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Thursday 31 May 2012

Posted by Website Introductions: Wow This seems like a great sports. I think this is really very interesting because this is quite a long journey for the participants. And to think that the places involved in the different leg of the race are purely beautiful. Actually, this is the first time that I ever heard of this Philippine Hobbie Challenge. But I think this is a great way
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Equilibrium in Macroeconomics

One of the things macroeconomists focus on quite a bit is calculating equilibrium conditions, or equilibria. Sometimes these account for random shocks or long-term growth – these have names like Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium�and they’re outside the scope of this blog, which has so far focused on introductory-level material. We’re going to develop an idea [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2011/04/22/equilibrium-in-macroeconomics/

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Celebrating Hot Air Balloons

Posted by Website Introductions: "Around the world in eighty days" brought the invention of the hot air balloon a good level of popularity, and indeed this invention had great uses in its time. However, since the other developments in transportation, the hot air balloon is no longer seen as a practical form of transportation. Even so, it is good to hear that people still
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Source: http://blog.sports-buynow.com/hot_air_balloon/20111010-074239-Celebrating-Hot-Air-Balloons

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Best Custom Facebook Fan Pages for Sports

The top 50 this, top 50 that, we’ve all seen different ratings of the best custom Facebook Fan pages. I recently came across a great one, highlighting the 50 most prominent custom Facebook pages that featured no sports teams, so why not do one just for sports? As it turns out after putting in a [...]

Source: http://www.sportspiel.com.au/2010/09/best-custom-facebook-fan-pages-for-sports/

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Comment on Chugiak grad debuts at Oregon State (Soccer) by Jenette Motte

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River (Cake) Walk? The Spurs are playing on another planet with Tony Parker leading an incredibly deep bunch closer and closer to postseason perfection

SCOTT JACOBS
For a team that had won 19 in a row going into Tuesday night, the Spurs turned a lot of heads in their game 2 triumph over the all-of-a-sudden ?not ready for the spotlight? Thunder. Sure, the stats spoke loud enough: 37 3rd quarter points as part of a dazzling 8 minute display of [...]

Source: http://juicedsportsblog.com/2012/05/river-cake-walk-the-spurs-are-playing-on-another-planet-with-tony-parker-leading-an-incredibly-deep-bunch-closer-and-closer-to-perfection.html

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Wednesday 30 May 2012

Anaheim Ducks & ESPN Los Angeles - NHL Ice Hockey

The Ducks played their first homestretch this week and gained some momentum after a poor start to the year. The team now hits the road. Stay updated with the scores, stats, photos, and rumors by visiting the >> DUCKS HOCKEY BLOG for an in-depth analysis and discussion. Ducks rookie defenseman Cam Fowler probably will play in Anaheim's next game despite breaking his nose in a collision with Phoenix's Shane Doan. To get a cool wallpaper to slap on your desktop, hit up this link to the The Official Site of the Anaheim Ducks >> DESKTOP WALLPAPER and download.
*Oct 20 Anaheim vs. Columbus @ Nationwide Arena 7:00 PM ET face-off.

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2011 NFL Mock Draft

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Ultimate Fighting Championship 83 Predictions

A new feature of this sports blog I decided to create to keep readers entertained is a sports betting prediction section. I’ll be making fictional bets on major sports events that I’m interested in and knowledgeable about. This is all for fun and I don’t actually make any real sports bets, but the purpose of [...]

Source: http://www.sportscontroversytalk.com/2008/ultimate-fighting-championship-83-predictions/

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Beanball Retaliations Rise With The Temperature

Last week, the Cubs made a rare visit to Fenway Park to face the Red Sox in an Major League Baseball interleague series. Things got a little nasty when Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves put a fastball into the face of the Cubs? Marlon Byrd, causing multiple fractures. As is ?tradition? in baseball, the Red Sox batters knew the score would be settled in the following game. After just missing Jed Lowrie with an inside pitch in the eighth inning, Cub pitcher Kerry Wood made sure he connected with his target and plunked Lowrie in the behind on the very next pitch.

