— Articles covering sports
The 72nd All American Soapbox Derby welcomed over 500 families from 43 states and 3 foreign countries to Akron, Ohio. Race week hosted numerous events from July 20-26, 2009, including museum displays, a historic derby car display, a dance, a variety of dinners and clinics, and not to mention, the racing!
I'm standing in sand. The sun is blazing over Fort Bliss, Texas. Ten miles south, just beyond the US border with Mexico, drug cartels are murdering people by the hundreds. Open source reports put the number of dead at more than 1000 since January. The sand is so hot that I can feel the heat through the soles of my boots.
Book your flight to London now. The 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship is scheduled for August 15. Trafalgar Square is where you can tell your cabbie to take you. Joining you will be 25 of the world's best freerunners, 7500 spectators, and people from more than 15 nations who want to see urban movement artists 360 wallrun, reverse vault, and front flip their way through an urban obstacle course using only their bodies and momentum.
Athletes who strap modified surfboards to gigantic kites and harness the wind in order to skim lake and ocean surfaces are known as “kiteboarders.” August 4-8, 2009, is when the first true World Championship for kiteboarders is scheduled to occur at St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco in California.
As fate would have it, the Midwest Managers of Big League Wiffle Ball were able to link up in Baghdad for some wiffle ball. The July 2009 sandstorms relented during their window of opportunity and out came the yellow bat and wiffle strike zone.
A grass seed salesman I know went head to head with the power of ping pong and lived to tell about it. Table tennis has been known by a variety of names including gossima, flim-flam, and ping pong. Experts believe that the game was created in England during the late 1800's. Early versions of the game used balls made of cork on table tops.
The Bottle Inn is a pub located in Dorset County, England, in a town called Marshwood. A historic argument occurred there between 2 farmers in 1986. The argument was over who had the longest nettles.
America stands on a new frontier. July 3, 2009, marks the date of the first known cross-species eating competition. The showdown occurred at the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Coney Island Boom-A-Ring in Coney Island, New York. Three Asian elephants conquered 3 humans from the Major League Eaters organization by eating 505 hot dog buns in 6 minutes. The humans only ate 143.
In the strange world of professional bubblegum bubble blowers, a tie has been declared for competitors in the first quarter of the 2009 World Championship of Bubblegum Bubble Blowers. A competitor dubbed “Stunis” of London, England, has tied with “BG” from New York, New York.
Over 300 youth from across the nation gathered in Colorado Springs from Apr. 4-19 to compete in the 2009 Rifle and Pistol National Junior Olympic Shooting Championship. In order to win an invitation to the competition, these youth had to win their State Junior Olympic Championship or shoot above a set score.