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Menu Main page Video Video Video Video Video Video Video Thursday Bullets Post Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:03:54 PDT A statistician takes a stab at figuring out how many points Kobe Bryant cost the Lakers by ball-hogging on the night he scored 81. 12, by the way. That's the answer. Passing more, says the Arbitrarian on Hardwood Paroxysm, would have delivered the Lakers 12 extra points in a game they won anyway. The Knicks add John Gabriel and Misho Ostarcevic to the front office, further diluting the credibility of earlier claims that Isiah Thomas will matter moving forward. Trying to cool his love of twizzlers, Derrick Rose is transitioning to cupcakes. Kevin Garnett circa 1999: Not good at foosball. I've been wrestling with whether or not to even mention that the interior of Charles Barkley's colon will be on TV. Even if it's for a good cause, some things don't need a spotlight, you know? Colons are up there. My main thought is that if you're telling the world you are so famous that your colonoscopy actually counts as entertainment, then you are darn close to losing the ability to ever say, with conviction, "that's private." Matt Kamalsky of Draft Express has a massive review of the Phoenix Suns up, which includes this unintentionally hilarious, and inarguably true, line: "Has struggled with conditioning problems ever since leaving the Orlando Magic." For the record, Shaquille O'Neal left the Magic a dozen years ago. Donyell Marshall, gazillionaire, in the hotel lobby, avoiding fifty-cent hotel surcharges on phone calls. Exercise your right to be frugal! Autor of the post: Undefined Thursday Olybullets Post Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:59:56 PDT Be a little worried about Andrew Bogut's ankle. A great story from Pete Thamel's New York Times profile of U.S. Water Polo coach Terry Schroeder: "A few years ago, Schroeder was at the national training center in Los Alamitos, Calif., and heard a teenager say, 'Have we ever been any good?' The remark stung Schroeder, who realized that a generation had grown up thinking men's water polo was irrelevant in the United States. 'That just about killed me,' he said. 'I never forgot it and I never will.' To instill American pride, Schroeder took his players, many of whom play in Europe, to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington before an overseas trip. On the steps of one of the nation's great monuments, Schroeder talked about the sacrifices made by America's founding fathers. 'I'm not sure how much it impacted them or not,' he said. 'But I had some lady standing behind the guys with her kids. She was crying and said it was really good. I figured, at least I touched someone.'" Also, not sure if you noticed the story yesterday about a remarkable American woman, Sheila Taormina, who is competing in her fourth Olympics, and in her third different sport -- she has been a swimmer and triathlete, and now she's a modern pentathlete. Can you imagine how much of her adult life she has spent training? And then she gave the New York Times' Jere Longman this delightfully startling quote: "I love cigarettes and gambling. If I didn't do this, I'd be a smoker and a gambler." Interesting thing about Team USA's next opponent, Argentina: They hardly ever play zone defense, and they are the only team in history that has beat an NBA-rich Team USA more than once. Usain Bolt as pre-surgery Amare Stoudemire. Dr. Oliver Eslinger is the associate head coach at MIT, where the players are really smart. Over the last season, Eslinger tells me, the MIT team has started to put their player's IQs to good use by using all kinds of stat geek type numbers to inform the team's strategy. He tells me the insight from the numbers has actually led to some wins. And now he has used some of their numbers to analyze Team USA, and make a case that Dwyane Wade has been the most effective player so far. UPDATE: Athletes like Chris Kaman switching countries for the Olympics has one big advantage: It gets more of the most talented players -- who otherwise would have to stay home -- into the contest. Autor of the post: Undefined Separate marathons Post Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:29:00 +0000 Why don't they run the men's and women's Olympic marathons together? They run every other world-class marathon together. And this is the one sport (or event) in which space, rules, and logistics allow the separate competitions to be played simultaneously. And wouldn't it be a nice symbol for gender equity? Autor of the post: noreply@blogger.com (Howard Wasserman) Unofficial IPA Pro-Am Reports Post Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:55:24 -0400 <p><font size=-2>(updated 11:55 pm)</font></p> <p>Unofficial reports are coming in from today's lightweight competition (198 and below) at the IPA Power Station Pro-Am in Sharonville, Ohio. Sergiy Naleykin, 198, won the best lightweight lifter award and the $5,000 that went along with it. Naleykin totalled 2,460 pounds for the the second highest total in 198 class history, only ten pounds behind Shawn Frankl. </p> <p>Frankl was unable to compete in the full meet due to a hamstring injury. However, he