"After he missed the first one, I figured there's a good chance [I'd get hit]," Lowrie told MLB.com. "I'm [ticked] off. I just got hit with a 97-mph fastball," he said. "I mean, I understand the situation, but I'm [ticked] off."

This type of diamond justice will only get worse as we get into the hot summer months of the season, according to researchers at Duke University. Richard Larrick, a management professor at the Fuqua School of Business studied 57,293 Major League Baseball games from 1952 through 2009, including 4.5 million at bats. He looked at the relationship between batters hit by a pitch and the air temperature druing the game. If a pitcher?s teammate gets plugged, whether it be intentional or not, he is much more likely to retaliate if the temperature is 90F or above. However, if no one has been hit yet, the heat is not any more likely to cause the first knockdown.

"We found that heat does not lead to more aggression in general," said Larrick. "Instead, heat affects a specific form of aggression. It increases retribution."

They used baseball as a test environment as most other variables can be controlled. "There are decades of research showing heat leads to aggression, like finding more violent crime in the summer," he said. "But in crime statistics, it's hard to really determine if it's heat or other things. One of the nice things about studying baseball is that we're able to control for factors besides heat."

Just boys being boys, right? That would seem to be the male stereotype according to another ?let?s use baseball to test something? study. A group of researchers led by Kerri Johnson, an assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at UCLA, wanted to see if certain emotions are unfairly connected to gender in our perceptions.

By using the same type of video motion capture technology used to model athletes in sports video games, they captured the baseball throwing motion of 30 different male and female actors. They were asked to throw pitches with different emotions, like sadness and anger. By using the motion capture camera, only the bio-mechanical actions of the actors were captured, not their facial expressions or gender.

Next, Johnson asked 93 college student volunteers to watch these randomly ordered videos of the pitchers and try to identify the emotion and the gender of each thrower. Thirty percent of the time, they correctly identified a ?sad? throw while an ?angry? throw was chosen 70 percent correctly.

However, even though each volunteer was shown an equal number of sad and angry throws from each gender pitcher, the sad throws were identified as being female 60 percent of the time while 70 percent of the angry throws were associated with a male pitcher.

"It's OK -- even expected -- for men to express anger," Johnson said. "But when women have a negative emotion, they're expected to express their displeasure with sadness. Similarly, women are allowed to cry, whereas men face all kinds of stigma if they do so. Here, we found that these stereotypes impact very basic judgments of others as well, such as whether a person is a man or woman."

So, we?ll just go with that gender bias and assume that when Kerry Wood was coming inside on Jed Lowrie, it was most likely out of anger, not sadness.

See also: Youth Baseball Pitchers Need To Stay Under 100 Innings Per Year and Virtual Reality Lab Proves How Fly Balls Are Caught

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Manny Pacquiao banned from Los Angeles mall because of his political views

Pacquiao shortly banned from The Grove for expressing his views on gay marriage before being allowed back.
MITCH BLATT
In a bizarre turn of events Wednesday, May 15, world champion boxer and Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao was banned then unbanned from The Grove mall in Los Angeles after expressing his opposition to gay marriage in response to [...]

Source: http://juicedsportsblog.com/2012/05/manny-pacquiao-banned-from-los-angeles-mall-because-of-his-political-views.html

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Football Excels in Chile

Posted by Website Introductions: Football has been a famous sport in many countries in the world. Chile is also crazy about playing football. Many people would cheer and yell whenever they see football players in the football fields. The top three famous football teams in Chile are Universidad Catolica, Universidad de Chile, and Colo Colo. Though they were recently eliminated in
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Source: http://blog.sports-buynow.com/football/20110818-024615-Football-Excels-in-Chile

