tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343632922011-12-14T21:43:14.319-05:00BGOODSPORT will be dedicated to all sport related subjects--Which is just about anything that makes you alive.AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1166853566164334762006-12-23T00:57:00.000-05:002006-12-23T00:59:50.430-05:00To Avoid ‘Boomeritis,’ Exercise, Exercise, Exercise<br />By <a title="More Articles by Jane E. Brody" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/jane_e_brody/index.html?inline=nyt-per">JANE E. BRODY</a> Published: December 19, 2006<br /><br />An apology to all baby boomers and beyond: I’m afraid that in our efforts to get everyone to become physically active, we’ve sold you a bill of goods. A 30-minute walk on most days is just not enough. There is much more to becoming — and staying — physically fit as you age than engaging in regular aerobic activity. (Of course, the same applies to those younger than<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116685356616433476?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1165926896968078362006-12-12T07:29:00.000-05:002006-12-12T07:34:56.980-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/1600/303475/600_surf.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/320/503136/600_surf.jpg" border="0" /></a> NY TIMES ARTICLE<br />By CHRISTOPHER MAAG<br />Published: December 10, 2006<br /><a title="Go to the Cleveland Travel Guide." href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/unitedstates/ohio/cleveland/?inline=nyt-geo">CLEVELAND</a>, Dec. 9 — They surf in Cleveland because they must. They surf with two-inch icicles clinging to their wet suits, through stinging hail and overpowering wind. They work nights to spend their winter days scouting surf. They are watermen on an inland sea.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116592689696807836?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1165753810667088142006-12-10T07:28:00.000-05:002006-12-10T07:41:06.390-05:00The Soviets’ amazing rise from humble origins to European and world hockey dominance is a familiar story: the tattered sweaters, the sharing of sticks because of equipment shortages, the matches in outdoor stadiums in minus-20-degree cold. How did the Soviets become so good, so fast, in a game that was relatively new to them?<br />The biggest reason, which is always left out of North American accounts, was bandy. Russians, and northern Europeans in general, had been playing bandy for more than 100 years. In the standard version, 11 players on each team skate on a soccer-size field, using their sticks to shoot a small ball past a goalie into a net about half the size of a soccer net. Bandy is much like hockey, and all the early Soviet hockey stars — Chernyshev, Vsevolod Bobrov, even the great soccer goalkeeper Lev Yashin — were bandy stars first.<br />Hockey quickly became more popular in Russia than bandy. But professional bandy is still played from Arkhangelsk on the Arctic Ocean to Khabarovsk in the far East, with crowds of 10,000 filling outdoor stadiums in the frigid Siberian winter.(<span style="font-size:85%;">excerpt NY Times</span>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116575381066708814?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1164981664682658662006-12-01T08:59:00.000-05:002006-12-05T19:41:48.936-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/1600/889460/30fitness.2.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/320/359771/30fitness.2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/1600/673074/30fitn.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/454/3786/320/422740/30fitn.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />DREAMS ON ICE Grace Edgar, of Texas, spends up to four hours daily training at a hockey academy in Stowe, Vt. <a name="secondParagraph"></a><br />But Teal, 17, spends her winters in Stowe, Vt., at the North American Hockey Academy, where she devotes her mornings to studying with a tutor, and her afternoons and weekends to playing defense for the school’s team..........( hit link for article)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116498166468265866?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1164790244877914162006-11-29T03:48:00.000-05:002006-11-29T03:50:44.896-05:00Spanish Cyclist Dies in Race<br /><br />By REUTERS<br />Published: November 27, 2006<br />Isaac Galvez, a leading Spanish cyclist, was killed in a crash early yesterday morning during the Six Days of Ghent indoor event in Belgium.<br />Galvez collided with the Belgian competitor Dimitri De Fauw, struck a railing and lost consciousness. He died on the way to a hospital. The race, which had been scheduled to conclude with last night’s competition, was canceled after Galvez’s death. Galvez was a track specialist and won a gold medal with his partner Joan Llaneras in the Madison event in this year’s world championships in Bordeaux, France.<br />Galvez was a member of the Kelme team between 2000 and 2003 before switching to the Illes Balears-Caisee d’Epargne team in 2004.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116479024487791416?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1164336843005671882006-11-23T21:50:00.000-05:002006-11-23T21:57:26.423-05:00By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />Published: November 23, 2006<br />Filed at 5:27 p.m. ET<br />VALENCIA, Spain (AP) -- Alex Zanardi nestled himself into the car, fiddled with the buckles on his helmet until they were just right, then accelerated past a crowd of onlookers and onto the track.