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Lately though, he’s turned his challenges to things that are much easier, things that any random person on the street might be able to do. But when you’re testing average people, doing one pushup or one pull up is really quite hard. Today he released this video asking people to do one perfect, flat feet, …
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This is a quick update to my preview post from a few days back. The game took place last night and before I get into it, I learned it was the first women’s sports championship game televised on prime time on a major network ever, for any sport. Isn’t that insane that this milestone happened …
One caveat: I never really “got” team sports or understood why people base their entire personalities on them until I realized in my 30s that it’s just another form of storytelling. A whole sport is like a genre of fiction, where each season is a volume in an ongoing series within a larger tale, while …
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People are rejuvenated by the outdoors, and they crave any chance to spend time there. So much so that aspiration is a big part of loving the outdoors. We think of ourselves as “outdoorsy people” because we want to spend more time doing the activities we love while exploring a world that fascinates us. I …
I watched Bigger Stronger Faster last night. It's a movie about steroid use in sports which is something I thought I was pretty dead set in my opinions about. As a cyclist I'm keenly aware of how widespread cheating in the sport is and I've always held a pretty low opinion of those that did …
Watching some recent olympic track and field events still sitting on TiVo, I’m finally starting to understand how amazing it was for Michael Phelps to swim 17 races and win 8 medals and break multiple records over the span of just a few short days. For some reason I wasn’t really that impressed by the …
I thought of these during March Madness games, but neglected to post it until now, so here goes, my wishlist for technology additions to the sport of basketball: 1. Put RFID tags inside the soles of players’ shoes as well as embedded in the floor. Take the “3 seconds in the key” call away from …
This week I’m running again after a nearly two year hiatus. What finally motivated me to get off the couch and start running was the Nike+ system. I’ve written my own exercise tracking apps in the past and it required that I manually enter details about each run, then I would write my own visualization …
UCLA 13, USC 9 As a longtime fan, former employee, and husband of a Bruin, one highlight today was seeing USC’s bowl championships crushed by UCLA. UCLA hasn’t been doing too well in the cross-town rivalry the past few years so today was a huge upset.
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