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Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:35 AM

Outscored

My city league softball team has never been great. Our record over the past two years is 9 and 17. This year I’ll be surprised if we even win one game. Our opponents have scored four times more runs than us over the span of four games. We’ve only had...
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Monday, June 21, 2010 12:30 AM

World Cup Group C Scenarios

I don’t pretend to be a big soccer/football fan, but I do enjoy getting caught up in the World Cup excitement. It blows away any other sporting event in terms of viewership. For example, the Chinese Olympic opening ceremony was the most watched sporting...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:30 AM

Softball Stats

When people ask me why I don’t have an iPhone, my immediate response is always “Because Steve Jobs won’t let me write apps for it. I have to buy a Mac to write an app and then get it blessed by his goons before I can distribute it.” The next question...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 3:01 PM

Whitewater Rafting Video

One of the guides from Orion River Expeditions recently shot some video on the Wenatchee (although he wasn’t guiding on this ride.) It gives you a good idea of what it was like, although you can’t get the real feeling of the size of the waves by watching...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:30 AM

Whitewater Rafting

Last weekend was crammed full with activities. Saturday was beautiful so we hopped on the motorcycle and had a picnic at the Ballard Locks. Since we were so close to the zoo, we stopped there to use our wedding gift zoo memberships. The zoo was packed...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:30 AM

Baseball Fan?

On the flight from Atlanta to Seattle, Delta offered free satellite TV through their in-headrest entertainment system. There wasn’t much on, but ESPN was showing a baseball game. I couldn’t remember the last time I actually watched a baseball game on...
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Monday, May 17, 2010 12:30 AM

WhirlyBall

A few days ago, my team from work went to play WhirlyBall.I had no idea what that was and had to look it up. I think it’s best described as a combination of lacrosse and bumper cars. You drive around in special bumper cars holding a small plastic racquet...
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Monday, April 12, 2010 12:30 AM

ESPN3.com

We’re now one step closer to ESPN8 . ESPN has rebranded ESPN360 as ESPN3.com. You’ll still need your cable provider to support it, but once they do, you’ll get a new and improved user interface. In addition to more content, they are...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:30 AM

Un-retired

Michael Jordan won three championships, retired, came back and won three more. (Then he retired and came back again and hurt his legacy a bit.) Now one of sports most dominating athletes is going to accomplish the same thing as Jordan. Michael Schumacher...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:30 AM

NASCAR Returns

I know these last few months have been hard for you without any NASCAR to watch. Luckily, the short offseason is just about over. The Bud Shootout is this Saturday at 8pm eastern. Practice and qualifying starts on Thursday. The actual season starts the...
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Monday, February 01, 2010 12:30 AM

Postseason Favre

I’ve been pretty hard on Favre for basically everything since his first retirement. So when I ran across this quote, I wanted to post it, but given my past, it will probably come off as more Favre bashing. In an attempt to just present you with the data...
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Friday, January 29, 2010 12:30 AM

Tivo and Tiger

Tivo has a nice feature called Tivo Suggestions. It tracks the kind of shows you watch and then, when nothing else is being recorded, it will record other shows that you might like. Now that the golf season is starting up, it’s recording all of...
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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:30 AM

Bring Back The Old Tiger Woods

I told AndyC that I was looking for blog material and he suggested a post about Tiger and the other top athletes who have made bad choices (Kobe, ARod, Phelps, Tiger, etc.) I’m still trying to give Tiger the benefit of the doubt, but with each passing...
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Friday, December 04, 2009 12:30 AM

Say It Ain’t Sosa

Sammy Sosa continues to find new ways to disappoint me. If you asked me to name four of my favorite baseball players when I was growing up, it would be Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg, Mark Grace, and Sammy Sosa. It was a big hit for me when the steroid scandal...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:30 AM

Jimmy Johnson

The 2009 NASCAR season is over. Jimmy Johnson won his fourth consecutive championship. Stop and think for a minute about what a remarkable achievement this is! Free Press sports writer Mike Brudenell has a recap of other teams that have won four consecutive...
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