Posts Tagged ‘celebrities’
Brock Lesnar Wins UFC Heavyweight Title
UFC 100 was a historic night for the sport of mixed martial arts, and Brock Lesnar used the occasion to avenge his previous loss to Frank Mir with a lopsided TKO victory. With the victory, Lesnar unified the promotion's heavyweight championship. The Mir/Lesnar tilt was the main event on an epic card which culminated an insane week in Las [...]
Del Mar Racetrack: ‘Where The Surf Meets the Turf’
Southern California's Del Mar Racetrack has been is often overshadowed by East Coast venues like Churchill Downs and Belmont Park. The reality is that the 72 year old track has a history to rival their better known counterparts that includes the greatest horses and jockeys in the sport, as well as a healthy dose of show biz glitz. Operated by the [...]
Stan Mikita: Pro Hockey’s Unsung Hero
In the'60's, the NHL was almost entirely made up of Canadian born players. There were a few US natives, but players from other countries were unheard of. Stan Mikita, born the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia, started to change that. While he was sometimes overshadowed by teammates like Bobby Hull, most hockey experts consider Mikita the [...]
The Early Years Of MMA: Ali Vs. Inoki
The UFC has only recently brought mixed martial arts to the mainstream in the US, but in Japan there's a long tradition of fights pitting contestants from different disciplines against each other. While they've only been called MMA or 'mixed martial arts' in recent years, the sport clearly has its roots in these early contests between wrestlers, [...]
Home Theater Magazines
Going to the movie theater after a long day at work may be the entertainment you look forward to every single day, but, if you continue doing this day after day, you will soon notice that it works out to be very expensive. So, if you really want to continue watching movies everyday, a home theater system may be what you need. However, many people [...]
Lindsay Lohan in the News
Lindsay has been in showbiz since she was 3. You would think that she would be use to the pressure by now. Ever since she was legal to drink, is seems her world is spiraling downward. As a New Yorker, Lindsay's first gig was at three years old as a Ford model. After which she appeared in over 60 TV commercials until 1996. It was then that Lindsay [...]
The Strange Saga of Satoshi Ishii And Dana White
It may be a bit of a stretch to call Satoshi Ishii the Michael Phelps of Japan, but not by much. His victory in the heavyweight judo competition at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was easily the defining moment of the games for his countrymen and was considered by most media outlets the #1 highlight of the year in all of sports. Though Japan does [...]
Remembering Swedish Boxing Legend Ingemar Johansson
Ingemar Johannson died in a Swedish nursing home in January 2009 at the age of 76. He'd lived in the nursing home in the Swedish coastal city of Kungsbacka since the mid'90's when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia, and had suffered from a tough case of pneumonia immediately prior to his death. Johannson rocketed to international fame [...]
Tennis Attire
If you already take part in tennis, then I imagine that you already appreciate what tennis players wear, so this article is aimed at those individuals who wish for to procure tennis clothes for a dear one for a special occasion. After all, it is not as straightforward as it seems to buy sports garments for the participant of a sport you understand [...]
