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August 30, 2013While We’re Waiting is the daily morning link roundup that WFNY has been serving up for breakfast for the last several years. We hope you enjoy the following recent collection of yummy and nutritious Cleveland sports-related articles. Anything else to add? Email us at tips@waitingfornextyear.com.
Outstanding. Read the whole piece. “You should know this about offensive line coaches: they are large, demanding men with Falstaffian appetites, jutting jaws, and no governors on their speech engines. They eat titanic portions. They cram their lips full of dip in film study like they are loading a mortar. They drink bottled water like parched camels, and in their leisure time would consider a suitcase of beer to be a personal carry-on item for them, and them alone. They are terrifyingly disciplined in the moment, and nap like large breed dogs when allowed.
They can be vicious and exacting to the point of near-cruelty. One currently employed and well-regarded offensive line coach was so demanding of one player that finally, at the point where rage exceeded restraint, the player picked him up and shook him like a rag doll demanding to know: can I do anything right for you? Anything? The player had him pressed overhead and could have snapped him like a twig. The coach considered it a success: the player now cared, and was properly motivated.” [Hall/EDSBS]
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“At some point after the 1995 World Series, for reasons known only to an elite group of media moguls, Brinkley (Gayle Gergich, for you Parks and Recreation fans)as sent by the Pinnacle trading card company to photograph members from each of the participating teams. Did she ask for this assignment, or was she sought out for it? Maybe a top executive was wooing the supermodel, and offered her this opportunity in an attempt to win favor. Brinkley certainly knew her way around the front of a camera, so perhaps the thinking went she’d be a star behind it too. It’s all only idle speculation. Ultimately though, the reasons don’t matter, what matters is that it happened, and that these baseball cards still exist, maybe even in your own mother’s basement.” [Lukehart/Let’s Go Tribe]
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“I have no good reason to believe this scenario will play out the way I’ve envisioned it. It’s just a feeling, and I get feelings all the time, and most of the time I am quite adept at ignoring them. But this feeling came to me in a dream: I was ordering a pineapple-coffee milkshake at a Swensons Drive In restaurant in Akron, Ohio, and Woody Hayes was my carhop, wearing that red windbreaker and those Drew Carey glasses and exhorting his fellow employees to cook like they meant it. And he poked his head into my window and said, “This is the year,” and then he spent 20 minutes lambasting the Occupy Wall Street movement, and then I woke up. And I thought, perhaps this is the year the Southeastern Conference fails to win a national championship. And as soon as I thought that, an Alabama fan emailed me and said, “You’re (sic) subconscious is terrible and your (sic) an idiot ROLL TIDE.” And I thought, perhaps this eloquent gentleman is correct, and perhaps Woody and I are deluding ourselves, and the SEC shall rule over all, forever, amen, War Eagle, Chick-fil-A, etc.” [Weinreb/Sports on Earth]
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“The rise of CrossFit, Tough Mudders, Color Runs, and other fringe regional social-physical events has brought us to an interesting place in the evolution of exercise commerce. These events have risen to widespread popularity as the last stand for physical fitness and the fight against an impending obesity epidemic. Social-physical events tap into our social drive by creating community events that present exercise challenges that aren’t quite as insane as running 26.2 miles or ingesting gallon containers of whey protein and spending six hours per day at the gym lifting free weights. Instead, each of these social-physical events seem to be connected by branding buzzwords like “community,” “team,” and “more than just [previous outdated exercise trend].” They all claim to inherently develop complete physiological health better than any other form of exercise ever created.” [Grantland]
3 Comments
great, thanks Rick. now you just made me feel real bad for a few Vandy jokes last night. (seriously though, nice read)
Christie Brinkley is still some tasty puddin’!!!
ok, got a break and read the GL article. I think he summed it up the article here:
“Our tendency to broadcast every trivial life event makes exercising by ourselves somewhat pointless.”
hey, to each their own but my personal opinion is “our tendency to broadcast every trivial life event is pointless and is harmful to the psyche of our society.” Being able/capable of doing things for yourself, by yourself with no recognition is important.