Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
http://sync.arkansasonline.com/news/2011/jul/12/soccers-long-term-goals/
Soccer, long the sport of choice among immigrants to the United States, has developed into the game through which the American masses can feel most unapologetically nationalistic. Other sports used to serve this function.
Soccer, long the sport of choice among immigrants to the United States, has developed into the game through which the American masses can feel most unapologetically nationalistic. Other sports used to serve this function.
In 1936, America kicked the world’s ass through Jesse Owens, the great track and field star who won multiple golds at the Berlin Olympics. Around the same time, tens of millions followed every punch heavyweight boxer Joe Louis landed on the German Max Schmeling to solidify his world champion standing.
In 1980, it was the “Miracle on Ice,” in which amateur Americans defeated the mighty Soviet professionals to make the Winter Olympics title match. http://bit.ly/oe3o4l
Soccer, long the sport of choice among immigrants to the United States, has developed into the game through which the American masses can feel most unapologetically nationalistic. Other sports used to serve this function.
Soccer, long the sport of choice among immigrants to the United States, has developed into the game through which the American masses can feel most unapologetically nationalistic. Other sports used to serve this function.
In 1936, America kicked the world’s ass through Jesse Owens, the great track and field star who won multiple golds at the Berlin Olympics. Around the same time, tens of millions followed every punch heavyweight boxer Joe Louis landed on the German Max Schmeling to solidify his world champion standing.
In 1980, it was the “Miracle on Ice,” in which amateur Americans defeated the mighty Soviet professionals to make the Winter Olympics title match. http://bit.ly/oe3o4l
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Known to teammates as the "Flea," Lionel Messi has grown into the world's biggest soccer star http://bit.ly/jfZadp
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Christian Laettner talks Pelphrey, Anderson, new LR pro team
I caught up with him at Sidney Moncrief's alma mater
Amplify’d from www.arkansasonline.com
LITTLE ROCK — No other Dream Teamer ran the court with Christian Laettner on Saturday morning at Little Rock’s Hall High School.
No Michael Jordan, no Larry Bird or Magic Johnson from the U.S. national team that bedazzled the world while steamrolling to a gold medal in the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament.
No one near that good.
Instead, Laettner, the youngest player on that iconic collection of talent, served as a hoops sage this weekend for a group of basketball players - and a general manager - with dreams all their own.
For the past year, Laettner has run his own basketball academy business - a return to the game after stepping away following his 2005 retirement from a 13-year NBA career. The academy is based near his home in Jacksonville, Fla., where he recently met Bernard Brown, president of a new minor league pro basketball team in Little Rock.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/iKbyVo
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Calcium deposit in Right Calf 1, Allen Iverson 0
Future Hall-of-Famer's spot on Turkish team taken by D-Leaguer who no longer reps "Mad Ants" franchise
See this Amp at http://aol.it/gVVKgA
Friday, January 28, 2011
The Most Interesting Man in the NBA
Rudy Gay once missed a dunk, just to find out what it felt like.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/hgeIQS
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Sister’s keepers
Lone woman in North Little Rock men’s basketball league banks on family support.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/hADENC
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
