The Waverly Karate Club recently sent three members to Minneapolis for the World Tang Soo Do Association’s Region 3 2010 Championships.
At the weekend-long event, they netted three first places trophies, one second trophy and two third place finishing trophies, along with the Sr. Men’s Grand Championship Cup.
Competing were Glenn Engel, Allie Groves and Wayne Kramer, all of Waverly.
The Florida football team will hold Verizon Wireless Football Fan Day on Sunday, Aug. 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the O’Connell Center.
Admission is free and the Gate One doors will open at 12:30 p.m.
Fans will be able to meet and get autographs from their favorite Gator players and coaches. The University Athletic Association will supply the 2010 Gator team posters for player autographs and cannot allow outside items to be brought in to the event due to NCAA compliance issues.
“Unfortunately, when players have signed various autograph items such as helmets and footballs, they have on occasion been sold to the general public,” Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance Jamie McCloskey said. “This practice could put the eligibility of some of our student-athletes into question. We want to be proactive in this area and are asking our fans to cooperate with our policy of requesting an autograph on our team poster only. The poster should be for personal use only and not intended for sale.”
Due to the high demand for many of the players’ and coaches’ autographs, the lines will be monitored and closed to ensure that fans are not waiting for autographs with no chance of reaching the signing table by the event’s conclusion.
The Bryan E. Kornblau Foyer, located in the James W. “Bill” Heavener Football Complex, will also be open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. that afternoon. Fans will able to view the trophy cases and hi-definition televisions, displaying highlights from the Gators’ national championships in 1996, 2006 and 2008, as well as the three crystal national championship trophies. Also on display will be all three Heisman trophies and tributes to the eight SEC Championships that the Gators have earned since 1991.
Ask Anthony Rendon to list all of the trophies he has collected recently following his stellar sophomore season, and the Rice third baseman doesn’t know where to begin. Heck, he doesn’t even know where all of the hardware is.
“I just give them to my parents,” Rendon said.
In fairness, it’s been a dizzying few weeks as the accolades poured in — Conference USA Player of the Year for the second time, Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Austin Regional, Baseball America’s Player of the Year, C-USA’s Male Athlete of the Year, and Mayor Annise Parker proclaiming Tuesday as “Anthony Rendon Day.”
“I was just expecting a little piece of paper or something,” he said. “I didn’t know what to say.”
Such a reaction is typical Rendon — reserved and understated. But he admitted Friday, when the Lamar High graduate accepted the prestigious Dick Howser Trophy in Lubbock, was different.
The Howser Baseball Trophy is awarded to college baseball’s top player and is voted on by the National College Baseball Writers Association. Rendon, who topped fellow finalists Miami catcher Yasmani Grandal and Mississippi pitcher Drew Pomeranz, joins an illustrious group of winners that includes Washington Nationals rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg (2009), Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price (2007) and New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira (2000).
“This is probably the biggest one I could win,” he said Wednesday. “They’re all big, of course, but they consider this the Heisman Trophy of college baseball, and this would be the biggest achievement of my career — other than winning a national championship.”
He was a Howser semifinalist a year ago, when he had little idea of the award’s significance. But now, after extensive Internet research and another monster season in which he hit .394 with a league-best 26 home runs and 85 RBI?
“I figured it might be nice to win one of these,” he said.
And so he has, yet another first by an Owl.
It also provides a major boost into next week’s 2010 Collegiate National Team Trials in Cary, N.C.
Rendon is one of 39 players vying for a spot on the 22-man U.S. roster, which will compete in a five-game series against South Korea before a one-game friendly competition against a Japanese collegiate all-star team July?21 at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.
After that, the U.S. treks to Taipei, Taiwan, for a four-game set against Chinese Taipei beginning July 25. The summer concludes with the World University Championships in Tokyo from July 30-Aug. 7.
Team No Care Racing once again stamped its class by grabbing a total of 18 trophies highlighted by five championship finish in the second leg of the Philippine Autocross Championship Series over the weekend at the South Road Properties (SRP).
It was a relative improvement for the NCR riders, who hauled only a dozen trophies during the inaugural leg a few months back.