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2011 STANLEY CUP FINALS

Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals will be played Wednesday at 8 pm. It should be an exciting game as the series matchup is currently tied at 3-3. The Bruins set a Stanley Cup Final record by scoring four goals in a span of 4:14 during Game 6. Here are some cool links. >>> NHL VideoCenter @ NHL Network Online you get all hockey, all access, all the time, live and direct around the league, every goal of every game. Stanley Cup - 2011 NHL Playoffs - Canucks vs. Bruins - ESPN Get Complete coverage of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals >>> NHL Playoffs - Enjoy the Game -

STANLEY CUP FINAL SCHEDULE
VAN 1, BOS 0 | Video | Lone Goal | Vigneault
GM 2: VAN 3, BOS 2 (OT) | Video | Dan ties | Coach
BOS 8, VAN 1 | Video | Krejci strikes | Julien
GM 4: BOS 4, VAN 0 | Video | Marchand | Thomas
VAN 1, BOS 0 | Video | Roberto Robs | Coach
GM 6: BOS 5, VAN 2 | Video | Four in 4:14 | Julien
GM 7: @Vancouver, Wed. 6/15, 8 pm, NBC, CBC, RDS
* All times Eastern

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/001/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1427457

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Ultimate Fighting Championship 83 Predictions

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Tuesday 29 May 2012

Shortcomings of CPI

In the previous post, we talked about the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Basically, the CPI is a number that indicates how much the price of a basket of goods purchased by the typical consumer has changed since a base year we choose when we calculate it. To review, in the base year, CPI is always [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2011/03/14/shortcomings-of-cpi/

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You Can't Hit What You Can't See

Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn never studied biomechanics or captured 3D motion capture of the batters he faced, but he knew a lot about the science of strikeouts. ?Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing,? Spahn stated decades ago. ??A pitcher needs two pitches, one they?re looking for and one to cross them up.? After all of these years, ASMI biomechanist Dave Fortenbaugh has put this theory to the test in his lab.

With less than a second to see the pitch, identify its speed and location then execute an intercepting swing of the bat, a baseball player?s margin of error can be milliseconds or millimeters. Since most of the bat speed and power of the swing comes from the weight transfer and rotational speed of the hitter?s body, it is critical that the entire process starts at just the right time so that bat connects with the ball in the perfect horizontal and vertical planes.
Fortenbaugh, whose Ph.D. dissertation was titled ?The Biomechanics of the Baseball Swing, set out to see what physically changed about a hitter?s swing when he faced pitches of different speeds. In new research published in Sports Biomechanics, he and his team gathered 29 professional baseball players (minor league AA) to observe and record the physics of their swings.

Their focus was on a key force for any human movement known as the ground reaction force or GRF. When you stand still, your feet create a force on the ground equal to your weight. At the same time, following Newton?s Third Law of Motion, the ground creates an equal and opposite force on your feet, aka the GRF. When moving, a person?s feet create not only a GRF in the vertical direction but also one horizontally.

Hitting coaches use this force to stabilize a batter?s feet while their weight is shifting from the back foot to the front foot, or from the right foot to the left foot for a right-handed batter. Fortenbaugh hypothesized that when batters get fooled by a change in pitch speed, the timing of their step and weight shift gets thrown off causing the bat to come through at the wrong time.

For the experiment, the players were asked to face either fastballs or changeups thrown by a live pitcher. They placed each of their feet on a force plate which measured the level and timing of the force applied as compared to the timing of the ball arriving.

Hitters are often coached to expect every pitch to be a fastball, then adjust if they see something slower. If they don?t recognize an off-speed pitch soon enough, they will begin their biomechanical process too early, throwing off the eventual swing and contact with the ball.

