Keeping Fit: Improve your golf game with this exercise regimen

By Wayne L. Westcott More Content Now — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:29:57 +0000

While it is true that a round of golf provides minimal fitness benefits, a reasonable level of musculoskeletal conditioning is necessary to prevent both traumatic and overuse injuries. Unlike walking and putting, which are almost risk-free activities, the golf driving action is an unusually complex, explosive and problematic movement that has a relatively high injury potential.
A well-designed strength training program could increase golfers' muscle strength and decrease their risk of [...]

A League of Her Own: Cinderella stories

By Heather Harris More Content Now — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:10:08 +0000

There were a ton of upsets in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament. I love it. Who doesn't? But I wish they wouldn't call them "Cinderella" stories.
Because, let's be honest, Cinderella did little to help her cause. She was already a beauty, dressed in rags. All it took was a fairy godmother to doll her up. It was only in her beautiful gown that she was able to turn the prince's head.
I have my doubts that he was that great of a catch. With Cinderella back in rags, and out of her [...]

Kent Bush: How important is a team name?

By Kent Bush More Content Now — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:04:02 +0000

Motive is the most important element of any action.
I find myself more concerned about why people do things instead of merely what they do.
It has taken a decade, but Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder finally decided to get to the root of his team's racist controversy. It took a lot of protests and proposed legislation to get Snyder to dive deep into what his team means in general and specifically to the Native Americans who are often offended by the team's mascot.
Many Native [...]

Olympics update: Canada wins hockey gold

Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:33:07 +0000

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Canada shut out Sweden 3-0 to capture the gold medal in the men's hockey tournament. Canada got goals from three different players, including Jonathan Toews.

Evgeni Plushenko to have back surgery

He is forced to withdraw from the men's short program.

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Olympics update: US hockey team to face Canada in semis

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:19:50 +0000

Sochi update: USA men's hockey team defeats Czech Republic

Will now face Canada in the semifinals.

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Canada's Russian hockey team is leaving the Olympics empty-handed after falling 3-1 to Finland today. Russia was considered one of the favorites in the tournament, but the team couldn't pull out a home win.