<br />After driving four laps in a modified BMW-Sauber C24-B, the Italian pulled into pit lane just like any other Formula One driver.<br />But Zanardi is no regular professional race car driver: He has no legs<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116433684300567188?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1163824800858125912006-11-17T23:37:00.000-05:002006-11-17T23:40:00.870-05:00By ANAHAD O’CONNOR --NY TIMES<br />Published: November 18, 2006<br />WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y., Nov. 13 — Albert Argibay, a bodybuilder and a state correction officer, was at a Planet Fitness gym with 500 pounds of weight on his shoulders one afternoon this month when the club manager walked over and told him it was time to leave. Mr. Argibay, the manager explained, had violated one of the club’s most sacred and strictly enforced rules: He was grunting.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116382480085812591?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1163540156962520082006-11-14T16:32:00.000-05:002006-11-15T06:44:39.910-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/surferdude.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/surferdude.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Doug Kuntz for The New York Times<br />The Montauk Lighthouse, which Army engineers want to save from erosion with a $14 million sea wall of boulders.<br /><br />By <a title="More Articles by Corey Kilgannon" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/corey_kilgannon/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">COREY KILGANNON</a><br />Published: November 14, 2006<br /></a></a><br />Doug Kuntz for The New York Times<br />A passing storm meant that the surf was up Thursday just west of Montauk Point. The surfers fear that the sea wall will end exciting waves. <a name="10ee63b6cfc0776a_secondParagraph"></a><br />MONTAUK, N.Y., Nov. 10 — The Montauk Point Lighthouse was commissioned by President George Washington and completed in 1796 and may be the most recognized landmark on Long Island. If left unprotected, it could also be a few good storms away from falling down its steadily eroding bluff into the ........<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116354015696252008?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1162865729445274432006-11-06T21:11:00.000-05:002006-11-06T21:15:29.463-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/2006%20old%20ladies%20league.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/2006%20old%20ladies%20league.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Here is a bgood real life story....check out this picture of my softball team....quite the group right/???..the core group has been playing together for 14 seasons, we've collectively raised 17 children, only had one divorce.... got one we're trying to convince to get divorced....got one about to get married, one with 2 grandkids, one newbie in training,.....and believe it or not ...on this team..in this picture..their are 5 women who played competitive sports in College....Florida State, St Johns, Brandeis, University of Scranton, and as you know, Providence...then theres the ones that went to college to learn stuff..thats a whole other bgood story....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116286572944527443?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1162785589965068692006-11-05T22:56:00.000-05:002006-11-05T22:59:49.980-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/priest.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/priest.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />'TOP PROSPECT TO PRIME SUSPECT': After throwing punches at his minor league manager and bouncing around as an actor, a hitter found a new direction in life<br /><br /><br />Ed Cipot on Tuesday at the Holy Child Parish on Staten Island, where he watched the Mets' playoff games. When he was 22 and ''190 pounds of pure hostility,'' he said, he did not live his faith.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116278558996506869?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1162733056964626582006-11-05T08:20:00.000-05:002006-11-05T08:24:16.976-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/cornell.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/cornell.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Cheering Section<br />At Cornell, Catch of the Day Is Always Best on Ice<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116273305696462658?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1162509141071042102006-11-02T18:07:00.000-05:002006-11-04T20:11:23.803-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/RudyMedals017.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/RudyMedals017.