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Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks Dance

February 20th, 2012

When it comes to a hockey trade, finding a willing partner is often difficult. In some cases, however, there is a perfect match. This appears to be the case with the Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks who have pulled off a few stunners in the last two weeks.

The teams are in a unique position. The Sharks have made the playoffs, but gagged repeatedly. Basically, their stars haven’t come through in any meaningful way. In contrast, the Wild haven’t sniffed the playoffs in a long time and desperately need offense. In this case, one team’s garbage is another team’s

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Soccer Drills- Goalies Catching with Their Chest

February 19th, 2012

The biggest reason we have our goalies work on catching the ball with their chest, is because it forces them get their body behind the ball. If you miss the catch it will not matter because your body will block the ball from the goal. To pull this catch off effectively, put your arms out in front of you bent at the elbow so that the your arms are horizontal to the ground and their undersides are facing upwards. Just as the ball comes into your chest, bring your arms inwards in a scooping movement around the ball- your arms

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FOX and Broadcasting Baseball

January 30th, 2012

Here’s the problem with baseball on television: there is really no way to improve the game by using shiny new graphics or other types of shenanigans. Time and time again it’s proven that those types of things don’t bring in new viewers. Baseball is a social event, which is why people like going to games. Watching it on television, well, either you like doing it or you don’t, there really isn’t a chance that you are going to tune into a random game because of the colorful graphics or the special guest commentator. This is what FOX doesn’t get.

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Super Bowl 2011 Live Stream

October 10th, 2011

If you will see how everything tumbles down to a live streaming event as big as the Super Bowl, one may want to ask, how is it hard and too difficult to value these things if we ourselves can’t possibly find a way to achieve these in one way or another? I mean, if you will try and go out from the field, you’ll soon see that each players on the given team are doing everything they can to win their game while we are just on the bleachers sitting and cursing them for their mistakes. Usually, this is the

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