What the researchers found was that the back foot force stayed roughly the same for either fastballs or changeups. This would be expected as a player?s weight starts here.
However, for the front foot, the results were significantly different. As Fortenbaugh concluded, ?The batter applied maximum vertical and horizontal braking forces earlier for a successfully hit changeup than a successfully hit fastball, and even earlier for an unsuccessful swing against a changeup. This may be an indication that the batter is fooled a little when successfully recognizing a changeup in adequate time and fooled quite a bit more on unsuccessful swings when this recognition occurs too late.?

Because they weren?t able to identify the slower changeup earlier, they started their swing motion too soon. For every hitter, specialized visual and cognitive training to recognize pitch types sooner would buy them the valuable milliseconds they need.

The big takeaway from all of this? ?This study provides biomechanical evidence that an effective off-speed pitch, as postulated, upsets a hitter?s timing,? states Fortenbaugh. ?The data in this study also support the claim of the difficulty of hitting a baseball well, as literally just tiny fractions of a second separated the successful and unsuccessful swings.?
In other words, Spahn was right.

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GoPro Cameras Now in Stock at The-House.com

GoPro cameras give athletes the ability to record their tricks, stunts and skills via helmet cameras, chest mounts and handlebar mounts. The-House.com has all the cameras and accessories in stock now!

My friends in the TV and Film business use these for their shoots and say they work better than some of the more expensive cameras they use. They are tough and don't break easily, they also give you steady video. They are quite amazing, Check it out >>> The-House.com Now Has GoPro Cameras, Helmet Cams, and Accessories In Stock!

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/001/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1430773

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Walking underwater isn t only great fun but a great workout as well

Posted by Website Introductions: This kind of activity is used to train astronauts before they go into space as they say that working underwater is the closest thing that humans can get to flying. This is great fun if you ever have the chance as it literally takes you out of your head for a while into an alternative universe. The last time I was diving, there was nothing else
Tags: diving, training. Comments: 0.

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Practice What You Preach

I was wondering what topic would be most suitable for my return to blogging. For nearly a year I preached a lot, and practiced a little when it came to sports and digital marketing, or #digisport as it seems to be called recently, and it’s a lot easier to tell people what they should be [...]

Source: http://www.sportspiel.com.au/2011/04/practice-what-you-preach/

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Super Bowl XLV Defensive Back Head-to-Head

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A Visit in Riviera Maya

Posted by Website Introductions: Riviera Maya offers a lot of activities for all family members. Nature lovers would surely love the place. It has diverse biodiversity and fresh environment. You shouldn't miss visiting the Xel-Ha Park while you are here. This largest open sea aquarium is a sanctuary for dolphins and other marine creatures. You can have snorkeling in here. Of
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Monday 28 May 2012

Lebron James Launches A Social Media Campaign?.Kinda

Doesn’t it just feel like yesterday? July 7 2010, a mere few hours before he “decided” to take his talents elsewhere, Lebron joined the Twitter movement. It seems like he’d had enough of his good buddy Chris Paul trying to get him on Twitter, that he finally relented and joined. One of his first tweets [...]

Source: http://www.sportspiel.com.au/2010/08/lebron-james-launches-a-social-media-campaign-kinda/

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Ravens front office moves

The Baltimore Ravens have released this press release announcing several front office moves.� The most important of these moves is the promotion of Eric DeCosta, a very well respected man in the NFL.� DeCosta has been on many teams wish list for the General Manager position and this hopefully keeps him with the team longer.� [...]

Source: http://marylandsportsblog.com/2012/05/ravens-front-office-moves/

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What?s so Gross about the Domestic Product?

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one of the fundamental ideas of introductory macroeconomics. That’s because GDP is the core of one of the best ways to measure citizens’ well-being. We’ll get to that in a future post, though. For now, let’s talk about what GDP measures, and pretend that we’re not going to allow [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2011/03/17/whats-so-gross-about-the-domestic-product/

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With Stan Van Gundy and Otis Smith Gone, Orlando?s fall from grace is nearly complete (Hey Dwight, whatcha gonna do now?)

