Athletics Blog

 Tyler Bray started LC’s game-winning rally with a two-out single. He moved to second on a single by Cole Bishop and scored on a short single to center by freshman catcher Anthony Benoit. A good throw likely would have gotten Bray at the plate, but the center fielder’s throw was up the line, allowing Bray to score easily.

“We’re not going to out-fancy anybody,” Byrnes said. “We have to beat you by doing all the little things.”

Dustin Tubre (1-1) was the winning pitcher for LC, allowing a run over the last two innings. Tim Flasik (0-2) was tagged with the loss for the second consecutive game. Flasik allowed one run over two innings of relief work.

“We used a lot of pitchers today and they threw a lot of pitchers,” Byrnes said. “We walked more (eight) than we wanted but the guys hung tough.”

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Patrick Thomas continued his streak of hitting well when his brother, Drew, is in the startin lineup by smacking a pair of base hits in game two and scoring a run. Albie Goulder was the hero in game one, accounting for all three Tech runs with a hit by pitch to score Cobb in the first, a solo home run in the third and another run scored on a fake steal attempt in the fifth inning. Jericho Jones (2-1) pitched 5.1 solid innings, allowing only three hits while striking out a pair. Jamey Bradshaw got his first career save in the seven-inning opening game, with 1.2 innings of scoreless relief.(Source:The news star)

Ever since, when referred to athletics, usually we immediately can think of sports events having played by males. But nowadays, females can do what males do. But what’s behind the issue of athletes having gender change?

Yvonne Buschbaum was one of the athletes who preferred to have a sex change. She claimed that she experienced mental imbalance. She doesn’t want anymore to live in a woman’s body but still feeling like a man.

Decisions like this in athletics are not unusual. For me, what matters is their dedication in what they do. As long as they can do their passion, there’s nothing wrong right? They’re indeed inspiring individuals.

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What comes to your mind when you hear athlete’s foot? For me, I define athlete’s foot as a foot that is stinky. I only assume its meaning because I imagined what the foot of athletes is. So I arrived to the idea that having an athlete’s foot is having a stinky foot. But I am definitely wrong!

Athlete’s foot is a common infection in skin. It is called athlete’s foot because athletes are the ones who usually have this. But this is not exclusive only for athletes; anyone of us can have this especially those who often wear shoes and having wet feet.

I admire the athletes because I know what they gone through. When I’ve heard about young athletes, I admire them more. Knowing that discipline, determination, and persistence are the 3 important must have qualities of athletes, I became challenged because this means that young athletes have these.

Children athletes’ training is different than those with the adult. Since children’s bone is still in growth stage, they are prone to injuries. But this doesn’t make them any weaker than older athletes. To know more about young athletes visit this site: orthoinfo.aaos.org.

We must encourage children to participate in athletics. But be aware of related issues regarding this. Visit this site for more info: young athletes.

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In Ancient Greece, the pentathlon was an athletic event in the Olympics and other Panhellenic Games. From the word penta, which means five, pentathlon was derived from Greek words for “five competitions.” There were events which are held separately like the stadion or a short foot race and wrestling. Events that were not held as separate events were the long jump, javelin throw and the discus throw. During those ancient times, pentathletes were considered as the most skilled athletes. Each of these five events was thought to be useful in battle and thus part of their military training.

When we were kids we always dream about possessing super powers. One of our heroes we dream about is Clark Kent possessing super strength. Superman doesn’t just exist in animation and comic books. There are real supermen that conquered in the world of athletics. They are men of steel who can compete in five different athletic events, some even ten track and field events. These events really test human strength, agility and endurance. There we’re heroes who competed in decathlons and pentathlons and one of them is Jim Thorpe. In the next entries, we will discuss these various events and the life of Jim.

The title “World’s Greatest Athlete” began when King Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe after Jim won  the decathlon  at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, “You sir, are the World’s Greatest Athlete.” Jim Thorpe was of mixed Native American and white ancestry. Despite struggling with racism for most part of his life, Jim excelled as an athlete. He won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played collegiate and professional American football and also played professional baseball and basketball. He was so great that he was given his own national holiday in 1978 which is celebrated every May 28 the day he was born.

Whenever engaging in any form of sport, it’s always best to warm up first as warming up helps your mind and body prepare to engage in strenuous activity. Warming up helps the blood flow to the various parts of the body, warming both the body’s core temperature and muscle temperature, which minimizes the chances for a sprain of injury to happen.

It is suggested to first do some light exercises like before the main event. These general warm up exercises will make your body be more prepared to handle whatever sport through elevating the heart and respiratory rate and facilitates the muscles of the body in receiving the proper nutrients. Stretching then follows, with various light tension exercises to even prepare your muscles more. Stretching gives you a bigger range of movement.

They have come and gone with records that are still to be broken, much has been gained by the many impoverished African states that have produced some of the best runners in the world. Why then does the continent produce some of the best runners if they have more pressing issues to address such as war, famine and many more in the war-torn continent? The people are more on the lean side of humanity with more muscle pound per pound compared to people from other nations. Africans have evolved into some of the best runners in the world not only to show off their raw and pure talent at sports but to show off the prowess of their nation and the continent whom they represent. They want to hear their fellow athletes on the top instead of the dismal news of conflict here and there which makes them proud of being who they are.
Compared to other athletes, these people train under the most extreme environments that would cause many of our own people to quit long before they have ever gotten warmed up. The extreme temperature may have cooked out the fat in their body leaving tough and powerful tissue that is well suited for the sport. More power to you people as you carry your countries into the record books becoming heroes of your people and the world.