Winter Sports Watching Guide – Too Many Sports For One Title.
(via FIBT – World Championships 2011) As you all lay around stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving’s feast, your thoughts might turn, as they do this time of year, to sports. However, what if you’re tired of the usual season’s sporting fare? Glad you asked. There is an entire winter smorgasbord of sports going on this weekend and here’s… [read article]
Remember That Guy Who Threw A Bottle At The London 100m? He’s Going To Trial.
Anyone remember this idiot? Ashley Gill-Webb was at the final of the men’s 100m in London at the 2012 Olympics when he decided to throw a bottle at the runners getting ready to start the race. Not only is he super classy, Gill-Webb is also super lucky because his bottle-tossing perch happened to be directly beside world champion Dutch… [read article]
Meet Mikaela Shiffrin, The 17-Year-Old Setting The Alpine World On Fire.
At the first FIS Alpine world cup event this season in Levi, Finland, 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the US women’s team it’s first medal. Of course, every overnight sensation has been years in the making and Shiffrin is no different. The teenager has been wrecking competitors and gaining hype for years now – here are some quick facts: Shiffrin, a… [read article]
Huge Ski Weekend Set To Kick Off, Here’s Everything You Need To Watch.
(image via US Ski Team) Let’s get ready to rummmbbbllllleeeee!!!!!! Although we’ve already had a couple of FIS Alpine skiing world cups, the season is really getting started in a big way this weekend. There are two upcoming events to enjoy this thanksgiving holiday for when the family is really driving you nuts; the ladies head to Aspen for… [read article]
McKayla Is Still Not Impressed.
You know your meme has made it when… So we can’t think of anyone who could possibly be bigger than President Obama getting into the whole ‘McKayla is not impressed’ meme. Usually internet memes have a pretty short shelf life but when the re-elected Commander and Chief strikes your signature pose, it seems you’ve transcended. McKayla is at a… [read article]
(via FIBT – World Championships 2011) As you all lay around stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving’s feast, your thoughts might turn, as they do this time of year, to sports. However, what if you’re tired of the usual season’s sporting fare? Glad you asked. There is an entire winter smorgasbord of sports going on this weekend and here’s… [read article]
Anyone remember this idiot? Ashley Gill-Webb was at the final of the men’s 100m in London at the 2012 Olympics when he decided to throw a bottle at the runners getting ready to start the race. Not only is he super classy, Gill-Webb is also super lucky because his bottle-tossing perch happened to be directly beside world champion Dutch… [read article]
At the first FIS Alpine world cup event this season in Levi, Finland, 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the US women’s team it’s first medal. Of course, every overnight sensation has been years in the making and Shiffrin is no different. The teenager has been wrecking competitors and gaining hype for years now – here are some quick facts: Shiffrin, a… [read article]
(image via US Ski Team) Let’s get ready to rummmbbbllllleeeee!!!!!! Although we’ve already had a couple of FIS Alpine skiing world cups, the season is really getting started in a big way this weekend. There are two upcoming events to enjoy this thanksgiving holiday for when the family is really driving you nuts; the ladies head to Aspen for… [read article]
You know your meme has made it when… So we can’t think of anyone who could possibly be bigger than President Obama getting into the whole ‘McKayla is not impressed’ meme. Usually internet memes have a pretty short shelf life but when the re-elected Commander and Chief strikes your signature pose, it seems you’ve transcended. McKayla is at a… [read article]
Ahhhhh, soccer. The most tie-ingest of the sports. The US Team headed all the way to frozen (probably, but not really) Russia to face off against the bright-red footballers in an international friendly. Above are the highlights from the game, via US Soccer, although it should be called ‘Tim Howard versus the Russians,’ amirite? DailyHouse bonus: Below we found… [read article]
(16-year-old phenom Emery Lehman) Big Deal #1: Heather Richardson. Today the ISU Long Track Speedskating World Cup season started off in the Netherlands, and Heather Richardson from High Point, NC brought back the first medal of the year for the US. Richardson won silver today in the women’s 500m (37.95), one tenth of a second behind the winner, Korea’s… [read article]
Added Nov 16, 2012, Under:
Winter
The clock is ticking down to the start of the 2012 Sochi Olympics and just a few days ago we got to see one of the most extensive tours of the Russian venues yet, in the above video. The sites, as imagined, look absolutely incredible and, interestingly, this Winter Olympics is going to take place on a beach – well,… [read article]
(via Twitter) Over the weekend, evidently unperturbed by the 1,000+ pages of evidence, the 10′s of millions of dollars in sponsors abandoning him, the more than two dozen people who testified against him, and the fact that he has been stripped of all seven of his Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong tweeted this picture this weekend. The caption: “Back… [read article]
It looks like Lolo Jones is a star in a new sport – and she says she wouldn’t be there without some help from her friends. Pilot Jazmine Fenlator and brakewoman Lolo Jones had an incredible performance driving the USA-3 sled into second place at the first FIBT Bobsled World Cup of the season today in Lake Placid, NY…. [read article]
