Here’s an article that came out yesterday: Cardiovascular Events during World Cup Soccer.
Viewing a stressful soccer match more than doubles the risk of an acute cardiovascular event. In view of this excess risk, particularly in men with known coronary heart disease, preventive measures are urgently needed.
While this study was on soccer fans, who tend to [...]
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Check out this column from my local paper. Let me set the stage for you. West Virginia’s kicker missed two field goals in a loss to Pittsburgh that cost his team a chance to play for the national championship. So what did some of the fans do?
The damage vandals did to his [...]
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Frank Forencich posted a new article titled Life on the Mississippi. He uses Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to explore how unnatural our modern world is and urge us to get outside and act like the animals that we are.
I especially like the end:
So forget the policy recommendations cranked out by the big institutions. [...]
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I wrote a rant about sports a few weeks ago. Today I have a continuation of that. I just finished listening to (TV in the other room) U of Louisville lose their second football game in two weeks. They lost to Syracuse this week and to arch-rival Kentucky last week. The [...]
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College football season is upon us, along with pro football exhibition games, the end of the baseball season, and in October, the beginning of the NBA basketball season, to be followed closely by the beginning of college basketball. I know when all of these seasons start not because I actually care, but because so [...]
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