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A belated Purple Heart<br /><br />By Charles J. Morgan<br /><br />10/27/2006 10:52 AMThe "Adobe-Boys" of the Mexican War. The "Blue Pants" and "Johnny Rebs" of the Civil War. The "Doughboys" of World War I. And, finally, the "Grunts" of World War II. These were the front-line infantrymen, the ones who bore the rigors of war on their shoulders. One of them was Rudy Trezza of Port Jefferson Station, who, on October 16, was awarded a Purple Heart by Congressman Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) in a ceremony at Callahan's Beach Park in Fort Salonga on the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Slongo, in which America's first recipient of the award, Elijah Churchill, received his. It is America's oldest military medal and is awarded for wounds received in battle. Trezza was a member of H Company, 271st Infantry Regiment of the 36th "Texas" Division.Trezza told The Port Times Record that he was born in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn on High Street and attended Boys High School of Metal Trades and Brooklyn Tech at night when in 1943 he was drafted."I was shipped off to Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi for infantry training with the 69th Division, a wartime-raised outfit. After 13 weeks they sent us to Texas, where we were integrated into the 271st Regiment of the 36th Division. We shipped out to Africa in July 1943 and landed in Oran, Algeria," Trezza recalled.The division was sent into the line near Monte Cassino, where the Germans under General Fridolin Maria von Senger und Etterlin's XIV Panzerkorps was holding up the American and British advance. The Allied forces were stuck there thinking the Germans were occupying the famous sixth-century Benedictine abbey atop the mountain. The Allies were trying to spare any and all monuments of religious or cultural importance, but the American commander General Mark Clark was convinced the Germans were using it as an observation post. So in May 1944, Air Force bombers dumped hundreds of tons of bombs on it and flattened it.As it turned out, the Germans were not using the place, but now they used the rubble to further thwart the Allied advance until late May, when a Polish brigade finally took the high ground. In one of the ironies of war, the German commander von Senger und Etterlin was himself a Third Order Benedictine."Cassino is where I got the Bronze Star," Trezza went on. "We heard some guys screaming in the night. They were wounded and isolated toward the front. We actually disobeyed an order not to go out to get them. I helped drag and carry one guy back to the lines. But then I got hit in the back of the head by a German shell, and they evacuated me to the Bae Hospital in Naples. I was there for a month and rejoined the division up near Florence."The 36th bypassed Rome to the east and secured the final fall off the Eternal City by capturing the high ground around Valmontone after taking the key town of Velletri. But bad luck visited Trezza here."I got hit again by a German shell near the Arno River at Florence, and they shipped me back to Naples. You know, I met the same Army nurse that took care of me the first trip to Naples. I caught up with the division just as it was being shipped back to Oran. We guarded Afrikkorps prisoners there, and then we were off to the invasion of Southern France in August 1944.... I was with the division all the way up to Lyons when it pulled out of the line. So by December ... I was on my way home on board the General Breckenridge that docked in Boston. My cousin lived there, so I visited with him for a while and then got down to Fort Dix, New Jersey, where I was discharged in December '45," Trezza said.Trezza then became a truck driver, handling tractor-trailers for Fleet Motor line in upstate New York, and retired after 30 years in 1972. He said he has a Bronze Star on the way for the action at Cassino in saving the wounded and Bishop has been instrumental in obtaining it for him. Trezza wears the Bronze Star, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, the European-African Campaign medal with four campaign stars, the coveted Combat Infantryman's Badge and, of course, the World War II Victory Medal.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116250914107104210?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1162302204160904732006-10-31T08:36:00.000-05:002006-10-31T08:43:24.170-05:00Great story by Bill Parcells as a motivational tool-- included in a book By Michael Lewis<br /><br />Hart was a well-known big puncher heavily favored against the unknown Vito Antuofermo, how Hart knocked Antuofermo all over the ring, how Antuofermo had no apparent physical gifts except “he bled well.” “But,” Parcells reads, “he had other attributes you couldn’t see.” Antuofermo absorbed the punishment dealt out by his natural superior, and he did it so well that Hart became discouraged. In the fifth round, Hart began to tire, not physically but mentally. Seizing on the moment, Antuofermo attacked and delivered a series of quick blows that knocked Hart down, ending the fight.<br />“When the fighters went back to their makeshift locker rooms, only a thin curtain was between them. Hart’s room was quiet, but on the other side he could hear Antuofermo’s cornermen talking about who would take the fighter to the hospital. Finally he heard Antuofermo say, ‘Every time he hit me with that left hook to the body, I was sure I was going to quit. After the second round, I thought if he hit me there again, I’d quit. I thought the same thing after the fourth round. Then he didn’t hit me no more.’<br />“At that moment, Hart began to weep. It was really soft at first. Then harder. He was crying because for the first time he understood that Antuofermo had felt the same way he had and worse. The only thing that separated the guy talking from the guy crying was what they had done. The coward and the hero feel the same emotions. They’re both human.”<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116230220416090473?