Archive for December, 2010

Hockey fans create border gridlock
For Jeff Blay, it was a lo-o-ong return trip to watch Tuesday’s Canada-Czech Republic game in Buffalo. He and friend Adam Dussault made the trek to see Team Canada play its second matchup of the World Junior Hockey Championship.[...]
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Summit girls’ hockey off to solid start
The Summit under-14 girls’ hockey team is off to another impressive season. After finishing the regular season last year undefeated, the girls moved up to a new age category — U-14 in the Mountain States Girls Youth Hockey League.
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Football: Ferguson rules out January sales
LONDON: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has ruled out a spending spree in the January sales.
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College football: Illinois 38, Baylor 14
Associated Press The college football notebook … HOUSTON — Mikel Leshoure ran for 184 yards and three touchdowns as Illinois earned its first …
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Former MLB manager, player Steve Boros dies at 74
Former big league manager and infielder Steve Boros, who later played a key behind-the-scenes role in one of baseball’s most thrilling World Series moments, has died. He was 74. Boros died Wednesday night in Deland, Fla., where he had spent his recent years, the Detroit Tigers said Thursday. The team said it didn’t have any other details on his death.
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No date-rape drugs found in baseball star Wittels investigation
No date-rape drugs found in baseball star Wittels investigation
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Buck Showalter excited about Double-A baseball
With a career forged in minor league baseball, Century native Buck Showalter thinks it’s a coup Pensacola landed a Double-A franchise.
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by The Library of Congress

[Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)] (LOC)


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Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)]

[1912]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Speaker.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Baseball

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10312

Call Number: LC-B2- 2387-11

In recent years, the arrival in the United States of players like Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui has enlightened Americans about the popularity of the sport in Japan. But most Americans don’t know that Japan has almost as long a baseball history as the United States.

The exact date that baseball was introduced in Japan is not known, but it is attributed to American professor Horace Wilson sometime between 1867 and 1912. The Japanese people were immediately intrigued by western baseball, seeing psychological similarities between baseball and their native sports of sumo and martial arts.

In the 1930s, a team of famous American baseball players including Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig toured Japan and played games against Japanese college players. Even though the Americans won every game they played, the series helped build interest in baseball throughout Japan. The first Japanese professional team was formed in 1934.

During the years of World War II, as more men joined the military, baseball fell into disfavor and many baseball fields were turned into ammunition dumps or used to grow food crops. However, after Japan was defeated, Allied commanders assisting in the rebuilding of Japan turned to baseball to boost morale and build stronger ties with the west.

In 1950, the Japanese league took on the form it still holds today; two leagues of six teams each. The introduction of television in 1955 brought baseball to a wider audience in Japan as it did in the United States.

There are a few differences in the style and rules of play between modern American and Japanese baseball. The ball used in Japanese baseball is smaller and lighter than the ball used in American baseball. Also, unlike American teams, Japanese teams are only allowed four foreign players per team, two position players and two pitchers.

Stylistically, Japanese coaches focus more on the fundamentals of bunting, base running and fielding whereas American baseball has come to rely heavily on pitching talent and long ball hitting. Because of these differences, Japanese baseball games typically have closer and lower final scores than American baseball games.

In recent years, Japanese baseball teams have been hit hard by players defecting to American teams. The Japanese league and Major League Baseball have an agreement requiring the payment of fees by American teams wanting to recruit Japanese players, but the rules do not apply to free agents. Japanese people today are far more likely to watch an American team on television than they are a Japanese team. Players like Ichiro Suzuki are wildly popular in Japan and are considered national heroes.

by Vini Serafim

I thought as English Horse Races are famous worldwide I thought my article on the earliest English horse races would be of interest to horse lovers and readers from all over world. The origins of modern racing lies in the 12th century, when English knights returned from the Crusades with swift Arab horses.

Over the next 400 years, an increasing number of Arab stallions were imported and bred to English mares to produce horses that combined speed and endurance. Matching the fastest of these animals in two-horse races for a private wager became a popular diversion of the nobility.

Horse racing began to become a professional sport during the reign (1702-14) of Queen Anne, when match racing gave way to races involving several horses on which the spectators wagered. Racecourses sprang up all over England, offering increasingly large purses to attract the best horses. These purses in turn made breeding and owning horses for racing profitable.

With the rapid expansion of the sport came the need for a central governing authority. In 1750 racing’s elite met at Newmarket to form the English Jockey Club, which to this day exercises complete control over English racing.

The English Jockey Club wrote complete rules of racing and sanctioned racecourses to conduct meetings under those rules. Standards defining the quality of races soon led to the designation of certain races as the ultimate tests of excellence. Since 1814, five races for three-year-old horses have been designated as “classics.” Three races, open to male horses (colts) and female horses (fillies), make up the English Triple Crown: the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby (see DERBY, THE), and the St. Leger Stakes. Two races, open to fillies only, are the 1,000 Guineas and the Epsom Oaks.

The Jockey Club also took steps to regulate the breeding of racehorses. James Weatherby, whose family served as accountants to the members of the Jockey Club, was assigned the task of tracing the pedigree, or complete family history, of every horse racing in England. In 1791 the results of his research were published as the Introduction to the General Stud Book. From 1793 to the present, members of the Weatherby family have meticulously recorded the pedigree of every foal born to those racehorses in subsequent volumes of the General Stud Book.