did push his all-time bench press record up to 850 pounds in the bench only competition. </p> <p>Brian Schwab finished second and Al Caslow placed third in the lightweight division. </p> <p>Michael Cartinian set a new 181 class all-time record with a 2,245 pound total. His effort surpasses the mark of 2,230 set by Brad Vargason. </p> <p>Competition continues on Sunday with the heavyweight division. </p> <p><i><b>Full power</b></i><br /> <b>165</b><br /> 1. Brian Schwab 825-605-615 - 2,045<br /> 2. Al Caslow 820/540/685 - 2,045</p> Autor of the post: Undefined RPF Russian Cup Results Post Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:28:30 -0400 <p><font size=-2>(updated 8/23 5:28 pm)</font></p> <p>Lifting at the RPF Russian Cup has been completed through day four with women having completed competition and the men having competed through the 242 pound weight class. The competition continues through Sunday in Berdsk, Novosibirsk Oblast with the men in the 275 and superheavyweight class on the platform. </p> <p>A number of lifters have achieved what would be IPF World Records if the Russian team was not still under suspension. At 123, Sergey Fedosienko's 1,565 pound total would have upped his own World Record of 1,543. At 198, Andrey Belyayev would have annihilated his own World Record total of 2,160 pounds with his effort of 2,226 pounds. Belyayev also missed a third attempt deadlift of 843 pounds which would have bested American Walter Thomas' 821 pound record which has stood since 1982.</p> <p>For the women, at 114 Oxana Belova would have tied American Diana Rowell's 1984 deadlift World Record of 435 pounds. In the 123 pound weight class, both the squat and total records were surpassed. Inna Filimonova squatted 507 pounds to beat her own mark of 490 pounds. Anna Ryzhkova totalled 1,195 pounds to best fellow Russian Tatyana Eltsova's record of 1,162 pounds. Galina Potselueva would have erased her 148 class squat record of 556 pounds with her squat of 573 pounds. She also would have tied Priscilla Ribic's total record of 1,388 pounds. In the 165's Julia Zaugolova would have pushed her squat World Record to 606 pounds and her total record from 1,477 to 1,488 pounds.</p> <p><u><b>Unofficial Results</b></u><br /> <i><b>Men</b></i><br /> <b>123</b><br /> 1. Sergey Fedosienko 628/363/573 - 1,565</p> Autor of the post: Undefined Jason Coker to compete at 198 Post Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:25:38 -0400 <p>Jason Coker failed to make his planned weight class of 181 at yesterday's weigh-in for the IPA Power Station Pro-Am. Coker will now face off against Sergiy Naleykin, Adam Driggers, and others at 198. </p> Autor of the post: Undefined Europa Superlifting Pro Bench Press Fundraiser Post Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:56:57 -0400 <p>During the weekend of the Europa Supershow some of the sports best benchers gathered in Dallas, Texas. At the post contest dinner thrown by John Inzer, Gene Rychlak came up with the idea to have all the competitors sign the show poster and put them up for sale, the proceeds going to charity.</p> <p>During the evening, 10 posters were laid out and all of the competitors present signed this historic piece of memorabilia. One was given to John Inzer to honor for his contributions to each of the lifters and to the sport as a whole. The remaining 9 are up for sale, with one already purchased. </p> Autor of the post: Undefined Indiana USAPL focusing on Raw Events Post Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:50:23 -0400 <p>USAPL Indiana co-chairs Joe Goodhew and Sonny Runyon <a href="http://php.indiana.edu/~gmsimmon/webpage.html">announce</a> that they are changing the meet structure in the state with a focus toward raw competition. They will be offering two meets a year. They are the Monsters of the Midwest Raw Open in the Fall and the Indiana State Power/Bench/High School in the Spring. The first will be a raw only meet. The second will require lifters in the High School meet lift raw. </p> Autor of the post: Undefined Video of Rob Luyando's Europa Bench Press Post Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:08:45 -0400 <p>Here's video of Rob Luyando's heavyweight division winning bench press from Saturday at the Superlifting Stars Pro Bench Press competition at the Europa Supershow. Luyando bench pressed 850 pounds for two reps to defeat Bobby Fields, who hit 700 pounds for two reps. Luyando took home $2,000 for the victory. Also included is Luyando's first attempt with 800 pounds for two reps. </p> Autor of the post: Undefined OCT Tests take place in Russia Post Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:17:23 -0400 <p>Nick Zhukov reports that out of competition testing is occurring in the Russian IPF affiliate, RPF. The RPF has been suspended from international and regional competition twice in the last couple of years for repeated doping violations. In order to come off of suspension, the IPF has made both national and international OCT testing one of the requirements for the country.</p> <p>Zhukov says that on Monday, just two days before the opening of the RPF Russian Cup, a number of lifters at MAI Gym were tested. 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