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Women’s Day Warm Up – No Man Would or Could Do This

Amber Miller, 27 years old,  completed the Chicago Marathon this Sunday at a relatively slow time of 6:25:50.  That isn’t a terribly remarkable feat, especially given that she ran the Wisconsin Marathon in May and logged in a time of 4:23:07. Was she disappointed? Not at all.

What is remarkable is that Miller was just shy of 39 weeks pregnant while running the Chicago Marathon and felt contractions begin several minutes after she crossed the finish line.   When contractions became regular she stopped to get a sandwich. Only a handful of hours later, she popped out baby June who was a hefty 7 lbs 13 oz. As a thrice pregnant lady, I can tell you that I also find it astounding that she ran a damn fine marathon in Wisconsin when she was 17 weeks pregnant. Continue reading →

NFL Week 5 Open Discussion

What matchups are you watching this week?  I’m curious for the Saints to get their first look at Cam Newton.  Curious, too, to see whether the Jets’ defense will be effective against the Pats’ offensive machine.  And the Packers-Falcons game should be really good:  the Falcons haven’t been close to champs material this season, but at home, they’ve got a good shot at handing the Packers their first loss.  Meanwhile, into the meat of the season, we’ve hit the first week of byes for some teams.  Did you take that into account, Crasstalk FFers?  Let’s get down to brass tacks and talk some smack.

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AFL Grand Final Preview 2011

This, the 115th Grand Final of Australian Football, has all the makings of one of the greatest games ever played.  Geelong vs Collingwood. The two dominant teams of the past few years. Geelong the 2007 and 2009 champions and the 2008 runners-up. Collingwood the 2010 champions and home of reigning Brownlow Medallist (league MVP) Dane Swan. Both know what it takes, both have proven they can handle the pressure of playing in front of over 100,000 screaming fans and millions on TV, and both play football about as well as it has ever been played at both the offensive and defensive ends.

And that’s just the first storyline running through this one. Continue reading →

It Was 5 Years Ago that the Saints Came Back to the Superdome

The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a series this past week commemorating the 2006 reopening of the Superdome for the New Orleans Saints’ home opener a little over a year after Hurricane Katrina, and a lot of people are remembering the spectacle of U2 and Green Day arena-rocking the Dome as the kickoff for the Monday Night Football telecast.  For me, though, the musicians who made that night special were Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas. Continue reading →

Why I Can’t Hate This New York Yankee

Following baseball away from New York City is usually an exercise in irrational hatred. The Yankees are aggressively good. Year after year, those assholes swoop in and pick up the most talented free agents on the market, gratuitously overpaying because they’re the Yankees and it doesn’t matter if you pay Alex Rodriguez $30 million a year even if he can barely play 120 games a year. Continue reading →