Saturday, October 09, 2004
REST...
Just a couple things here before I go see Friday Night Lights...
-- Bremerton's Tara Kirk has come away with hardware at the FINA short course worlds, scoring a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke with a time of 30.61 seconds, behind Aussies Brooke Hanson (30.20) and Jade Edmistone (30.21). Amanda Beard finished fourth with a time of 30.77. Tara will swim in the 100m breaststroke event today, an event in which she holds the world record (1:04.79), and will also swim in the 4x100 medley relay. In other news, Michael Phelps withdrew from the meet due to back pain, which probably just shot the ESPN2 ratings for anyone that's heard about it. But I think we can all agree that even if this were a career-ending injury for Phelps (it's not), he's got the Athens legacy to sit back on for the rest of his life. Don't worry about Phelps.
-- Did you know that NBA teams can't run more than three hours of contact drills per day during camp? I didn't. I also didn't know the Sonics went past the limit until I read the Danny O'Neil article. You know, I don't have too much to say about the Sonics right now, but I think a .500 season will be a triumph for this team. They're still in transition. Not exactly on the court, but they're still in a perpetual holding pattern, it seems like.
-- You know what I've been hating about NASCAR telecasts? The dominant font that they use absolutely sucks. It's like a block-letter italicized font that looks plain ugly. The letter A looks the worst when they use the font. I saw nothing wrong with the fonts that were being used last year. Yes, it takes a certain amount of weirdness to even be worried about this.
-- The Storm lost the first game of the WNBA Finals. But they come home for games 2 and 3, with the home crowd. But if that team comes away with a championship, it'll be great. Unfortunately, since I haven't been following them for a prolonged length of time, it won't be as gratifying for me, but for the people that have been there since the first game when the Houston Comets stomped the Storm, it'll be very sweet.
-- It's Clare Farnsworth with a Seahawk notebook article. Basically, practice went well this week, Chike Okeafor will start after hip soreness, Orlando Huff might not start but it might not matter due to the Rams' formations, and Mike Holmgren handed out game balls for the win against San Francisco to Matt Hasselbeck, Ced Woodard, and Tom Rouen.
Well, it's off to see the movie, and most likely the Tomahawks tonight. I'll let you know how that goes. Have a good Saturday, everyone.
-- Bremerton's Tara Kirk has come away with hardware at the FINA short course worlds, scoring a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke with a time of 30.61 seconds, behind Aussies Brooke Hanson (30.20) and Jade Edmistone (30.21). Amanda Beard finished fourth with a time of 30.77. Tara will swim in the 100m breaststroke event today, an event in which she holds the world record (1:04.79), and will also swim in the 4x100 medley relay. In other news, Michael Phelps withdrew from the meet due to back pain, which probably just shot the ESPN2 ratings for anyone that's heard about it. But I think we can all agree that even if this were a career-ending injury for Phelps (it's not), he's got the Athens legacy to sit back on for the rest of his life. Don't worry about Phelps.
-- Did you know that NBA teams can't run more than three hours of contact drills per day during camp? I didn't. I also didn't know the Sonics went past the limit until I read the Danny O'Neil article. You know, I don't have too much to say about the Sonics right now, but I think a .500 season will be a triumph for this team. They're still in transition. Not exactly on the court, but they're still in a perpetual holding pattern, it seems like.
-- You know what I've been hating about NASCAR telecasts? The dominant font that they use absolutely sucks. It's like a block-letter italicized font that looks plain ugly. The letter A looks the worst when they use the font. I saw nothing wrong with the fonts that were being used last year. Yes, it takes a certain amount of weirdness to even be worried about this.
-- The Storm lost the first game of the WNBA Finals. But they come home for games 2 and 3, with the home crowd. But if that team comes away with a championship, it'll be great. Unfortunately, since I haven't been following them for a prolonged length of time, it won't be as gratifying for me, but for the people that have been there since the first game when the Houston Comets stomped the Storm, it'll be very sweet.
-- It's Clare Farnsworth with a Seahawk notebook article. Basically, practice went well this week, Chike Okeafor will start after hip soreness, Orlando Huff might not start but it might not matter due to the Rams' formations, and Mike Holmgren handed out game balls for the win against San Francisco to Matt Hasselbeck, Ced Woodard, and Tom Rouen.
Well, it's off to see the movie, and most likely the Tomahawks tonight. I'll let you know how that goes. Have a good Saturday, everyone.
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