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161987140199648992006-10-27T17:09:00.000-05:002006-10-27T17:57:28.513-05:00Alex Trezza<br />Drafted by Detroit Tigers--18th round-2001<br />Current <a href="http://www.northshorespirit.com/">North Shore Spirit</a>-CanAm League<br />Graduate of <a href="http://goseawolves.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/trezza_alex00.html">Stony Brook University</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/alcatcher.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/alcatcher.jpg" border="0" /></a> Undoubtedly a solid backstop who guided the Spirit pitching staff to a league-best ERA in 2006, Alex Trezza nonetheless got more attention for his prowess at the plate than behind it this past season.<br /><br />The Spirit catcher was quite the slugger in 2006, belting out a league-high 19 home runs. His impressive display of power was unrivaled in the rest of the league. The next closer batter trailed him by five home runs in the final season statistics.<br /><br />Due to his penchant for sending ball out of the park, Trezza was among the league leaders in many of the power categories. He finished second in the CanAm League in both slugging percentage (.544) extra-base hits (36).<br /><br />In 78 games for the Spirit in 2006, Trezza hit .259 with 17 doubles and 40 runs batted in. The eight field managers and media members from throughout the league rewarded Trezza’s efforts by selecting him as Catcher of the Year.<br /><br />************ **************** **************<br /><a onmouseover="imgOn('image14')" onmouseout="imgOff('image14')" href="http://und.cstv.com/sports/w-rowing/archive/nd-w-rowing-archive.html"></a><br /><a href="http://und.cstv.com/sports/w-rowing/mtt/trezza_christine00.html">University of Notre Dame </a><br />Sport: Rowing<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/chrissy.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/chrissy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Christine Trezza<br /><br /><p>Class:Sophomore<br />Hometown:Staten Island, NY<br />High School:Notre Dame Academy<br />Height:6-0<br />Birthdate:01/13/1987<br />IN THE FALL: Member of the novice eight team that rowed their way to an impressive third-place finish (19:03.34) at the Head of the Rock ... finished 22nd in the open eight in a time of 19:42.99 ... sat in the seat six in both races at the Head of the Rock.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116198714019964899?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161888596311837262006-10-26T13:47:00.000-05:002006-10-28T19:25:28.413-05:00Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work......<span style="font-size:78%;">( tx uncle Tony)</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116188859631183726?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161743596184896572006-10-24T21:05:00.000-05:002006-10-25T19:51:27.696-05:00Big Bob chips in with a story of sportsnmanship and fair play.<br /><br /><strong>Dad allegedly pulls gun over son's playing time<br /></strong><br />PHILADELPHIA - A father pulled a gun on a youth football coach because his son wasn't getting enough playing time, police said.<br />Wayne Derkotch, 40, was arguing with the coach Sunday during a game of 6- and 7-year-olds when he drew the weapon, police said. No shots were fired.<br />Derkotch was charged with aggravated assault and other offenses. He did not immediately return a call to his home Monday.<br />A referee accused of throwing a punch at a man was also arrested on assault charges, police said.<br />********** **************** ***********<br /><strong>Backup surrenders in punter's stabbing...</strong>A former Northern Colorado backup punter was charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of his rival ...Mitchell Cozad is accused of stabbing starter Rafael Mendoza in his kicking leg last month that drew comparisons to the attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerigan by Tonya Harding's hit man. He could be sentenced to 48 years in prison and was released on $500,000 bail.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116174359618489657?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161621669360753722006-10-23T11:38:00.000-05:002006-10-23T11:44:34.256-05:00NYTIMES--10/23/06<br /><br />Ms. Montgomery, 27, a grass-roots organizer, says she has “zero” interest in sports and is even less equipped to engage in the statistics-laden talk of fantasy sports leagues that dominates at many water coolers in sports-crazy cities like Chicago. The hours sports fans spend tracking their favorite players are for Ms. Montgomery devoted to scouring the legislative agendas of members of Congress.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116162166936075372?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161230543233784812006-10-18T22:52:00.000-05:002006-10-23T18:23:43.593-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/1600/theURN.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/454/3786/320/theURN.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Leave it to the queen to search high and low to find fodder to blog. The queen has vowed to continue to find stories that reflect the ridiculous. Although in this case, with the Yankees and Red Sox buried for weeks , she may be on to something.<a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=inline&amp;amp;view=att&th=10e666cd73cb429a" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&amp;disp=inline&view=att&amp;th=10e666cd73cb429a" target="_blank"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116123054323378481?