Headlines for June, 2008

Rays

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Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 3

read part one here read part two here The Books Mere months after the Benoit tragedy, a collection of articles were put together for form a book entitled Benoit:Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport. One of the authors is Irv Muchnick, who's also working on a book called Chris and Nancy. He has written a number of [read more...]

NSR REVIEWS: 112 Miles to the Pin

Courtesy of Letters On Pages  As you can probably judge by the title, this is a book about golf. But not just any golf. No, this is about playing golf in the weirdest, strangest, most extreme places in the world. I don't know that you have to be a big golf fan to enjoy the book…but I imagine if you aren't [read more...]

Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 2

read part one here read part three here Concussions Chris Nowinski is a former professional wrestler himself. His WWE career was cut short in June 2003 after a series of concussions, and Nowinski channeled his energy toward concussion research. In 2006, he wrote a book about the NFL's concussion problem, entitled Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. Over the next couple years, Nowinski [read more...]

Maria Sharapova

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Euro 2008 Finals Preview

Some of best teams in Europe have battled over the last few weeks in Switzerland and Austria. There was the drama of penalty kicks, the Cinderella story of Turkey, and two giants of soccer, France and Italy, aged in front of everyone. Only one game remains, and it will determine the winner of Euro 2008. The two teams to battle it [read more...]

Soccer Basher Mad Tea Party

Dear FIFA, U.S. Soccer Fan, MLS, and Euro 2008: I know you want America to love you, but it's just not working out. You aren't trying hard enough to make this relationship blossom -- and I think you should seek counseling. The British-sounding guy doing all the Euro 2008 commercials just isn't sexy to America. You can do better soccer nation. If [read more...]

Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 1

It was in June 2007 when the world of professional wrestling changed forever. Chris Benoit murdered his wife Nancy, his son Daniel, and finally killed himself on an early summer weekend. While deaths in professional wrestling have become all too common in the last 15 years, the circumstances surrounding what happened are what shocked so many. What made this different was [read more...]

AFL Playoff Preview

Friday, June 27 #6 New York Dragons (8-8) at #3 Dallas Desperados (12-4), 7:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Player to watch-New York: The AFL is an offensive-minded league, but in order to combat the very tough National Conference, New York was able to rely on two defensive stalwarts who made the All-Arena League first team. Defensive back Billy Parker and Defensive Lineman Henry [read more...]

Kim Couture vs. Kim Rose, MMA and American Bloodlust

And we go sinking, unblinking, into madness…. "They" bet their lives on this and "They" do not want you to read this; "They" do not want this to see the light of day. Not the head honchos and producers at CBS or FOX. And certainly not the executives in the same positions at ESPN/ABC. And the minions who write for those [read more...]

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