Team NCR dominated the stock category with three first-place trophies, two coming from founding member Alan “Big Al” G. Choachuy in the novice A and C on board the Dewfoam motorsport Honda Jazz.
In his best showing by far in his racing career, Choachuy also placed second in the front wheel drive (Lancer EVo ZERO) followed by teammate Eric Canama ( Nissan Altima).
Dennis Corro topped the experienced stock A aside from winding up second in the sports car and experienced stock B and third in the real wheel drive and experienced stock C.
NCR’s top gun Jong King dominated the Subaru class and placed second in the all-wheel drive class and novice modified C, while Philip Khan “Lik-Lik” Lim topped the automatic class followed by Bobby Pangilinan.
The rest of the top performing NCR drivers were Anthony Khe (second in the Toyota class) and Eric Canama (third in the novice stock C).
SRP provided a fast-paced and challenging venue for the racers especially the road condition in which it was very dusty and the asphalt was rough. Most of the racers had a hard time in controlling their cars especially at the U-turn heading into the finish line.
But towards the end of race, DGL Motorsports and Team Kartzone battled fearlessly to record the fastest time of the day.
Derek Arculi of Team Kartzone held the fastest time for most of the day, but was finally overtaken by Team DGL’s Mato Tan and David Lim.
Jong King of Team NCR also fought gallantly for the fastest time driving and pushing his Subari to an almost perfect run except for an over steer in the last U-turn which cost him the trophy.
The Yankees are paying tribute to owner George Steinbrenner on his 80th birthday Sunday by displaying all seven World Series baseball trophies the organization has won since The Boss purchased the franchise in 1973.
The Commissioners’ Trophies from 1977, ’78, ’96, ’98, ’99, 2000 and last year will be out on the 200-level concourse, just outside the Yankees Museum near the right field corner of the ballpark.
An American flag found at Little Bighorn after ‘General’ George Custer and nearly 270 men were wiped out by Indian warriors could fetch $12 million US (pounds 8.2 million) when it is auctioned later this year.
The battle guidon of the 7th Cavalry was recovered after Custer, 36 – who was in reality a lieutenant colonel – and his men were defeated by thousands of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians in June 1876, in what has become known as Custer’s Last Stand.
The victorious Indians stripped the corpses of trophies, but seemingly missed the bloodstained flag, which was hidden under the body of a soldier.
It was recovered by Sergeant Ferdinand Culbertson, a member of a burial party, and was sold for $54 (pounds 35) in 1895 to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Another 7th Cavalry guidon was found later in an Indian village, but is reportedly moth-eaten and in poor condition. The institute is selling its flag to pay for new acquisitions, after saying it barely saw the guidon because it was almost continually on loan to other institutions. Sotheby’s will auction the tattered piece of swallow-tailed silk, just over 32ins by 26ins in size, in October. A star and a patch of the stripes are missing, cut out of the fabric in the 19th century as souvenirs.
The auction house has estimated it will fetch between $2 million and $5 million (pounds 1.3 million to pounds 3.3 million), but hopes it could exceed the auction record for a flag – the $12.3 million (pounds 8.2 million) paid for an American flag captured by the British in 1779 during the War of Independence.
“It’s not a piece of decoration. It’s a sacred relic. People died for this flag,” said David Redden, a Sotheby’s vice-chairman.
He said Custer’s Last Stand was an “extraordinary clash between the two cultures of America”. He added: “Anything connected with that, particularly something that’s as significant as a battle flag, also has that kind of iconic stature.”
The battle was part of the Great Sioux War, which started after the U.S. government tried to drive the Indians out of the Black Hills region of Montana. The 7th Cavalry surprised the Indians in their village, but had underestimated the enemy’s strength and were annihilated.
Guidons served as battlefield beacons marking company positions.
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There are many great coaches in the history of sports. After all, a team is not complete without one. Coaches make players who they are, and help develop them as players.
I was listening to Mike and Mike in the Morning a few weeks ago, and they had a conversation about who they thought to be the greatest coach in sports. I got to pondering and wondering this same question. Who is the greatest coach in all of sports history?