Sochi update: U.S maintains medal streak

Alex Deibold</a> took bronze in snowboardcross, an amazing feat after spending last Olympics as a technician. Pierre Vaultier of France took the gold, but Deibold was the inspiring story of the event.</p><p><strong>Olympians fly high over Sochi Games</strong></p><p>Bloomberg's [...] </article> <article> <h1>Olympics update: Fog postpones several events</h1> <p>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:35:11 +0000</p> <p><strong>Quote of note</strong></p><p>"This fog, it's super dense up there. It's the Olympics. We want to have the best rider win and not have anything screwy." - Nate Holland of the U.S. on the decision today to postpone the men's <a href="http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/snowboarding/story/_/id/10469211/2014-sochi-olympics-men-snowboardcross-postponed-fog" target="_blank">snowboardcross </a>because of fog. The race will take place tomorrow. The men's 15-kilometer mass-start biathlon [...] </article> <article> <h1>Olympics update: U.S. shut out of super-combined</h1> <p>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:01:42 +0000</p> <p><strong>News</strong></p><p>U.S. skiers weren't able to medal in the <a href="http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/alpine/story/_/id/10454704/2014-sochi-olympics-kjetil-jansrud-leads-super-combined-downhill" target="_blank">super-combined</a> today. Sandro Viletta took the gold to beat the favorite, Ivica Kostelic, who took home silver. Because of high temperatures, the snow was slushy.</p><p><strong>Sochi now: U.S. curling staying alive</strong></p><p>Julie Stewart-Binks on the U.S. [...] </article> <article> <h1>Olympics update: Team USA makes historic medal sweep in slopestyle</h1> <p>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:27:50 +0000</p> <p><strong>Hot video<br/></strong></p><p>The U.S. has swept the podium in men's slopestyle skiing. Joss Christensen soared to gold in the sport's Olympic debut, posting a score of 95.80 on Thursday to beat teammates Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper.</p><p><iframe frameborder="no" height="320" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" scrolling="no" src="http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=2&VID=25617673&freewheel=90108&sitesection=gatehouse&height=320&width=425" [...] </article> <article> <h1>Christopher Mele: Taking a white-knuckle spin on an Olympic bobsled run</h1> <p>By Christopher Mele More Content Now — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:22:55 +0000</p> I have never engaged in a sport or activity that required the use of a helmet.<br>So it was an unnatural feeling to have this gray sphere snugly nested around my noggin as I, along with my childhood friend, Pedro Rosado, prepared to hurtle ourselves on the bobsled run at the Mount Van Hoevenberg winter Olympic complex in Lake Placid, N.Y.<br>Our goal was to discover what bobsledders competing in Sochi might feel like.<br>Thanks to the New York Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs [...] </article> <article> <h1>A League of Her Own: Playing fair</h1> <p>By Heather Gillis Harris More Content Now — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:39:10 +0000</p> Everyone, it seems, has something to say about the rampant use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. Most agree there is no place for them in the sport.<br>Despite all the outrage displayed over cheating in our national pastime, there is hardly a discouraging word said about the use of PEDs in the National Football League.<br>Why is there a stigma attached to the use of these drugs in baseball, but not football? In fact, people accept that drugs are part of the NFL [...] </article> <article> <h1>Oak Duke: Learn about deer by tracking them in the snow</h1> <p>By Oak Duke More Content Now — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:28:38 +0000</p> Snow gives those of us who are fascinated by the whitetail deer a window into their behavior. Without the white stuff, we would only have fragmentary glimpses into their lives.<br>But with it, when it settles fresh on the forest floor and adjacent fields, deer write their story on a new piece of paper for us to read.<br>It's a true story. But where we have to read, understanding is not just handed to us. There are exaggerations, understatements, mistakes and incomprehension to trip us up. [...] </article> <article> <h1>How wildlife deals with frigid winter weather</h1> <p>By Chris Potter More Content Now — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:20:04 +0000</p> "Winter is coming" is a popular refrain in the hit HBO series, "Game of Thrones."<br>With "polar vortex" now a part of America's vocabularly, subzero temperatures threatening record lows and winds with the bite of the show's White Walkers (think intelligent, frozen zombies) — winter has clearly arrived in full force.<br>What happens to wildlife when the thermometer shows single digits, and wind chills steal even more of the warmth from the air?<br>"It might be slightly colder than normal, but [...] </article> <article> <h1>Paul Jannace: The calm before the Super Bowl storm</h1> <p>By Paul Jannace More Content Now — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:41:37 +0000</p> The players have been locked away as Marshawn Lynch's nightmare is over.<br>All media obligations are over and it's all about the football game now.<br>The head coaches went through their final press conferences Friday morning, somehow filling up time by saying pretty much the same stuff they have been saying all week.<br>The week following the conference championship games are all about preparation. The talk is about the previous victory with an early look ahead to the next opponent.<br>Super [...] </article> <article> <h1>Paul A. Jannace: The less Lynch speaks, the more he says</h1> <p>By Paul A. Jannace More Content Now — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:23:17 +0000</p> The less Marshawn Lynch speaks the more attention he seems to be getting.<br>After an entire season snubbing the media, Lynch made a quick exit from Media Day on Tuesday, which ruffled some feathers among the football writers. Then Lynch cut his media sessions short on Wednesday and Thursday, surely drawing the ire of the Super Bowl media.<br>It's time to embrace Lynch's lack of quotability.