No. 10- ranked golfer in the world shot an 11-over 82.
Not too long ago Wie was supposed to be the next big thin in golf. [...]
July 4, 2010 – The ex-champ just couldn’t take it.
After sitting out today’s Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog eating contest Takeru Kobayashi, the world’s third ranked professional eater, crashed the stage.
This happened immediately after Joey “Jaws” Chestnut consumed fifty-four hot dogs in ten minutes to win Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Chestnut [...]
June 29, 2010 – Porn star Devon James’ claim that Tiger Woods is the father of her illegitimate son Austin have been refuted by new evidence of a 2002 DNA test that revealed the child’s real father.
James first made her claim on the program Extra, where she said she had an affair with Woods in [...]
June 27, 2010 – “Home Team,” a book written by Sean Payton, coach of the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, is scheduled to be released on Tuesday.
Subtitled “Coaching the Saints and New Orleans back to life”, pretty much sums up what the book is all about.
“Home Team” gives its readers a peek [...]
As Maurice Edu kicked the soccer ball into the net the Americans jumped around, thinking they turned a first half 2 goal deficit into a 3-2 win over Slovenia in Friday’s World Cup match.
Immediately after the kick Edu said, “Then I heard the whistle.”
The referee, Mali’s Korman Coulibaly, called off the goal. Although the [...]
In an effort to give back a little bit of what all his coaches did for him Brian Moran launched The 10 Step Baseball Hitting System on Tuesday.
The 10 Step Baseball Hitting System is an in depth in-home study course designed to help both high school and college coaches get the best [...]
Eric Buchman, a 29 year old professional poker player from Valley Stream, NY, won the $2,000 Limit Hold’em event at the 2010 WSOP on Tuesday and is now $203,607 richer. After finishing fourth in the 2009 WSOP main event and winning this bracelet he said, “it was bittersweet. But this is [...]
The $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) brings out the best woman poker players in the world. While men’s tournaments are usually cut throat events, the women’s events are usually fun and jovial. At times they seem more akin to a family get together than a hard [...]
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