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Right? Doesn't that seem logical? The more athletic competitors are the ones who kill it at ballroom dance. Therefore it must be a sport.
[Note by Dex, 10/07/08 12:44 PM EDT ] I admit it. I added this post because I wanted to see what the widget would do. It doesn't do a whole lot ...
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Amazing Race Season 13 Episode 2
This episode started off with more drama between Terrence and Sarah. Terrence is the one that we've identified as the "little b*tch" in an early post. It just got worse during this episode. Terrence is so precious and needs Sarah to mother him ...
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ESPN doesn't care
about what is all the rage in P.E. classes, except maybe for a brief
one-time story. Cup stacking is on TV because it is fun to watch.
Those kids look like someone crossed Harry Potter with a ninja with a
street 3-card monty player.
Cup stacking vs. Ultimate - ...
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Ah Korean warmups. Soft piano music blasting away. A militaristic man barking orders at you while you stretch. Foreign countries are so foreign.
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Mangold Hurling is where you take mangold roots and throw them as far as you can. And like any sport worth its salt, there's an association and a web page devoted to it .
"Away, mangold! Fly away as far as ye can!"
It's a common sport in various cultures, as evidenced by the black ...
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Amazing Race Episode 1 Recap
Okay, I think I've picked my favorite team. It's going to have to be the nerds from San Diego, Mark and Bill . I have a soft spot in my heart for overweight, sweaty nerds from San Diego.
None of the teams have really shown their true colors ...
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I'm psyched for the Amazing Race premiere. I'll have be blogging the series again this year. If you'd like to discuss the show do it here.
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See how I rhymed that? That's quality blogging right there.
Never liked David Blaine and his stupid street magician camera tricks and edits. Everybody knows how to do the levitation thing and how you used special effects for the TV viewers. You suck. It wouldn't be as ...
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The United States wheelchair rugby team beat the Australian team yesterday at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Murderball has gotta be really empowering for the participants. For one thing, it's a sport that able bodied people watch and think, "that looks like a lot of fun", because, to ...
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USA
An ancient battle between Lancashire and Yorkshire continues in the form of the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships
This annual event takes place in Ramsbottom (don't laugh it's a very nice village with a steam train and stuff, just down the road from my parents) on the outskirts of ...
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Dragonboats or 龍船 as they say in China are like, but also entirely unlike, giant canoes. Twenty-two people sit in a dragon boat with one person up front beating on a drum and one person in the back steering, while the other twenty schmucks paddle very quickly in time to move this rig that can weigh up to 1,750 pounds.
Here's a video with some party people who also happen to race ...
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China
Slovakia routs Bulgaria 82-0 in women's hockey
You ladies may want to try another sport. -via AP
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Canadian wheelchair racer Diane Roy may be forced to return her Paralympic gold medal because of a crash that occured, prompting an official to go onto the track, during the 5,000m distance race in Beijing last night.
Roy told the CBC,
"It's unjust for a lot of people, for the team, for me, for my coach, for the other athletes."
The event has been rescheduled for this ...
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Roy Halladay
Lance Armstrong coming out of retirement for next year's Tour de France. Man, that guy's got ball
"He's nut" -via the four letter and totalfark
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France
He Kexin
Fox has this new show that they were promoting during Football yesterday. It's called Hole in the Wall and it's all about trying contort your body to fit through a wall that's coming at you. I saw the last few minutes of it last night. They had a "six pack team" (guys who were in shape) and a "beer belly team" (guys who were out of shape).
Fox really ruined a good ...
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