First, we need to look at one of the best, and one of the first great coaches, Vince Lombardi. He was the first coach of the Green Bay Packers, and has his name on the Super Bowl trophy.
Well the LA pulled it off in game seven beating the Celtics in the fourth by a thread. You would have thought there were multiple trophies on the line the way the Lakers turned up the heat in the last minutes.
The Lakers pulled off one of the most unlikeliest run for the trophy ever.
I guess what ever Phil Jackson touches turns to gold has he is the three peat king!
About 28.2 million people watched the Lakers take Game 7, 83-79, and march off with the team’s 16th championship, according to the Nielsen ratings service. It was the biggest audience to watch a deciding game since 35.9 million tuned in to watch Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz in 1998.
Former Brazil captain Socrates has said that he will be cheering for Spain in South Africa, as the current national side managed by Dunga has sacrificed their traditional flair in favour of chasing trophies.
Socrates insists that winning should not be everything for the Brazilians, as art and beauty are an integral part of football.
“Brazil certainly can win the World Cup, but Spain are playing superbly in terms of beauty and flair. I am not against Brazil, I just don’t get excited by the football they play these days. Brazil have relinquished the fantasy and abandoned their roots,” The Sun quoted Socrates, as saying.
“In these times of football as a business, winning became everything and the game is dominated by pragmatism. It is a shame even at the financial point of view, because Brazil could still be cashing in by using their unique tradition of flair, but we have given that away in order to chase trophies he added.
The 56-year-old, who has been an outspoken critic of the way the Brazilian team play, though, does not blame Dunga for the uninspiring style.
“Dunga is not to blame for what is going on in Brazilian football he is a victim. It doesn’t matter who is the manager, because other guys would also be adopting the same style, because that’s what the establishment wants,” Socrates said.
“They have been winning tournaments and games, but the team lacks a player who embodies the true free spirit of Brazilian football.
Brazil are boring. The players in the national team are chained by the pragmatism,” he added.
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The trophy of the FIFA World Cup, which measures 36.8 inches and weighs 6.175 kg of 18 carat gold, is the most prestigious award in world football. The original is still in possession of FIFA and the winner of World Cup wins FIFA World Cup Winner’s Trophy. In the future, thanks to this new collaboration with Louis Vuitton, the original trophy will travel in an elegant briefcase unique.
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Louis Vuitton has always been a fine blend of tradition and innovation, know-how and creativity, history and modernity. In 1837 Louis Vuitton became an apprentice to a famous layetier-packer instead of Paris, Mr Marshall, who taught him the design and implementation of chests and trunks for travel. A few years later, in 1854, Vuitton opens his own house that will, over time, a luxury brand known for its know-how and expertise in the manufacture of special items to measure.
Today, his shops Asnieres (France) design and build some 450 special items a year, honoring the most outstanding orders. True to its original vocation of layetier packer, Louis Vuitton has always made carrying cases for transporting the most precious assets of its customers.
Aware of the exceptional know-how, the FIFA President, Joseph S. Blatter has decided to place an order for very special kit for the most coveted award in the world. “The Trophy of the FIFA World Cup is our most valuable asset. It is the reward the most popular in the football world and beyond. It is the element that unites fans from around the world a healthy competition. A trophy as valuable as the FIFA World Cup deserves a briefcase at the height of elegance and prestige. Now, the trophy will travel not only safely, but also in style .
Louis Vuitton is honored to lend its expertise to the most prestigious sporting events accompanying the legendary trophy for his next trip around the world.
Antoine Arnault, Director of Communications for Louis Vuitton, for its part said: “We are very proud to have been chosen by FIFA and put our expertise at their disposal to carry the casket of the finest trophies: the World Cup by FIFA. From the legendary trunk bed created by explorers for George and Louis Vuitton in 1868 to showcase the oldest trophy in sport, the America’s Cup, through the iPod box, special order from a famous designer, the Vuitton has always stepped up Smart and stylish ways to meet a particular need for customers to express their individuality, or realize their dreams. “