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1161007791219490402006-10-16T09:09:00.000-05:002006-10-16T09:32:40.310-05:00<p><strong>It's Time To Move ... Hello India</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>About six months ago my nephew got a job assignment in India. Visions of him, a Staten Island kid whose idea of travel was venturing over the Verrazano Bridge, trudging the muddy streets of New Delhi, seemed like a pipe dream. I mean didn't the company have enough work here, in the good old USA, to keep him busy. Yet knowing my nephew (who never needed a ruler to measure an angle), there must be something to this India thing. Bingo, lately everything is turning up roses..I mean India. My calls for tech service for my modem .. Hello from India; A 24/7 Tutoring service for all kinds of subjects with multiple graduate students directing traffic..Hello from India; Hot news from Wall Street indicates the new emerging market...Hello from India; And now <a title="travel agents that" href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/business/yourmoney/15care.html">travel agents that</a> line up your medical needs in Indian Hospitals that provide an alternative to ridiculous health care cost in the U.S....Hello from India.</p><p></p><p>So I guess it's time to move. Heck India is not much different from Staten Island. Mosquitoes feast on humans, construction on the roadways is constant, English has become the second language, it takes about the the same time to fly to an Indian Hospital as traveling to a local N.Y. hospital , the doctors are related to the same medical staff you get in India. </p><p></p><p>Smart kid my nephew, who is also a Met fan, which make this a sport's story.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116100779121949040?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1160833572500511952006-10-14T08:42:00.000-05:002006-10-14T09:18:35.326-05:00<a href="http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgw88c2s_14dcfcx2"><strong>Seems like baseball and hockey get along ...</strong> </a><br /><br />Chris Carpenter(Cardinals) and Tom Glavine(Mets), who at 40 is 9 years older than Carpenter, are New England natives......<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116083357250051195?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1160095012353213692006-10-05T19:35:00.000-05:002006-10-12T19:22:54.126-05:00These two smiling individuals are Red Sox Fans in<br />disguise...'Chazy' is the curse of sports gone bad....<br />the Yankees had no chance....it's the year of the Tiger.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2601/1775/1600/kidsyankee_stadium.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2601/1775/320/kidsyankee_stadium.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116009501235321369?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ralfnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1160051918582200942006-10-05T07:36:00.000-05:002006-10-13T16:20:30.353-05:00<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"></a>The following NYTIMES article details the great tradition of NY City baseball. Back in the day (60’s-70’s) all the schools had baseball teams. There were also many local teams that played at the Parade Grounds, Bay 8th st., Kips Bay. Teams, made up of players from within a local area, with names like Ty Cobb, Gravesend, Bonnies, Cadets, Gil Hodges had fierce rivalries that sometimes spilled over beyond the baseball field. (Getting home was sometimes harder than getting a hit). But you survived, did not play soccer or cricket, and baseball was ‘the’ sport.<br />Those same weekend players, who played on fields of dirt with an occasional patch of grass, filtered back to their respected schools where baseball was still dominant, cricket was still a noisy bug, and uncle Ernie dominated on the same Lafayette mound as Koufax, Franco and a host of others who might have been as good.(AJT)<br /><br /><strong>NYTIMES</strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>SPORTS / BASEBALL October 2, 2006<a href="http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgw88c2s_7cq9vxj"> Hardball Ain’t the Only Game in Brooklyn Anymore </a>By LEE JENKINS and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Baseball is not gone from Brooklyn, but the baseball geography of the city has clearly been altered.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-116005191858220094?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34363292.post-1158198827040302432006-09-13T20:52:00.000-05:002006-10-13T16:38:33.850-05:00Drafting is when one rider gets behind the wheel of another rider to protect himself from the wind. When done correctly, a rider can be pulled along by the leading rider with 25% less effort. One can really go along for the ride . Looks like in the linked article below, Armstong is being dragged along for the ride.<br /><br /><a href="http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgw88c2s_12c6mm9m">Former Team Wants Andreu InvestigatedNYTIMES 09/15/06By JULIET MACURPublished: September 15, 2006</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3841967722816602"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "728x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" </script<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34363292-115819882704030243?l=bgoodsport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>AJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370015925392423455noreply@blogger.com1