Sports & Fitness
March 18th 2009
Sports Briefs
This is the game that never ends
Marathons are for chumps. Try playing almost four hours of basketball – as Syracuse and Connecticut did on Thursday, March 12.
According to Yahoo! Sports, Syracuse outlasted Connecticut in a game that went on for an outstanding six overtimes. The teams combined scored 244 points total, 102 which were after regulation.
The game falls one overtime short of the record set by Cincinnati and Bradley on Dec. 21, 1981.
Just imagine being the losing team in this game. Harsh.
Fine line crossed between victory and defeat, literally
Kristina Groves’ celebration of her gold medal in the 1,500 metre speed skate did not last long as the officials quickly took it away.
According to TSN.ca, Groves narrowly hit the puck separating the lanes which resulted in her disqualification.
Groves skated an incredible 1:57.75 in the 1,500 m speed skate, nearly a full second under Germany’s Anni Friesinger (1:58.66), who now earns gold. Netherlands’ Ireen Wust has moved up to silver with her time of 1:58.83 and fellow Canadian Christine Nesbitt gets bumped up to bronze with her time of 1:58.88.
YouTube: The new parenting tool
Kobe Bryant’s kid might not be following in quite the same steps as her father. Natalia Diamante has shown big interest in soccer because Bryant showed her some soccer highlights on YouTube.
Bryant, who grew up in Italy, loved soccer and wanted a way to show his daughter the sport.
According to Yahoo! Sports, Bryant showed off highlights of soccer star Marta on YouTube and Natalia has loved the sport since.
Maybe showing kids YouTube videos of people cleaning their room will work, too.
Founder of Tapout killed in motor accident
Charles Lewis Jr., also known as “Mask,” died Mar. 11 in a motor accident involving another vehicle.
According to Yahoo! Sports, the driver of the second car, Jeffrey David Kirby, is being charged with one felony count of vehicular manslaughter by unlawful act with gross negligence while intoxicated, one felony count of driving under the influence causing bodily injury, and sentencing enhancements for fleeing the scene of a vehicular manslaughter and causing great bodily injury to multiple victims.
Lewis, the founder of Tapout, a popular mixed martial arts apparel company, lived as a popular figure in his own right among mixed martial arts circles.
Now this is determination
You would think that breaking a couple vertebrae in his spine would stop Travis Tollett from racing, but that is not the case.
On July 19, Tollett is making racing history as he becomes the first quadriplegic to race in the “Race to the Clouds” event at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
According to CBSSports.com, Tollett is riding in a specially equipped Mazda RX-7 Turbo II alongside teammate Steve Bennett.
Nothing, I repeat, nothing keeps this man off the track.
These briefs appeared in Volume 63, Number 24 of The Uniter, published March 19th 2009.
