Ok, I must admit...I am a NASCAR fan. I actually took a trip to Charlotte Motor Speedway (thanks to my very generous brother-in-law) and drove a Nationwide car for 30 laps...average speed was over 140 mph and loved every minute of it!!! Jeff Gordon has always been one of my favorite drivers and I loved the Pepsi commercial showing him in disguise taking a "test drive"...it was great. But! It seems some on the internet took exception and said it was staged...
This article explains the details... By the way, there are a "few" not so nice words, just so you know!
I'm not a huge pro football fan (prefer college games myself) but couldn't help getting a laugh from this video from the guys at "Funny or Die"...of course, to understand it you need to have watched the movie "Field of Dreams"...but who hasn't, right?
I'm posting this in honor of the thousands of fans who are now on pins and needles wondering whether or not the NFL will play this year...
If you've ever had the opportunity to watch a performance by Cirque de Soleil, you know these are some amazing people with amazing abilities! What I didn't realize was their ability to disguise a pitch!
I spent a lot of years behind home plate while my daughter practiced pitching for her fast pitch softball teams...if she had pulled this wind up, I probably would NOT have caught it!
Even though my son played soccer his senior year of high school...you could put what I know about the game on a post-it note. Fortunately for me, he was the goalie so it was pretty obvious when he "did good"!
But, even I know enough to know that this is a pretty incredible kick...
From the Yahoo! Sports Blog: Down 3-1 to Hillsboro at halftime, the Wilmington girls soccer team seemed destined to fall to 2-6, all but eliminating them from postseason contention. But Wilmington star Lauren Lewis wasn't done yet, adding two second half goals as Wilmington's defense stiffened, pushing the game towards a tie with the final seconds ticking away.
That's when Wilmington somehow won a free kick on a penalty just over the Hillsboro side of the field. Without time to think, Amina Affini lined up a 40-yard free kick and gave the ball a boot ... and watched it sail in untouched, slipping above Hillsboro's goalie, who couldn't adjust her positioning from the ball's trajectory in time to keep it out.
The shot hit the back of the net with just 5.4 seconds left, leaving only a kick off and subsequent long ball back to Wilmington's own keeper to salt away an incredibly unlikely victory.
