Welcome to the November 19, 2008 edition of athletic alley blog carnival. This week’s edition has noticeably more submissions than in the past, which is a great thing. Gemma presents some great videos on various sports and sports topics; if you have ever wondered about the basics of a particular sport, check out the great videos presented. It Read More
Welcome to the November 12, 2008 edition of the athletic alley blog carnival. This week’s edition has a lot of insightful posts on very diverse sports related issues. Cauliflower Ears? Check out Charles’ submission for an explanation. There are three excellent posts on college sports including one on the speculation surrounding the rep Read More
Welcome to the October 1, 2008 edition of Athletic Alley blog carnival. This week’s carnival has some great submissions. There are some great tips on how to be an effective coach. There is an interesting Top Ten list on some of the most infamous sports scandals of the past twenty years. And be sure to check out the article on the upset in the Read More
Welcome to the September 3, 2008 edition of athletic alley blog carnival. Today’s carnival deals with a variety of sports related subjects. They range from sports equipment to the science of sports to recent college football and everywhere in between. Submissions are due by 8:00 PM (EST) on Mondays. The carnival will be posted at noon the Read More
Welcome to the August 27, 2008 edition of Athletic Alley blog carnival. This is the second edition of the Athletic Alley blog carnival. Submissions are due by 8:00 PM (EST) on Mondays. The carnival will be posted at noon the following Wednesday. Your submission can be focused on any sport, at any level. I hope you consider this a fun and easy w Read More
This year two participants from two sports stick out in my mind as greats that will go down in history. The first being Rafael Nadal and the second being Michael Phelps. Both of these guys did something this year that has not been done in years. Each of them also seem to be on top of their game too. Let’s take a look at these Pinnacle Players Read More
The Bryan Brothers, as Bob and Mike Bryan are affectionately known, are the force in professional men’s doubles tennis. The twins have been playing together and against one another since a young age. Using only two years of their NCAA eligibility (1996-1998) at Stanford University, the doubles phenoms helped earn consecutive team titles. As Read More
The Williams sisters stood strong In Beijing on Sunday as they took the gold in the Women’s Tennis Doubles event. They beat Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-2, 6-0. The straight setting win sent the William sisters into each others arms for a congratulatory hug and some shrieks of joy. When you first think about t Read More
Much of the World tunes in to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to see the athletes who rarely hold court on such a grand stage. You have your sports that captivate like shooting stars such a men’s gymnastics, fencing, badminton, shooting, and weightlifting. Then there are the sports that seem to maintain their stellar status like basketball, cyc Read More
Last week I wrote a post entitled Countrywide Classic In Los Angeles where I highlighted the Week 4 tournament, held on the UCLA Campus, that leads up to the US Open in New York. As an update, the finals for that tournament will be televised on ESPN2 and The Tennis Channel this Sunday, August 10th beginning at 5:00 PM (EST). As of this writing, in Read More
Billed as the Greatest Road Trip In Sports, the six weeks leading up to the premier United States tennis event, the US Open, are a flurry of activity. The first three weeks traditionally have two tournaments per week for the players to choose from. Week four, five, and six, the last three weeks before the US Open, have only one tournament each. We Read More
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