SCOTT JACOBS
Despite nothing but success in both of his sunshine state stops, Stan Van Gundy has left a blaze of unforgettable exits from his two NBA head coaching tenures.
In Miami he wanted to spend more time with his family. In Orlando (despite compiling an impressive 259-125 record, going 31-28 in the playoffs), Dwight Howard apparently [...]

Source: http://juicedsportsblog.com/2012/05/with-stan-van-gundy-and-otis-smith-gone-orlandos-fall-from-grace-is-nearly-complete-hey-dwight-whatcha-gonna-do-now.html

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Costa Rica and a handicapped shot at glory

Posted by Website Introductions: It seems that Costa Rica will accept any terms to obtain another shot at football glory. But with terms like the CONCAF's stipulations that only 5 adult members of their national team may play in the Copa America 2011 games, who's still got hopes for a shot at the title The extra coverage from this internationally televised tournament will
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Sailing in the Philippines

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Is pro football writing it?s own death certificate? ? Can the game be safe, but retain what makes its great?

SCOTT JACOBS
The NFL is in a sticky wicket. It?s the most popular league in the United States by a wide margin, and with popularity, comes a closer examination than any other sport. Then you throw in former players, young in their early 40?s going the suicidal route ? possibly due to head injuries sustained while [...]

Source: http://juicedsportsblog.com/2012/05/is-pro-football-writing-its-own-death-certificate-can-the-game-be-safe-but-retain-what-makes-its-great.html

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The dream of Team Tibet

Al Jazeera[Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:56]

By Brendan Connor in Brussels

Table tennis player Pema Yoko would one day like to represent Tibet at the Olympic Games [Al Jazeera]

It's a sunny afternoon, and like many football fields around the world, there are a couple of teams getting set to kick it about.
Here, the sides are made up of lads of Tibetan heritage, and they are playing in a tournament.
They have hopes of winning, but the main reason they are there is to spotlight their cause.
And that cause is an independent Tibet, free from China's rule, and perhaps someday, a place in the Olympics under their own flag.

Click here for more story

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Source: http://tibetsports.blog.com/2007/12/03/the-dream-of-team-tibet/

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Sunday 27 May 2012

Ravens 2012 schedule

The NFL 2012 schedules have been released and the Baltimore Ravens sent me a press release with the schedule and some interesting notes. The Baltimore Ravens finally get a home Monday Night Football game, something that has been long overdue. Everyone is more than welcome to copy and print out this schedule.� The Ravens have [...]

Source: http://marylandsportsblog.com/2012/04/ravens-2012-schedule/

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Sports for Men

Posted by Website Introductions: Physical strength, dexterity, speed, stamina are mostly used to described how masculine a man could be. All of these traits could be shown with sports particularly with contact sports. Basketball is probably the most famous among other sports throughout the world. They teach this on school, as a good way to promote a fit and healthy life, and also
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Sailing in the Philippines

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Opportunities and What They Cost

One of the fundamental concepts in economics is that of opportunity cost. In order to understand opportunity cost, though, we need to take a step back and think about costs in a more general way. The standard example goes like this: I like books, so I want to turn my passion into a job and [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2011/12/23/opportunities-and-what-they-cost/

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Saturday 26 May 2012

You Can't Hit What You Can't See

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Remote Posting to AllSportBlog.com

Welcome to our Sporting News Page. Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey. Post your comments about sports or whatever interests you. Remote posts e-mailed to ms2/001@blog.angelfire.com will be posted to this blog. Technorati code NRFTEY3MYFWM

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/001/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1392062

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Guess Who's Back?

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Book Review - Tanked!

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Budgets and Opportunity Cost

In the previous entry, we talked a little about opportunity cost. In short, it’s what someone gives up in order to acquire something else. What does that have to do with budgeting? Start with the plain-sense definition of a budget. Most people think of a budget – quite correctly – as a list of planned [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2012/01/19/budgets-and-opportunity-cost/

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