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
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Arkansas' most obscure NBA player
Turns out there's five Arkansans currently in the League. Ya'll know about Joe, D-Fish and Ronnie. Maybe James Anderson too. But likely not this guy -
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/dZfOsq
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Blake Griffin posterized formerly anonymous collection of hard consonants
Love this piece b/c it:
1) shows how much higher Blake can jump off one leg than two (a head's worth)
2) describes Timofey Mozgov as "a formerly anonymous collection of hard consonants who plays for New York"
3) sifts gold from Ron Artest's mouth: "I hope he dunks on me. Would you buy that poster? I'd buy it and tell him to sign it."
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Is Arkansas "stroke belt"'s buckle?
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Range from the Bench
Range from the Bench
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Why Arkansas should beat LSU on Saturday
Stats breakdown from games in which Hogs and Tigers played common foes this season
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/gCZ8Qj
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Most spectacular first two points in NBA history?
I wish to Mose Malone there was a way to verify it was, but until then I must be content seeing a player who's been described as a "dump truck on a trampoline" make his long-awaited NBA splash.
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/e59l
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
New World (basketball) Order Draws Nearer
Word from SLAM.com today is that the D-League will soon implement FIBA goaltending rules, meaning players will be able to swat the ball off the rim any time after it's touched the rim.
Previously the league operated under NBA rules, where players had to avoid the ball if it was in an "invisible cylinder" over the rim whenever the ball was directly over the basket.
NBDL brass made the move ostensibly to juice up the game with more jumping sequences showing off the players' world-class athleticism. The league will crunch reams of data to determine how the rule change affects game tempo - and whether fans like it. That information, in turn, should determine whether the NBA decides to adopt the rule down the line.
On the surface, this is one more step toward a global game. FIBA, for its part, is reaching out, too. The world's governing body for basketball is this season abandoning the trapezoid lane in favor of an NBA-sized rectangular lane, and moving the 3-point line back by a half-meter (19½ inches) from its current distance of 20 feet, 6.1 inches.
But this change could also help the U.S. team in future FIBA international tournaments if some season down the line NBA players were to go own strike as they did in 1998-99. In the preceding summer, the labor disputes forced Team USA had to cobble together a team of CBA, college and international players for the 1998 FIBA World Championship.
They did surprisingly well by going 7-2 and capturing the bronze medal, but it's safe to assume that such a squad wouldn't have fared quite as well today given the increased strength of world competition.
If such a labor dispute were to again afflict Team USA - whether it be during the Worlds, Olympics or FIBA Americas - it would likely cobble together international players and NBDL stars, who will soon be more accustomed to international rules.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Turns out there's a veritable tent city a-bornin' outside the UA-Fayetteville's stadium for the big Arkansas-Alabama game. My sister-in-law just told me those suckers extend to Bud Walton, which has to set some kind of local record for third-world nation emulation spurred by a decidedly first world nation past time. http://bit.ly/ahf5xc http://bit.ly/axUaT0
Sunday, September 12, 2010
The Global Hook: "Like Cameron Indoor Stadium Times Five"
Tonight would not be a golden one for Turkey, but argentine ain't bad. Here's a photo of last night, when anything seemed possible in this cauldron of red and white partison fireworks known as Sinan Erdem Dome.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/bjh9WP
"Like Cameron Indoor Stadium Times 5"
That's how ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla described the Sinan Erdem Dome here in Istanbul.
And that was how it felt last night during one of the memorable games I've ever experienced. Fortune smiled on Turkey to allow it to escape with an 83-82 win against Serbia and head to the gold medal game against U.S.
This picture, taken about three minutes after the buzzer, is from the top of press row and captures the Turkish team in mid-embrace below.
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