August 2008
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVERS WILL BATTLE FOR TITLE
Salt City Derby Girls (SCDG) team Leave It to Cleavers topped the Death Dealers 97-88 to earn a berth in the Salt City Derby Girls 2008 league championship bout. This repeat championship match promises to be as rowdy and raucous for fans as it was last year...
ADVENTURE SPORTS BY WINA STURGEON 8/26
NBC's big butt problem at Beijing was an illusion of bare ass among gymnasts and beach volleyball players...Lack of BMX coverage angers fans, Americans win three of six medals in the sport's debut...Chinese repression angers McDonalds and other sponsors, who don't get visitors to their Olympic Green...World of Speed coming, cars will go over 400 miles an hour...Speedskater Parker Vance returns to team, looks ahead to 2010...
SETS AND REPS SHOULD MATCH SPORT
Most athletes know how to design resistance workouts for their sport. Tennis players need to work their shoulders. Golfers need to strengthen their core. Skiers need to build their legs. But the way you work out will decide whether or not you can win...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 8/19: CAN WE REALLY DO NOTHING?
Conversations with strangers in checkout lines can take strangely intimate turns, as did the conversation with the woman behind me. She also read the infuriating news, completely missed by television, that 75 percent of the corporations in America pay no federal income taxes...
IT'S AN XTERRA WORLD
Xterra has snuck in under the radar. Arguably the largest race series in the world, it is changing the face of triathlon, literally from the desert to the sea...
GOLF WITH AN OLYMPIAN, HELP A RACER
Want to go golfing with Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety? How about any other of the 20 or so other U. S. ski team World Cup and Olympic racers, plus up-and-comers who will be part of the Men's Alpine/Park City ski team golf tourament. Hint: there are amazingly good prizes for those taking part. Here's the inside info...
EAT LIKE AN ATHLETE
Pro triathlete Jenny Tobin knows how to compete. She also knows how to eat. Learn how to plan your own eat-to-compete diet, including, yes, ice cream!...
SHOW OFFERS HI-TECH OUTDOOR GEAR
The newest outdoor and adventure gear has just come out, and you may want to toss the old and get the new marvels. The Summer Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake, is where manufacturers of everything for the outdoors show their latest stuff to retail buyers. There's some amazingly innovative gear coming to a store near you...
FLEX YOUR JOINTS
The biggest mistake most amateur athletes make is competing---and training---without flexing their joints enough. The straight arm or straight leg robs your body of both power and energy...
ADVENTURE SPORTS BY WINA STURGEON 8/12
Swimmer fights back against doping accusation by frequent accuser of athletes...New U. S. ski team athletes named...Utah driver deliberately aims car at cyclists, lands in jail...Kilts catching on for American men...Olympic medalist banned from China, slams IOC for not protecting athletes...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 8/4: MY FIRST OLYMPICS
A long time ago, I volunteered for my first Olympics. It was in Los Angeles in 1984, and as happens to people in every Olympic city, a strange magnetic attraction drew me in, though at that time I cared nothing about the Olympics, or for that matter, sports...
SNOWBASIN: MOST INNOVATIVE RESORT
The annual Xterra off-road triathlon returns to Snowbasin August 16. This year there's a "sport" race, half the distance of the grueling tri. But the big news is the innovative daily programs offered at the resort. Like, mountain baby sitting for six bucks an hour. Go hiking or mountain biking while your kids enjoy the mountain with licensed day care providers...
HOW AN ATHLETE SHOULD PACK
Most athletes have to travel. Doing it by airplane is no longer as simple---or as fun---as it used to be. Packing expert Cinda Boomershine tells how athletes should pack to make each trip by air as easy and hassle-free as possible...
DEALING WITH FEAR
Every athlete at some point feels fear. "If they say they don't, they're lying," says BMX star Arielle Martin. But fear can make you a better athlete if you know how to deal with it. Martin tells you how...
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