At Curtis Granderson’s celebrity hoops game over the weekend, the fleet Tigers center fielder served as referee for the various celebs in attendance. Granderson had some fun with the role, no more than when the Cleveland Browns’ all-pro dropsies receiver Braylon Edwards went up for an acrobatic, wide-open breakaway dunk and lost control of the ball. “Somebody must have fouled you,” Granderson called out after blowing his whistle after the play, noting that no one was in the vicinity whatsoever. Of course, Edwards is well-versed in being unable to hold onto the ball, as he just finished one of the great seasons in drops from a wide receiver.
The game was ultimately tied up by a pair of Kid Rock free throws, as most true sporting events are, and then a dunk contest between Edwards and Jameer Nelson, an And1 baller where Nelson emerged as the victor.
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I could go on and on and on, but they’ve already done the hard work and assembled a multitude of images for each fine cheerleader, so check them out and then book your ticket for the Pro Bowl, because now it matters!
As a boy growing up, Fitzgerald’s grandfather (left) owned and operated an optometry shop, and Larry used to spend summers there with his grandfather. Larry’s grandfather, Dr. Robert Johnson made sure that as a child Larry had “visual dominance” in order to help Larry initially at school. From first grade on, whenever he’d visit his grandfather in Chicago during the summers Johnson would have him stand on balance beams and wobbly boards while doing complicated hand-eye drills. Later the exercises were more tailored to athletics, for example, Johnson would hang a painted ball from the ceiling and have Fitzgerald hit the ball with a rolling pin that had corresponding colors.
Elite athletes, such as Fitzgerald are able to make a snapshot of the moment the ball or puck is released, enabling them to gauge where and when the ball will be near them, often from just the moment the ball leaves the QB’s hands. Taking that conception of where the ball is supposed to travel, the elite athlete then matches it in his brain with the thousands of memories of other, similar moments and how the ball traveled and then are able to place themselves in position to properly catch the ball. According to her research, the best athletes are able to move to the position, even with their eyes closed. “It’s a very, very amazing cognitive skill,” she says. This helps explain why often, photographs of Fitzgerald grabbing a ball out of the air feature him with his eyes shut.
You may have heard something about a plane falling out of the sky yesterday and landing itself in the Hudson River, I overheard something about it somewhere I think. Who cares about what the news has to say about it though, I want to know what the New Jersey Nets’ Vince Carter thought about the whole situation, especially since he apparently saw the whole thing from his home overlooking the Hudson in scenic Weehauken, New Jersey.
Maybe I’m just a big wuss, but if I were to go surfing and there were killer whales hanging out right by the huge waves, I’m calling it a day, no matter how good the surf is. I guess that’s what makes New Zealander Craig Hunter and I different. Instead of being dissuaded by a large male orca and two calves he swam out and surfed for about 45 minutes.
Turns out that a ESPN photo feature can land you in big trouble with the law if you aren’t careful. That’s a lesson mixed-martial arts fighter Jeff Monson is learning the hard way. In a photograph for ESPN the Magazine’s December issue Monson is pictured spray-painting an anarchist symbol on the Washington state Capitol. On Wednesday a warrant was sworn out for Monson, charging him with first-degree malicious mischief, a Class B felony carrying a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Reportedly, the cost to clean up the graffiti was $19,000.
I feel neglected. My father loves me, I guess, but not as much as Todd Gerleman (left) of Iowa loves his son. That’s because Gerleman supplied his son with steroids and needles in order to “motivate” him about sports. What solid parenting! I like sports, Dad why didn’t you want to motivate me like this! I could have been the professional baseball player my body is sculpted for, but NO! my father had to provide me nutritional meals. I feel ripped off. My destiny was averted.
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