<br>As the media obligations for the players finally wind down, making Lynch happy no doubt, the Seahawks [...] </article> <article> <h1>Richard Sherman: The leader of The Legion of Boom’</h1> <p>By Paul A. Jannace More Content Now — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:33:23 +0000</p> Richard Sherman is used to being called names.<br>Sherman is a thug, a clown, a warrior, honest, brash, a trash talker, a Stanford graduate.<br>Take your choice, because the truth is Sherman is real.<br>You may not like it, but Sherman is not going to change.<br>After his epic postgame interview with FOX's Erin Andrews following the NFC Championship game, Sherman is more famous (or infamous?) than ever.<br>"Last week I felt like I regretted just attacking a man, attacking it and taking away [...] </article> <article> <h1>Super Bowl XLVIII: Elway hoping to enhance his own legacy</h1> <p>By Paul A. Jannace More Content Now — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:20:05 +0000</p> One of the buzz words around Super Bowl XLVIII has been "legacy."<br>Most of that talk has surrounded Peyton Manning, but there is another Hall of Fame quarterback who can pad his own resume with another title.<br>John Elway, the Broncos' executive vice president of football operations, removed a big monkey off his back when he finally led Denver to a Super Bowl championship at the end of his career. Elway lived with that perhaps unfair stigma of not being able to "win the big one," until he [...] </article> <article> <h1>Christopher Mele: Taking a white-knuckle spin on an Olympic bobsled run</h1> <p>By Christopher Mele More Content Now — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:22:55 +0000</p> I have never engaged in a sport or activity that required the use of a helmet.<br>So it was an unnatural feeling to have this gray sphere snugly nested around my noggin as I, along with my childhood friend, Pedro Rosado, prepared to hurtle ourselves on the bobsled run at the Mount Van Hoevenberg winter Olympic complex in Lake Placid, N.Y.<br>Our goal was to discover what bobsledders competing in Sochi might feel like.<br>Thanks to the New York Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs [...] </article> <article> <h1>Oak Duke: Learn about deer by tracking them in the snow</h1> <p>By Oak Duke More Content Now — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:28:38 +0000</p> Snow gives those of us who are fascinated by the whitetail deer a window into their behavior. Without the white stuff, we would only have fragmentary glimpses into their lives.<br>But with it, when it settles fresh on the forest floor and adjacent fields, deer write their story on a new piece of paper for us to read.<br>It's a true story. But where we have to read, understanding is not just handed to us. There are exaggerations, understatements, mistakes and incomprehension to trip us up. [...] </article> <article> <h1>Paul Jannace: The calm before the Super Bowl storm</h1> <p>By Paul Jannace More Content Now — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:41:37 +0000</p> The players have been locked away as Marshawn Lynch's nightmare is over.<br>All media obligations are over and it's all about the football game now.<br>The head coaches went through their final press conferences Friday morning, somehow filling up time by saying pretty much the same stuff they have been saying all week.<br>The week following the conference championship games are all about preparation. The talk is about the previous victory with an early look ahead to the next opponent.<br>Super [...] </article> <article> <h1>Peyton Manning needs no more validation</h1> <p>By Paul A. Jannace — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:29:16 +0000</p> There are people whose first name carries power.<br>If you say "Michael" it could be understood that you're referring to Michael Jordan. The name "Peyton" has that same power.<br>Peyton Manning is a true living legend who may put a lasting stamp on an extraordinary career. Manning has collected five MVP awards to go with seven first-team All-Pro selections, but there are some who believe he still needs to validate the gaudy stats.<br>Manning has the one Super Bowl championship, but there are [...] </article> <article> <h1>Seattle star Marshawn Lynch leaves Buffalo behind</h1> <p>By Paul A. Jannace — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:02:30 +0000</p> NEWARK, N.J. — Marshawn Lynch is all about action.<br>Lynch had an obligation and did what he needed to do — sort of.<br>After barely six minutes in front of the microphone, Lynch abruptly ended his Media Day session.<br>Of course, that's about six minutes more than he spoke to the media this season, earning himself a $50,000 fine.<br>"You say �hut' and there's action," said Lynch. "All the unnecessary talk, it don't do nothing for me. I appreciate that people want to hear from me, but I just [...] </article> <article> <h1>Paul Jannace: Where’s Media Day? Waldo knows</h1> <p>By Paul Jannace — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:22:17 +0000</p> The greatest tradition of Super Bowl Media Day is finding all sorts of colorful characters mixed in with the reporters who actually are looking for serious quotes for a particular feature story.<br>The funny thing is, many of these "characters" are doing the same thing but also want to draw some attention to themselves, their publication, or network.<br>The 2014 Super Bowl Media Day champion goes to Waldo.<br>A man dressed as Waldo walked around the Prudential Center taking photos with people [...] </article> <article> <h1>Paul Jannace: The ultimate game comes to the mecca</h1> <p>By Paul Jannace — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:23:08 +0000</p> As a now seasoned veteran of Super Bowls, you can smell something big happening.<br>Even in New York City, you can sense hype. A few blocks from where the ball drops for the new year stands the Super Bowl media center.<br>It's essentially controlled chaos, with media from all over the world converge for a week to cover a football game.<br>Of course, the Super Bowl has become much larger than a single football game.<br>The only ones who view this as a football game are the ones playing in it. [...] </article> </main></body></html>

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