By the early 1800s the only horses that could be called “Thoroughbreds” and allowed to race were those descended from horses listed in the General Stud Book. Thoroughbreds are so inbred that the pedigree of every single animal can be traced back father-to-father to one of three stallions, called the “foundation sires.” These stallions were the Byerley Turk, foaled c.1679; the Darley Arabian, foaled c.1700; and the Godolphin Arabian, foaled c.1724.

Overseas Horse Racing

The British settlers brought horses and horse racing with them to the New World, with the first racetrack laid out on Long Island as early as 1665. Although the sport became a popular local pastime, the development of organized racing did not arrive until after the Civil War. (The American Stud Book was begun in 1868.) For the next several decades, with the rapid rise of an industrial economy, gambling on racehorses, and therefore horse racing itself, grew explosively; by 1890, 314 tracks were operating across the country.

In 1894 the America’s most prominent track and stable owners met in New York to form an American Jockey Club, modeled on the English Jockey Club, which soon ruled racing with an iron hand.

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Copyright © 2010 Paul Hussey. All Rights Reserved.



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U.S. beats Germany to remain undefeated at hockey junior world championships
Jack Campbell made 14 saves and Andy Iles didn’t face a shot in nine minutes as the two U.S. goalies combined to shut out Germany 4-0 in preliminary-round play in the World Junior Hockey Championships.
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Regional Digest: UConn Hockey Wins
UConn Tops Holy Cross In Hockey
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Good Samaritan to be honored at weekend hockey game
TROTWOOD — The woman called a guardian angel who came to the rescue of a Dayton Police officer who had been overpowered by an unruly man during a traffic stop will be recognized at Saturday’s Dayton Gems hockey game.Angela Pierce will participate in the ceremonial puck-drop right within 15 minutes before the 7:30 p.m. game at Hara Arena, 1001 Shiloh Springs Road, according to Ryan Hehr, director …
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Tackle Football Gains a Following in Israel
Interest in American football has gained ground in Israel — so much that the enthusiasm to start a tackle league came from native Israelis.
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Ohio State football blog: Why so many awards?
When news of the Ohio State football suspensions broke, many people asked, “How could they sell their Big Ten championship rings?”
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by LordKhan

Army Football Media Day


Image by West Point Public Affairs
The Army football team kicked off its preseason Aug. 2 with its annual Media Day at Michie Stadium. Head coach Rich Ellerson and over 140 members of the squad, including the incoming freshman class, donned their uniforms and fielded questions from a large media contingent regarding the upcoming season and what fans can look forward to in 2010. Photo by Mike Strasser/West Point Directorate of Public Affairs and Communications

Topics of discussion with Army’s second-year head coach ranged from how his players looked after being away for the summer, expectations for the upcoming season, position switches and much more. Photo by Mike Strasser/West Point Directorate of Public Affairs and Communications

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Youngsters Playing Hockey at West Side Park below Hermann Heights in New Ulm, Minnesota …, 01/1975


Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Youngsters Playing Hockey at West Side Park below Hermann Heights in New Ulm, Minnesota. Physical Fitness Is Stressed in This Community of German Descendants. The Town Has a Turner Club for Youth Interested in Gymnastics. Turnvereins, Or Turner Clubs, Began in Germany in the 1800′s and Stress Health through Exercise, Especially Gymnastics. The Club Claims to Be One of the Co-Founders of New Ulm, a County Seat Trading Center of 13,000 in a Farming Area of South Central Minnesota 01/1975

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-15748

Photographer: Rees, David, 1943-

Subjects:
New Ulm (Brown county, Minnesota, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA

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Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html

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Hockey exercises are extremely important to anyone’s hockey career. It’s no secret that strong forearms and wrist flexors will have a profound effect on a hockey player’s game with more powerful shots, more stick speed, and better stick control. Therefore, one must focus on very powerful transverse abdominal exercises and overall power compound training. Because ice hockey requires a significant degree of physical strength, an ice hockey training plan should develop a combination of aerobic power, strength and muscle bulk, explosive speed and power, as well as good anaerobic endurance.

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Unlike bodybuilding, where the only aim is to increase the size and appearance of muscles, strength training programs for sport ultimately must develop either explosive power or muscular endurance. Here, now, are examples of exercises that should be included in an ice hockey strength training program.

Variations on the standard circuit training routines are often employed by ice hockey players seeking greater overall upper body strength. Chest exercises such as the bench press and the inclined press, shoulder presses, as well as dip and chin-up exercises, are usually a part of such a program. Bench presses are a great overall upper body exercise for the chest, shoulders, and triceps. Woodchoppers are an excellent way to develop core strength and upper body stability, and will raise your slap or wrist shot power.

On the other hand, pure arm strength, while useful to the ice hockey player, particularly in the delivery of a hard shot, as well as being able to battle for position in front of the goal, or along the boards of the playing surface, is less important than the development of a solid, balanced upper body. For instance, squats develop overall lower body strength needed for body checking, as well as speed and strength in front of the net. Dead lifts work on entire body strength, but focus on the lower back, grip strength, and legs.

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