The big news for Danica Patrick at Daytona is no longer dating fellow NASCAR Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year contender Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
On Sunday Patrick won the pole for next Sunday’s Daytona 500 with a speed of 196.434 mph, besting three-time Daytona 500 champion Jeff Gordon, who will join her on the outside front row.
Overall, 89 of the Island’s 124 school districts are giving up midwinter break and holding classes for periods ranging from two to five days, according to BOCES records. The schedule changes affect 382,700 students — 84 percent of total public-school enrollment.
When I got my issue of Sports Illustrated this week, I was a little confused why Michael Jordan was on the cover. Then I looked at the cover a little more closely and it all made perfect sense. As you know, I don’t normally blog about the NBA. But today I’m willing to make an exception. Like Sports Illustrated, I’m in the mood to celebrate the Greatest. Happy 50th Birthday Michael!
Troubled country music star Mindy McCready was found dead today of an apparent suicide … this according to various reports. She was 37. A source close to McCready tells TMZ … McCready shot herself and her dog. Neighbors reported hearing the two gunshots.
A lot of stuff happened in the sports world today. So much to blog about. But I’m in a college basketball frame of mind, and we’re in the midst of Rivalry Week, so I’m going with that. More specifically, we’re only about a month away from the start of the NCAA Tournament. I think that this year’s Tournament is shaping up to be a very good one. That’s because it’s going to be so wide open it’s ridiculous. There isn’t one dominant team. Rather, there are about 10 teams that I can see winning the title…and I can also see those same 10 losing to an 11-seed in the second round.
Wrestling? The IOC looked at all 26 sports on the Olympic program, decided on one to eliminate, and picked wrestling? While keeping modern pentathlon and taekwondo? To say I’m shocked and disappointed would be an understatement. I was so confident in wrestling’s place on the Olympic program that I figured it wouldn’t even enter into the discussion. The decision to drop it is simply mind-boggling. And it makes you wonder what the IOC’s real motivation was.
When the IOC meets next week, one of the items on the agenda will be which sport to cut from the Summer Olympic program after the Rio Games. They want to add a new sport for 2020, but there’s a max of 28, so the only way to do that without going over the maximum is to get rid of another one. This is, of course, assuming golf and rugby are in the Olympics to stay (which they should be).
It seems like the London Olympics just ended, yet today marks the One-Year-To-Go mark in the countdown to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. They’ll be a Winter Olympics unlike any other. Not only will they be the first Winter Games held in Russia, one of the traditional powers of the Winter Olympics, there’s going to be a slew of new events, 12 in all, ranging from team figure skating to the long-overdue addition of women’s ski jumping to new disciplines in snowboarding and freestyle skiing. We still don’t know about the hockey tournament, but the KHL has already committed and I think the NHL knows it would be a huge mistake NOT to go. (And sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but NBC’s going to have to tape-delay prime time again. Sochi is eight hours ahead of New York.)
Home made Chicken Soup walk through that seems to help the Common Cold or Flu. It works for me every-time. Know, some may say this chicken soup recipe is the best they have ever had in Suffolk County. I happen to agree, but no matter who makes it I believe all chicken soup has the power to heel the common cold and is good for the Flu as well.
A Meteor Crashes into Russia on 2/15/2013. check out this video clip below:
