Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant traveled twice to Germany during the off-season for an innovative medical procedure to relieve chronic pain in his right knee and left ankle. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Bryant visited molecular orthopedist Peter Wehling for a new blood treatment. Bryant believes the treatment was successful. [...]
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Mark the time and date! The United States is getting serious about the international sport of rugby. USA Rugby will be issuing fulltime contracts to 23 players, 15 men and 8 women, who compete in Sevens rugby. The contracts will commence in January, as the U.S. and the rest of the world begin a four-year [...]
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The annual college football coaching carousel has begun and it went from zero to sixty this weekend. Seasons have ended. Coaches are being canned like salmon in Alaska. Ron Zook at Illinois, Turner Gill at Kansas, and Dennis Erickson at ASU were all among the BCS coaches who were jettisoned over the weekend. And by [...]
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A national child advocacy organization says the sex scandal at Penn State is fueling parental paranoia, along with phony statistics and over the top warnings about child abuse. “We don’t need hype that turns every adult into a potential threat,” says Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. According to [...]
Walt Hazzard died on Friday at the age of 69. Many young college basketball fans might not recognize the name, but to some of us older fans, our love affair with college basketball, UCLA and John Wooden began with Hazzard. Hazzard was the point guard on UCLA’s first national title squad in 1964, when the [...]
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