Formula 1 Tire Failure
Posted: May 9, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Category: f1
Mclaren’s Heiki Kovalainen crashed hard in Spain after a tire deflated at about 150 MPH. The investigation revealed that the wrong paint was used in one step of the rim manufacturing process. Enkei makes the rims. They make plenty of rims for streetLes jeux passionnants sur Top des компютриpoker en ligne sont fait d’une mani?re professionnelle, pour qu’ils n’aient rien ? pr?tendre ? leurs mod?les r?els. cars. I’m surprised they haven’t gotten more negative press for this.
How does a major modern manufacture not use system to eliminate the ability of people to make these potentially deadly errors? Japan invented Six Sigma. Enkei needs to get their systems and procedures correct.
NCAA
Posted: April 13, 2008 at 3:51 am
Category: Sports News, Athletics
No, not the final four. Gary Brown of the NCAA is going nuts on community involvement. His new riff is that fan friendly events lead to more revenue, making them by definition “the right thing to do”.
What’s he trying to accomplish?
He wants fans to stop heckling during visiting teams free throws. He wants fans in general to be nice to the opponents.
How are the colleges supposed to make this happen. Don’t punish the offenders, he says, “Rather, overwhelm them with the positive power of community.”
I love this guy.
The NFL is the most pervasive sport in the USA
Posted: March 20, 2008 at 4:25 am
Category: Sports News
There are NFL Crocs with team colors, the team logo on the back of the ankle band and the team name twice. NFL Scrubs (although every size of the giants scrubs are out of stock at the moment) and of course an NFL TV network.
Anyway, baseball had a head start and therefore got the “America’s Pastime” tag. But it’s past the MLB’s time and we live in the United States of Football.
NCAA Selection in Indy
Posted: March 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Category: Sports News
Who knew there were so many sports magazines there’s even a Pro Rodeo Sports News. How do they find writers for some of these? Do you aspire to write for Junior Baseball?
Anyway, I wish I could be a fly on the wall today in Indy as they decide who goes on to tournament fame and fortune. How negotiated and corrupt do you think that process is?
The Marion Jones Story!
Posted: February 20, 2008 at 7:02 am
Category: Athletics
Marion Jones has disappointed a lot of fans and how?
Marion Jones sailed through approximately 160 drug tests in her drug infested but medal-strewn career.This calls for a very surprising digression!What on earth were the officials doing when she manged to hoodwink half of the world sports committees? AND how on earth did it happen?How did she manage to fool so many officials without even a hint of discovery?
THE sordid story broke when Jones was being investigated for a relation to a weird criminal investigation into the tax anomalies of a Californian laboratory, Balco, which was responsible for inventing and supplying the athlete with the drugs.
Safe to say if the investigation had not started then she would have continued to fool the entire world with her athletic prowess.
We are very disappointed! And all this from a five-medal winner of Olympics gold or was that after the drugs?I’m very very disappointed!
She has since turned in the medals !
John Terry and David Beckham in trouble?
Posted: February 18, 2008 at 5:27 am
Category: Sports News
Manager Fabio Capell said there were no guarantees that John Terry would retain his captaincy or even David Beckham would get his 100th cap against Switzerland.
He acknowledged that the captaincy issue was very importanmt and he would do his best to see that a fair and good choice was made.
John Terry has always been the preferred leader of the team and remains the perennial favorite to be Capello’s captain in the long-run, but most importantly no one will discover who will be the reigning captain at least possibly until Sept 6 when England begin their training for the 2010 World Cup with a qualifying match against Andorra.
The main reason for the brouhaha is the current injuries of John Terry causing the rumor that David Beckham was the next in line for the captaincy. A challenge by Arsenal’s Emmanuel Eboue at the Emirates cup on Dec 16 had severely fractured three bones in Terry’s right foot causing a statement of three to six weeks leave by Chelsea.
Although the manager has neither confirmed nor denied the rumors he has definitely stated that a provisional captain may be appointed till a final is deemed necessary.
And WE have more sports scandals!
Posted: February 15, 2008 at 6:06 am
Category: Uncategorized
This is really interesting.We have music world scandals and Hollywood scandals , but the most hits I got on the Internet were related to sport scandals.What is it with sports stars and scandals.The Hollywood bunch happen to look like angels in comparison.
Any way here are a few more and we’re done I don’t want to bore you any more with yet a thousand more scandals.
