Johan Santana, NY Mets Pitcher accused of sexual battery. A police report filed in the Lee County Sheriff's Office on October 28, 2009 indicates that Santana allegedly attacked a young woman, identified only as Jane Doe, on golf course in Fort Myers, Florida. The report claims that...
Cars that run in the IndyCar series currently use a normally aspirated (non-turbocharged) 3.5 liter V8 engine built by Ilmor Engineering but branded as a Honda. The motors make approximately 600 horsepower and have proven to be very reliable; since the series began using these engines in...
Dario Franchitti, driving for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, won the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 race. Franchitti clearly had the strongest car in the field, and led the race for 155 of the 200 laps. His performance may not have been good enough, had a last-lap crash not brought out a yellow...
Team Penske's Helio Castroneves has put his car on the pole postion for this year's 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 race. Castroneve sits alongside his Penske teammate, Will Power, who qualified in the second spot. Completing the front row is Dario Franchitti, driving for Target Chip Ganassi...
One of the most exciting, the most anticipated and the most profitable aspects of horse racing is the betting. It allows spectators to hold a little “Game” of their own, by forecasting whether a horse will get first, second or third place (called “win, place or show”). There are many ways to...
There are many baseball terms. One of the most recent terms to emerge in baseball lingo is “OPS or “on base percentage plus slugging percentage.” It is one of the ways of judging the player’s offensive skills. OPS assesses how well a player can hit the ball and reach base safely. It is derived...
Mt. Everest, which is located in Nepal, is the tallest mountain the world. Locals call it Sagarmatha or “Goddess of the Sky.” Conditions here are extreme: it is very cold, visibility sharply drops at night, and the cliffs are treacherous. High, strong winds can escalate into blinding snow...
The United States dominated the 2008 Olympics, as the country with the biggest number of medals (110). However, China had more gold medals (getting 51, far more than the United States’ 36). Russia ranked third with a sum of 72 medals. This would have been far different if this had been before...
Former F1 World Driving Champion Mika Hakkinen is rumored to be Lewis Hamilton's new manager. Hamilton, the young F1 star that stunned fans with his 2007 debut, has been without a manager since terminating the services of his father, Anthony, earlier this year. Hakkinen has ties to Hamilton's...
Tito Ortiz was arrested Monday, April 26, 2010 for felony domestic violence charges. Authorities responded to a frantic 911 call placed from the shared residence of Ortiz and live in girlfriend Jenna Jameson in Huntington Beach, California. When police arrived on the scene of the reported...
