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It’s a far cry from the bright lights of the arena. The familiar sight of brightly polished parquet floors and fully loaded box seats are nowhere to be found. In its place is a slab of asphalt and cement blocks posing as bleachers. Everything is different; the bounce of the ball, the sound of a swishing net, and the roar of the crowd.
This is street basketball.
Sunday’s Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix brought back memories that nobody in the sport would actually admit it brought back.
While Lewis Hamilton won the race to become the first black driver to ever win an F1 event, it was overshadowed by the horrific crash of Poland’s Robert Kubica on lap 27. Luckily, Kubica, who’s car came apart and rolled a half dozen times while he was still in it, was alright, suffering merely a broken foot.
He’s lucky because if Ayrton Senna, arguably the greatest driver of all time, hadn’t died 13 years ago, Kubica could have died too.
Chances are you don’t know what it’s like to be a Cleveland sports fan.
If you are in this exclusive club, though, you already know.
It had been a competition, and circus all the same.
And now, the 2003 American League Championship Series would be decided on one game, on one night.
Pedro Martinez had his legacy to protect, damaged in Game 3.
Roger Clemens had his dignity to fight for. It was common knowledge that Clemens would dive into retirement immediately following the ’03 season. He couldn’t be remembered as a loser, defeated by his successor.
No professional athlete perhaps ever has dominated his or her sport as completely as Esther Vergeer has.
Vergeer, who is from the Netherlands and only got her first English-language Wikipedia page on Feb. 1, has not lost a match in wheelchair singles tennis since the end of January.
No, not the end of January, 2007, or even 2006, 2005, or 2004. Esther Vergeer has not lost a wheelchair singles match since January 2003. And she’s lost only one since the beginning of 2001.
For Coppin State’s baseball team, the NCAA tournament was never the goal.
After an offseason that featured its head coach resigning mid-summer to pursue a different career and all but three players quitting because of an alleged letter that Guy Robertson, the resigned coach, sent to convince the players to quit too, to an athletic budget that makes it a burden to purchase baseballs, the NCAA tournament was more than that clichéd dream from occurring. And no, they didn’t make the tournament, because you would have heard the story by now if they had.
by Trevor Freeman
Two men. One a giant in his sport and the other a literal giant had news that seemed to fly under sport’s radar last week. It is surprising considering the two names involved. However their news has the potential to impact the sports scene in 2008. For David Beckham being asked to rejoin England and Roy Hibbert deciding to rejoin the Georgetown Hoyas means there could be a little more sizzle on each side when they show up for America and Europe’s version of the Madness.
If you search the Arlington Park website, you’ll find no report about why the horse track was closed for two years from 1998-1999.
You’ll find out how the track recovered in the 1980s from a fire that destroyed the grandstand, forcing the track to move its meet to Hawthorne Race Course, located across town in Chicago; you’ll find out how in 1981, Arlington Park became the first horse track in the history of the world to offer a $1 million purse for one race, the Arlington Million; you’ll find out that Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, John Henry, Native Dancer, and Citation have been among the countless horses to run and win at the track; you’ll find out that Cigar tied Citation’s 16-race winning streak at the track; but the only mention of the track going dark is that it reopened in 2000 after a two year absence.
Well, it’s Ping Pong Ball day in the NBA- where franchises have the chance to rise from the ashes of mediocrity in one fell swoop of David Stern’s hand, but I’d like to focus on something with a touch more importance.
If you haven’t done it already I strongly recommend that you check out PeeYourPantsForTheBrewers.com, a site that encourages all fans of the Crew to join together in urination if, and when, the Brewers clinch the NL Central title this season. It is easily the funniest baseball-related thing I have seen all season. Maybe the funniest ever. I can’t say what would possess people to want to pee their pants in elation, but apparently Brewer fans are just a different breed of people.
The site’s introductory paragraph says it all: “I have never seen a full Brewers season where they make the playoffs. Born in July 1982, I missed that amazing World Series run. It’s been a long 24 years- the longest playoff drought in baseball. With a young team of quality stars and shrewd management, we’re boldly making our move. I get so excited thinking about the Brewers now, a little pee comes out. In fact, when the Brewers make the playoffs I will pee my pants.”
Already 4,822 people have made the pledge to celebrate the Brewers in unison. You, too, could join their ranks, if you’re a Milwaukee fan who is unperturbed by wet, filthy, unsanitary pants, just by going to PeeYourPantsForTheBrewers.com and filling out the registry.
As told by Bob Cerv, Outfielder; 1961 New York Yankees.