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What can you do with your lungs? Kelcey Harrison will use hers to run across the width of America for a charity close to her heart. On July 29, Kelcey set off from Times Square in New York City on a 3,500-mile trip to San Francisco. She will be running on average 30 miles a day in memory of her close childhood friend Jill Costello, who lost her battle with lung cancer almost two years ago. Jill—a 21-year-old student-athlete and non-smoker—was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in June 2009. Despite the cancer and the months of treatment that followed, ...

When I went to school in Nebraska, I had the pleasure of playing with a great group of guys. In between my sophomore and junior season, we had a bit of a rebuild. York brought in a new coach, with a new philosophy. Along with a new coach we got new recruits from California, specifically: Feather River College and the College of the Siskiyous.  Not only did we become a better team, but my new teammates introduced me to a whole new world of music: Punk Rock. But not just any Punk Rock, ...

Joe Mikulik has served as manager of the minor league Asheville Tourists since 2000 and has been an embarrassment to professional baseball on the national stage since 2006.A former San Jacinto Junior College walk-on, Mikulik was drafted by the Houston Astros in 1984, sputtering around the minor leagues until retiring in the early 1990s, never having made it to MLB action.Despite his stalled playing career, Mikulik endeavored to assist others in achieving their dreams, turning to coaching and accepting a position with the Canton-Akron Indians in 1995 before his promotion to manager of the Burlington Indians in 1997 and finally ...

Pingpong TodayAs the national sport of China, pingpong is played by almost everyone in the country. Tables for the game, often made of concrete, are found throughout parks, in communities and public schools.Although many young people today in China are gravitating toward basketball, soccer, or tennis, if they can afford it, pingpong remains a fixture in Chinese society."Chinese today have much more choice of what sports they can afford to play, but people still prefer pingpong," said Deng Yaping, one of the most celebrated Chinese players, who retired in 1997 at age 24 with four Olympic gold medals."Although it is ...

Table tennis, known as pingpong in China, is China's national sport, and a source of pride right up there with the Great Wall and pandas.The Chinese have played a major role in transforming table tennis from a pastime of Victorian gentlemen to a sport of the masses.The Chinese sports legend Deng Yaping is considered to be one of the greatest table tennis players of all time. The DominanceChina owns table tennis like the United States once dominated men's basketball.China has won every gold medal in three Olympics, and four years ago in Beijing, it swept all possible medals.The Chinese teams do ...

Basketball is never out of place in modern China. As a matter of fact, the sport in the land of Confucius is almost as old as the sport itself.After years of development, the Chinese version of the NBA was born. One of the players coming from this league was a Chinese giant by the name of Yao Ming.With an estimated fan base of 450 million, China’s basketball market has shown huge potential to become the biggest in the world. Basketball TodayBasketball is currently one of the most popular sports in China, and has the biggest number of people involved with the ...

China is a large sports nation and a powerhouse in Olympic sports. The Asian Giant led the gold medal count at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, capturing 51 golds. At the Los Angeles, Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics, China came fourth in the gold medal tally, respectively, and at the Athens Olympics, moved up to the second spot.   Major Games Although China has long been associated with the martial arts, a large number of sports activities, both Western and traditionally Chinese, are enjoying high popularity in today's China. Basketball, soccer, tennis and table tennis are the main sports in China. In the past few years, China's ...

Ranking fan bases can be a distinctly arduous task, given that many fans believe they represent the truest essence of a die-hard fan. However, there are teams whose fans go above and beyond fandom. They sell out arenas, cheer constantly and embrace their home team with a certain aura that sometimes simply can’t be measured. Across the sporting world, each fanbase has distinct characteristics. The Oakland Raiders have the Black Hole, Red Wings fans have their Legend of the Octopus and Yankee Stadium has its Roll Call. This list will only cover professional sports because adding colleges could add a ...

HBO's adaptation of the Game of Thrones series has taken television by storm (of swords) the past two years, dominating the Sunday night airwaves like Jose Cano's meatball dominates his son, Robinson.More importantly, however, is the way Game of Thrones has integrated its way into mainstream culture. It's gotten to the point where missing an episode will make you a pariah at Monday morning's water cooler. In that sense, it's sort of become the NFL-lite––a 10-week spell during the football offseason where Sundays actually matter again.This phenomenon shouldn't surprise anybody, though. The only fundamental difference between high-end cable television and sports is ...

Go to your local mall and walk into a Lids store. Wall to wall, you're bombarded.  There's this to your left.  Then this is to your right.  Look out!  This is behind you!After making a beeline for the door, once your head stops spinning, you're bound to ask the same thing we all do—first, why are they making so many horrible looking baseball caps?  Even more frightening, who's buying them?Somewhere along the past decade, it became en vogue for MLB team hats to appear in a variety of incorrect and loud colors, with gaudy images, and flat-brims you could use a ...