- Jim Thorpe was the super athlete of almost every sport.He played a mean four-position football, accompanied by an awesome track and field performance. He was also a renowned baseball, basketball, lacrosse and tennis player, as well as a skilled golfer, rower, bowler, pool player and gymnast.A truly amazing athlete who was mistakenly stripped of his medals when according to the rules at that time, he had received payment for his performance as a minor league baseball player in 1909 and1910.As Jim argued he didn’t know any better as he was naive schoolboy at the time.The athlete was stripped of his medals even as he tearfully pleaded his ignorance and innocence to the whole world.
- Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekeich have the weirdest story all around. The players showed up one summer stating that they had traded wives and children along with the dogs.How weird is that! Although I can understand trading the wives,(I’ve wanted to do that to the old ball and chain a few times) why on earth would you want to do something like that to the children and dogs.
Can you imagine the emotional impact on the dogs?
HEHe, HEHE, Just being mean and catty
Biggest sports scandals in history
Posted: February 14, 2008 at 5:12 am
Category: Uncategorized
It’s not difficult to associate sports with big money and power. But with money and power comes responsibility . One of the problems alway associated with sport’s has been scandals.Whether its been for money , power, position or sex.
Here are a few of the biggest sports scandals every to hit the news .Starting off with the father if Modern sports scandals is
- Kobe Bryant was accused of rape and the charges where thrown out if court but not before a whole lot of weird behavior came out of the closet. Kobe admitted to adultery and affairs, then said his wife was divorcing him, then brought his wife a $4 million ring and eventually pointed fingers at all and sundry including superstar friend Shaq.
- Jose Canesco, Major League star was admired by all for his ways on the field until he got the bright idea of retiring and publishing his expose of the sports world in his memoirs, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big.” Major league embarrassment for all! He accused Mark Mcguire, Rafael Palmeiro and a whole lot of super stars of using steroids for sports success. Oh by the way, steroids were banned for use at the time. So you can just imagine the problems this caused.
- NBA player,Ron Artest caused the first and the worst fan and Piston NBA team free-for-all fight on the court resulting in a suspension, and criminal charges flying right left and center.
This interesting series will be continued. Keep in touch!
Lloyd Upsdell’s sprinting secrets at the Paralympics
Posted: February 10, 2008 at 6:41 am
Category: Uncategorized
Sprinter Lloyd Upsdell burst onto the international scene when he won two golds at the International World Championships in 1998. The cerebral palsy athlete also won a bronze at the Athens Olympics.
The Welsh born athlete was discovered by a coach twelve years ago and has never looked back since. He also ahs a impressive track record of the follwoing wins on the track,
- Paralympics: Sydney 2000: gold (100 and 200m), Athens 2004: bronze (200m)
- World Champs: Birmingham 1998: gold (100 and 200m), Lille 2002: gold (100 and 200m)
- European Champs: Assen 2003: silver (200m), Espoo 2005: gold (2005)
- World records: World 200m record holder, European 100m record holder
Although he has experienced a a whole new series of problems in his life recently which you could say are common to all teenagers. He fell in love, did not manage to fill in a set of very important and necessary forms, lost his funding, gained weight, fought with the UK Athletics administrative mandarins, and became thoroughly disillusioned and and ultimately went on a terrific drinking spree.
Sports celebrities and scandals
Posted: February 7, 2008 at 5:42 am
Category: Uncategorized
As you may have noticed by money,sexy groupies and power can definitely go to anyone’s head and here is a list of the unfortunates who have managed to hit the headlines for reasons other than their sports prowess,
- NHL player Todd Bertuzzi brutally and intentionally slashes opposing player Steve Moore, resulting in a destroyed career, a broken neck, a concussion and numerous fractures. Todd was suspended for the rest of the year as well as had police criminal chrges filed against him by the police. I think he got of pretty lightly. Some one should have thrashed him well and good to show him what it feels like!
- At the 1919 World Series, a few members of the Chicago baseball team were suspended for a lifetime as they were accused of payment to throw matches.
- In 1984,Figure skater Tonya Harding’s ex-husband hired a thug to break fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan’s legs. Kerrigan withdrew, and Tonya won that years US figure skating event although she always maintained her innocence. In that years Olympics, Nancy Kerrigan came in second while Tonya landed a dismal eighth.
- Salt lake city and its bid for the international Olympics became literally infamous.After facing constant disappointment in its bid to host the Olympics; the city decide it’s time to play dirty.A whole range of perks landed up in the International Olympic Committee’s laps ranging from plastic surgery expenses, scholarships, free ski vacations to even bulk local jobs.Salt Lake City finally got its first Olympic Games. But when the first judge, Marc Hodler got hit with a pang of conscience and accepted that he had taken bribes bribes, heads began to roll.Almost the entire committee was given it walking papers but Salt lake city still got its Olympics.
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