Archive for May, 2010
High Intensity Interval Training, or H.I.I.T., has become popular for three reasons: 1. It can be done at home. 2. There are a variety of workouts from which to choose, some of which last just 10 minutes, each getting the maximum out of the time spent. 3. The fat-burning effects of High Intensity Interval Training ...
May 28th, 2010
We proudly present the first JakesTakeOnSports “Man, Were We Close!” Award, sponsored by Avis, to the University of Washington for its work in the field of basketball recruiting. (Hold the applause, please.) Ranking the Pac-10’s 2010 recruiting class requires an introductory statement. No, we’re not talking about the traditional intro about how ranking college recruiting ...
Anybody got a can opener handy, because we’ve got this can of worms that needs to be opened. Oh, wait a minute, the top has already been pried off by Terrence Jones with some assistance from Brandon Knight. These basketball players are still in high school, but they found a way to open up this ...
It does not take long for things to become obsolete in sports, which is why revising lists and records is a never-ending process. (Check out digital camera repair.) May (and June for that matter) offers some time for reflection regarding the Stanford men’s and women’s basketball seasons, and it’s obvious some revisions need to be ...
The Oregon State women’s basketball program had hit rock bottom about a week ago, establishing an unofficial record for the depths that a program can reach. Well, today we are reminded of that age-old adage first uttered, we believe, by Attila the Hun: Records are made to be broken. (Of course, our man Attila thought ...
Because P90X has become a leader in total fitness with its concentrated workouts and nutrition guides, it was a logical step for P90X to add a nutrition-rich drink that promotes rapid recovery from the intense P90X workouts. It came up with the P90X Recovery Drink. No after-workout drink is worthwhile if the athlete won’t use ...
The rule of thumb for predicting order of finish in the Pac-10 is simple: Rank the quarterbacks. Period. A team’s Pac-10 finish almost always parallels the success of its quarterback. Stanford’s unexpected gains last season were no so much a product of Toby Gerhart’s well-publicized running as it was the surprisingly efficient play of ...
Golf carts are dangerous to an athlete’s body and reputation – not for golfers, mind you, but for football and basketball players. Two incidents this spring involving late-night golf-cart carousing landed some current Pac-10 athletes in hot water, and one, Stanford guard JJ Hones, got dismissed from the women’s basketball team as a result. Perhaps ...
Stanford seems to be more attractive to the television networks than Cal when it comes to the 2010 football season. The Cardinal is on national television five consecutive weeks early in the season, all on ESPN, ESPN2, NBC or ABC, while the Bears are on just three times in the first half of the season, with two ...
Two things seem pertinent about these reports (or discussions or rumors or speculation) about possible conference expansion: A. Everything revolves around Park Ridge, Illinois. (OK, we will pause a few seconds while you consider what possible significance a town of 38,000 located 18 miles north of Chicago could have on expansion. . . . Dum, ...