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...
Ena Mallett is the first female to reach the seventh dan in Spirit Combat International ju-jitsu. The award is rare for any martial artist, particularly when the recipient is a seventy seven year old female. Spirit Combat is based in self defense and combines fighting styles from boxing,...
Lorenzen Wright found dead near Memphis, Tennessee. Eyewitness News sources from local media sources have confirmed that Wright's body was found near a forested area at Hacks Cross and Winchester Road on Wedneday, July 28, 2010. Wright went missing nearly 10 day before his death. Conflicting...
Percy Harvin is the first-round draft choice out of the University of Florida by the Minnesota Vikings and has been named as the offensive rookie of the NFL in the last season. Percy Harvin made headlines today when he collapsed on the field during practice. The weird thing is that Percy Harvin...
At 13 years old, most kids have a few years of recreation league football, baseball, basketball or soccer experience under their belts. Maybe they even have the beginnings of a trophy collection on the shelf at home. At age 13, Peter Lenz was an accomplished motorcycle road racer, racking up some...
By now everyone knows about Karen Owens famous research project at Duke University. The fall out of her project and the guys involved is yet to be seen, but expect a class action suit from some of the "tinier" members. If you want to know what she looks like and are trying to find photos of...
With his win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 14, 2010, Red Bull Renault's Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver to ever win a Formula 1 Word Driver's Championship. Vettel was 23 years and 134 days old when he won the title; the previous record for the youngest driver was held by...
Ben Roethlisberger, the scandal prone quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is facing rumors of a possible engagement. Speculation abounds that the NFL player dubbed "Big Ben" popped the question to Ashley Harlan on Christmas Day. The July wedding news between Roethlisberger and Harlan...
Authorities in Arlington, Texas closed down the Cowboys Stadium on Friday morning following a report of a suspicious package near the Super Bowl XLV site. Arlington Fire Department Lieutenant Pete Arevalo reported to local media agencies that a witness placed a 911 call at approximately 8 a.m....
A new study suggests that Super Bowl losses cause cardiac arrest. A team of researchers published results of a Super Bowl study in the journal Clinical Cardiology. The researchers analyzed the death records throughout Los Angeles County for a two week period following the 1980 and 1984 Super...
